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CRAIGNEUK COMMUNITY COUNCIL EST: 2010 Jim Foley Community Centre 14th May 2018 7pm Members Chair Person: Margaret Carlin Present Vice Chair: Neil Murray Present Treasurer: Elizabeth Young Present Secretary: Margaret Ann Murray Present Member: Mary Rattray Present Member: Ann Murray Present Member: Debbie Hendrie Present Member: Trudy Lafferty Present Ex-officio Members Cllr Alan Valentine Present Cllr Agnes Macgowan Present Cllr Nathan Wilson Present Cllr Kenneth Duffy Present Invited Quests: Peter McNally CLD, Bobby Miller – Head of Social Work Adult Services, Morag Dendy Social Work Adult services. Present: Dan Scott SocialTrack Gillian McCairn CL&D/Youth Worker Peter McNally CL&D Des Donnelly Motherwell/Shotts Station Manager Helen Pope Craigneuk & Belhaven Church Jim Maxwell Craigneuk & Belhaven Church Robert Miller Head of Social Work Adult Services Morag Dendy Social Work Adult Services Mary Jane Quinn Tenant/Nursing Home Clare McCann Tenant Trudy Lafferty Tenant Kevin Brown Tenant Sarah Jane Reilly Tenant Joe Quinn Tenant Business of minutes from previous meeting. Passed by Ann Murray 2nd Mary Rattray 1. Intro & apologies: Chair has family commitments and leaves the meeting to VC & Secretary. Intro, apologies, passing of minutes. No Apologies given. Objectives: 2. Cllrs reports AMcg: Walkabout earlier this month was very useful. It was mostly refuse that was the problem. Re-laid it to the Council. We met with Gary Sloan and Laura Keenan to look at the rubbish situation. They are trying their hardest with the man with the van coming twice a week. Laura has post-carded and sent letters and the Police have been warning people they have seen on the CCTV dumping. I contacted Andrew McPherson aswell, he has had various meetings with people. They are thinking of fortnightly bin collections in Craigneuk If they can’t get the 3 weeks one to work. He is looking at all different ideas. I did a street surgery with Clare Adamson in Laurel Drive everyone was happy and the only issues were potholes and speeding. I contacted Campbell Dyer about that to see if we can get the roads resurfaced. The Community Matters Consultation was good. A group of you went and I thought it was very interesting. There is money there and the community decides where it is spent, very interesting. You should be thinking of what you want in Craigneuk. I know there has been talk off allotments and another Swingpark. MM: Men’s sheds. AMg: This is the time to formalise this. Put it out on Facebook to see what the community wants. Gillian was talking about orienteering in Craigneuk in the woods. Get advertising and surveys. DS: I was at a café and everything that was served 75% they grow themselves. AM: IS that like the community gardens? Yes DH: The industrial estate behind the Craigneuk Club the rubbish is getting piled up. You can see it from the back of the flats. AV: Talking about potholes part of Wingate is being closed off from Meadowhead Road to Glencairn Av for resurfacing work. Unfortunately, it is not Laurel Drive which is the worse street. Keepmoat’s planning application is on tomorrow’s meeting agenda. I’m looking positively at that. That will do away with the dumping problem at Ravenscraig because they should go on site straight away. They will automatically deal with that rubbish and it will become a building site. Still waiting on the outcome Flaxmill ave. MM: Been told it is valued at £15th. The walkabout in the evening we did the bottom end. Where’s the problem. We found a few drains blocked but as a general rule of thumb gardens looking tidy, generally looking good. In comparison where it was in the past it has improved. At the back of Briarwood/Gateside there was virtually no rubbish but that was a dumping ground in the past. I’ve been on walkabouts before where you could write a book and take a photo around every corner. The council are looking to purchase some houses. They will be private built but when there is a planning apt for the estate they will build them the council will buy them. If people are on the housing list and you tick new housing you will be considered. The Calder Primary housing are all council houses. We have got to make sure Meadowhead Road is not a racing track and have traffic calming so It sorts the road issue, the dumping issue and the bad corner. KD: Congratulations to all re-elected and elected onto the committee. The walkabout was very worthwhile. Dan touched on the food 365 update that is coming to the Education Committee tomorrow. There was a decision made in February to tackle holiday hunger. As we know holiday hunger impacts on a child’s life chances and we all probably know of kids who are in receipt of school meals who we know get a meal at school and then don’t get a meal til the next day. It’s a heart-breaking thing. Council ran a pilot project in Coatbridge over the spring break, the returns from that, go onto the council website and look at the Education committee’s papers, and look at some of the words that were said by parents and users of the service in Coatbridge and its heart-breaking in one instance, and I always find it difficult to find the words to describe 365 because I don’t want to call it exciting. I would rather talk about a world that doesn’t need it. Relief is a word that tomorrow the committee will look to agree immediate phase out across NLC this financial year. This phased rollout of phase one will include Craigneuk and Wishawhill. If you look at Berryhill on the SIMD 92% of pupils are in 1 & 2. Some of the kids live in poverty. Relief that in phase 1 Craigneuk and Wishawhill are included with Bellshill and Coatbridge. The phased approach is through industries experts and charities and poverty lead experts that you don’t want all your eggs in one basket as you don’t want this to fail. It will mean that there will be a hub setup for all kids in receipt of a school meal in the summer break from the 29th June til the end of that holiday period. Don’t think there is a hub secured down as yet. There have been discussions with certain folk and Dan has been approached as well as the Craigneuk Family Learning Centre who can’t do it so I think there are still within discussions but I imagine soon they will be making a decision on that. MR: Is it only for kids that receive free school meals? KD: No there is activities too and Dan is also factored in. AMag: They said everyone that appeared got a meal. Stopped for a break Action Pothole and speeding issues update Community Matters survey to be put on FB. E.g. allotments, Swingpark, Men’s sheds, orienteering in the Wishawhill Wood. Rubbish dumping in areas Keepmoat housing application Flaxmill Avenue house update Blocked drains 3. Fire report DD: Thank you for the invite. I am new to the area and wanted to say hello and introduce myself. Can you share my email address with everyone so if they have any fire safety or fire matters to send them in my direction? Dedicated community action team who do a lot of the preventative work in the area, and I oversea that. In terms of report: brought a new locality fire plan for Motherwell and Wishaw, Craigneuk being Motherwell but I have both. They are very similar some numbers are slightly different. When I look at my priorities for the next 3 years. Priorities are reduction of accidental dwellings fires; reduction of fire casualties and fatalities; that’s the two major ones for the whole of Scotland; then we start to look at the reduction in deliberate fire setting, that’s where we start seeing the refuse, the rubbish, the wheelie bins; that’s the ones where we can really target and make a difference. That’s the ones that link to the local improvement plan where it’s a reduction in fire related antisocial behaviour. Reduction in deliberate fire setting for me, is a real key one there. We can all work together with the clean ups and the street walks. Reduction in non-domestic property fires which is legislated under the Fire Scotland Act, in premises like this and Schools, hospitals and factories. The reduction in casualties from non-fire emergencies, we are getting quite a lot on road traffic collisions, in fact there was one in Wishaw a couple of weeks ago. We are working towards driving down these other non-fire related emergencies. And one thing as part of our transformation agenda, we are going towards out of hospital cardiac arrests, where they are going to use a fire appliance equipped with a defibrillator, to be a nearest resources, a fire engine will be sent as a first response while sending an ambulance as the primary then hospital. That part of our transformation agenda as a Scottish service is a fantastic thing. We have already piloted the OOHCA in different areas and we have been able to successfully save 14 people in that pilot scheme. That’s 14 people that wouldn’t be walking about in Scotland just now. I’m very positive about the transformation of the service. A reduction of unwanted fire alarm signals, what we used to term as false alarms. They are now Unwanted Fire Alarm Signals.