Bristol City Council Response
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Appendices Avon Fire Authority Draft Integrated Risk Management Plan 2016-2020 incorporating proposed changes to operational arrangements at Yate Fire Station Consultation Report Appendix G-ii: Bristol City Council Response AVRIL BAKER CONSULTANCY Appendices to Consultation Report: January 2017 Reply to Di Robinson Telephone 0117 922 1036 E-mail [email protected] Date 20 December 2016 Dear Councillor Abraham and Mr Pearson, Avon Fire Authority Consultation – Draft Integrated Risk Management Plan, 2016 – 2020 Thank you for the invitation to take part in the consultation of Avon Fire Authority’s Draft Integrated Risk Management Plan (IMRP). Bristol City Council (BCC) recognises the crucial role played by the Avon Fire and Rescue Service and is extremely proud of our Avon Fire and Rescue Service (AFRS) colleagues who spend their working lives making Bristol and our neighbouring authorities safer for all of us. We are acutely aware of the danger that responding staff must expose themselves to in the course of their duties and feel heavily indebted to their bravery, commitment and professionalism and that of the whole service. BCC welcomes the scope and the guiding principles of the IMRP and the stated emphasis on maintaining services despite financial pressures. We fully endorse the risk led approach embedded in the IMRP and welcome the IMRP’s own contribution to making the prioritisation and delivery of services transparent. We are supportive of the need to re-configure services. We understand the need to trial ‘alternate’ crewing of turntable ladders. However, we are reassured that the turntable ladder based at Temple Fire Station will remain ‘primary crewed’, given the number of high rise buildings in Bristol City Centre. We ask that the trial of this system is closely monitored with regards to the deployment time of turntable ladders across Bristol and our neighbouring authorities. We note the reduction of posts at Fire Stations across the Avon area that reconfiguration affords and the intention to use these posts to provide areas of risk critical importance with additional resource, including training resource. We wondered whether a clearer statement of the overall impact of this on staff numbers would be useful. We support the emphasis on collaboration with partners to mitigate the impact of financial pressures, but note with sadness that the move to share Police Headquarters at Portishead takes AFRS Headquarters out of Bristol. Policy and Strategy Di Robinson Website PO Box 3176 Director of Policy and Strategy www.bristol.gov.uk Bristol BS3 9FS We would like to continue discussions about how BCC facilities in Bristol, particularly the City Operations Centre currently under construction, can be used to support the Fire Service response. We fully support the stated intention to develop the role of ‘safe and well’ visits to include health promotion and crime prevention and the additional benefits this can provide to our more vulnerable citizens. We also welcome the connection made between issues of health inequality and social deprivation and issues of fire safety and support the stated intention to work with partners to identify our most at risk groups to target fire safety messages. We understand this as part of building community resilience. We support the commitment to develop community resilience through the Avon and Somerset Local Resilience Forum and other mechanisms and the commitment to provide support and training to communities managing particular risks, such as flooding. We fully support the intention to maintain specialist capability to manage extreme threats in line with the Home Office Model Response. We support the need to be prepared for complex risks and the intention to work closely with partners to be prepared for a terrorist incident or other complex emergency. We welcome the reference to climate change and broadly share the IMRP’s analysis as to how it might affect the Fire Service. Working to make our communities more resilient to the impacts of climate change and other ongoing stresses is essential to both reducing the likelihood and impact of emergencies and managing future demand for services. This supports the Bristol Resilience Strategy. Whilst we are supportive of the intended goals of lobbying for domestic sprinklers, we have some concerns regarding our ability to support this across our housing stock with the technology currently available. We would welcome the opportunity to explain our situation in more detail. Whilst we welcome the intention of the Fire Service to become more inclusive and representative of the communities it serves, we were concerned that the IMRP didn’t offer more detail as to how this would be achieved. There is a workstream being undertaken by Bristol’s newly inaugurated City Office, which is focussing on improving work experience opportunities for the young people of Bristol. This would be an opportunity for AFRS to offer work experience placements to young people from communities currently less well represented within AFRS. Please find attached some more focussed responses to the IMRP offered by particular Council teams and, from a transport perspective, the Local Enterprise Partnership. The more focussed responses include some suggested alternative images for the IMRP which offer a more up to date visual account of the strategic transport network, which are also attached to this letter. Yours faithfully Di Robinson Policy and Strategy Di Robinson Website PO Box 3176 Director of Policy and Strategy www.bristol.gov.uk Bristol BS3 9FS JTS vision N R Thornbury P Key: Yate Area package P R Strategic cycle route P P Avonmouth P Expanded Park & Ride P New Park & Ride Portishead P R P R MetroBus LRT P LRT (route to be determined) Clevedon R Rail improvements P R R New rail station Nailsea P R R Improved rail station P P R New road P P Keynsham P Improved road Weston-super-Mare Bristol Airport Smart motorway P New junction Bath Improved junction R P Freight consolidation centre Also included in Vision but not shown on map: Local bus network improvement package A350 package to be discussed Midsomer Norton with Wiltshire Council Urban area Council boundary Alignments in this plan are shown for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to indicate specific alignments Current Enterprise Zones Appendices Avon Fire Authority Draft Integrated Risk Management Plan 2016-2020 incorporating proposed changes to operational arrangements at Yate Fire Station Consultation Report Appendix G-iii: Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service Response AVRIL BAKER CONSULTANCY Appendices to Consultation Report: January 2017 Appendices Avon Fire Authority Draft Integrated Risk Management Plan 2016-2020 incorporating proposed changes to operational arrangements at Yate Fire Station Consultation Report Appendix G-iv: Care and Repair Response AVRIL BAKER CONSULTANCY Appendices to Consultation Report: January 2017 Peter Davis Subject: FW: Avon Fire Authority Public Consultation From: Sent: 22 December 2016 08:23 To: Cc:; Subject: RE: Avon Fire Authority Public Consultation Dear , Thank you for the opportunity to comment. My Colleague Nia read everything and gave me some guidance that I have combined with my own thoughts in to the brief but entirely supportive response below: We welcome the plan’s commitment to a targeted approach, collaborative & preventative working in order to reach the most vulnerable and at risk communities. We understand and empathise with your challenges and drivers for change. We feel due our high contact with vulnerable people we can do more to work more effectively with you in mutually beneficial ways. We want to be a supportive partner to you and to explore together how we can help in relation to these 2 areas of your action plan that directly align to areas of strategic importance to WE Care and Repair: Develop our role within ‘safe and well visits’ including crime prevention, health promotion, accident and fire prevention education aimed towards those most at risk. We will explore ways in which we can most effectively support Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in health promotion and mitigate the risks faced by the most vulnerable in our communities. In order to achieve collaborative working effectively in these areas among ourselves and the third sector more widely we think that jointly agreed plans and and referral processes will be key and especially helpful for reducing the risk of duplication and so making resources go further. Therefore could we, as a tangible way to support your implementation, look at hosting a session with key 3rd sector partners that has the intention of getting all attendees to explore how we can all pull together in one efficient direction around the 2 points above? Age UK, Brunel, BRC, RBL, BCH, CSE, TM, SCDA could all be invited? We can also get key GP practices involved in CCG Test and Learn projects to come. We look forward to hearing your thoughts. 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