Agenda and minutes

Come down to our communty event where you will have the chance to

• Pick up a Free Ward Committee funded Compost bin, with advice on how to get started from York Rotters
• Pick up Free Ward Committee funded bird and bat boxes, with advice from York ranger Stephen Whittaker
• Climb a 7m high climbing wall with guidance from Yorks Community Climb instructor Jonathan Richardson.
• Tours of Fulford Cross Nature reserve,
• Authentic Roman cooking and hair braiding with York Museum
• Trade your Junk at our Ward Committee Freecycle event

Meet

• Cllr A D’Agorne and Cllr D Taylor
• Clair Bailey-Lane, your Street Environment Officer
• The Safer Naighbourhoods Policing team

Fishergate Ward Committee hosted an informal event in the style of an extended surgery outside Danesgate Skills Centre. Residents were able to:

• Speak directly to their local councillors and representatives from the Neighbourhood Management Unit.
• Hear about the Local Development Framework (LDF) proposals for future expansions and developments within York, and have their questions answered.
• Get advice on saving energy in their homes with the Energy Saving Trust.
• Talk to members of the Fishergate Safer Neighbourhoods Policing Team.
• Speak with the Street Environment Officer for Fishergate Ward.
• Receive advice on composting and a free compost bin from York Rotters.
• Take home a free bird box or bat box, along with advice on where they should be located and how to encourage their use.
• Scale the seven metre mobile climbing wall, with guidance from York Council’s Community Climbing Instructor.
• Be taken on a guided tour of Fulford Cross by a member of the ‘Friends Of’ group.
• Learn about Roman cookery, sampling some of their stews and breads , all cooked on site in a traditional brick oven, as well as Roman hairdressing and some object handling.
• Submit suggestions for Local Improvement Schemes to be funded from the 2010/11 Fishergate Ward Committee Budget.
• Participate in the Freecycle swap shop. Residents brought their old books, games, electronics etc. to the event and took home something else.

Residents had the opportunity to raise any points they didn’t get to mention to the councillors or council staff by writing it on the Have Your Say board.