Crooke Village Residents Association Meeting Minutes for September 2025

Crooke Village Residents Association Meeting
Crooke Hall Inn
Tuesday 9th September 2025

Attendees

Mike Thomas (MT), Sue Neve (SN), Charlie Neve (CN), Linda Kellie (LK), Paul Green (PG), Morag Tebbit (MoT), Steve Tebbit (ST), Trisha Poole (TP), Pete Glynn (PG) Ian Timmis (IT), Kathryn Timmis (KaT)

Apologies

Dawn Glynn (DG) John Whitely (JW) Howard Cain (HC) Stacey Hughes (SH) Kathy Bradley (KB) Ken Taylor

Matters arising

MoT asked why nothing had been done regarding tidying up the village since the last meeting’s decision to do so? HC did put out a request on the WhatsApp group but had had no response from anyone offering to help. MT said he would get HC to put out the request again.

The August 2025 minutes were proposed by CN and seconded by ST, the minutes were signed off by the Chairman, MT.

Chairman's Report

Nothing to report

Vice Chairman's Report

Nothing to report

Treasurer's Report

LK paid MT £74 to cover the cost of the weed suppressant matting for the allotment.

Secretary's Report

Nothing to report

SPC Report

Nothing to report (Recess)

Agenda

1. Flood defences

CN has emailed Jigsaw again regarding a donation towards the purchase of flood defences for the village. Previously, Andrew Grice from Jigsaw had said that they would match any funding that the village could raise from Local Authorities. Funding raised is £750. So far there has been no response from Andre Grice, so CN is going to try a different contact within Jigsaw. MT will also try contacting them also.

Post Meeting Note: CN has made contact with Gary Heaton, Operations Director – Asset Management at Jigsaw Homes Group. He will update CVRA very soon.

2. CVRA Christman Lunch

This year’s CVRA Christmas lunch will be at Crooke Hall Inn on the 6th December at 1230 to 4pm . This is open to all Crooke residents. It has been booked for 20 persons. The lunch is free for all Crooke residents over 60, the cost for anyone under the age of 60 will be published once the menus have been finalised by the Crooke Hall Inn. Each village household can invite 1 guest, the guest regardless of age, will be charged. The menu and form to complete to register interest, will be delivered to each house in the village in November. There will be games and people are encouraged to wear a Christmas Jumper!

3. Crooke village allotment update.

MT told the meeting he has scraped the surface of the allotment with his digger, but it needs doing again. KT has cleared his third of the plot and put weed suppressant matting down, he has also put garden furniture on his area. MT said this must be used as an allotment and not just a garden area. ST has donated some weed suppressant matting for use on the allotment. CN suggested we take photos of the allotment at various stages to show the progress.

AOB

MT has been made aware of a work van parking on the Church’s private carpark against the church hall wall. SN said she was not aware that this was a private carpark, this could also be the case for the owner of the vehicle. MT said he would speak to the owner of the vehicle. It has also been noticed that another commercial vehicle, (car transporter) has been parking in various locations in the village.

TP asked why the land next to the pub has not been cut, MT said the owners of the land want it left uncut. TP said her husband has contacted the council as he thinks it looks unsightly.

CN told the meeting that the broken gate and gatepost to the field had been repaired by Wigan Council.

LK asked if the defibrillator had been serviced and was it in working order? The committee will look into this and if necessary, apply for funding to replace it.

PG mentioned the empty grit bins, CN said he would try and get the bins filled by the council for winter.

A question was raised about the Parish Council owned flower tubs in Crooke. CN explained that the contract with Mossbank Nursery had lapsed during the change of Parish Council Clerk. A new Nursery has been contracted and the tubs will be cultivated next Spring.

The meeting closed at 8.00pm. The next meeting will be Tuesday 14th October 2025

This concluded the Meeting of the CVRA for September 2025.