Agenda item

Paper and discussion on changes to the community council area.

The chair updated the meeting on the proposed changes to community councils which were due to be implemented from the end of May 2012. The changes agreed as part of the budget process meant that:

• community council areas would be reduced from 8 to 5
• Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council would merge with Peckham Community Council
• the number of meetings would reduce from 6 per year to 5 per year
• planning decisions would no longer be taken by community councils
• school governor appointments, to primary schools, would no longer be considered
• and neighbourhood staff support to community councils had been reduced

Councillors added that it made sense to merge the Peckham areas.