To receive community announcements or presentations
· Old Kent Road Area Action plan (AAP)
· The Post Office, Peckham High Street, SE15
· Police updates – Inspector Lloyd
· NHS Health check – announcement Ann Molyneux
· 2017/18 Cleaner Greener Safer programme open for applications
Minutes:
Old Kent Road Area Action Plan (AAP)
Tom Buttrick, from the planning policy team addressed the meeting about the ongoing consultation the council were conducting about a planning document known as the Old Kent Road area action plan which is a draft document which focuses on the Old Kent road and parts of north Peckham.
The consultation had been extended to 4 November 2016. Therefore comments could still be received from the community until the deadline date. Information leaflets and printed copies of the draft plan were available at the meeting. Tom explained that the information was also available on the council’s (planning policy) website.
He further explained that the draft plan sets out a 20 to 30 year future for the Old Kent Road area which would take into account the potential Bakerloo line extension, new houses and job opportunities, improvements to the Old Kent road corridor for buses, walking and cycling routes.
For more information contact Planning Policy on 0207 525 5471 or email planningpolicy@southwark.gov.uk
Website: https://consultations.southwark.gov.uk/planning-and-regeneration/old-kent-road-aap
Leader’s Question Time event
The chair announced that there would be a leader’s question time event on Wednesday 19 October 2016 at Canada Water Library. The event would start at 7.00pm and the theme would be about public health and social care. Leaflets of the event were available at the meeting.
Crown Post Office, the Rye Lane branch (and Peckham High Street)
The chair announced that the representatives (architects) were unable to attend the meeting but had asked if they could be invited to a future meeting.
Councillor Dolezal thanked those that were involved in the campaign which concerned the proposed closure of the Rye Lane branch which included gathered signatures (petition) and those that attended the meetings and demonstration.
NHS Health check
The chair announced that the representative was unable to attend the community council but had agreed to be at the health theme meeting in January 2017.
Police updates
Inspector Lloyd safer neighbourhood inspector for the area addressed the meeting and outlined the following:
Referred to the crime statistics for the borough and outlined that the most impacted crime in Southwark was robbery. He said violent crime and theft person burglary were down by 18% in crime stats. However low level crime such as shop lifting and criminal damage were still significantly high.
Inspector Lloyd referred to knife and gun crime which he understood had been a major concern in the community.
He acknowledged that the police’s use of stop and search did raise some concern particularly with regard to the number of stop and searches that took place which mostly related to drug and knife related offences. The police received a number of complaints about this issue. In light of this the police were looking into introducing “body warmer cameras” to help with stop and search. Councillor Hargrove stated that it was important for the police not to go back to the blanket approach on stop and search particularly when dealing with young people.
Cleaner Greener Safer Funding Programme 2017/2018
Andrea Allen, senior projects manager announced that the council were inviting people to apply for funding from the cleaner greener safer funding programme 2017/18. Andrea explained that £90k was allocated to each ward. The CGS scheme had been running for 14 years which successfully delivered a number of projects in the local area. They range from improvements to community gardens, adventure playgrounds and cycle hangars.
For more information contact Andrea Allen on 0207 525 0860 or email andrea.allen@southwark.gov.uk
Neighbourhoods Fund 2017/2018
The neighbourhoods fund 2017/18 launch date was on the 7 November 2016. It was announced at the meeting to give people advance notice about the funding programme. Information on the above would go out on a newsletter, facebook and the council’s website.
For more information contact Gill Kelly on 0207 525 3690 or email gill.kelly@southwark.gov.uk