Agenda and draft minutes

To receive any apologies from members unable to attend the meeting.

Apologies were received from Cllrs Nawaz, Martin and Fletcher.

There were no declarations of interest.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 15 October 2012 and matters arising (including update from Neighbourhood Manager)

The minutes from the meeting held on 15 October 2012 were agreed as a true and accurate record.

The Neighbourhood Manager advised that updates and details of completed actions were provided on a rolling presentation shown at the meeting. 

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. 

• Road safety outside of schools
• Enterprise Peterborough updates

Attendees of the meeting were given the opportunity to ask questions and raise issues affecting the areas in which they lived. These included:

Enterprise Peterborough

In a discussion held regarding the services provided by Enterprise Peterborough (EP), the Director and Interim Street Care Manager of EP provided responses to questions, concerns and comments raised, which included: 

• Under data protection and confidentiality rules, financial and contractual information regarding the services provided by EP was not available to the public;
• Maintenance issues should be reported through the Enterprise Helpdesk,
• Calls relating to services that were provided by EP would route through to the Council’s call centre who would log all maintenance issues reported and would direct the calls on to be dealt with promptly; 
• A report detailing the responses received for EP calls from the public for maintenance work was logged through the call centre; 
• Computer systems were installed on refuse bin wagons, which would be used to inform EP if bins had not been emptied; 
• Currently the waste collection services were experiencing a high percentage of success; 
• EP were reaching 98% success rate over all KPI’s, and a financial penalty would be imposed for EP if the company failed to deliver any service;
• Requests for maintenance regarding churned up verges should be directed through to PCC’s Highways or Neighbourhoods Team; 
• There were currently a significant number of verges in the City that required repair; however, there was very limited budget to carry out all repairs;
• There had been a lapse in refuse collection for some areas of Peterborough over the Christmas period; however, EP were working towards improving communications for next Christmas in order to improve the service;
• EP resources for brown bin collection services had been put on hold due to a long standing tradition over the Christmas period;
• A meeting was being organised with the Council in order to discuss ways to increase biodiversity in appropriate areas of the City;
• It was proposed that signs would be displayed to advise if an area within the City had become designated as biodiversity area; and
• EP confirmed that they held the contract for the maintenance of allotment internal hedges, which included Hartwell Way and that maintenance was scheduled to commence at the end of February 2013.

Midland Road

In response to a question regarding the sale of the Midland Road  former hospital site, Members confirmed that the contract exchange was underway for Vawser Lodge. 

Road Safety Outside Schools

A discussion was held regarding road safety outside of schools in the Peterborough area.  The Road Safety Officer responded to questions, comments and concerns raised, which in summary included:

Traffic monitoring across City schools was being conducted to identify issues being experienced at school arrival and drop off times.  As part of the investigation, the Road Safety Team had been working alongside the Sustainable Travel Team with the aim to encourage parents to walk to school;

In addition the Road Safety Team were working towards ways to encourage:

• The adoption of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

The next meeting will be held on Thursday 4 April 2013.  Venue to be confirmed.

The next meeting of the Neighbourhood Committee for North & West 3 was due to be held on 4 April 2013, at the City Care Centre.