Venue: St Oswald's Church Hall, Main Street, Fulford, YO10 4HJ
Contact: Claire Taylor
Community Involvement Officer
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5.30-6.30pm Drop in
Meet and talk to:
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Cllr Keith Aspden
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Representatives from Fulford and
Heslington Parish Councils
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Claire Taylor, CYC Community Involvement Officer
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Partners and groups working in the ward
Tell us your priorities for the ward
Minutes:
Residents had the opportunity to speak
informally to Cllr Keith Aspden, Claire
Taylor, Neil Ferris and representatives from Fulford Parish Council and local community
groups.
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6.30pm Formal Meeting - Welcome and Introductions
Minutes:
Cllr Aspden (KA) welcomed everyone to the
meeting. He explained that this meeting
was a non political committee of the City of York Council
(CYC). The minutes of this meeting
would be available on the CYC website or can be posted out upon
application.
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Ward Parking Issues
Neil Ferris, CYC Acting Director for City and
Environmental Services will talk about what can be done to address
parking issues in the ward
Minutes:
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Neil Ferris (NF), Acting
Director of City and Environmental Services introduced
himself. He explained that he had been
at CYC for fifteen months and welcomed the invitation to talk to
the residents to get a first hand understanding into their
concerns. He said that
there was no “magic wand” in respect of parking issues
but was aware that the University was having an impact on parking
and that it would be an ongoing problem in the area. NF said that the University had
obligations associated with their planning permission, one of which
was to carry out an annual survey across the campus where the
number of cars parking increases by more than 20% a year, this year
it was carried out in May/June.
The survey showed that there had been more than a 20% increase and
they are required to carry out a more details survey in the
Broadway/Heslington Road areas in
November. This survey will be
carried out by consultants on behalf of the University. We will then be in a position to come
back as a community to discuss options open to us.
The options currently available
are double yellow lines, no parking notices, and time related
restrictions. There was also the option
to move to a Resident’s Parking Scheme. As part of the University planning requirement
they are required to look at the number of people parking and
mitigate the impact. The University
have contributed to the Residents Parking in areas associated with
the University for a short period of time but this was dependent on
the degree of parking problems as to how much they would
contribute. The cost to a
resident of this scheme would be £100 per annum. This did not give the resident a right
to park outside his own home but it did give them the right to park
with in a designated area.
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Discussion
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Resident asked about the
ongoing parking impact since the new parking restrictions on
Heslington Lane had been put in
place.
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KA said that the yellow lines
(paid for by the University) installed along Heslington Lane and Fulfordgate had improved parking issues
considerably, but had generated new concerns from houses in
Broadway, especially the first strip of MoD houses. It was felt that the University of York
needed to carry out some further work in this area to identify the
cause of the problems.
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The issue of the arrangements
for contractors’ vehicles parking when the Germany Beck
development got underway was raised. Concerns were expressed that
unless arrangements were made they would be parking in Fordlands Road and other local roads.
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KA said that CYC were aware
that provision needed to be made for contractors parking and they
were having discussions with Persimmon Homes. He said that it was right that they should not
park on local roads.
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A resident asked whether it was
legal to park on roundabouts and
footpaths as that was what was happening at Westmoor Flats where four ... view
the full minutes text for item 3.
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Neighbourhood working and ward budgets
Hear more about the ward budget of
£16,933 and how it can be used to meet local needs.
Minutes:
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KA gave a presentation on the
new Neighbourhood Working model and the ward budgets.
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Listening to Residents: Ward
Committees: -this is a new approach to community engagement through
working with local neighbourhoods and the establishment of revised
ward committees.
The Council’s approach to
neighbourhood working aims to empower local residents and to
support ward members so that they can:
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Work with local communities to develop local
priorities and help deliver on these
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Help empower local communities and devolve more
budgets to residents
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Ward
Committees:
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What are Ward Committees and
what do they do?
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tackle local issues in partnership with
residents
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improve the Council’s accountability to
residents
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provide opportunities to influence
services
They can do this by:
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Talking to residents on issues affecting the ward
and the city
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Prioritising local issues
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Agreeing how to allocate ward budgets
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Supporting local projects that help address ward
priorities
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Working with communities to help inform what local
services are needed
There are 21 Wards in
York.
Meetings will take place up to
four times a year with a formal meeting at the beginning of the
financial year (Autumn 2015).
Further meetings can be in other formats depending on the need of
the ward e.g. walkabouts, stalls at fairs, drop-in, consultations
etc. This means that a wider range of
residents can engage.
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Ward
Teams
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Ward Teams are led by Ward
Councillors, ward-based partners will hold regular meetings
to:
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Set priorities based on data, local
intelligence
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Work on projects that address the ward
priorities
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Liaise between ward partners (police, estate
managers, voluntary groups, businesses, parish council)
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Supported by a ward co-ordinator
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Devolved Budgets
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These are additional budgets to
wards in order to create a pot that wards can use flexibly to help
to address their priorities and develop community initiatives which
benefit local residents and reduce reliance on council
services. They are made up
of:
General Ward Budget
£3393 – this could be spent in
two ways.
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Grants for funding projects from this fund should be
made via an application form. They can
be made from constituted groups and must show a benefit to the
local community. Citywide organisations
cannot apply to multiple wards
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Alternatively should a group or organisation want to
commission a particular piece or work. Or both
Pride in York Fund (one off)
£3926 –this
money is allocated to wards, based on current grounds maintenance
spending and could be used to provide grants to partner, community
and voluntary organisations to develop initiatives that benefit the
community and help reduce the reliance on Council
services.
Pride in York Fund (recurring)
£4524 – this fund is to
commission projects and initiatives that improve the local
environment and street level issues in the ward. It could be spent on council services if the
ward wished and is allocated to wards based on a per capita
basis
Community Care Programme
£1697
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To support through community activity the prevention
or delay of people needing to access formal care packages and
statutory support
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Key areas identified which can ...
view the full minutes text for item 4.
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Have Your Say
An opportunity to raise issues of local
interest or concern.
Minutes:
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A
monthly Fulford Residents’
Association meeting is held at Delwood
on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 11am. Notifications had
been put up around the area.
The
next ward committee meeting would be held at Heslington Church on Monday 23rd
November at 6.30pm.
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