Agenda item

Community Development Plan

To consider progress and developments related to the Central CEF Community Development Plan.

Minutes:

The Operations Director for Groundwork, presented the Community Development Plan (CDP) which had been published with the agenda.

 

The Board discussed the CDP and noted the following updates:

 

·           1.1 – Team Up to Clean Up – Works to the path between Brayton Lane and Wishing Well had been completed, work at Marsh Lane had progressed and a meeting to discuss the work at Riverside Gardens had been arranged.

 

The Board expressed some concern as to the use of weed killer near to the pond at Marsh Lane, and indicated that strimming and grass seeding the area would be sufficient.

 

Board Members asked the Operations Manager (Groundwork) to find out why the litter bin that had been funded by the CEF for outside Selby Community Primary School had not been provided. The Operations Manager agreed to chase this up with Amey via the Contracts Team.

 

·           1.4 – Reduce Fly Tipping/Targeted Community Tidy Up Days – It was agreed that this should be chased up.

 

·           1.5 – Window on the Past Heritage Project – Councillor Steve Shaw-Wright agreed to follow this up.

 

·           2.1 – Flood and Community Resilience – The Operations Director (Groundwork) informed the Board that Groundwork would be involved in an upcoming ‘Communities Prepared’ initiative with the Environment Agency to help local communities become more resilient during emergencies by supporting new emergency volunteer groups, or offering further training and advice to existing ones.

 

·           2.2 – ASB Youth Provision – It was noted that Big Local were now providing support to the Youth Group with a CEF grant via Groundwork to cover capital costs. The Friendship Cafe project would still go ahead.

 

·           3.2 -  Reinvigorating and increasing the use of Selby park – All the bands for the Picnic Brass events were now booked, and there had been some publicity in the press in the last month mentioning the funding from the CEF.

 

·           3.3 – Veteran Wood Working Project – The Operations Director confirmed that if there was further tree work later in the year, this project could be invigorated if wood was supplied.

 

·           3.4 – Men in Sheds – There was no progress to report on this project.

 

·           3.5 – Barlow Football Field and Drainage – The Board were informed that a Barlow Parish Councillor’s husband had previous experience with playing field works and would be assisting with this project.

 

·           4.1 – Community Speed Watch – Site proposals for speed watch activity had been submitted to the Police for agreement, and a walk round had been undertaken with the speed watch officer. The next step was to acquire some equipment for the group, but there could be a delay as there was no equipment none currently available from the Police as it was all being used by other groups at present. Training would also be required once the equipment was available.

 

·           4.2 – East Common Lane, Barlow – A planning application to be considered at Planning Committee on 3 April 2019 could have some impact on this project, and as such, it was agreed that it would be sensible to await the outcome of the application before meeting with North Yorkshire Highways.

 

 

 

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