Agenda item

• 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.  

1. Welcome and introductions by Cllr Ann Reid

Extra Agenda Item added – York Fire Service Review

2. 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.

3. Police

PCSO Richard Dalby gave a brief ward update;

·        Between the 13^th & 16^th 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.