Agenda and draft minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Adje and Councillor Peacock (who had attended for part of the forum).

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

(i)        Must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii)       May not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

There were no declarations of interest.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 9 April 2013.

The minutes of the meeting held on 9 April 2013 were approved as a correct record.

Communication

The issue of communication with local residents was picked up as a general problem, but particularly with regards to Tottenham Regeneration.

ACTION:

The Chair to write to Councillor Strickland and request details of what communication had taken place with residents including details of engagement with Residents Associations, to provide concrete examples of where engagement had taken place and to inform Members what action would be taken to ensure that residents in private housing.

ACTION: Councillor Stennett

Licensing

During the presentation of the Annual Public Health Report, residents queried why health was not taken into consideration when the Local Authority issued a premises licence.  It was explained that there were four licensing objectives that had to be taken into consideration, and health was not one of them.

ACTION:

To enquire as to whether the licensing policy for the Local Authority could be amended to include health as one of the licensing objectives.

ACTION:  Councillor Stennett

Post meeting note

The licensing regime does not permit licensing authorities to impose additional objectives over and above the four statutory objectives.  Health is nonetheless a consideration for the Council when exercising its licensing functions and it is referred to throughout the Council’s licensing policy.

Members discussed the future of the Area Plan - due to staff cuts the onus would now be on Members to keep the plan updated.  Councillor Bull suggested that Members could be tasked with specific issues as they were raised at the Forums, and provide responses for these at the Forum meetings.

ACTION:  For the current version of the Area Plan to be circulated to Members, in order for a decision to be made as to the future of the Plan.

ACTION: Clerk

Councillor Bull reported back to the Committee that he was disappointed with the response from Somerset Gardens.

ACTION: Councillor Bull to raise the issue at his informal meeting with the Clinical Commissioning Group and take this up with NHS London.

To note the dates of future meetings below and discuss venues and potential agenda items.

Note – due to Labour Party Conference, the date of the September meeting will be changed.  Date tbc at the 1 July 2013 meeting.

20 January 2014

18 March 2014

NOTED the dates of future meetings.

The date of the next meeting would be Thursday 10 October 2013, at the Bruce Castle Museum.

Publicity of the Forum

NOTED:  That in order for posters to be delivered to estates, they would need to be delivered to the Estate Offices at least one month before the meeting.

A discussion took place around publicity and it was thought that it would be a good idea to have a banner to advertise the forum.