Unitary Councillors Report December 2018 Appendix A Unitary Councillor Report (Snippets) Report from Cllr David Hopkins, Cllr Victoria Hopkins & Cllr Alice Jenkins – Representing Bow Brickhill at MK Council December 2018 Wavendon Properties - TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 – SECTION 78 APPEAL MADE BY WAVENDON PROPERTIES LIMITED LAND TWO THE EAST OF NEWPORT ROAD AND TO THE EAST AND WEST OF CRANFIELD ROAD AT WOBURN SANDS, BUCKINGHAM, MK17 8UH APPLICATION REF: 16/00672/OUT Inspector’s recommendation and summary of the decision • The Inspector recommended that the appeal be allowed and planning permission granted, subject to conditions. • For the reasons given below, the Secretary of State disagrees with the Inspector’s recommendation. He has decided to dismiss the appeal and refuse planning permission. DELEGATED DECISION - 20 NOVEMBER 2018 INTRODUCTION OF 20MPH SPEED RESTRICTIONS INTO NEW AND EXISTING RESIDENTIAL ESTATES. The Council Plan 2016 – 2020 sets out how Milton Keynes Council will work to achieve its ambitions for Milton Keynes and includes a Transport commitment to introduce 20mph speed limits into new estates and to support any community that requests a 20mph speed limit. Unitary Councillors Report December 2018 Snippets • Levante Gate – spoken with officers and no further contact from Guinness so I suggest this issue has been put on the back burner. • Blocked Gullies – residents in Bow Brickhill are naturally concerned by the fact that the guillies still appear blocked causing pooling and pedestrians risking getting soaked by passing vehicles. Carl Devereaux writes; The Gullies and Side entry kerb weirs where cleared as part of the whole of Bow Brickhill as requested by the Local Council September 2018 At the time it was requested to have Serco in to clear the excessive silt in the kerb lines in this location and the rest of the village. With the reduction in street cleaning by the council, it is having a negative impact resulting gullies that have been cleaned but soon silt up/ block up in the inlets and the gully pots, which is now becoming the norm, so highways are having to react again and again with the limited time and resources to clean gullies again which have just been cleaned. This needs to be looked at on a larger picture, in having cleaning of the kerb lines first, on a more frequent schedule to remove silt and other litter, this will then result in the side entry gullies and gullies not blocking up in less than 4 months as this is the case. The kerb weir gullies are just a small hole in the kerb line ,which can be easily cleaned by the parish warden by a flexible rod, as this is just leaf debris and silt holding the water back in the inlet, and would not require a large tanker been diverted across MK. Carl Devereux - Clerk of Works (Highways Team) Direct: +44 (0)1908 254423 Switchboard: +44 (0)1908 691691 Email : [email protected] Follow us on Twitter!: @mkcouncil • Community Infrastructure Fund Many parishes were unhappy with the presentation of the proposed Community Infrastructure Fund at the Parishes Forum in June and a number raised the issue with the MK Association of Local Councils (MKALC). MKALC asked the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Public Realm, Cllr Martin Gowans, to defer the Fund for agreement with the parishes at the Parishes Advisory Group and Parishes Forum. Within the Delegated Decision process, Cllr Gowans agreed that further details of the process be delegated to the Service Director (Public Realm) in consultation with the responsible Cabinet Member and agreed with the parishes. Unitary Councillors Report December 2018 As agreement with the Parishes has not yet occurred there is a risk that some of the scheme applications may have been excluded from the fund notably any indoor improvements and requiring all landscaping to be done through MKC's contractor, SERCO, whether or not it was on MKC land. As a result, the Parishes Advisory Group has asked that the Fund be paused and the outstanding issues agreed. Any application that has already been submitted will remain valid as the intention is only to widen the scope of the Fund. Once agreement is reached, parishes will require a clear month to put any new applications to their councils or indeed to replace an existing submission. Funding is for the financial year starting on 1st April 2019 and this will be unaffected. An update will be given at the Parishes Forum on 13th December. Debbie Taylor-Bond Philip Ayles Head of Highways, MKC Chairman, MK Association of Local Councils Cost of Funding a PCSO I have had a reply from HQ Finance. The current annual cost of a full time PCSO is £35,441. We raise quarterly invoices to partners so payment would be in 4 instalments over the year. In April the cost is set to rise to £36,994. If this is something you wish to discuss further let me know? I have copied in Insp Andy Pearce and PS Ross Gehnich from your Neighbourhood team as they would be involved in sorting out some of the detail if this is something we explore further. John Batty | T/Chief Inspector 4720 | Deputy LPA Commander | Milton Keynes LPA | Internal Telephone 3416201 | Mobile 07973 368941| Address Police Station 302 North Row, Witan Gate East, Milton Keynes MK9 2DS Government Security Classification (GSC) Official. Looks like 16th and 17th January are likely dates for the SEMK design workshop involving representatives from the Parishes - and others. Andrew Turner Senior Planning Officer I Development Plans Unitary Councillors Report December 2018 Our chatbot can help with a range of planning questions why not click here to test her knowledge? T: 01908 254892 M: 07775 110432 E: [email protected] W: https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/planning-and-building/ Preparing for Winter The Council's highways team are in direct contact with a European weather forecasting centre and receive daily weather forecasts so they can decide when the gritters need to go out across the MK road network. The weather forecast is used along with specialist computerised ice detection equipment which can check the current road temperature as this can be much lower than air temperatures. If frost, ice or snow is forecast then one of the following procedures are put into action. •Precautionary salting/gritting of main roads before the ice forms. •Salting icy and frosty minor roads. •Snow ploughing and footway clearing. •Salting and snow ploughing routes, salt bin locations. Priority 1 Routes Priority routes are typically bus routes and our primary roads e.g. grid roads and link roads in the rural area. These routes are salted every time frost, snow or ice is forecasted. We use 9 lorries each time we salt the priority 1 routes and it takes us 3 hours to complete. The salting is normally carried out between 7pm and 10pm or between 4am and 7am. Priority 1 Priority 2 Routes Secondary salting routes are important distribution roads that may lead to schools, shopping centres, industrial and other key areas. Priority 2 salting routes are salted when there is more extreme weather. The salting is normally carried out during the daylight hours and only when the priority 1 routes are clear. Priority 3 Routes Generally this network of roads, being the remainder of the network not included in either the Priority 1 or 2 networks, shall not be considered for treatment unless the Priority 1 and 2 networks are passable and clear of obstruction and only during extended periods of lying snow where resources are available. Snow Ploughing Routes Unitary Councillors Report December 2018 Considered to be the highest priority roads to be ploughed and/or salted in heavy snow conditions. As and when these are considered to be clear the rest of the grid road network will be done as well as main routes to villages, followed by any remaining roads on the Priority 1 network. M1 Motorway and A5 Trunk Road The M1 and A5 are salted by the Highways Agency. For information call 08700 660 115 or visit the Highways Agency website . Some sections of Milton Keynes roads are treated on a reciprocal basis by neighbouring authorities. Priority Footways Footways - Footways subject to normal overnight frosty conditions will not be routinely treated. However, during snow and/or prolonged periods of frost/ice, treatment of City Centre and High street Category 1 footways will be undertaken when resources become available from the carriageway Priority 1 and 2 networks. (Town centres are treated by our cleansing contractor as part of our Priority 1 footways). Car Parks The City Centre car parks and service roads are treated as and when salting of Priority 1 routes is carried out. Off street car parks will be treated in conjunction with the Priority 2 network in periods of prolonged adverse weather and then only when resources are not required on the Priority 1 network. Salt Bins MK Council is currently reviewing our salt bin provision in Milton Keynes. No new salt bins will be provided until the review is completed. You may use the salt to prevent ice and snow forming on small areas of the road or pathways. Be sparing with any application of salt. When correctly applied, 5kg is sufficient to prevent ice forming on 100m of road. Salt is not provided for use on private driveways or private pathways. Council salt bins are either yellow or grey. Salt bins of another colour are either private, Parish or Town Council owned. Highway services staff are on call 24 hrs a day to deal with winter weather duties: •Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9.00am – 5.15pm, please call 01908 252353 •Wednesday 10:00am – 5:15pm, please Call 01908 252353 •Monday to Friday 5.15pm – 9.00am Please Call 01908 226699 •Weekends Please Call 01908 226699 Unitary Councillors Report December 2018 Expressway Progress report from Highways England We were asked to explore the case for a fast, high-quality road link to better connect Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge.