Agenda and minutes

West Green & Bruce Grove Area Forum and Committee

Thursday, 24th July, 2014 - 6.30 pm

Venue:Miller Memorial hall, The Avenue, N17 6TG

*Ward Councillors will be available from 6.15pm until 6.30pm to discuss individual issues of concern to local residents.There will also be an information stand about the Alexandra Palace regeneration, providing Tottenham residents  with an opportunity to provide their input on the  improvements they want to see for this borough  site.  

MEMBERS OF THE AREA COMMITTEE/FORUM:

Councillors Akwasi-Ayisi, Mallett, Griffith, Ejiofor, McNamara, Opoku (Chair)

West Green and Bruce Grove  Area Forum – Summary of  presentations and discussion

Tottenham Regeneration

At the start of the Forum meeting a presentation we received a presentation from Cllr Strickland about the progress of regeneration activities in Tottenham and in particular West Green and Bruce Grove. We noted:

 Agreement by the council of the strategic regeneration framework delivery plan.

The key projects in Tottenham

• North Tottenham key projects including High Road West  and Love Lane Estate
• Improvements to WHL bus station
• Tottenham Green
• Tottenham Hale
• Green link

The following key projects/activities for West Green and Bruce Grove were noted:

• Bruce Grove Station Bridge  decorative improvements
• Holcombe Road market
• Albert place and Brook Street Alleyways
• Bruce Grove toilets
• Shop Front Improvements
• N17 – Design studio
• Joined up street cleaning, antisocial behaviour monitoring and enforcement (Pilot being developed)
• West  Green Shop front improvements
• West Green Pocket Park
• West Green Road  bridge Art  and Town Centre Management

 On the 30^th July there would be a presentation of the Tottenham Delivery Plan open to the public and local stakeholders.

Issues raised at the forum meeting included:

Mount Pleasant Road - A local member of the residents group put forward a request for pedestrian friendly approach to traffic on this road. There was often inappropriate traffic use of this road and surrounding roads making it unsafe for pedestrians. The Cabinet Member for Environment was happy to meet with the group to discuss their concerns.

The Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration responded to a question about a senior officer’s alleged comments about Tottenham.

There was a question about the level of involvement of local people in the Tottenham regeneration and whether this was good enough.   Audience members highlighted consultation initiatives they had participated in and Cllr McNamara highlighted the work of the Bruce Grove stakeholder group which had been established by the council with residents and local stakeholders this group had been important in raising issues with the council and partners about Bruce Grove Station and informing the improvements that were being funded by

We noted the improvements to the shop fronts and were informed that there was a need to have commitment from shop owners to continue with their maintenance and upkeep.  West Green councillors asked about improvement of shop fronts further down West Green road, past the High road, and we noted that there wasn’t funding currently available but the Area Regeneration manager was working hard to ensure there was accessibility to external funding and the opportunities to seek funding in the future.

There was a question about whether the housing development at 5 Bruce Grove had any social housing.  We agreed to look into this.

We heard from the Cabinet Member for Environment who set out his responsibilities for the year covering local environment, roads, trees, parks, and leisure, parking and waste collection.

The following issues were raised with the Cabinet Member for Environment

• Parking issues - review of the CPZ at lordship Lane - A petition would need to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 127.

Apologies for absence from Cllr McNamara who had to attend the  Northumberland Park and White Hart Lane  Area Forum, also on the same night to deliver a presentation about his portfolio.

The Chair will consider the admission of late items of urgent business. Late items will be considered under the item that they appear. New items will be dealt with under items 8 or 10.

There were no items of urgent business.

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 put forward.

There were no deputations/presentations/petitions or questions put forward to the meeting.

To consider  and agree the minutes of the meeting held on the 27^th March 2014.

 The minutes of the meeting held on the 27^th March were agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

Report to follow

The Committee considered an update on the issues discussed at the previous meeting and Past meetings.

Councillors discussed the difficulty with getting a post box placed in the middle of Broadwater Farm estate to allow resident to post their letters as the nearest post box was on Lordship Lane.

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

No new items of urgent business were put forward.

Motion to exclude the press and public if required.

None

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

None

23^rd October 2014 6.30pm

12^th January 2015 6.30pm

9^th March 2015 6.30

Thursday 23^rd October 2014 6.30pm

 Agreed that the meeting take place in West Green ward at the Millennium Centre, at St John Vianny Church.

 Potential items for consideration at this meeting put forward were:

·         Carbon reduction Plan

·         Planning in Tottenham – including update son 5 &7 Bruce Grove

 Other issues to look into were

·         Publicising  the events at Tottenham Green

·         Businesses in West Green and Bruce Grove being aware of the initiatives in   the area.