Camberwell Community Council Agenda
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Camberwell Community Council Agenda Date: Tuesday January 23 2007 Time: 7.00pm Place: Southwark Town Hall, 31 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UB 1. Introduction, welcome and Chair’s announcements. 2. Apologies 3. Disclosure of Members’ interests and dispensations 4. Items of business that the Chair deems urgent Matters from the previous meeting 5. Minutes to be agreed from the meetings held on December 4 2006 (7.05pm) (pages inclusive) 6. Community Council Sub-Groups (7.10pm) 7. Deputations (if any) (7.15pm) Community items: 8. Refugee Communities Forum’s work in Camberwell - (7.25pm) 9. Youth Offending Team - Mike Montrose-Francis (7.30pm) Public Question Time Members of the public are invited to raise issues not already covered on the agenda. There is a question form on page 13 of this agenda, if you wish to submit your question in writing. (7.45pm) TEA BREAK (8.05pm) An opportunity to talk to Camberwell Councillors, Police and Council officers Main Business 10. Camberwell Leisure Centre update – Fusion rep (8.20pm) 11. Pest Control update – Allen MacPherson (8.30pm) 12. Elmington Estate Regeneration – Allen MacPherson (8.40pm) 13. Camberwell Street Audit –Diana Bunyan (8.50pm) 14. Section 106 – Alison Squires (8.55pm) 15. Grove Park SPD – Alison Squires (9.00pm) 16. Model Byelaws – David Littleton (9.05pm) 17. Camberwell Post Office (9.10pm) Chair’s closing remarks (9.15pm) 1 Dates of all future Main meetings: Dates of all future Planning meetings (all held in the Town Hall) Monday 5 March 2007 Monday 29 January 2007 Wednesday 25 April 2007 Wednesday 28 February 2007 Monday 2 April 2007 Wednesday 30 May 2007 2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Camberwell Community Council Membership Councillor Ian Wingfield Chair Councillor Sandra Rhule Vice-Chair Councillor Dora Dixon-Fyle Councillor John Friary Councillor Peter John Councillor Jenny Jones Councillor Alison McGovern Councillor Christopher Page Councillor Veronica Ward Carers’ Allowances If you are a Southwark resident and have paid someone to look after your children, or an elderly dependant or a dependant with disabilities, so that you can attend this meeting, you may claim an allowance from the Council. Please collect a claim form from the clerk at the meeting. Deputations For information on deputations please ask the clerk for the relevant hand-out. Exclusion of Press and Public The following motion should be moved, seconded and approved if the Community Council wishes to exclude the press and public to deal with reports revealing exempt information. “That the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of information as defined in paragraphs 1-15, Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Constitution.” Transport Assistance for Disabled Members of the Public Members of the public with a disability who wish to attend Community Council meetings and who require transport assistance in order to access the meeting, are requested to call the meeting clerk at the number below to give his/her contact and address details. The clerk will arrange for a driver to collect the person and provide return transport after the meeting. 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Yoruba 4 Date Monday December 4 2006 Venue Southwark Town Hall, Peckham Road, SE5 8UB Start time 7.00pm Finish time 10.10pm In attendance Cllrs Wingfield, Rhule, Ward, Friary, John, Page, Jones, and McGovern Absent Apologies received Councillor Dixon-Fyle, Councillor McGovern (lateness) Urgent items There were none Members’ interests Two Members declared interests in Item12: Cleaner Greener Safer: and dispensations Councillor Friary declared an interest as a trustee of Camberwell After school Club; Councillor Page declared an interest in the Havil Street Transport Feasibility Study. Q1 Is our Community Council aware of the diabolical way the Grosvenor Estate has been treated by our Written Council in relation to a 5-storey block of flats to be erected at 45 Urlwin Street? The Head of Question Department & the Borough Solicitor in their report actually state “the failure of officers to actively support the Planning Committee’s decision has the potential to erode community confidence” – well, let me tell you it has! Why is there not a challenge at the High Court when Planning Aid provided the ammunition to do this? This is not even mentioned in the Report. We believe maladministration has taken place. A1 The Strategic Director of Regeneration took the decision not to proceed with a legal challenge to the Inspector’s decision. This decision took into account the strength of feeling as expressed by residents directly and through this question. It also took into account advice on the views expressed by Planning Aid. The decision has been called in by Overview and Scrutiny. Q2 As Editor of Peckham Society News, last week yet again I had a bad experience with the call centre. I Written needed information from the excellent Newington Reference Library. I wasted six minutes before Question being cut off, without getting through to the library. What action is being taken to stop the inefficiency of the very expensive call centre? Residents are becoming angry and frustrated. The next day he was put through to the wrong part of the Newington Library. A2 From March 2006 Southwark's Customer Service Centre took over the answering of first contact library calls made by the public. It was envisioned that this would mean that librarians, instead of answering calls, would be able to better run the libraries and add value to the service. The main aim of this was for roles such as PC bookings and book renewals to be centralised to add efficiency and give a better service to the public Overall 5 this has worked. Currently the average call waiting on the libraries services is 32 seconds and we answer 93% of all the calls that are offered. This has been a huge improvement from earlier this year and we are working to achieve even more. This being said we do understand that problems do arise, especially with services such as the reference library. Because of the nature of the library some people will need to speak to them directly, and we do try to connect these people to the library. We are working closely with Libraries such as the Newington Reference Library to see how we can provide a better service and how customers can access information easier and talk to the librarians without having to wait. For the moment if you do need to speak to the reference library then please do not hesitate to call. If you do experience any problems then please ask to speak to a resolution officer or a supervisor who will be happy to assist. Q3 All responsible dog owners are very disturbed by the Parks Department ushering in a new policy about Written dogs in parks. This is on the back of “new signage”, whereby all dogs must be kept on leads in the Question majority of Southwark’s parks. There was no expert advice sought (veterinary surgeons or the RSPCA), nor were dog walkers consulted. This will have a drastic effect upon the physical and psychological welfare of owners and animals alike. We would like the Parks Department to reverse the decision and maintain the policy of the last 30 years of “Keep dogs under control”. A majority of users in parks on weekdays and in the winter months are dog walkers. A3 The Council does not intend to ban dogs being allowed to exercise off the lead in Southwark's parks from January 2007.