Telephone (01772) 53 3412 Fax (01772) 533465 To: All Members of Lancashire Local – Lancaster Email [email protected] District Your ref Our ref DS/LL Copies to: Libraries/County Information Centres th and Parish and Town Council’s Date 24 August 2007 Dear Councillor Lancashire Local – Lancaster District 4th September 2007 A meeting of the Lancashire Local – Lancaster District will be held at Morecambe High School, Dallam Avenue, Morecambe at 6.30 pm on Tuesday 4th September 2007. An agenda for the meeting is enclosed. Directions to the High School are also enclosed. Members are asked to consider whether they need to disclose any personal/prejudicial interests in matters appearing on the Agenda. If a Member of the County Council requires advice on declarations of interest, he/she is advised to contact Jill Anderson, Democratic Services (Tel 01772 532284) or Roy Jones, County Secretary and Solicitor’s Group (telephone 01772 533394), in advance of the meeting. Members of the Borough Council should take advice from officers in their own Authority in accordance with their agreed arrangements. _______________________________________________________________________________ David Porter, Principal Lancashire Local Executive Support Officer, Lancashire Local Team, County Secretary and Solicitor’s Group, Office of the Chief Executive, Lancashire County Council , PO Box 78, County Hall, Preston, PR1 8XJ Deposit copies of the papers for the meeting are available for inspection at Branch Libraries, Town Halls and County Information Centres in the District and also via the County Council’s website at www.lancashire.gov.uk. A copy of the agenda is also being circulated to the Clerks of all Parish, Town Councils and Parish Meetings in the District to afford the Chairs of those organisations the opportunity to attend if they wish. Yours faithfully I M Fisher County Secretary and Solicitor _______________________________________________________________________2 Morecambe High School: Morecambe High School Dallam Avenue. Morecambe, Lancs. LA4 5BG Directions from the M6 via Lancaster: • Leave the M6 at junction 34 (signposted Lancaster), then join the A683 (signposted Lancaster, Morecambe, Heysham) • Bear left into the one-way system (signposted Heysham, Morecambe, City Centre) • Move in to the right-hand lane then continue forward through two sets of traffic lights adjacent to a car sales showroom. (signposted Heysham, Morecambe) • As you cross the river move into the left-hand lanes then continue forward (signposted Morecambe, Heysham) • At roundabout take the 3rd exit onto the A683 (signposted Heysham, Morecambe) • At roundabout (McDonalds) take the 3rd exit onto the A589 (signposted Morecambe) Entering Morecambe • At roundabout take the 2nd exit onto the A589. then immediately on the next roundabout take the 2nd exit onto Broadway - A589 (signposted Carnforth) • Stay on Broadway going over the railway bridge and past Christ Church on your right. • Just before the Broadway Hotel, turn left onto Dallam Avenue Public transport: The closest bus stops to Morecambe High School can be found on Marine Road East, a short walk from Dallam Avenue where the school is sited. The closest railway stations are Bare Lane and Morecambe. For information on public transport please go to http://nw.aimwebsites.co.uk/ or call Traveline on 0870 608 2 608 Morecambe High School This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the Permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller Date: 21/08/2007 of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (C) Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Lancashire County Council - OS Licence 100023320 (C) 2006 Lancashire Local – Lancaster District Tuesday 4th September 2007 at 6.30 pm, at Morecambe High School, Dallam Avenue, Morecambe Agenda Part 1 (Open to Press and Public) No. Item 1. Disclosure of Personal and Prejudicial Interests Members are asked to consider any Personal/Prejudicial Interests they may have to disclose to the meeting in relation to matters under consideration on the Agenda. 2. Minutes of the Meeting held on the 24th July 2007 (Copy enclosed) Discharge of delegated powers 3. Lancashire Local Grant Applications (Report attached) Other issues for consideration 4. School Travel Plans: Background and Practices in (Report attached) Lancaster 5. Children’s Trust Arrangements in Lancashire (Report attached) 6. Local Area Agreement: Children and Young People’s (Report attached) Block 7. Subsidised Bus Service Changes (Report attached) 8. School Safety Zones – Evaluation of Lancashire Pilot (Report attached) Project 9. Lancashire County Council – Overview and Scrutiny (Report attached) Arts Development Task Group 10. Forward Business Plan (Report attached) 11. Urgent Business An item of urgent business may only be considered under this heading where, by reason of special circumstances to be recorded in the Minutes, the Chair of the meeting is of the opinion that the item should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency. Wherever possible, the - 2 - Secretary should be given advance warning of any Member’s intention to raise a matter under this heading. 12. Date of Next Meeting The next meeting of the Committee will be held on Tuesday, 16th October at 1.30 pm at the Methodist Church Hall, Galgate, Lancaster. I M Fisher County Secretary and Solicitor County Hall Preston Lancashire Local – Lancaster District Meeting held at 1.30 pm on Tuesday 24th July 2007 at Gaskell Hall, Silverdale. Minutes Present:- Councillor Janice Hanson (Chair) Lancashire County Council County Councillor Susie Charles County Councillor C B Coates County Councillor Sarah Fishwick County Councillor A P Jones County Councillor Niki Penney County Councillor Liz Scott Lancaster City Council Councillor Eve Archer Councillor John Barnes Councillor Tony Johnson Councillor Andrew Kay Councillor David Kerr Councillor Stuart Langhorn Councillor R Sherlock Councillor M Thomas Apologies were presented on behalf of County Councillors Peter Elliott, Albert Thornton and Jean Yates and from Councillors Eileen Blamire and John Whitelegg. Disclosure of Personal and Prejudicial Interests Councillor Stuart Langhorn declared a personal interest in relation to Item No 16 as a teacher of a school which would be potentially affected by the proposals referred to in the report. County Councillor Liz Scott declared a personal interest in relation to item No 16 as a Governor of Central Lancaster High School which would be potentially affected by the proposals referred to in the report. County Councillor A P Jones declared a personal and prejudicial interest in Item 16 on the grounds that he lived next door to Hornby High School which would potentially be affected by the proposals referred to in the report. County Councillor Sarah Fishwick declared a personal and prejudicial interest in Item 14 on the grounds that her business had direct interests in climate change. Councillor Kerr declared a personal interest in Items 8, 14 and 15 as the City Council Cabinet Member with responsibility for grants. 1 Membership of Lancashire Local – Lancaster District It was reported that the City Council had appointed Councillor John Barnes to serve on the Lancashire Local in place of Councillor Bob Roe. 14. Resolved:- That the report be received. Minutes of the Meeting held on 19th June 2007 15. Resolved:- That subject to the amendment of Resolution 10 (iii) by the substitution of “Lancashire Local” for City Council at the foot of the page and clarification of the Mover of the Motion referred to in Resolution11 as being Councillor Kerr, the Minutes of the meeting of Lancashire Local – Lancaster District held on 19th June 2007 be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chair. Public Participation The Chair explained that whilst Lancashire Local meetings were not public meetings, but business meetings to jointly deal with the business of the County Council in a public setting, it was the practice to facilitate public involvement before the transaction of formal business by the Members of the Lancashire Local by inviting comments/question on matters included on the agenda. A thirty minute period was set aside for this, with no person being allowed to speak for more than three minutes. The Chair then invited contributions from the floor. In relation to an application for grant under the Local Grants referred to in Item 8 of the agenda, examples of the range of information and formats of material which had been produced by the children of the 701 Club about the dangers of Morecambe Bay were displayed and a representative of the 701 afterschool club spoke in support of the work of the children which was the subject of the application. There being no further contributions from the floor the Chair declared the public participation session closed. Annual Allocation of Highways Funding Highways Services Budgets 2007/08 It was reported that under delegated powers, the Lancashire Local had discretion in allocating expenditure under two budget heads, namely the Standard Allocation Budget to be spent on areas of work within the highway which under normal criteria would be of insufficient priority to attract funding, and the Additional Highway Maintenance Budget which was intended for repairs or other maintenance to carriageways and footways. For 2007/08 the allocations for the Lancaster District were £26,400 and £34,200 respectively. 2 At its meeting on 19th June 2007, the Lancashire Local had agreed that members should