They were considered during the Planning & Environment Committee's meeting in the Angel Suite, chaired by Coun Mike Storey.
These applications are:
- Replace existing garden shed with a shed and covered barbeque area at 12 Westrum Lane.
- Erect a front porch at 4 Westrum Lane.
Committee members were informed of a decision made by the North Lincolnshire authority on a Bigby Road application - intention to fell a lime tree within Brigg's conservation area.
North Lincolnshire Council has decided NOT to make a tree preservation order in this case, which means the planned work can proceed.
The location of the tree is Merivale, Bigby Road, and the application to carry out the work was submitted by Colin Maclean, of Eastholme, Bigby Road.
Coun Storey has welcomed a change in procedures introduced by new Town Clerk Dinah Lilley, pictured below, which is making it easier for town councillors to view important information.
Hyperlinks leading to the planning information lodged by applicants are now being embedded in emails sent ahead of meetings to members of the planning committee so councillors can click and view all applications there and then.
This is a far cry from the system that operated in 1980 when we first started covering Brigg Town Council meetings.
In those days there was only a written agenda and if you wanted to view information submitted in support of an application, the press had to visit the Glanford Borough Council planning office - in a temporary building on Cary Lane - and ask to view the letters.
Eventually, a member of staff would re-appear with the info of interest to the press and public.
The contents of the letter sent to the council by the applicant then had to be written down in your notebook and taken back to the office to be typed up into an article.
We recall in the early 1980s doing just that when someone applied to open a night club in the town, which, as it turned out, was never established.
Still, the proposal made a front page story in the old Lincolnshire & South Humberside Times, based at 57 Wrawby Street.
It just goes to show that the old ways are not always the best ways!
