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Contact: Alex Daynes Tel: 01733 452447 Email: alexander.daynes@peterborough.gov.uk
Note: This Neighbourhood Committee will be preceded by a Ward Forum at 6pm. This is a chance for you to talk to your ward councillor about issues affecting your area. This will be followed by the East South and East North Neighbourhood Panels from 6.30 – 7.45pm to identify priorities for the Police and Council for the next three months
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Apologies for Absence To receive any apologies from members unable to attend the meeting Minutes: Apologies were received from Cllr Todd. |
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Declarations of Interest Members to declare any personal/personal prejudicial interests in any items on this agenda Minutes: No declarations of interest were made |
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Minutes from the previous meeting PDF 77 KB Approve the minutes of the meeting held on 28 March 2012. Minutes: The minutes from the meeting held on 28 March 2012, were agreed as a true and accurate record.
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Issues arising from previous meeting Minutes: The Neighbourhood Manager advised that updates and details of completed actions were provided on tables.
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Election of Vice Chairman Minutes: A proposal was received from Councillor Peach for Councillor Saltmarsh for the role of Vice Chairman. The proposal was seconded by elected Members.
No other nominations were received and Councillor Saltmarsh was duly elected as vice chairman.
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Open Session An opportunity for any member of the public, elected and co-opted members of the Neighbourhood Committee to raise anything that affects your area and to suggest items for future meetings. Minutes: Attendees of the meeting were given the opportunity to ask questions and raise issues affecting the areas in which they lived.
These included:
Councillors Shearman, Ash, Miners, Saltmarsh and Shabbir expressed an opinion over:
The expression of opinion to be directed to Council was seconded by Councillor Miners.
The Chair was chosen for the Neighbourhood Committee and that process was not conducted in the spirit of localism.
The Governance Officer advised Members that similar expressions of opinion had been raised at other Neighbourhood Committees and that if elected Members were in agreement, the opinions of the Dogsthorpe, East and Park Neighbourhood Committee would be included in a report to Council.
Following the debate (5 out of 8) Members were in agreement to include the opinions expressed within a report to Council.
Councillor Peach commented that although the opinion was to be included in the report to Council it should be noted that there was three Conservative, Liberal Democrats and Labour group Members that were located across all wards and that currently no political party would hold a majority seat on the Dogsthorpe, East and Park Neighbourhood Committee.
Agreed Actions
It was agreed that the Assistant Neighbourhood Manager would:
It was also agreed that Enterprise Peterborough would:
It was agreed that the ... view the full minutes text for item 6. |
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Updates on Matters of Interest Relevant to the Committee |
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Statement of Community Involvement (PCC Strategic Planning) Minutes: The Neighbourhood Committee received a presentation from the Planning Policy Manager, on the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) and how it would impact on the introduction of Neighbourhood Plans (NP) and Community Action Plans (CAP).
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Community Action Plan (CAP) (PCC Neighbourhood Management Team) Minutes: The Neighbourhood Committee received a presentation from the Assistant Neighbourhood Manager regarding the CAP. The Localism bill recommended that action plans should be developed for each of the Neighbourhood Committees.
Key points within the presentation were as follows:
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Next Meeting The next meeting will be held on 18 September 2012 at Queens Drive Infant School. Minutes: The next meeting of the Dogsthorpe, East and Park Neighbourhood Committee was due to be held on 18 September 2012 at Queens Drive Infant School.
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