North Hykeham Town Council

The first North Hykeham Parish Council meeting was held in 1894. With the growth of the town, North Hykeham successfully achieved Town Council status in 1973, with its first meeting as a Town Council taking place in May 1974.

The Town Council committee meetings are usually held at monthly intervals. There are 18 Councillor positions at present and the town is divided into 6 wards: Moor Ward (6 Councillors) Memorial (3 Councillors) Witham (3 Councillors) Grange Ward (2 Councillors) Meadow Ward (2 Councillors) and Forum (2 Councillors). In May of each year, a Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected. The Council is served by the Town Clerk, Deputy Clerk, and Assistant Clerk.

There are 3 committees of the council: Community & Planning, Estates & Operations, and Finance & Policy. Please note that the Town Council is not responsible for the approval or rejection of planning applications, it is merely a consultation committee. There are also additional sub-committees and working parties which report and make recommendations to the Full Town Council for approval.

North Hykeham Town Council is responsible for the Community Hub, North Hykeham Cemetery, and the care and maintenance of all other open spaces and playgrounds it owns.

Facilities

Open Spaces and Playgrounds

Bus Shelters and Street Lighting

The Town Council also owns and maintains 280 street lights and 16 bus shelters within the Town.

The majority of bus shelters are polycarbonate except for 2 brick and 2 wood structures.  The Town Council aims to upgrade older bus shelters when possible, often through grant funding, with several having been replaced with assistance from the Access LN6 project.

North Hykeham’s Motto “AUDIATUR ET ALTERA PARS” freely translated means “One should also listen to the other side and not always assume one is always right”.

North Hykeham, both as a village and, since 1974, as a town, is rightly proud of its independence from Lincoln.  The old village dates back to the Angles, Germanic invaders who occupied much of Britain after the Romans left in 400ce.  The Danes and Vikings arrived in Lincolnshire in 900ce, hence places with names ending in – by, thorpe and ham (which means ‘village’).

North Hykeham Church was first mentioned in 1160 but, by 1535, it was merely a ‘free chapel’ but was in ruin by 1700.  From 1700 there was no church in North Hykeham.  All Saints Church was built in the late 1850s and the Methodist Chapel was built in 1881.  In 1894 the first Parish Council was established and met in the village school.  In 1948 the Parish Council moved to the Memorial Hall (‘The Tin Tabernacle’) on Newark Road.  The present Memorial Hall was built in 1969.  In May 2006 the Town Council moved to its new premises in Fen Lane, an extension of the existing pavilion. 

After the Second World War, the expanding population of North Hykeham resulted in three new Primary Schools and two Comprehensives.  The post war period saw a housing boom in North Hykeham.  In 1970 fifteen acres at Fen Lane were purchased to accommodate three or four football pitches and a children’s play area.  With the growth of the town, North Hykeham successfully achieved Town Council status in 1973. 

In 1988 North Hykeham was twinned with Denzlingen in the Black Forest region of Germany. 2024 saw the 35th Anniversary of the Twinning Association with Denzlingen.

A new Town Cemetery was consecrated in May 1998 and, in addition to the a variety of supermarkets and shopping parades at the Forum and Hykeham Green, more facilities are planned to cope with the continued new housing developments.  The 2021 Census showed North Hykeham had a population of 16,844.

North Hykeham remains proud of its history and looks forward to the future.