Agenda and minutes

Apologies were received from the following Members:

Jill Sterry, Thames Water

Judith Hanna, English Nature

John Brown, Haringey Fire Service

David Anstey

Dr Ann-Marie Connolly

Cheri Williams

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business.  (Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear.  New items will be dealt with at Item 8 below).

There was no Urgent Business.

Members must declare any personal and/or pecuniary interests with respect to agenda items and must not take part in any decision required with respect to these items. 

There were no Declarations of Interest

To approve the minutes of the Better Places Partnership meeting held on 19 June 2006 (attached).

The minutes of the Better Places Partnership meeting of 19 June 2006 were agreed and signed by the Chair subject to the correction of typing errors.                                                                 

The Chair informed the Partnership that he would raise the issue of resources for mobility projects (which was raised under Minutes Item 7(iv)) with the Haringey Strategic Partnership, and report back in due course.

As the minutes of the BPP meeting held on 8^th March 2006 were unavailable at the meeting, they were requested to be presented at the next meeting for discussion and approval.

(i)         Presentations – 2 minute presentations on the partner vision and their contribution to making a Haringey a better and more sustainable place:

·        Homes for Haringey

·        TfL

·        Registered Social Landlords

·        Environment Agency

·        Community Engagement Forum

·        Haringey Council

(ii)        Update and briefings on the Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement (attached):

·        Overview/update on the Community Strategy

·        Overview of the safer & stronger element of the Local Area Agreement

(iii)       The workshop(s) will comprise (attached):

·        Consulting on the Sustainable Community Strategy

·        The vision for Haringey – what should Haringey be like in 2016?

·        Achieving the objectives of the Better Places Partnership – how can the Better Places Partnership make a difference?

·        Delivering sustainable communities.

(i)

There were presentations on partners’ visions and their contributions to making Haringey  better and more sustainable place.

The presentations were from Haringey Council, Homes for Haringey, Registered Social Landlords. There were verbal presentations from The Environment Agency, and the Community Engagement Forum.

           (ii)

The Project Manager of the renewal of the Community Strategy gave the Partnership a brief outline of the consultation process around the renewal of the Community Strategy. Five themes were presented to the Partnership of which the Policy and Partnerships Team would welcome feedback from Partners on in the development of the renewed sustainable community strategy that was currently at a consultation stage. These were:

·                    What are the good things about Haringey?

·                    What three things do you think would make Haringey a better place?

·                    What should  Haringey be like in 10 years’ time?

·                    What concerns do you have about Haringey?

·                    How do you think we could work better in partnership?

The Board were also given an update on the process so far in terms of the consultation and development of the Community Strategy, namely that an HSP Conference had been held in May 2006 to establish partners’ main issues that they would want address by the Strategy. Further, that a post-card consultation campaign had been undertaken with members of the public which had proved very successful in terms of establishing what were the expectations and aspirations of the public. A summary of these findings were tabled to Board members.

           (iii)

The Board was then split into two groups to discuss the most prevalent themes that it would like to see in the renewed Community Strategy. Haringey’s Corporate Consultation Manager facilitated these sessions in order to extract the emerging themes from the Partnership, and it would receive a full report in due course. The Partnership also considered how partnership working could work better for the benefit of the borough and its communities and considered some of the barriers to this. These responses too would be summarised and presented back to the Partnership at a future meeting.

The BPP will be asked to affirm the terms of reference and membership for 2006/7 (attached).

Due to time constraints and issues over the accuracy of the draft Terms of Reference, the Partnership agreed to consider this at its next meeting, where it would be placed first on the Agenda for that meeting.

To consider any new items admitted under Item 2 above.

The Partnership agreed that future meetings would not consist of presentations from partners. Rather, that bullet point fact sheets be tabled and issues would be largely discussion led.

To consider any new items admitted under Item 2 above.

There were no items of urgent business.

·        11 December 2006, 6:30pm Haringey Civic Centre

·        26 February 2007, 6:30pm venue tbc

·        11 December 2006, 5pm

·        26 February 2007, 5pm

Partners should submit proposed agenda items for the next meeting to Nicolas Mattis no later than 20 November 2006.

·        To consider and agree the Terms of Reference for the Partnership.

·        A presentation on Parks and Open Spaces by Dave Morris.