East Acton Action Plan Priority Area Activity Lead contact Progress RAG Time Scale Barriers/help needed from other partners Commentary Mapping: VCS groups/residents & tenants associations; community centres & offerings; other venues & relevant deprivation Steve Flynn ACF Sept Assistance from LBE in creating map from collated infoDovetail with C&YP mapping Creating networks & widening reach via e-newsletter & Access & inclusion of residents to IT-based promotion solutions; costs & distribution of producing posters/brochures Build capacity of East Acton voluntary sector Contingent on resources/funding Community Support residents to develop/deliver services Contingent on resources/funding Leverage in external services where identified needs are not being met by local providers Contingent on resources/funding Extend work/links of groups/centres beyond their current footprint Contingent on resources/funding Develop community centres into specialist centres Contingent on resources/funding North Acton Tube Cycle Hub: Improvements and extension to Paolo Paternostro Awaiting planning existing cycle parking facilities including introduction of decision. Expected Brompton cycle hire. completion Spring 2014 School Travel: Travel Planning, Cycle and pedestrain training ongoing and road safety education at six local schools. Horn Lane/Victoria Road/Old Oak Lane: Highway Most schemes Scheme at Acton Mainline Station to be improvement schemes designed to improve pedestrain and scheduled for delivered as part of Crossrail urban realm cyclist safety, smooth traffic flow and reduce congestion. completion this FY. improvements Bromyard Avenue: S106 funding secured to implement road Largely complete safet measures and improved facilities for cyclist and pedestrains A40 Green Corridor: TfL led scheme to provide segregated unknown ongoing cycle facilities along A40 Response and Proactive management of the Park Royal Estate To devise and implement a strategy to identify areas where intervention may be appropriate. A scheme to be delivered in stages, the first part of which is to be a site walk around to Barriers: A large area to tackle which is likely to be Ella Smallcombe On-going identify the needs of a joint regulatory effort. Potential for dependant on resources and funding. partnership working alongside the Health & Safety Executive, The Environment Agency, Enviro Crime, CommunitySafety & Business Rates. Environment and Housing Air Quality Pollution Awareness for Schools: Proposals for educational interactive sessions with East Acton Schools. To include the Help required from Ealings Education/schools promotion of ‘no idling’ of vehicles and the use of alternative team. Potential barriers; availability in the schools means of transport to compliment the schools existing travel teaching timetable. Possibility of working with the plans. Westcott Park Community Garden Project, use of The Ealing Air Project: Updates of the already established Ella Smallcombe the on site class room? Can incorporate the EalingAir.org.uk web site, or alternatively the ealing.gov.uk promotion of the Cycling training at John Perrin pages. Access to the minutes of residents liaison group meetings, and information on the specific local sources of School. Working in Partnership with Kings College PM10 particulate matter that have an impact on East Acton London to update the EalingAir.org.uk web site. residents. Barriers: funding to deliver projects in schools. Environment and Housing Nuria Rodriguez Ongoing Westcott Park Community Garden: run by the Westcott Park Garden Group and supported by Groundwork London. Covering an area of 1,050 square meters, the garden contains raised beds to grow vegetables and soft fruit bushes, fruit trees, wildlife area, chickens, a beehive, flower beds, a storage Eastcontainer Acton and Clean a classroom. Up Day: Envirocrime and street cleansing/grounds maintenance contractor Enterprise, cleaning up area's that are not normally covered by the Exact day to be Volunteers required on the day. Area's to be Meeting with Enterprise and MPM held and contract ie private land, help with trimming overgrown hedges Rona Gibs and flytipped private alleyways. Graffiti contractor MPM also confirmed identified. agreed to participate on the day. present on the day to remove and clean any identified graffiti from street furniture, private buildings and shop shutters. Housing Tackling poor private sector housing within the ward through continued support, enforcement and advice. HMO Licensing: In addition to the mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation, provision has also been made for discretionary licensing where local authorities can extend the licensing system to include other HMOs. This is known as Additional licensing and is in place for the East Acton Ward. The Additional licensing scheme covers all HMO's occupied by four or more people who share amenities. With this we can specify the maximum number of people who can occupy the house, and attach conditions relating to the management of the building. Tackling Outhouses in East Acton: Outbuildings have been an ever-increasing problem during the past few years. Alison ford On-going Investigations are on-going to establish lawfulness and enforce those which are contrary to planning policy, and causing harm to public amenities Proposals for the promotion of a landlord accreditation scheme, to provide support and advice to East Acton Landlords. The scheme would include the registration of landlords and the promotion of good standards through continued professional development courses. simply choose to construct a habitable outbuilding as a cost effective way of providing more living space. Investigations are on-going to establish lawfulness and enforce those which are contrary to planning policy and causing harm to public amenities Identify demographis characteristics Jeff Parkinson Sep-13 Scoping exercise for existing provison Jeff Parkinson Oct-13 Co-ordiate and strategic plan of services Sub Group Dec-13 Capacity buildng through empowerment ACF Mar-14 Children & Young People Isolated /transitoryfamilies Kate Crawford/Steve Flynn On going Physical Improvements Jeff Parkinson Mar-14 Children & Young People Support Teenagers into employment Connexions On going Develop use fo Methodist Church Tim Owem Jan-14 Asses bariers to using services Steve Flynn/Tim Owen Oct-13 Priority 1: Eating Well, Moving More, Stopping Smoking Smoking cessation delivered through pharmacies Rubyni Krishnan Ongoing Shisha - awareness of health risks, material provided ro shisha cafes Rubyni Krishnan Ongoing Healthy eating sessions provided in children's centres Children's centre leads* Ongoing Healthy eating sessions provided to young people in Catalyst Housing Estates - Westcott and Leamington Park Tim Owen Ongoing Health trainers - linking with events and venues in East Health & Wellbeing Acton ward to enable local residents to make healthy Difficulties engaging local communities - lack of lifestyle choices Mona Sahota Ongoing centre to area. Lack of transport. Develop a plan for training health champions in East Acton area Nicole Stephens/Steve Flynn Not started By Jan 2014 Outline of health and wellbeing services and key contacts for provision to local community groups Will Maimaris Not started By Novmeber Priority 2: Improving support and engagement with people who are socially isolated Promote Age UK telephone support service with East Acton GP services Will Maimaris/Karen Robinson Not started By Jan 2014 Raise awarness of carer's support through GPs and pharmacists. Will Maimaris/Cecilia Coleshaw Not started By Jan 2014 Residential Burglary - Simple 2 Start venues and hotspots Insp Andrew Deane 12 months minimum Barriers - residents difficult to communicate and East Acton has the highest number of engage with. Transient population. Large residential burglaries for any Ward on numbers of rented properties. Easy access to Ealing Borough. Last year there was a 43% travelling burglars via the A40. Lack of CCTV rise in residential burglary on the Ward. The A40 and Uxbridge Road provide ready access to transient thieves. The Simple 2 Start Process has identified repeat venues for the Ward and we need to ensure that there is enhanced partnership activity around these venues. Theft From Motor Vehicle - Park Royal Industrial Estate Insp Andrew Deane 12 month project Barriers - very large geographical area. Large Theft From Motor vehicle is a high volume minimum number of different businesses. No Business offence for the ward. The long-term Improvement District. Lack of visible patrols or hotspot is the industrial park north of the capable guardians. A40. In addition to crime prevention worked by partners it was felt that businesses would need to be heavily involved. Savoy Circus - theft and ASB hotspots 6 - 12 months Barriers - locations border FH. A40 - fast road. Savoy Circus suffers from theft person and Challenges to making area a defensible space. theft from motor vehicle. It is a major gateway to the ward and the borough and suffers from signal crimes that set the wrong tone for the borough. It was felt that there needed to be clear positive messages and signals in regards to crime, safety and the environment. Safety Aggressive Beggars - Savoy Circus, A40 PS Andy Summers 3 months Barriers - locations border FH. A40 - fast road. Whilst the nature of the offence is Safety Challenges to making area a defensible space. relatively minor the windscreen washers are a highly visible signal crime and attract calls from