Agenda and minutes

No apologies for absence were received.

The Chair will consider the admission of late items of urgent business. Late items will be considered under the agenda item they appear. New Items will be dealt with at  item 10 or 11.

 No items of urgent business were put forward.

A Member with a personal interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered must disclose to that meeting the existence and nature of that interest at the commencement of that consideration, or when the interest becomes apparent.

A Member with a personal interest in a matter also has a prejudicial interest in that matter if the interest is one which a member of the public with knowledge of the relevant facts would reasonably regard as so significant that it is likely to prejudice the member's judgment of the public interest and if this interest affects their financial position or the financial position of a person or body as described in paragraph 8 of the Code of Conduct and/or if it relates to the determining of any approval, consent, license, permission or registration in relation to them or any person or body described in paragraph 8 of the Code of Conduct.

There were no declarations of interest.

 To consider and agree the minutes of the meeting held on the 31 January 2012.

 The minutes of the Area Committee  for the  meeting held on the 31 January 2012 were agreed.

The Area Committee will be asked to  consider  and agree the Area Plan for west Green and Bruce Grove.

A local area plan for the West Green and Bruce Grove had now been completed and had the aim of guiding future council activities, local budgets and planning decisions in the West Green and Bruce Grove area.   It was described as a “living” document as it would continue to be shaped in response to local conditions and residents concerns. The actions in the plan would be funded from existing resources being re-prioritised or targeted as necessary.

 The draft plan   contained a  set of  aspirations for the West  Green and Bruce Grove area which had been  informed  by examining service data  and been  developed from  discussions  at a public workshop with residents, councillors and  representatives of community groups  held in January.

The chosen aspirations for the area were set out in alphabetical order and the plan now contained actions assigned to the council/ partner organisations   that would need to take place in the 2012/13.

 Comment was made on the inclusion of activity to increase the use of the Bernie Grant Art Centre and whether this was on the correct area plan as it was situated in Tottenham Green ward. The committee noted that the reason for including this activity in the plan emanated from discussion at the consultation event where local residents had highlighted the need to increase use of the centre as it would be of benefit to the Tottenham area. It was also highlighted as important to the West Green and Bruce Grove area for the cultural services it provided to the community.

Geographical areas where anti social behaviour was to   be tackled was listed and query was made on the need to include this information in a public document as it gave away intelligence about future police activities.

The activity relating to enforcement in the area needed to be reiterated in the document as a priority. A committee member reported that the suggestion for local community groups to be trained on how to navigate planning and licensing procedures would be discussed with the responsible Cabinet Member.   This training should make local community groups more aware of which part of the process they need to be making objections and what type of information they need to include to have an impact on the   licensing and planning decisions. It was agreed that this could be added as an action to the Area Plan under a new additional heading named “community capacity building”.

The strategy behind the assignment of actions to each aspiration was questioned. It was highlighted that some activities were   specific to West Green and Bruce Grove and others were   borough wide actions such as breast feeding support.  It was suggested that  the  plan could distinguish,  under two  separate headings, those  actions which were specific  to the ward and those which  were borough wide  activities.

The committee discussed the area behind Turnpike Lane station which had over the years not had a fixed purpose for its use, consequently attracting antisocial behaviour.  In the past a plan had been developed  ...  view the full minutes text for item 27.

The Chair will provide feedback on the requested agenda items that did not make the forum agenda and explain how they have been taken forward.

Suggestions for topics for the forum part of the meeting were sought from local residents, to enable the agenda to be driven as far as possible by local people. A report was attached which provided feedback on the agenda items that did not make the forum agenda and how they had been taken forward. There were two recommendations for the committee to consider, these were: investigating  whether there was potential for Higham road to be included in  work programme of the sustainable transport team  for 2012/13 and  to receive an update on the  actions to address health and safety issues at the junction between Bruce Grove and Tottenham High Road.

There was no overall agreement  to the recommendations as Members of the committee required a further opportunity to consider the details of the report. There would be further  consultation with ward councillors  on these   matters and consideration given to reporting back on these issues at the next meeting in June.

21 June 2012

The date of the next meeting was the 21 June 2012 6.30pm. This date was still provisional and subject to member agreement at full Council.

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That the press and public be excluded from the meeting for consideration of any items that may  contain exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended by Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1985):

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To consider any new items of  exempt urgent business.

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