Agenda item
7.00pm Main Meeting
- Police
An update from your Neighbourhood Policing Team on ward issues and your chance to ask questions and raise concerns.
- Park & Ride new site
Your chance to hear the latest about the plans for the new Park & Ride site. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions to officers working on the project.
- Ward Schemes 2009/2010
Find out more and have your say on the ward schemes for your area. There will be an opportunity for groups who have made a grant request to speak about their project.
Minutes:
- Welcome and introductions by Cllr Ann Reid
Extra Agenda Item added – York Fire Service Review
- John Swires, Group Manager North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue
John gave a brief update on the review of all the fire stations in York and in particular the main issues.
· The Fire Service are seeking the views of residents & businesses.
· Proposals are to be made regarding the relocation of fire stations within the city and the residents of York will be asked for their opinions about these proposals.
· There will be consultation papers all over the city in the next few weeks.
- Police
PCSO Richard Dalby gave a brief ward update;
· Between the 13th & 16th October it will be ‘Not in your Neighbourhood Week’. This is week of visible joined up working alongside various other agencies and a the Policing Team visiting more people during the week. This will include coffee mornings at sheltered housing and crime prevention surveys etc.
· There will also be street signs going up where there is Neighbourhood Watch.
Questions raised by residents were;
· Anything planned for the Middlethorpe Grove area?
o There will be visits to the businesses and possibly the Police van giving crime prevention advice.
4. Askham Bar Park & Ride New Site
Paul Thackray, Damon Copperthwaite & Tony Clarke were present to explain about the proposed plans.
Paul gave a brief outline of the site (known as Sim Hills);
· The Access York Phase 1 development includes 3 new Park & Ride sites.
· The land for the new one to replace Askham Bar was formerly a waste disposal site.
· The present Site holds 550 cars and the new site will hold 1250 cars.
· We will also be looking at the pedestrian and cycle facilities for the site.
· As the site is on a hill then we will be looking very carefully at drainage and landscaping.
· Aiming to obtain gold standard car parking security.
· The main reception building will hopefully be a landmark building.
· The next step is to start formal consultation at the end of November.
· It should not affect the existing traffic as most of the work is of the highway.
Residents raised the following;
· What is the timeframe?
o Hopefully the construction would start early in 2010 and would take 12 months
· Was this a council tip?
o Yes it is a former landfill site and gas monitoring is taking place.
· Will this become an overflow car park for the college?
o No as it will be a token system to park and the token has to be validated on the bus.
· Any thoughts to what will happen to the existing car park?
o No decision has been made on this yet.
· Will the frequency of the bus service increase if more people are using the car park?
o Yes we are hoping that this will increase to 6 or 7 on the route at one time.
· At the moment people walk and cycle to use the Park & Ride, will this still be possible?
o This is being looked at.
· Local residents should remember that this is a Park & Ride site and not a local bus service.
· The numbers 12 & 13 bus services go past Moor Lane at virtually the same time so can we change the frequency of them?
o This is something we can ask First
· Is the existing site big enough for a community stadium?!
· The buses do not use the bus lane in the college.
· There will be a clear lighting need, cctv and landscaping at a low level.
o Landscaping within the perimeter will be low level to enable security.
5. Ward Schemes 2009/2010
People were given the opportunity to speak about the ward schemes for 2009/2010, and also to raise any questions or queries about the schemes on the ballot list.
The following schemes were represented at the meeting;
- St Edwards Church – Michael Bailey
- Citizens Advice Bureau – Trisha
- Dringhouses Dance Group – Doreen Tiller
- Woodthorpe Playgroup – Caroline
- Westhorpe Scout Group – Mike Green
The Dringhouses Local History Group gave an update on the what they had spent the ward grant on that they received last year.
- A resident asked what is the feedback that we received from Group Response?
The overall satisfaction of the service has improved greatly and we receive quarterly reports.