Agenda and minutes

The drop-in surgery gives you the opportunity to talk to your councillors, street environment officer, safer neighbourhood team, neighbourhood management officer and visiting speakers in an informal setting.

Drop in Surgery 6:30pm

Residents had the opportunity to talk to Cllr Andy D’Agorne,and Cllr Dave Taylor,Neighbourhood Management Officer,Sally Barker, Street Environment Officer, Jackie Armitage, Safer Neighbourhood Team, PC Andrew Thompson.    

The minutes of the previous meeting will be signed.

7.00pm – Main Meeting

Cllr D’Agorne & Taylor welcomed residents to the meeting.

The minutes of the last meeting were agreed and signed.

PC Andrew Thompson will give an update on issues in your ward and answer any questions you have.

Safer Neighbourhood Team

Crime over all has dropped by 18.5% compared with the same time last year which means there have been 81 fewer victims of crime.

PC Andrew Thompson gave the latest crime figures:

Violent Crime -19%

Burglary Dwell (house)   -38%

Burglary other (garage/Shed) -26%

Crime damage – 19%

Theft from motor vehicles – 53%

A resident made comments about when contacting the police there is an automated system and his concerns about the Police team been on the same rest days.

PC Thompson answered that if there was an emergency use 999 and if the team were on rest days there is always another community officer on duty.

Suzanne Prance will introduce the Love Where You Live campaign.

Street Environment

Jackie Armitage Street Environmental Officer gave a presentation on Love Where You Live.

Leaflets about the project were given to the residents.

Jenny Taylor-Smith, North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue, will talk about the new fire station at Kent Street.

Kent Street Fire Station Presentation

Representatives from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue service and drivers Jonas Deloitte gave an informative presentation about the proposed Fire station in Kent Street.

They explained that the project is at the design stage, and the archaeological department, local schools and the community would be involved. If any trees had to be removed they would be replaced.

Questions:

A resident asked in the current financial climate why was a New Fire station been planned.

Answer: The timing of the Fire station was not planned around the current climate; the old building was over sixty years old and no longer fit for purpose.

Residents had concerns over safety near the fire station for children from local schools.

Cllr D’Agorne was reassured that the pedestrian access across the site from Kent Street to the school was being discussed with the Fishergate school head.

Come along to find out more about the schemes on the ballot list. If you have made one of the suggestions on the list, come along to tell people more about it.

Ward Committee Schemes

Residents were given the opportunity to raise questions about the schemes and get further information about them.

The following organisations gave further information about there schemes.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue.

Street Sport York

Older Citizens Advocacy York

Friends of St Nicholas Fields

Your chance to join the planning panel.

Planning Panel Elections

A big thank you to Jason Rose who is to stand down.

A resident showed his interest in joining the Panel.

Sally Barker to take his details and follow on with information.

Your chance to ask questions about local issues and concerns not covered by the agenda.

Have Your Say

Your chance to ask questions about issues and concerns:

A Resident had concerns about the fire engines not be able to fit down some of the streets in Fishergate, he requested that he and Cllr D’Agorne and Cllr Taylor went on a visit to the streets in the fire engine.

The Fire service replied that they were aware of this situation, this was mostly due to parked vehicles on both sides of narrow streets, and he agreed to take the Cllrs on the visit.

A resident had concerns over the levels of noise heard in certain areas in Fishergate on numerous occasions when the Peace Festival and Gay Pride were taking place.

The resident also asked for a copy of the ballot votes from 2011.12.

Cllr Taylor replied that the levels of noise are regularly monitored, and that one person’s tolerance level can be different to another. He also gave out the noise parole number with is available all weekend 9.00pm -3.00am.

Sally Barker has sent out the votes to the resident.