Meeting: Town Council Meeting
Meeting Date: Monday 2nd March at 7:00pm
Meeting Venue: The Lower Council Chamber of the Council Offices.
Public seating will be available. The meeting will be broadcast via Zoom to enable remote public viewing and participation and a video stream will also be broadcast to Facebook. To join the meeting via Zoom, visit https://bit.ly/KTC-Meeting or use meeting ID 821 0560 5574 and password KTC-456189.
1 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
To receive apologies for absence.
2 DECLARATIONS OF MEMBERS’ INTERESTS
To receive declarations of personal, prejudicial and pecuniary interests from members relevant to items under discussion at the meeting.
3 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
A period of up to 15 minutes for members of the public to ask questions or submit comments.
4 CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES
To receive and confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 12th January 2026.
Attachments – Minutes of the meeting held 12th January 2026.
5 COMMITTEE MINUTES
To note the minutes of committees which have been published since the previous ordinary meeting and raise questions to the committee chairman.
All minutes have been published on the Town Council website.
6 CHESHIRE EAST COUNCILLORS’ REPORTS
A period of up to 15 minutes to receive reports from and raise questions to Cheshire East councillors and to review the CEC Members referred matters log.
Attachments (2) – Report C-25-32 Cheshire East Councillors’ Report March 2026 and March 2026 Items Referred to CEC Members report.
7 MEMBERS’ REPORTS
To receive reports from members on attendance at external meetings or events and an opportunity for members to bring matters of interest to the attention of the council for information or future discussion.
8 THE WELCOME – GRANT FUNDING
To consider grant funding for The Welcome for 2026/27 and whether to agree funding for further years.
Attachments (2) – Report C-25-33 The Welcome Grant Funding 2026 and Proposal from The Welcome
9 60 KING STREET
To consider a recommendation from the Assets and Operations Committee to dispose of the freehold of 60 King Street.
Attachment – Report C-25-35 Sale of 60 King Street
10 CIL RECOMMENDATIONS
To consider recommendations from the CIL Projects Advisory Committee to add two projects to the approved CIL projects list and consider whether funds for any projects should be allocated.
Attachment – Report C-25-36 CIL Projects Advisory Committee Recommendations
11 CO-OPTION OF BID REPRESENTATIVE ON TOWN CENTRE COMMITTEE
To consider a recommendation from the Town Centre Committee to authorise the co-option of a representative of the BID to the committee
Attachment – Report C-25-37 Town Centre Committee BID Representation
12 CORPORATE PEER CHALLENGE
To review the current status of delivery of the action plan.
Attachment – Report C-25-38 Corporate Peer Challenge Action Plan Update Report
13 CORPORATE RISK REGISTER
To review and approve the revised Corporate Risk Register.
Attachments (2) – Report C-25-39 Corporate Risk Register and Corporate Risk Register March 2026
14 MAYORAL ALLOWANCE PROCESS
To consider a change to the approval process for providing the mayoral allowance.
Attachment – Report C-25-34 – Mayoral Allowance Approval Process
15 ANNUAL STANDING ORDERS REVIEW
To consider revisions to Standing Orders
Attachment – Report C-25-30b Standing Orders Review 2026
16 MAYORAL DUTIES
To note the duties undertaken by or on behalf of the Town Mayor.
Attachment – Report C-25-40 Mayoral Engagements 12/01/2026 to 01/03/2026
17 PAYMENTS
To note the payments approved and made since the previous ordinary meeting.
Circulated – Payment Schedules (5th January and 26th January) and Card Payments (01/01/2026-31/01/2026)
18 OUTSTANDING ACTIONS, PROJECT UPDATES AND WORKPLAN REPORTS
To note there are no items on the Full Council outstanding actions log and project updates report.
To consider the Full Council workplan.
Attachment – Full Council Workplan March 2026.
19 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
A period of up to 5 minutes for members of the public to ask questions or submit comments.
20 QUESTIONS TO THE TOWN CLERK
An opportunity for members to raise questions on any matter to the Town Clerk.
21 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING
To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 11th May 2026.