Agenda and minutes
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Contact: Tim Murtagh, Constitutional Officer
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Introduction and welcome
Minutes: The chair welcomed residents, councillors and officers to the meeting. |
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Apologies
Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Evelyn Akoto and Lisa Rajan. |
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Items of business that the Chair deems urgent
The chair to advise whether they have agreed to any item of urgent business being admitted to the agenda.
Minutes: There were none. |
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Disclosure of Members' interests and dispensations
Members to declare any interests and dispensation in respect of any item of business to be considered at this meeting. Minutes: Councillor David Hubber, declared a non-pecuniary interest in item 13, as he is a member of Surrey Docks Provident Society, which has an application being considered for funding.
Councillor Kath Whittam, declared a non-pecuniary interest in item 13, as she is a member of Surrey Docks Provident Society, which has an application being considered for funding. |
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Minutes
To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 27 January 2016. Supporting documents: Minutes: RESOLVED:
That the minutes of the meeting held on 27 January 2016 be agreed as a correct record of that meeting. |
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Deputations / Petitions (if any)
The chair to advise on any deputations or petitions received. Minutes: There were none. |
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7.15pm |
Community Announcements
- Council sports and activity sessions - Southwark civic awards - National apprenticeships week - Canada Water master plan - Redriff primary school update Minutes: Council sports and activity sessions Elizabeth Mings, community sports team at Southwark Council, explained that she was attending to promote some of the physical activities, sports and leisure services available. “Get Active Southwark” was a website platform – www.southwark.gov.uk/getactive on which residents could search for any activity going on in their local area by simply entering their postcode. Additionally, there was a “Free Swim and Gym” pilot for all Southwark residents under 18 or over 60 years of age, contact: elizabeth.mings@southwark.gov.uk
Southwark Civic Awards Gary Magold, local resident explained that the Southwark Civic Awards scheme for 2016 was open for nominations. The civic awards recognised excellence in active citizenship and members of the public were encouraged to nominate individuals, projects, organisations and businesses across the borough worthy of being honoured. The closing date for nominations was Tuesday 29 March 2016 and nomination forms were available from the Mayor’s Office and on the council’s website.
Redriff Primary School Councillor Lucas Green, chair of governors at Redriff Primary School, explained the issue was about the on-going traffic situation around the school at the junction with the new Downtown development. A petition had been drafted by concerned residents. Work had taken place with the developers and traffic management to ensure that the area was as safe as possible. The road in question, where parents drop their children off for school, was not a council or Transport for London (TfL) road. It is part of the Barratt’s private development. The school had ordered a traffic management study with the aim of minimising the risk to children, parents and other users. Whilst the responsibility lay with Barratts, the school and council were doing what it could to make it as safe as possible.
Canada Water master plan Eleanor Wright, from British Land, thanked all those who had taken part in the recent consultation at Surrey Quays. About 2,500 attended to see the draft master plan and give feedback. The feedback was being collated and would be circulated in due course at future meetings in April. Eleanor explained that they were looking to find community groups to make use of the unit in Surrey Quays shopping centre, next to Tesco. Any groups interested should contact: eleanor.wright@britishland.com
Councillors requested that the development model be on display at the next community council meeting and that the item be given more time on the agenda for discussion. In response to a public question, Eleanor said there would be about 3,500 new homes across the 46 acres and the tallest building in the current master plan was about 40 to 50 storeys. Further consultation and discussions about the detailed plans would take place later in the year.
Friends of Southwark Park Gary Glover, from the Friends of Southwark Park, explained that a consultation was taking place regarding the café area and former old nursery site. About £3million would be spent and local input and feedback was encouraged. Further information was available on the Southwark website. ... view the full minutes text for item 7. |
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7.30pm |
Community Safety Update
Local Police Update Minutes: Inspector James Cole, from the local police team gave a summary of recent activities. |
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7.40pm |
Age-Friendly Borough
Councillor Stephanie Cryan to introduce the item along with Jess Leech, Resident Participation Coordinator.
There would be 3 workshops on the theme:
- Housing
- Communication and information
- Social participation (opportunities to have fun) Minutes: Councillor Stephanie Cryan, cabinet member for adult care and financial inclusion, introduced the main theme item on the agenda, along with Jess Leech, resident participation coordinator: Age-friendly borough consultation.
The World Health Organisation describes an age friendly place as one where: • people of all ages actively participate • everyone is treated with respect • it is easy to stay connected • people are helped to stay healthy and active • the frail and vulnerable are helped to live with dignity and enjoyment.
To become more age-friendly Southwark is developing an action plan to address the barriers to living and ageing well. The action plan would be developed through talking to people who live, work and provide services in Southwark.
The action plan would set out what needed to change for the borough to be more age friendly.
3 workshops took place on: • Housing • Social participation • Communication and Information.
Feedback from the workshops would go towards creating the action plan. |
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8.40pm |
Public question time
This is an opportunity for questions to be addressed to the chair.
Residents or persons working in the borough may ask questions on any matter in relation to which the council has powers or duties. Responses may be supplied in writing following the meeting. Minutes: The following public questions were raised at the meeting:
Q1 In response to a question about how the decision was made about the facilities within the leisure centre, specifically the length of the swimming pool, Councillor Stephanie Cryan explained that under Sport England guidelines, pools should be either 25 metres or 50 metres long. The current Seven Islands facility has a 33 metre pool. She added that a longer swimming pool could deter less able swimmers and the council wanted to encourage less active people to take up swimming.
Q2 In response to a question about traffic delays from Abbey Street to the Rotherhithe tunnel and what could be done to fix the problem, councillors responded that there was cross-party agreement that something needed to be done. A joint letter would be sent from the community council to Transport for London (TfL) requesting a yellow box at the junction of Abbey Street and Jamaica Road, and another yellow box at the junction of St James Road and Jamaica Road.
Q3 A local resident submitted the following question in writing: “Dear councillors / community, there is community concern in the existing non transparent structure and disjointed operating protocol of the Housing Forum. Dates, locations, agendas or past minutes are not available on the council's website or via an independently published web site. There appears no appetite from Rotherhithe elected members to review the existing structure. Growing numbers of residents now believe there is no point having a delegate based forum system, if there is no link between membership, forum attendance and their delegates representation. Once tenant and residents associations (T&RAs) fall into malpractice and fail to follow good practice then there is no formal consultative structure. Having an antiquated format that potentially only serves individual need or party political gain undermines democracy in Rotherhithe.”
In response, Councillor Richard Livingstone, said that there was an appetite for transparency and openness. He added that the agendas and minutes should be available in the public domain and that fault lay with the council rather than T&RAs. The chair requested an update at the next community council in June 2016. |
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8.50pm |
Cleaner Greener Safer: Funding Reallocation
Note: This is an executive function for decision by the community council.
Members to approve reallocations of funds for the Cleaner Greener Safer capital programme. Supporting documents: Minutes: Michelle Normanly, senior project manager, introduced the item.
Councillors considered the information contained in the report.
RESOLVED:
That £82,829 of underspend or returned funding from previous years be re-allocated as follows:
Existing projects requiring additional funding Funding
Manor Estate netting £2,500 Dickens Estate notice boards £800 Spenlow House pitch resurfacing £1,000 Avondale House greening £1,300
New projects –
Rennie Estate bollard replacement £1,000 Surrey Docks Farm western site development £12,695. |
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8.55pm |
Cleaner Greener Safer 2016-17: Capital Funding Allocation
Note: This is an executive function for decision by the community council.
Members to approve further allocations of funds for the 2016-17 Cleaner Greener Safer capital programme in the Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Community Council area from the list of applications set out in Appendix 1 of the report. Supporting documents: Minutes: Michelle Normanly, senior project manager, introduced the item.
Councillors considered the information contained in the report.
RESOLVED:
That the following amounts of 2016-17 Cleaner Greener Safer capital funding be allocated:
GRANGE WARD Funding
Hanging baskets £11,000 Hall sign post, Setchell and Longfield Hall £1,500 Bermondsey Village Hall £12,000 Better Stevens Street pavement / trees £38,840 Goodwin Close, hanging baskets £1,820 Whites Grounds cleaners store £5,100 Crosby Row, vertical garden £2,700 CCTV, Bermondsey Street £27,750 CCTV, Lucey Way and Linsey Street £13,225 Swan Mead ball court £15,000
RIVERSIDE WARD Funding
Hanging baskets £6,667 Arnold Estate beautiful balconies £1,080 Arnold Estate bicycle parking £6,240 Tackling phone theft at Bermondsey Station £29,000 St James Churchyard lighting improvements £30,650 Compass School – food growing project £2,000 Dickens Estate, working for the community £5,000 Keeton’s Estate chicanes £8,000 Southwark Park improvements £5,000
ROTHERHITHE WARD Funding
Pedworth Green Spot £15,240
SOUTH BERMONDSEY WARD Funding
Hanging baskets £1,990
SURREY DOCKS WARD Funding
Lavender Pond Bore Hole £2,780
Councillor Michael Situ, said he would look at the CGS revenue option in relation to CGS capital projects that used to exist before that funding programme was merged with the community council fund to create the neighbourhoods fund. |
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9.00pm |
Allocation of Neighbourhoods Fund 2016-17
Note: This is an executive function for decision by the community council.
Councillors to allocate the Neighbourhoods Fund 2016-17 from the list of applications outlined in Appendix 1 of the report. Supporting documents: Minutes: Councillors considered the information contained in the report.
RESOLVED:
That the following amounts of neighbourhoods fund be awarded to the following projects:
GRANGE WARD Funding
David Idowu Foundation youth_Ink £926.18 Counselling and self-advocacy for young people 11-25 £909.09 Health wealth community £284.73 Rotherhithe Shed: social and creative activities £223.09 Girls and women’s music to football programme £909.09 Basketball for everyone £181.81 Southwark explorers club £163.64 Finding Solutions: anti-social behaviour £163.64 Elders Company £163.64 Supporting community sports clubs £127.93 Million hands £181.82 Sculpture project £5,250.00 Heritage Lives – London Bridge, Shad Thames and Bermondsey Street £2,425.00 Bermondsey Street Festival £5,000.00 Bermondsey Street Festival £2,250.00 Capoeira Angola community £2,080.00 Bermondsey World Cup £198.18 Bermondsey in bloom £909.09 More creative Bede £2,500.00 Family cultural trips £500.00 Youth back care £10,750.80 Community yoga classes for elderly, children and post-natal £2,920.00 OBC Youth summer outreach programme £1,852.00 Green mentor for Bermondsey and Rotherhithe £909.09 It was 20 years ago today – Friends of Southwark Park £908.18
LIVESEY WARD Funding
David Idowu Foundation youth_Ink £1,000.00 Rotherhithe Shed social and creative activities £200.00 Supporting community sports clubs £150.00 Million hands £181.82 Buzz on the B&B and the Blue 2 £3,500.00 Bermondsey community kitchen £3,500.00 St George’s Day £2,180.00 Bermondsey World Cup £130.91 Tai chi sessions £700.00 Silwood music project £1,640.00 Green mentor for Bermondsey and Rotherhithe £909.09 It was 20 years ago today – Friends of Southwark Park £908.18
RIVERSIDE WARD Funding
Bermondsey community kitchen £2,300.00 Heritage Lives – London Bridge, Shad Thames and Bermondsey Street £1,200.00 Unicorn Play Club £2,300.00 Bermondsey World Cup £200.00 Bermondsey in bloom £909.09 Southwark budding builders £4,000.00 Soft play £5,000.00 Cleaner Shad Thames £5,000.00 Community cricket coaching and development £1,200.00 Shad Thames trail: points of view £1,965.00 It was 20 years ago today – Friends of Southwark Park £908.18 Leap into life project £5,000.00
ROTHERHITHE WARD Funding
Health wealth community £1,566.00 Rotherhithe Shed social and creative activities £1,227.00 Girls and women’s music to football programme £1,000.00 Southwark explorers club £900.00 Million hands £1,000.00 Scandi street markets £1,000.00 Funday@Bede2016 £1,021.00 Brunel museum summer play scheme £1,000.00 Ageing well in Southwark £600.00 Bermondsey World Cup £545.00 More Creative – Bede £2,500.00 Plants for Jarman House £2,000.00 Saving Senior Art group £1,600.00 Rotherhithe Festival 2016 £2,500.00 Community cricket coaching and development £2,400.00 Tai chi sessions £700.00 Silwood family hub £2,500.00 Green mentor for Bermondsey and Rotherhithe £1,000.00 It was 20 years ago today – Friends of Southwark Park £2,500.00 T&T gardening pitch-ins and teach-ins £5,337.00 Mayflower 2020 Rotherhithe map £500.00
SOUTH BERMONDSEY WARD Funding
David Idowu Foundation youth_Ink £926.00 Counselling and self-advocacy for young people 11-25 £909.00 Health wealth community £285.00 Rotherhithe Shed social and creative activities £223.00 Girls and women’s music to football programme £909.00 Basketball for everyone £182.00 Southwark explorers club £164.00 Finding solutions: anti-social behaviour £164.00 Elders company £164.00 Supporting community sport clubs £128.00 Sport day / A family day event £500.00 Million hands £181.82 Astley & Coopers Road Estate fun day £2,000.00 Picnic on the Green £818.00 Buzz on ... view the full minutes text for item 13. |
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9.05pm |
Local Traffic and Parking Amendments
Note: This is an executive function for decision by the community council.
Members to approve for implementation the local traffic and parking amendments, detailed in the appendices to the report, subject to the outcome of any necessary statutory consultation and procedures. Supporting documents: Minutes: Councillors considered the information contained in the report.
RESOLVED:
That the following local traffic and parking amendments be approved for implementation, as detailed in the appendices to the report, subject to the outcome of any necessary statutory procedures:
· Middleton Drive – Install double yellow lines adjacent to junctions with Stanhope Close, Hawke Place and off street parking areas to improve traffic flow and access.
· Dockhead on Jacob Street – Relocate existing permit holders (G) bay and retain and extend existing ‘keep clear’ road markings to maintain access to the newly developed Fire Station / On Wolseley Street retain and extend ‘keep clear’ road markings. |
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9.10pm |
Community Council Question to Council Assembly
Each community council may submit one question to a council assembly meeting that has previously been considered and noted by the community council.
Any question to be submitted from a community council to council assembly should first be the subject of discussion at a community council meeting. The subject matter and question should be clearly noted in the community council’s minutes and thereafter the agreed question can be referred to the constitutional team.
The community council is invited to consider if it wishes to submit a question to the ordinary meeting of council assembly in July 2016. Minutes: There was no community council question to council assembly submitted at this meeting. |
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OTHER In response to concerns raised about the future of community council decision making, councillor Michael Situ in his role as cabinet member for communities and safety, explained that there was an annual evaluation of residents’ feedback about community councils. He had recently been looking at the evaluations and had asked officers to look into how things were being done. Councillors were currently being consulted on proposals to engage with more residents. After the councillor consultation period had ended, a way ahead would be considered in response to what residents had been feeding back into the process in the last few years.
Councillor Anood Al-Samerai responded that the Liberal Democrat group did not think decisions should be taken away from councillors and further away from the community, in particular parking decisions. She requested consultation at community councils before any final decisions were made on changes.
Councillor Michael Situ said that he would take on board the comments made and any significant changes, that were needed, would be brought back to community councils. |