Agenda and minutes

West Green and Bruce Grove Area Forum and Committee

 TUESDAY 25  June  2013

6.30pm

Venue: Miller Memorial Hall, The Avenue, Tottenham N17 6TG

Please visit the council’s display stands to collect consultation documents, freepost feedback cards, and see the latest news and information on the feedback on the North Tottenham Regeneration consultation and proposed extension  of the Tottenham CPZ  which will include parts of Bruce Grove ward Frontline Services and Corporate Consultation colleagues will be at the stands to welcome you from 6.00 pm.

Representatives from Fusion Lifestyle will also be there to welcome you  at 6.00pm to  provide information about capital development plans for Broadwater Farm Community Centre.

MEMBERS OF THE AREA COMMITTEE/FORUM:

Councillors Dogus, Ejiofor (Chair), Griffith, Khan, Mallett and McNamara

Brief Introduction by the Chair

1b) Update on  Bruce Grove Youth Centre activities and wider Youth  service offer [6.55pm]

Senior representatives from Children’s Services will be talking about the  current and planned activities for  Bruce Grove Youth Centre, along with some early information about the wider changes taking  place in the Youth Service.

1c) Re-skilling local people to apply for jobs in Tottenham Regeneration  [7.30pm]

There  will be information provided from the council’s Economic Development  Manager about what the council , together with local partners, will be doing  to ensure that local people are trained and  skilled  up  to apply for  the jobs that  will be created from the regeneration of Tottenham.

1d) Tree Planting Strategy  - Presentation [8.00pm]

Hear about the proposed Tree Planting Strategy and  how  the  Council intend to manage and maintain trees in the borough.

Break 8.30pm

Apologies for absence were received from  Cllr Khan, Cllr Griffith,  and Cllr  McNamara.

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 9 or 11.

 There were no items of urgent business put forward.

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(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.

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

There were no declarations of interest put forward.

There were no deputations/ presentations/questions put forward.

To consider  and agree the minutes of the meeting held on the 23 April 2013.

 The minutes of the meeting held on the 23 April were agreed as an accurate record of the meeting.

The Committee to discuss streamlining and populating the Area Plan with deliverable outcomes following changes to governance arrangements.

Following the recent governance review and dis-establishment of the community engagement team, the management and updating of area plans had been passed to the Area Committee Chairs. The Chair tabled proposed changes to the plan and advocated that the plan be streamlined with deliverable outcomes and  only include activities which  are most relevant to West Green and Bruce Grove residents.

 Active Community Life – Initially there was a proposal to delete this priority from the plan. However there were a number of actions in relation to this priority that were assigned to Homes for Haringey. These included initiatives to facilitate local residents getting involved in community life and given there were also further actions assigned to Homes for Haringey in the Housing priority, it was agreed to; invite Homes for Haringey to attend the next meeting of the Forum in October to report back on how these actions were progressing and to outline the issues underpinning the priorities which would be  important to residents.

Broadwater Farm Shops/facilities  - A follow up meeting with the Director of Place and Sustainability  and Chair of the Area Forum  was  to take place on Friday 28^th June  to  take forward the discussion at the last Area Forum about improvements to facilities on the estate. Agreed that Cllr Mallet be invited to this meeting.

Agreed to delete the priority of community capacity building as the actions associated with this had been completed.

Community Safety – Although these were actions solely assigned to the police and did not include council participation, it was agreed to keep this topic on the plan and shorten the narrative attached to the actions being taken forward. The SNT’s regularly attended the area forum meetings and were also able to provide verbal updates.

Early intervention – An initial proposal was to delete this priority as it was a council wide objective and not sufficiently focussed on West Green and Bruce Grove Area forum. However, a local issue was raised which demonstrated the need to look at how needs identified by the local cluster were taken forward by the associated children’s centre.  Noted that there would be a report to Cabinet in October on early help offer and it would be useful for the area forum to consider what the council and partners were doing on early intervention.

 Housing - Agreed a report back by Homes for Haringey on the actions connected to this priority at the next meeting in October.

 Agreed to remove the following activities as they had been completed:

·        Introduction and enforcement of dog control orders

·        Increase  summer opening hours  of Downhill’s Park Café

The following priorities  would remain on the  Area Plan -  Parks and Open spaces, Public Realm,  Unemployment  and Youth Provision.

Noted.

To consider any new items of urgent business as per item 3.

None

That the press and public be excluded from the meeting for consideration of any item 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)

None

To consider any new items of exempt urgent business as per item 3.

None

28^th October 2013

Monday 28^th October 2013 – West Green Learning Centre