Agenda and minutes

West Green and Bruce Grove Area Forum and Committee

Monday 28^th October 2013

6.30pm

Venue: West Green Learning centre, Park View School, Tottenham N15 3RB

*6.00-6.30pm :

·        Ward councillors will be available to discuss individual issues

·         Tottenham Active – Come & find out about getting more active

MEMBERS OF THE AREA COMMITTEE/FORUM:

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

Brief Introduction by the Chair

1b) Regulation of the Private Rented Sector [6.45pm]

Getting decent private rented accommodation is both a local and national issue. There has been a sharp rise in the amount of private rented accommodation and houses that are in multiple occupation. However, when properties that have multiple occupiers are poorly managed by landlords, they can have a negative impact on the quality of life for both the tenants and neighbours. Come and hear about what the council can do to support better rented accommodation and what local residents can do to help.

1c) A discussion about the findings of Broadwater United Football Club's survey of youth and young adults [7.30pm]

In June, Broadwater United conducted a questionnaire with young people visiting a holiday football project at  Broadwater Farm Community Centre to get an understanding of their interests, activities, thoughts about youth provision and experiences with the Police. The findings of the questionnaire will be presented for the Youth Service, Police and residents to comment on. This project was funded by Community First.

1d) Suggested items for the next Forum meeting.[8.00pm]

There will be an opportunity for local residents to put forward their ideas on topics for discussion at the next meeting.

Break 8.10pm

Apologies for absence were received from Cllr Khan.

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 items 9&12.

 No Items of urgent business were put forward.

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 Members’ Register of 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 interest are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

 None put forward

None

To consider the minutes of  the Area Committee held on 25 June 2013.

The minutes of the meeting held on the 25^th June were agreed as an accurate record of the meeting.

Members considered the plan and put forward the following amendments and requested the following updates:

Agreed to invite the local police sergeants to the next meeting to report back on the activities to address antisocial behaviour on Woodside road, Forrest Road, and Broadwater Farm. Agreed that updates are included in the Area Plan.

There was discussion about having closer links with the Safer Neighbourhood Panels in West Green and Bruce Grove and sharing ideas.

Agreed to withdraw the names of officers and areas where Police operations were taking place.

 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)

There were no items of exempt business.

 No items were considered.

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

 No new items of exempt business.

 To agree to move the meeting from the 7^th January to Wednesday 29^th  January 2014.

Committee Members agreed to move the date of the next meeting  from the 7^th January to the 29^th  January 2014.

It was suggested having the January meeting at Bruce Grove Youth Centre and having an item on the agenda to attract the participation of young people.

Agreed that     Forum agenda  items on Site Allocations Pans, and Tottenham Area Action plans would be taken forward by the Cabinet Member for Planning and Enforcement at the next meeting in January.