Agenda and minutes

Special, Alexandra Park and Palace Joint Advisory & Consultative Committee
Tuesday, 5th April, 2016 7.30 pm

Venue: The Londesborough Room, Alexandra Palace Way, Wood Green, London N22. View directions

Contact: Felicity Foley  020 8489 2919

Items
No. Item

55.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method.  Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting.  Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on.  By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The Chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual, or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

Minutes:

Noted.

56.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from:

 

Councillor Joanna Christophides

Councillor Tim Gallagher

Councillor Stephen Mann

Councillor James Patterson

John Boshier

Gordon Hutchinson

Jim Jenks

Hugh Macpherson

Colin Marr

Kevin Stanfield

John Thompson

 

As the Vice-Chair of the Joint Statutory Advisory Committee & Consultative Committee, and the Chair of the Statutory Advisory Committee, Councillor Adam Jogee chaired the meeting in the absence of Gordon Hutchinson.

 

 

57.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

Members of the Committee are invited to disclose any interest they may have in any of the items appearing on this agenda.

Minutes:

None.

58.

URGENT BUSINESS

It being a special meeting, under the Council’s Constitution Part 4, Section B, Paragraph 17, no other business shall be considered at the meeting.

Minutes:

It being a special meeting, under the Council’s Constitution Part 4, Section B, Paragraph 17, no other business shall be considered at the meeting.

59.

West Yard Storage Project pdf icon PDF 140 KB

To advise and inform the SAC-CC on the principles of a new storage building located in the West Yard of Alexandra Palace in advance of presenting the proposal to the Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable Trust Board.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Russell Eacott, Interim Project Director for the East Wing Restoration Project gave a presentation on the principles of a new storage building in the West Yard and asked for comments from the Committee in advance of the proposal being presented to the Alexandra Park and Palace Board at their meeting on 12 April 2016.

 

NOTED the following discussion points and comments:

 

-           Concerns were raised over the timetable of this and the HLF East Wing Restoration Project, and the potential for loss of storage space while the West Yard was under construction.  Russell Eacott explained that the scheduling of the project would delay the handover of the West Yard area to the contractor (who would work on other areas in the meantime) to allow for the construction of the storage building and eliminate the need for off-site storage.

-           It was felt that a function space deflected from the HLF project, and that particular area of the Palace was an isolated area and it did not make sense to have a function room in this area when there were potentially other areas in the Palace which were not currently used, and could be brought into use.  Russell Eascott responded that the provision of a function space would establish an income generating element to the proposal.

-           With regards to sustainability, it was commented that the Palace should use this as an opportunity to build a structure which had a minimal economic impact, was as efficient as possible, and could be an exemplar structure for Haringey.

 

Members also commented on the financial implications of the proposal, and the Chair reminded Members that the remit of the SAC-CC was to provide comments on the planning proposal.  All other aspects would be considered by the Board.

 

The general consensus of the SAC-CC was that this was an attractive proposal, which would be welcomed.

 

RESOLVED that the comments made by the Joint Statutory Advisory Committee and Consultative Committee be provided to the Alexandra Park and Palace Board at the meeting on 12 April 2016.

60.

DATES OF FUTURE MEETINGS

30 June 2016

22 November 2016

31 January 2017

Minutes:

NOTED.