PGW Report · Local action · Correspondence · 19 May 2026

Email to Burgh le Marsh Town Council, 19 May 2026

Editor's note. The text below is the email sent on 19 May 2026 by Paul G Webster to Burgh le Marsh Town Council, proposing four community-improvement projects. Sender's personal email address is redacted; all other content is reproduced verbatim. Published here as a permanent reference for the implementation log on the local-action piece, so the Town Council and any interested reader can refer back to the original. Sent following the 18 May 2026 voicemail and the same-day callback from the Town Clerk; placed on the 26 May 2026 Town Council meeting agenda for formal consideration.
From: Paul G Webster <[personal email redacted]> To: clerk@burghlemarsh-tc.gov.uk CC: ingress@pgw.report Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 12:06 UTC Subject: Community improvement proposals for Burgh le Marsh (follow-up to 18 May voicemail)

To whom it may concern,

Thank you for returning my call. As mentioned in the voicemail, I would like to propose four small community-improvement projects for Burgh le Marsh, all low-cost and led by community volunteers in partnership with the Town Council. The background and full methodology are at https://pgw.report/local-action/v1/. More about the wider site and its editorial approach is at https://pgw.report/about/ if useful for context. The four specific proposals below are the first I would like to take to the Council formally.

  1. Ward-entrance and small-town-square planting (Highways Act cultivation route) Section reference: https://pgw.report/local-action/v1/#planting
    Site: the small town square area, near the war memorial bench, the Victorian lamppost, and the existing town notice board.
    Scope: low-maintenance bedding, bulbs, or small shrubs designed to fit within Lincolnshire County Council's published planting policy for roundabouts and verges (maximum 600mm planting depth, 1 metre clearance from any statutory apparatus, no highway obstruction).
    Permissioning: Town Council approval first; then Section 96 cultivation licence from Lincolnshire CC if required for the highway-side strip.
    Cost: small, in the bulb-and-tray bracket.
  2. Town notice board refresh Section reference: https://pgw.report/local-action/v1/#noticeboard
    Site: the existing town notice board in the small town square.
    Scope: refresh any damaged perspex, agree a brief noticeboard policy (who can post, retention period), bring the visible notices up to date.
    Permissioning: Town Council approval.
    Cost: nominal.
    Volunteering: I would carry out the work myself once the policy is agreed.
  3. Town Council website refresh (separate, no-cost offer) This is an optional proposal separate from the proposals above. My professional background includes web development. I am offering a free rebuild of the Town Council's website on whatever modern platform the Council prefers, with the Council in full ownership of content and admin. Free of charge, with no hosting tie-in or advertising attached. If of interest I am happy to do a 20-minute walk-through of options at a Council meeting; if not, no follow-up is needed.
  4. Library or Friends-of-Library group Section reference: https://pgw.report/local-action/v1/#library
    I would like to understand the current state of the library serving Burgh le Marsh and whether a Friends-of-Library group exists. If one does, I would like to join and volunteer. If one does not, I would like to discuss whether one would be welcome. No request for the Council to take any action here, this is a survey question.

I am happy to attend the next Town Council meeting in person to introduce any of the above formally. If a one-page write-up per item would be useful to circulate to councillors in advance, I can provide that ahead of the meeting. Please let me know your preferred next step.

For transparency: I am communications officer for East Lindsey Green Party. The four proposals are derived from a wider community resource I have compiled, which is party-agnostic in origin and content (the underlying schemes are administered by the RHS, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, the National Association of Local Councils, and similar non-party bodies). The full disclosure is at https://pgw.report/local-action/v1/#disclosure. The piece is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://pgw.report/licence/), so the Town Council is free to reuse, adapt, or republish any of the content on its own website or in its own community communications.

Real-world outcomes against each proposal will be logged at https://pgw.report/local-action/v1/#log so the Town Council can refer back to it if needed.

Thank you for your time,
Paul G Webster

Communications officer, East Lindsey Green Party
paul@pgw.report
https://pgw.report/