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Meeting: 22/10/2012 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 151)

CABINET MEMBER QUESTIONS - CABINET MEMBER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

An opportunity for the Committee to question the Cabinet Member, Councillor Alan Strickland, on the Economic Development and Social Inclusion portfolio.

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Minutes:

The Committee received a brief update of the Cabinet Member portfolio for Economic Development and Social Inclusion.

 

NOTED:

 

Regeneration

·          Tottenham Regeneration – the Council had set out 12 pledges to the community with key items of work by end of calendar year.  Councillor Strickland placed on record his thanks to the officers involved with the works already carried out.

·          A new team had been introduced to tackle grime and enforcement issues in Tottenham in the form of a neighbourhood action team, launched in March 2012.

·          Activities had been arranged in Tottenham High Road to bring more people to Tottenham and restore confidence.  A number of events had taken place – medley market, film festival (400 people attended), and there would be a music festival in December.

·          The Bruce Grove Youth Centre was re-launched in April 2012 and had run a summer programme.

·          The Jobs for Haringey scheme had been launched in May 2012 and had so far made good progress.  48 people had been helped into work through the brokerage scheme and 17 new jobs had been created locally.  There had been 154 applications jobs to be created, with a target of 200.  There had been good interest from local businesses, with officers working hard to challenge developers to create local jobs and recruit locally.

·          A new enterprise centre was due to open at 639 High Rd - a temporary building (639b) had opened in July and was run by the London Youth Support Trust.

·          Phase 1 of the Spurs development started on 24 September, starting with the supermarket development.

·          The Authority was keen to make sure that the community were involved in regeneration.  Working groups had been set up in Tottenham Green, Bruce Grove and West Green Road, and chaired by local Councillors.  Successful meetings had been held over the summer period, supported by the Princes foundation to work up designs for Tottenham Green.

·          Tottenham High Road - the Post Office was relocated in January, Job Centre Plus had now been reopened and both Aldi and Carpet Right had been granted planning permission to re-build.

·          Work on removing the Tottenham Hale Gyratory was due to begin next month.

·          Good progress had been made on the 12 pledges, and a progress report would be published at the end of the year.

·          Town centres – Councillor Strickland was keen to get to learn more about the Borough’s town centres in greater detail.  There were challenges across the whole Borough.  £100k Government funding had been received to support town centres and this money would be distributed as follows:  £50k to West Green Road, and the remaining £50k would be split between the remaining five town centres to support local initiatives and drive growth.

 

Planning

·          Planning policies group had been set up, with cross party membership, to work through policies and ensure that these reflect political and local priorities.

2012

·          There had been good activity across the borough during the Olympic period – arts programme at Bruce Castle Park, art exhibition at Bruce  ...  view the full minutes text for item 151