Agenda and draft minutes

To receive any apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Dhiren Basu.

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 made.

The Chair will consider the admission of any items of Urgent Business. Late items of Urgent Business will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items of Urgent Business will be considered under Item 7 below.

There were no items of Urgent Business raised.

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 3 July 2012 as a correct of the meeting.

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 3 July 2012 be confirmed as a correct record of the meeting.

To discuss issues raised during the Area Forum.

The Committee discussed the issues raised during the Area Forum and the following points were made:

Changes to Waste Collection

General concerns had been raised with respect to the size of the wheelie bins and whether these were appropriate for small front gardens.

There was agreement that better communication around the types of material that could be recycled

A transient population and lack of understanding / disposal of cooking oil

What happens to recyclable waste after it has been collected?

 Frequently Asked Questions – add in the queries above.

There are arrangements in place for assisted waste collection where people have difficulties etc

Enforcement Action: Fly-tipping and Bad Landlords

Evident from discussion that there were many interconnected issues.

There was

To receive an update on the Area Plan.

The Committee received the most recent version of the Area Committee Plan.

It was noted that at the recent Area Chairs meeting it had been agreed that each Area Plan should include columns setting out outcomes and timescales attached to each priority. At present parts of the document remained incomplete and there was agreement that the Area Plan should always be fully populated before it was submitted to the Committee. In response to a query with regard to how the plans were updated the Committee was advised that project leads had been asked to input updates into the plan directly via a shared access folder; however, these had not been received by the deadline specified.

The Committee agreed that the importance of updating Area Plans within the timescale specified should be reinforced with officers. Given that the plan drew on existing projects obtaining it should not be too onerous to obtain an update with respect to these. In conclusion officers were asked to discuss how the process for updating the plan could be improved.

The Chair noted that the Area Plan was also intended to inform the agenda for Area Committees and suggested that the topic of ‘Crime’ should be the theme for the meeting along with the

To discuss items for future meetings.

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To consider any new items of Urgent Business raised under item 2 above.

There were no new items of Urgent Business.  

To note the dates and venues for future meetings:

Ø      15 January 2013, at 6.30pm, The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London, High Road, London, N15 4RU

Ø      25 April 2013, at 6.30pm, Tottenham Green Leisure Centre, 1 Philip Lane, London, N15 4JA

As set out