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Reports of Community Forums Morden Community Forum Item 8 (a) 15 June 2010 Chair’s Report 18 residents attended, as well as 6 other councillors and officers of the council and its partners. Apologies were received from Mr Terrett and Councillor Karin Forbes 1. The Chairman, Councillor Maurice Groves, welcomed everyone to the meeting, and encouraged residents to bring more people to the meetings. He was looking to discuss a wider vision for Morden over the coming year. As examples of possible topics for discussion, he suggested a visit from a member of the Royal Institution for Town Planning, health services, carers, and heritage. 2. Action points from the previous meeting Elspeth Clarke said that it had been Field A at Morden Park that had been badly rutted because of heavy vehicles or early mowing. follow up the suggested bus lane in London Road with Transport for London (TfL). 3. Police update Inspector Matt Boyd said that there were a number of rumours current about possible cuts to Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNT). These were only rumours at present. He suggested that if residents wanted answers to questions on policing matters at future meetings they should channel them through Bartle Sawbridge ([email protected] 020 8545 4400). The Borough Commander, Chief Superintendent Chris Bourlet was on secondment to another post for six months. His temporary replacement was Superintendent Nick Wolfenden. There had been a crime reduction in four of the wards covered by the forum, but increases of 2.9% in Ravensbury and 4.7% in St Helier. Morden now had 6111 members of CommunitySafe, the largest number in the borough. Bob Whitfield thanked the police for their advice to him about noise in Morden Park. He had not been aware that Environmental Health have powers in this area. Councillor Peter Southgate asked what the police’s public statement about being the fourth best in London for confidence meant. Inspector Boyd replied that the public had been asked ‘Are the police doing a good job?’ The proportion saying that they were had risen from 67% to 77% over the past year. Andrew Wakefield spoke as the Chair of the borough’s Community Police Consultative Committee. He said that their next meeting would be at 29 Morden Baptist Church on 13 July, when Chief Superintendent Wolfenden would respond to pre-submitted questions. There would also be the next quarterly meeting of chairs of all of the London boroughs’ committees at New Scotland Yard on 17 June, when the Commissioner would attend for part of the meeting. The Metropolitan Police faced cuts of £200 million in 2010/11. Councillor Maxi Martin expressed concern at the possibility of cuts to the St Helier SNT, which was a superb team and did an excellent job. The Chairman was similarly concerned about the Lower Morden and Cannon Hill SNTs. Andrew Wakefield said that, contrary to public belief, Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) budgets were only ring-fenced until 2012. This was worrying, as there was consistent support for Police Community Support Officers across the ward panels. 4. Signage and More Morden Paul McGarry, LBM Physical Regeneration Manager has provided the following summary of what he told the meeting: “The Long Term Plan We are just about to commission a masterplan for Morden in July. This will be a joint document between LBM and the Homes and Communities Agency. We’re holding off until the HCA Board meeting in July to determine whether the HCA can invest in Morden with us (from masterplanning through to housing delivery) We’ll be using consultants pre-approved the by HCA to avoid lengthy and expensive EU procurement processes. Once commissioned, the consultants will be undertaking a lot of analysis, based on the visioning and economic profiling work already undertaken. We will then run a series of workshops, focussing on design, planning, business etc - we’ll publicise the workshops once we have commissioned the work. These workshops will influence the preparation of the masterplan. moreMorden masterplan will become a returning item at the Community Forum. Whats been going on behind the scenes? 1. Officers have promoted moreMorden to the London Development Agency and Design for London who are interested in our proposals - it aligns with a recent study ‘7 Town Centres for South London’ LDA (or its new incarnation under the Mayor of London) may invest in Morden as a practical application of the recommendations on that report. 2. HCA are also very keen on Morden as a way of delivering new housing in Merton. 30 3. Deliverability is key, and despite the recession, Morden is well placed to attract investment from developers because the key land owners are LBM/TFL - making it attractive for a joint venture between the public and private sector. (something the industry is looking at more often) 4. We have sought advice from developers and national housebuilders who also agree that Morden is a suitable place to invest in, and deliver housing geared towards the 'first and second rungs of the housing ladder'. The Willows scheme in St Hellier is selling well, as this type of housing (1-2 bed flats, small 2-3 bed family properties) are in demand, and under provided for in the wider Morden area. Transport for London: Officers have met with senior officers at TFL (Tube, Road, Busses, Planning, Property) to discuss our aspirations for Morden. 1. TFL have commissioned a feasibility study to look at the provision of a bus station in Morden. TFL accept that the existing situation is not ideal, either for passengers, pedestrians or drivers. It may not be a 'bus station' like Vauxhall, but we are exploring spreading the bus stops along London Road towards Sainburys. This also spreads footfall around the centre to help businesses. 2. We have proposed an option that unravels the Civic Centre gyratory and narrows London Road to provide more space for wider footways and spreading out the bus stops. TFL are examining our ideas at the moment. 3. TFL are looking to roll out iBus - the replacement for Countdown in 2011, TFL website is already updated with the Bus GPS system. 4. TFL are also looking at splitting the Northern Line and increasing the frequency of trains running to Morden (via Bank) - As part of our proposals for developing at the rear of Morden Station, TFL are considering if there is a need for additional platform space, and if so, could be accommodated through a redevelopment of the site. This is just at a conceptual stage. 5. TFL are also doing work with the Council’s design team to explore improve/renew the shopfronts on Morden Station. Small changes: TFL have removed 300m of guardrails from London Road which has made the place look less cluttered already. TFL have also re-planted the roadside planters at Civic Centre and will be looking at the remainder soon. The offices above Morden Station have been refurbished and the exterior repaired and painted - not a dramatic change, but certainly tidier and welcomed. 31 Merton have now installed the pedestrian wayfinding maps and finger posts - pointing out key destinations in and around Morden. Whats next? Community engagement on the masterplan (interactive workshops rather than formal public meetings) - late summer. Still detailed work underway identifying land ownership details, leasehold information - related to the council’s land ownerships, assessment of delivering regeneration. LBM Regeneration strategy - all the boroughs regeneration activity, recommending that Morden is the borough’s flagship regeneration project. Website update - coming this summer. (hopefully a bit more interactive and linked to Facebook.” Councillor John Sargeant asked what the short, medium and longterm goals were, say up to 15 years. Paul replied that the short term aim was to make Morden more attractive and help businesses through the recession, carry out tidy-up repairs and deal with some of the traffic problems. In the medium term there would be more major transport changes. The longterm objective was to bring in major developments, for example building housing that would allow people to climb the ‘first rung of the housing ladder’, and other smaller homes for medium to high earners and those with disposable incomes. The present housing stock was predominantly larger family homes. Fulham Broadway might provide a good model for the new development. In answer to a question from Andrew Wakefield about Red Routes, Paul said that London Underground had produced a very full report. He would ask Nick Greenwood, from Transport Planning, if the report was still available. Councillor Dennis Pearce asked how funding for development would be identified. Paul said that delivery on roads rested with TfL. Other development could be funded through Tfl asset development and the HCA. Councillor Pearce wanted to see small improvements made now, rather than waiting for the big picture together. Councillor Maxi Martin said that the long term aims would not be achieved unless everyone was tenacious. 5. Section 106 Bartle Sawbridge put this item in context by referring the forum to a discussion on community forum involvement in the section 106 process, at 32 the last meeting. All 5 forums had discussed the issues, and would do so again in the current round of forums, and a meeting had been held on 7 June of representatives of the forums, to consider possible ways forward. Simon Cranmer, from the National Trust at Morden Hall Park, had volunteered to report back for the borough wide meeting. He said that the aim of section 106 was require developers to ‘mitigate the effects’ of their development. Many residents thought that this did not happen, with money not being spent where the development had taken place.
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