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Agenda and minutes

Agenda and minutes

Venue: Aylestone Leisure Centre, 2 Knighton Lane East, Leicester, LE2 6LU

Contact: Simon Walter, Community Engagement Officer, (Tel: 07811 973141) (Email:  simon.walter@leicester.gov.uk)  Angie Smith, Democratic Support Officer, (Tel: (0116) 454 6354), (Email:  angie.smith@leicester.gov.uk)

Items
No. Item

1.

INTRODUCTIONS & APOLOGIES

The Chair will introduce those present and make any necessary announcements.

 

The Chair and any other Councillors who are present will make any declarations as required by the Councillors’ Code of Conduct.

Minutes:

Councillor Cutkelvin took the Chair and welcomed those present.

 

Apologies were received from Sue and Herbert Eppel, (Friends of St Marys’ Allotments), and Jean Wild (Grasmere Street)

 

Cllr Cutkelvin displayed a new ward map for Saffron, and explained there were three distinct areas as the ward now covered an area from the Pork Pie Library on Southfields Drive, down to the behind Leicester Royal Infirmary.

 

Introductions were made by all those present at the meeting.

2.

ACTION LOG pdf icon PDF 73 KB

Attached for information is the Action Log from the last Freeman Ward community meeting prior to Ward boundary changes in May 2015.

Minutes:

The Action Log of the previous meeting held in Freemen Ward on 19th March 2015 was agreed as a correct record.

 

Matters Arising:

 

Minute 38, d) Tic-Toc Park Play Equipment

To note the item would be reported on at a future Saffron CM

3.

COUNCILLOR'S REPORT

The Chair will provide an update on ward information.

Minutes:

Councillors reported the following:

 

·         The City has successfully bid for £3.2million from the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund, to set up seven-day week primary care services in four areas of the city. 

 

·         Dementia diagnosis rate in the city had reached 80%, which superseded the target of 60%. Residents to inform Councillors if friends/relatives had experienced issues.

 

·         Information was available at the meeting on:

 

o   Keep well this winter – a guide for older people, people with long term conditions and their carers or relatives. Find out more at www.leicestercityccg.nhs.uk/keepwell

o   Leicester Ageing Together – an event on Thursday 1 October, 10am - 4pm, at Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Grace Road, to tackle the problems of social isolation and loneliness. For further information call Veena Chauhan on 0116 249 8850, or email hello@leicesterageingtogether.org.uk

o   Ready to Switch – using the combined purchasing power of communities to negotiate cheaper prices with energy providers. Find out more at www.readytoswitch.co.uk or call Leicester City Council at 0116 4543780.

 

·         Community Events

 

o   MacMillan Coffee Morning – 23rd September 2015, Pork Pie Library

o   Saffron Young Peoples’ Project awards night – 21st October 2015.

o   Make a Difference Day – a clean-up day will be held on 28th September, from 10.00am, starting at St Andrews Church, Jarrom Street. Everybody welcome.

o   Saffron Summer Fete – the event was hugely successful, and was attended by the Lord Mayor.

o   A Christmas event has been arranged at the Kingfisher Youth Centre, free for children living on Saffron Estate.

o   ‘Aladdin and his Magic Lamp’ pantomime, Duncan Road WMC, 4th January 2016, 2.30pm and 7.30pm on the day. Entrance is £3 for adults and £2 for children.

o   The City Mayor will hold a question time event at Pork Pie Library, to be arranged, October 2015.

o   Councillors hold monthly surgeries in the St Andrews area, Pork Pie Library and Aylestone Leisure Centre.

o   The Council was looking to procure items for an outdoor gym. The Landscape Development Manager for the Council to be invited to a future community meeting.

o   Proposed traffic calming measures on Heathcott Road / Bloomfield Road were included in the Council’s capital programme. The junction at Saffron Lane / Knighton Lane East remained an area of concern.

Residents reported the following;

o   Concern over the removal of one-way signs and lighting for signage on Marriott Road – the road was listed on the Council’s work programme for traffic and highways.

o   Saffron Acres had recently used the Community Payback team for assistance with their food hub.

o   Residents were looking at further play equipment for Neston Gardens.

o   Issues with ASB on Bloomfield Road and mini moped nuisance would be reported to the next Police JAG event.

o   Pupils of Knighton Primary School buried a time capsule in Knighton Fields Road Park. Aylestone Park Residents’ Association (APRA) chairman Alan Sturgess was present to deliver a speech.

o   Following a recently approved planning application, Friends of St Marys Allotments and local residents  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.

4.

CITY WARDEN pdf icon PDF 138 KB

The City Warden will give an update on issues in Saffron Ward.

Minutes:

Noel Cazley, City Warden was present. A leaflet of main issues is attached for information. All were asked to note the following:

 

·         Bins on streets was decriminalised last year. City Wardens were waiting for advice from the Council’s legal section on how to tackle the problem, but would fall within community protection notices. Processes for dealing with commercial bins remained and could be enforced with the old procedure.

·         Japanese knotweed – an issue in the ward. Residents were advised removal has to be undertaken by a licenced operator.

·         Under Section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the owners of the site on Filbert Street would be asked to clean up the area, and the Council would suggest the installation of 6ft closed board fence around the site.

·         A garden on Saffron Lane would be cleared using Section 215 powers.

·         Issues could be reported via smart phone to City Wardens using the ‘Love Leicester’ app. For residents unfamiliar with using a smart phone, residents could continue to contact the Council or Ward Councillors directly.

·         It was reported the issue regarding LRI nurses who left the hospital site to smoke in residential areas had improved slightly.

·         Issues around dog control in the Knighton Lane area had been reported to police. Issues would be reported to the dog warden but CWs could issue a fixed penalty notice in controlled areas.

·         City Wardens have asked for weekly bulk collection address lists for the area, to assist with identifying fly tipping.

5.

POLICE ISSUES UPDATE

Officers from Leicestershire Police will be at the meeting to provide an update on police issues in Saffron Ward.

Minutes:

The Police were not present at the meeting.

 

Simon Walter, Community Engagement Officer, gave details of the free breakfasts and packed lunches given away at the Pork Pie Library during the summer holidays. The sessions were held for children who usually have school meals, and were run by Community Wellness at venues across the city. The project was funded from several areas, and a final evaluation was awaited from the Community Wellness Service. It was hoped the event would be repeated in the future.

6.

WARD COMMUNITY BUDGET pdf icon PDF 67 KB

Councillors are reminded that under the Council’s Code of Conduct they should declare any interest they may have in budget applications.

 

a)    An update will be given on the Ward Community budget; and

b)    A list of grant applications submitted for consideration at this meeting is attached.

Minutes:

The meeting was informed that Ward Funding of £18,000 had been agreed at the beginning of the Municipal year.

 

The following funding applications had been supported:

 

·         Parents and Teachers Marriott School – Summer Fete: £1,595

·         Saffron Board – Saffron Summer Fete: £1,200

·         Saffron Parent and Carer Forum – Hungry Caterpillar Book Event: £375 (Fast Track)

·         Saffron Management Board – Pantomime (Joint Bid with Eyres Monsell): £500

 

A balance of £14,330 remained after the above funding applications had been approved.

 

The following applications were discussed, and would be considered outside of the meeting:

 

·         Be a Buddy not a Cyber Bully – Elaine Tewley (Joint Bid with Eyres Monsell and Aylestone): funding request £600. Performing Arts project, to make people more aware of the issues of cyber bullying. Have received some lottery fund money. SUPPORTED.

·         Equipment Purchase – Hunters FC (Joint Bid with Braunstone Park and Rowley Fields): funding request £529.67. Looking to set up two football teams. 90% of players were from Braunstone / Saffron areas. Caveat that should the group dissolve, the group to show where the equipment would be distributed. Request the applicant clarifies how the team advertise, evidence the players are from Saffron, where the team will practice and the equipment stored. Two options:

i)             Await satisfactory response

ii)            Fast track £500 and provisionally approve

CONDITIONAL APPROVAL with request as above.

·         Time Capsule – APRA (Joint Bid with Aylestone): funding request £125. Members asked for the funding to be FRAST TRACKED for payment.

·         Representing Great Britain in European skating championships in Italy – Empress Roller Skating: funding request £300. Councillors and residents expressed concern that the group had previously received funding, and which would be a one-off payment. The application was NOT SUPPORTED, but Councillors requested feedback be given to the applicant, and to provide other funding details to the applicant.

 

 

7.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

Minutes:

·         Residents asked for a full re-surface of The Fairway, which suffered from potholes and patching – Councillor Cutkelvin to take up the issue.

·         Residents were informed walkabouts would be reinstated when the Council had more funding available.

·         Ms Chizor Onwuegbute, Ndigbo Leicestershire, was present to thank Councillors, and to provide feedback on a children’s daytrip to the seaside, for which community ward funding had been approved.

·         The next newsletter for APRA would include details on Christmas events.

8.

CLOSE OF MEETING

Minutes:

The meeting closed at 8.18pm.