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Minutes:
The following community announcements were made:
Borough, Bankside and Walworth Youth Community Council
Kirsty and Thamina from the youth community council attend the meeting to announce the projects there were recommending for funding from the community restoration fund (youth element). They had received 33 applications totalling £140,000 and had £23,000 to allocate. Kirsty and Thamina explained that this was the first task of the newly formed youth community council. The youth community council were making the following recommendation for funding:
Louise Doherty, Southwark Youth Service, encouraged young people to get involved with the youth community council which met every other Thursday at 5.30pm-7pm. She encouraged community council attendees to spread the word to any young people they knew who might be interested and she could be contacted by email louise.doherty@southwark.gov.uk
Community Streets
Jack Ricketts, Transport Planner, informed the meeting of a public consultation for traffic improvements on Liverpool Grove which included proposals for a experimental road closure on Lytham Street. Jack had brought plans and consultation leaflets to the meeting and advised residents he was available to speak to in the break.
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
Juliet Seymour, planning policy, informed the meeting that the third stage of consultation on CIL was about to close. CIL was a new levy charged to developers for new homes and buildings which would replace Section 106. Juliet was available to speak to at the break if residents wanted more information.
Alcohol Anonymous (AA)
Tom from AA asked residents if they knew of any notice boards in the community where AA posters could be displayed – he informed people he would be available in the break if people could help. Tom added that AA was a self supporting group which didn’t charge fees, there were approximately 28 meetings a week taking place in Southwark more information was available at www.alcoholics-anoymous.org.uk
East Walworth Neighbourhood Watch
David Martin from the Peabody Estate off the Rodney Road asked councillors to request that funds from developers were made available to the estates impacted by developments to lessen the impact of construction works for example for double glazing for ground floor residents. David invited residents to attend a meeting on 21 March to discuss neighbourhood watch projects in the area.
Rev Graham Shaw
The chair announced that Revered Graham Shaw would be retiring after 35 years service in the borough. He invited the meeting to thank Graham for all his hard work and wished him well in the future.
Safer Neighbourhoods Team
Richard Barton gave an update on local policing teams – a new structure was planned which would potentially result in 8 officers in the area on 16 hour shift patterns working across the 5 wards in the community council area. The priorities across the borough were dealing with knife crime, server violence and robbery. Local SNTs were conducting weapons sweep searches for knives. In Chaucer SNT had recently executed a warrant retrieving £75,000 worth of heroin and cocaine and one man had been charged. In Faraday works was being done on applied DNA marking of property in around the Aylesbury.
A resident asked if the SNTs were aware of smashed windows, particularly in ground floor flats, in Cathedrals ward. Richard acknowledged that this was an issue and a number of incidents had been reported and as a result the Cathedrals SNT were conducting active patrols in the area.
In response to questions from the audience Richard explained that after an incident on an estate local SNT officers would normally do reassurance controls to notify residents of incidents. Neighbourhood watch signage was not a SNT issue and there were not resources available to put up signs and posters. Engaging with young people was important to SNTs and local SNTs were involved in projects such as the Safer London Bus on the Aylesbury.