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Items
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1. |
Apologies for Absence
To
receive any apologies from members unable to attend the
meeting
Minutes:
Apologies were received from Councillors
Thacker and Simons.
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2. |
Declarations of Interest and Whipping Declarations
At this point Members must declare whether they have
a disclosable pecuniary interest, or
other interest, in any of the items on the agenda, unless it is
already entered in the register of members’ interests or is a
“pending notification “ that has been disclosed to the
Solicitor to the Council.
Members must also declare if they are subject to
their party group whip in relation to any items under
consideration.
Minutes:
There were no declarations of interest
made.
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3. |
Minutes from the previous meeting PDF 88 KB
Approve the minutes of the meeting held on 4 October
2012
Minutes:
The minutes from the
meeting held on 4 October 2013.
The minutes of the meeting held on 4 October
2013 were approved as a true and accurate record.
The Assistant Neighbourhood Manager advised
that feedback on the actions arising from the previous meeting was
provided on the ‘We said you did’ sheet.
Members requested feedback regarding the
action on clearance of over hanging trees, which was raised as an
issue at the previous meeting.
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4. |
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 and
the annual work programme.
Minutes:
Attendees of the meeting were given the
opportunity to ask questions and raise issues affecting the areas
in which they lived.
These included:
- Grimy street signs;
- Safety concerns were raised over
fallen leaves within the Werrington and Paston areas;
- Issues with overgrown trees on
Church Street, Werrington and in the Churchyard;
In a discussion held over the recent tree
survey being conducted by Enterprise Peterborough (EP) on behalf of
PCC, representatives from EP responded to comments, questions on
concerns raised by Councillors and residents. In summary, the responses included:
- A detailed Council owned tree survey
was provided on the Council’s website pertaining to the
progress of the project and extent of work to be carried out;
- The recent colour coding placed onto
trees during the survey had indicated the types of action required
for that tree. Necessary works may
include operations of thinning out or removal and replacement as
necessary;
- Information regarding the tree
survey had been supplied through various media facilities such as
the local press, local television news channels and social media
networks sites such as Twitter;
- Signs would be placed on each
Council owned tree in order to ensure that the public were aware of
what action was required;
- It was vital to carry out the
programme of works for Council owned trees in order to mitigate any
further damage caused resulting in future claims to the
Council; and
- The tree survey conducted by EP was
overseen by PCC in order to ensure that best practice was being
followed.
In a discussion held regarding community
organisations, the Neighbourhood Manager responded to comments and
concerns raised by Councillors and residents. In summary, responses included:
- The £25k budget capital budget
allocation for N&W2, would only be directed to capital projects
and that it was not possible to fund the running costs of
Werrington Neighbourhood Committee;
- All appropriate options were being
considered in order to meet the shortfall of £132 for the
Welbourne project; and
- Enquiries were being raised
regarding position of the closure of Paston Park Farm.
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5. |
Updates on Matters of Interest Relevant to the Committee
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5a |
Presentation to showcase projects that have been funded through Peterborough North Area Committee
Minutes:
The Neighbourhood Committee received
a presentation from the Neighbourhood Manager over the recent
projects that had been funded by previous Neighbourhood Committee
Capital funding of 25k.
Key points within the presentation
were as follows:
- Small Grants funding;
- Purchase of CCTV equipment for the
area in order to improve enforcement over fly tipping
offences;
- Noise monitoring equipment;
- Winter salt bins sited -
£3400;
- Grant pool for community grant
groups and activities to apply for funding £400-4,000;
- Benches, installed on Fox Covert
Road;
- Bunding
measures introduced in order to deter encampment;
- Mobile speed activated signs which
were being utilised in all wards - £10,000;
- Illegal occupation;
- Street arts board in unity park and
skate park;
- Improvements to Welbourne play area
12,500;
- Honey Hill, improvement works for
the area including adults and children’s gym which was to be
the largest in the City.
Comments and responses to questions were as
follows:
- Members thanked the Neighbourhood
Manager for all the hard work in completing the projects;
- Members welcomed the Honey Hill
improvements;
- Concerns were raised regarding the
multi use of the football field at Honey Hill and that a condition
over the use of the land had meant that it would be closed for
certain times throughout the
day;
- The N&W2 Community Action Plan
(CAP) was being finalised and agreement would be sought from
Cabinet and Council over its implementation. Progress of the CAPS would be fed back to a
Neighbourhood Committee in the New Year;
- There
was £500 remaining from the Small Grants funding;
- Concerns were raised over the size
of the football pitch and the risk of dog fouling;
- Tesco’s had not identified a
definite date for the approved Staniland Way roundabout installation. If the Tesco’s junction improvements were
delayed, PCC Officers may be required to submit a bid to implement
junction improvements such as signage in order to mitigate further
road traffic accidents.
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6. |
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be held
on Wednesday 13 March 2013. Venue to be
confirmed.
Minutes:
The next meeting of the 19 March 2013 venue
was to be confirmed.
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