Agenda item

Report of Corporate Director for Commercial and Operations.

Fi Cusick, Neighbourhood Development Officer (NDO) for the Mapperley Ward introduced the Ward Performance Report, highlighting the following points:

(a)  violence continues to be a challenge for the Police – primarily domestic violence.  The other main issue is shoplifting, and work is being carried out with specific shops in the area to try and combat this;

(b)  Facebook pages for each ward in the area have been launched.  These are proving very popular, and people can report directly to Facebook;

(c)  it has been decided to have a change to the management structure for the police in the area, with the result that Clare Rukas is being removed from her post responsible for Area 6 to work on the Neighbourhood project for the city division on community protection structure and police relationships;

(d)  there is an issue with the Co-op in the Dales ward.  The Neighbourhood Action Team (NAT) in Dales can do very little about shoplifting – this is shop policy to not confront shoplifters which would need looking at.

Mapperley Ward

(e)  i) a 3g camera has been installed within the ward;

  ii) Police have carried out speeding operations on Ransom Road, Querneby Road, and Brewsters Road;

  iii) Metropolitan Housing have a home swap event on Wednesday 11 November;

  iv) a Councillor’s ward walk will take place on Friday 13 November.  Feedback from the walk will be aired at a ward forum on 16 November at St Judes’ Church;

  v) Friends of Coppice Park had a successful event last Tuesday 3 November.  The firework display had 500 attendees;

  vi) feedback was given on the current events booking system. STARA felt that a lot of work was done on the cinema project, but they felt a lack of support.  The King Edward’s Park Halloween event was an annual event, but could not be held this year;

  vii) the Sneinton Market Christmas lights switch on is on 26 November;

Dales Ward

(f)  i) the area around Greenway Centre in Sneinton has become a neighbourhood policing priority, in direct response to resident’s concerns;

  ii) £75,000 is to be spent on developing the play park near Greenway.  £60,000 of section 106 money will be used to improve Greenway walk – this money cannot be used on the park itself.  Local Streetscene team will be cutting back the walk to assist with access to the Aldi development;

  iii) the week of action in September focused on the business area of the ward.  The local fire service leaflet dropped every single house concerning home fire safety – a significant number if people did not have smoke alarms.  In addition to this, Police removed cars not taxed or insured properly.  Streetscene crews did a number of deep cleans;

  iv) Councillors hosted a local issues meeting;

  v) residents litter pick took place – thanks to everyone involved;

  vi) local ward Councillors are always keen to formulate new ways of engaging with local people, through ward walks, and an increased number of local issues meetings.  Dales Councillors have trialled a Councillor consultation forum, which was structured to be a very open session;

  vii) the Greenway walkway has had new signage and has been widened.  Nottingham City Council is responsible for the maintenance of the bridge – currently the glass on the bridge is being broken regularly.  Councillors have a meeting with the officer responsible in about two weeks to repair this;

St Ann’s

(g)  i) St Ann’s has had a week of action on an environmental theme.  Monday 26 October saw 4000 bulbs planted, with the aid of the Police;

  ii) domestic violence (DV) networking meeting went well for officers, and was attended by NCH and patch managers.  Information around DV campaign was handed out;

  iii) Made in Dagenham film screening was well attended – thanks to Equation for this;

  iii) a lot of work from NCH and other organisations went into the Big Clean event at Ransom Road and Cromer Road.  Unfortunately, a week later there was a whole host of dumping that undid the good work.  Enforcement officers will have to address this;

  iv) there are two 3g cameras at Beverley Square and Marmion Park.  No issues have been reported since the cameras have been installed, although the camera at Beverley Square is due to come down;

  v) the St Ann’s traffic audit has been completed, with just a meeting with Councillors to come;

  vi) Christmas lights switch on is Wednesday 2 December.  Lymns have donated £200 for hampers;

  vii) tree improvements are progressing;

(h)  traffic department have looked at issues across the ward, with the aim of formulating a plan for the ward going forward.  One big problem is the amount of double yellow lines.

  The Windmill in Sneinton needs visitors to come to the area, but currently there is very little room in their car park.  A residents parking area allows people to park their for free for the first two hours, but anything after that is charged.

  NDO’s will work together to see if this parking area is a possibility for both sides of Windmill Lane.

RESOLVED to:

(1)  note the ward performance report;

(2)  ask Clare Rukas to report back to her superiors that the Committee are unhappy with the amount of change seen in police representation at this meeting;

(3)  write to the City Commander Mike Manley;

(4)  ask Clare Rukas to find out whether the shoplifting issues at Dales Coop has been escalated.