Bootle Parish Council – Asset Register as at 31 March 2024

Part 1 – Land & Buildings

Asset Identification / Registration Price Paid Use Notes
Fell Field, OS 5447, Fell Gate, Bootle Fell (0.194 ha) Registration complete Not known (nominal value £1) Pasture, tenanted Believed to have been taken over from the Parochial Church Council in 1894. Rent records from 1923.
Community Woodland (formerly Allotment Field), OS 7455, Bootle Fell (0.895 ha) Registration complete Not known (nominal value £1) Vacant (deeds describe as “allotment field for labouring poor”) Believed transferred from the Parochial Church Council in 1894. Partial deed indicates transfer to Churchwardens & Overseers. Rent records from 1923. Converted to community woodland in 2022/23.
Playing Field, Millholme (6.13 ha) CU 283219 £10,000 (1980, grant funded) Sports field 100-year lease to BDSSC at £1 per year.
Amenity Land, Hycemoor (1.5 ha) CU 295826 Nil (nominal value £1) Play area Given by MOD in 1985 with £4,000 contribution to future maintenance.
Toilet Block, Church Lane Purchase complete £1 Public toilets Formerly leased from CBC. Refurbished January 2021 with the creation of office/retail space at a cost of £22,000.
Church View, Church Lane Office/retail space created during refurbishment £22,000 Office/retail outlet Created in January 2021 during refurbishment of the toilet block.
Bus Shelter (Hycemoor) Not known (nominal value £1) Bus shelter Old shelter renewed in 2000; supplier and cost unknown.
Bus Shelter (Main Street) Not known (nominal value £1) Bus shelter Origin not known.
Telephone Box, Monks Moors Purchase complete £1 Originally purchased as location for defibrillator
Total Land & Buildings £32,008

Part 2 – Amenity Items

Item Price Paid Location Details Notes
Bench seat Nominal £1 Hycemoor Near end of lane to Flatts, south side of road In memory of Mrs Coles
Bench seat* £432 Wellbank / Inmans Lane end 100 m past entrance towards beach, west side 1957 siting agreement; renewed 2019
Bench seat* £250 Church Lane / Chapel Lane On fork by Lane House Renewed 2016
Bench seat Nominal £1 Church Lane (by toilets) Facing the car park Presented by Mrs Hargreaves
Bench seat* £250 Church Lane (by phone box) Renewed 2016
Bench seat £432 End of Inmans Lane Purchased June 2019
Bench seat* £250 Main Street Outside Fell Croft 1960 siting agreement; renewed 2016
Bench seat Nominal £1 A595 south of village 100 m north of Millholme 1971 siting agreement
Bench seat* £250 Chapel Lane In front of 1–6 Combe View Renewed 2016
Bench seat* £250 Chapel Lane 15 Combe View Renewed 2016
Bench seat £350 A595 East side, opposite The Manse Installed 2016
Bench seat Nominal £1 School playing field Donated by Mr & Mrs Atkinson
Bench seat Nominal £1 School playing field In memory of Kevin Walker
Bench seat Nominal £1 Bootle Surgery In memory of Dr Smith
Notice board** £250 Main Street Adjacent Captain Shaw’s School
Notice board** £250 Bootle Railway Station
Notice board** £250 Hycemoor Green
Ceramic pots Nominal £2 Chapel Lane Corner of Chapel Lane & Main Street Two remain from original six (2010)
Plastic pots Nominal £2 Throughout village Bootle in Bloom
Light columns ×2 Nominal £2 Mill Street Columns 17 & 41 Replacements for ENW removals; donated by CBC
Light column £2,410.50 Hycemoor Way Column 62 Replacement for CBC removal
Light column £2,410.50 Chapel Lane Column 25 Replacement for CBC removal
Self-watering planters (33) £4,337 Around Bootle Bootle in Bloom
High-visibility waistcoats (9) £90 For Bootle in Bloom volunteers
Defibrillator (Hycemoor) £570 Hycemoor In old phone box
Phone box £1 Hycemoor Purchased June 2019
Phone box £1 Church Lane Acquired Feb 2019; now used as book swap
Artificial external Christmas tree £206.45 Bootle Church Purchased Nov 2019
Self-watering planters £2,180.60 Around Bootle Purchased Feb 2020
CCTV £1,210.80 Toilets Mounted externally Purchased Dec 2021
Water bowser & trailer £1,821.01 B. Hill Stored at B. Hill Purchased Mar 2022 for Bootle in Bloom
Planters £1 Around Bootle Various Donated Feb 2022 (“Welcome Back Fund”)
Benches (Woodland Project) £1,486.92 Woodland Project Old allotment field Part of Woodland Project
Bird hide (Woodland Project) £812.75 Woodland Project Old allotment field Part of Woodland Project
Defibrillator (Monks Moors) £764.40 Monks Moors In telephone box Defib donated; cabinet purchased
Total Amenity Items £21,529.93

Part 3 – Machinery

No machinery held.

Part 4 – Sundries

Item Make Purchased Supplier Custody Price Notes
Voice recorder Sony 2014 Argos Clerical Assistant £29.99
Arnold-Baker (5th edition) Unknown Chairman Nominal £1
Clayden (9th edition) 2015 Lexis-Nexis Chairman £85.00
School field survey data 2013 Edmonsons Clerk Nil value Electronic file
Footpath survey data 2015 WYG Clerk Nil value Electronic file
Total Sundries £115.99

Summary

Part 1 – Land & Buildings £32,007
Part 2 – Amenity Items £21,529.93
Part 3 – Machinery £0
Part 4 – Sundries £116
Total Asset Value (Box 9 of Annual Return) £53,652.93

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