Agenda and minutes

Councillor Sue Johnson

Councillor Dave Liversidge

Councillor Chris Tansley

Peter Henson

Mark Sunderland

None.

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 10 May 2016.

Peter Wright and Cherry Underwood confirmed that they attended the previous meeting on 10 May 2016 (they were not marked as being present).

The minutes recorded that Councillor Gul Khan had also been appointed as Chair, when in fact he had been appointed Vice-Chair.

Subject to these changes being made, the minutes were agreed as a true record and signed by the Chair.

Report of Corporate Director for Commercial and Operations

Fi Cusick, Neighbourhood Development Officer for the Mapperley Ward introduced the report on the Appointment of Community Representatives.

There were two additions to the pack for the Mapperley Ward:

Peter Goode  -  St Andrew’s Church

Peter Henson  -  Mapperley Road Neighbourhood Watch

Andrew Campbell pointed out that he represents ACAF, not ACFF as reported.

Noel Martin expressed an interest in Community Representatives having a pre-meeting prior to Area Committee East.

RESOLVED to appoint Area Committee Community Represenatives from the Dales, Mapperley and St Ann’s Wards to the Area Committee for the municipal year 2016/2017.

Dales

Sneinton Tenants and Residents Association  -  Greg Feltham

Friends of Colwick Woods  -  Jonathan Kavanagh

Muslim Community Organisation Nottingham  -  Yasser Farook

Prettier Whittier  -  Noel Martin

Mapperley

St Andrew’s Church  -  Peter Goode

Mapperley Road Neighbourhood Watch  -  Peter Henson

STANNRA  -  Debs Main

Friends of Coppice Park  -  Caroline Pickering-Smith 

St Ann’s Allotments  -  Cathy Symes

St Ann’s

The Chase Lunch Club  -  Ethel Anderson

ACNA  -  Brian Blackburn (alternative rep to be sent)

ACAF  -  Andrew Campbell

St Ann’s Debt Advice  -  Debbie Webster

STOP TRA  -  Pete Wright

Report of Director of Neighbourhood Services

Also including an update by Nottinghamshire Police

Each Neighbourhood Development Officer (NDO) introduced their section of the Ward Performance Report.

Mapperley – Fi Cusick

(a)  there has been a 30% reduction in crime in Mapperley Ward.  Mobile CCTV is helping to bring down anti-social behaviour (ASB), in particular fly-tipping.  There are currently more hotspots than cameras;

(b)  further displacement parking schemes are being considered;

(c)  there are planning applications in for new family housing on the site of Springfield Day Centre;

(d)  there is an opportunity to build a like for like community centre where Wells Community Centre is currently situated;

(e)  NDO’s are working closely with Cats Protection on ‘community cats’. 

(f)  upcoming events in Mapperley include:

  (i)  tea and cake session – 10 October

  (ii)  wall painting session – 15 October

  (iii)  firework display at Coppice Park – 4 November

  (iv)  Councillors are involved in a jobs fair at Wells Community Centre on   13 October.  Robert Woodhead will be advertising their vacancies within the building sector;

Dales – Greg Foister

(g)  Councillors used their ward budget to purchase a mobile 3G camera; this has been effective in catching fly-tippers.  The Neighbourhood Action Team (NAT) has been able to identify the top sites for the camera;

(h)  NDOs and Councillors aim to reach every street in Dales within two years;

(i)  the Police Station on Sneinton Dale has been vacated; the new base is in Sneinton Library;

(j)  the Evening Post reported that star ratings for restaurants on Dales Road were not good.  There will be some work (including deep cleans) on this in the Week of Action, which starts on 14 November;

(k)  the Christmas Light turn on is on 8 December;

St Ann’s – Michelle Graley

(l)  the second phase of the traffic  audit will take place in the area around Stonebridge Road and Aberdeen Street;

(m)  two tea and cake meetings have taken place so far with eight to go;

(n)  6 ward walks are arranged up until March 2017;

(o)  the Week of Action is due to start on 24 October, with the Christmas Light turn on for St Ann’s on 5 December;

Police update – Donna Busuttil

(p)  domestic violence is down across all Wards.  Violence overall is down in all areas;

(q)  since the last meeting in May, 40 warrants have been executed;

Following questions from Members to Donna, the following information was highlighted:

(r)  there are now three PCSOs in the Dales Ward but one is on maternity leave;

(s)  Neighbourhood policing is being looked at as part of a review.  Recruitment for PCSOs and new officers is to open soon;

(t)  individuals who commit knife crime may not necessarily be caught.  Instances of GBH for example might involve people who used a knife but were not caught.  This is not necessarily reflected in the figures of knife crime included in the report.

Additional updates

(u)  work is underway with Graham Elston to produce a large scale art installation.  The first outing will be at  ...  view the full minutes text for item 15.

Report of Corporate Director for Commercial and Operations

Michelle Graley, NDO for St Ann’s Ward introduced the Area Capital Fund.

RESOLVED to:

(1)  note the monies available:

  Dales  -  £68101

  Mapperley  -  £64900

  St Ann’s  -  £107084

(2)  note and approve the following schemes as added to at the meeting:

Dales LTP

Dales Public Realm

Mapperley LTP

Mapperley Public Realm

St Ann’s Public Realm

Report of Corporate Director for Commercial and Operations

Michelle Graley, NDO for the St. Ann’s Ward introduced the Delegated Authority Projects item.

RESOLVED to note the actions agreed by the Corporate Director of Commercial and Operations in respect of projects and schemes within Area Committee East, as detailed in Appendix 1 of the agenda.

Report of Alison Challenger, Director of Public Health.

Gayle Aughton, Commissioning Manager introduced a report on ‘Improving the Health of Citizens’.

After questions from Members, the following points were highlighted:

(a)  work on prostate cancer screening the area is to be congratulated;

(b)  a set of questions were provided to the public focussing on the barriers to adults in the Health service.  This was a pilot, and all Area Committees approached this differently.

  This was joined up work with Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG);

(c)  during this review, an event was run at Djanogly, where the Romania Roma community were invited to give their responses.  Children in this community have strong healthy lifestyle messages, but this is not necessarily true in the adult population;

(d)  Cherry Underwood from the Renewal Trust has done work with focus groups and extended an offer to facilitate these on a local basis;

(e)  the benefits of parks and open spaces on mental health have been included as part of this work;

(f)  the future of public parks enquiry closes on 30 September.  If anyone wants to make comments, they can do so by visiting:

https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/communities-and-local-government-committee/news-parliament-2015/public-parks-launch-16-17/

(g)  the new Health and Wellbeing Strategy can now be found with the papers for this meeting.

RESOLVED to note the report.

Presentation by Cherry Underwood of the Renewal Trust

Cherry Underwood of the Renewal Trust provided an update on the Area Based Grant through a presentation (now part of the agenda papers).

The following points were highlighted:

(a)  the Renewal Trust takes a 7% management fee;

(b)  as part of the community research project, the focus has been more on older residents rather than the youth contract;

(c)  9 people have been employed and upskilled as part of the community research project;

(d)  32 days of staff time has been taken up by non-delivery (which includes meetings and discussions).  More data will be available in November;

(e)  the fund for summer holiday schemes appeared to be quite small, but the balance of the budgets is something that can be looked at for next year;

(f)  the ideal time that parents would want for activities is 10am-3pm, but this is difficult to deliver to the providers.

RESOLVED to note the update.

Report of Chief Executive, Nottingham City Homes

Toni Smithurst, Tenancy and Estate Manager at Nottingham City Homes presented the NCH Update report.

Toni also mentioned that Saturday 17 September would be the annual Tenant Fun Day at Bulwell Academy.

RESOLVED to:

(1)  note the update and performance information in Appendices 1 and 2 of the report;

(2)  note the allocation of funds for 2016/17, detailed in Appendix 3 of the report;

(3)  approve the Area Capital Programme funding request from Appendix 3 of the report.