(Public Pack)Agenda Document for Bedfont, Feltham, Hanworth Area
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If you require further information about this agenda please contact: Wendy Merry 0208 583 2061 or [email protected]. BEDFONT, FELTHAM, HANWORTH AREA FORUM A meeting of the Bedfont, Feltham, Hanworth Area Forum will be held in the Public Meeting Room, Feltham Library, Feltham High Street on Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 7:30 pm MEMBERSHIP Councillor Elizabeth Hughes- Chair Councillors Keith Anderson, Candice Atterton, John Chatt, Samia Chaudhary, Sam Christie, Richard Foote, Sachin Gupta, BB Gurung, Tina Howe, David Hughes, Hanif Khan, Khulique Malik, Hina Mir and Alan Mitchell. AGENDA Communications 1. Apologies for Absence, Declarations of Interest and Any Other Communications from Members Items for Consideration 2. Petitions (Pages 1 - 3) For the Area Forum to receive petitions, as follows: Hanworth Royal Naval Association – Mr Wadley Hanworth Air Parcs Leisure Centre – Ms Stevens Staines Road Parking – Mr Pietru 3. Open Forum - for a maximum of 10 minutes An opportunity for members of the public to address the meeting on general issues relating to the agenda and other issues not on the agenda. Please note that individual cases cannot be discussed. 4. Local Police Update - Insp. Chris Mulrooney (Pages 4 - 36) 5. Budget 2016-2017 - Presentation by Councillor Dennison 6. Revised Citizen Engagement Report - Councillor Dennison (Pages 37 - 41) 7. Civic Pride - Presentation on The Southville Centre 8. Hounslow Local Plan Reviews: West of Borough and Great West (Pages 42 - 51) Corridor - Michael Thornton & Alex Bird 9. Parking Around Feltham - Verbal report by Mark Frost 10. Hatton Road Stage 4 Road Safety Audit - Mark Frost (Pages 52 - 53) 11. Street Improvement Fund - Christopher Deakins (Pages 54 - 61) Items for Decision 12. Feltham Town Centre Traffic & Transport Improvements - Christopher (Pages 62 - 118) Deakins 13. Former Hanworth Library Stopping Up - Mark Frost (Pages 119 - 124) 14. Cambria Court, Feltham - Amarpal Soor (Page 125) 15. Items for Future Meetings 16. Any other business Any business which the Chair agrees to accept on grounds of urgency. 17. Date of next meeting is 17 March 2016 DECLARING INTERESTS Committee members are reminded that if they have a pecuniary interest in any matter being discussed at the meeting they must declare the interest and not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter. Mary Harpley, Chief Executive London Borough of Hounslow, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow TW3 4DN Recording and reporting on public meetings Please note that members of public can choose to record, or report in other ways, on this public meeting. If you wish to do so then please read the Council’s protocol which can be found on the Council’s website. Copies of the protocol are also available at the meeting. The Council asks that you avoid recording members of the audience who are not participants at the meeting. The Council will seek to facilitate this. However, anyone attending a public meeting does so in the knowledge that recording may take place and that they may be part of that record. Agenda Item 2 1 Hanworth Royal Naval Association Save Hanworth Royal Naval Association Hanworth Air Parcs Petition from Customers. Hanworth Air Park Leisure Centre & Library- November 2015 We, the undersigned, are writing to complain about the ongoing poor standards at the above Leisure Centre. We are regular customers, and we feel very strongly that we are all paying a lot of money, but are not receiving 'value' for our money due to the poor standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and lack of working equipment and facilities. When things go wrong or break down it takes weeks, and often months, before things are put right. For example:- HEALTH SUITE • Since August, only one shower available. There has been a large hole in the ceiling since August, and the area is taped off, following a leak. • Since 29th June 2015, we have been without even the basic facilities expected in a Health Suite, running water. A tap was installed but it has never worked, and is now taped up. A mobile water dispenser should have been installed as a temporary measure to replace this, for Health & Safety reasons. There used to be an ice machine, but this was taken out without explanation. Customers need to be able to cool down, and keep hydrated. • We would like to know at what time of the day are the Sauna and Steam room cleaned? These facilities have to be switched on first thing in the morning, so they are ready for the customers to use at 6.30am. They are switched off when the Centre closes at lOpm. The walls in the Steam room are slimy, as are the benches, and there is a very unpleasant smell from the drains. • Since January this year, the steam room has been out of order or not functioning properly for a total of 27 days, and this is not acceptable. • The lower bench in the sauna is sticking up, so it is not possible to lay down DRYS/DE CHANGING ROOM • Since April 2014, hand drying facilities have been removed. There are 4 sinks in the dryside changing area, but nothing to dry your hands on? Paper towels were supplied prior to this, but they have been withdrawn. Customers were promised hand dryers many months ago, but they have never materialised. • There are 41ights above the 4 sinks, and they do not work. After being out of order for 14 months, they were finally fixed in December 2014. They are now out of order again, and have been since August 2015. It is usual for 2 out of the 4 sinks to be blocked. • The toilets in the dryside area are frequently without toilet paper, and the soap dispensers are left empty. • The temperature of the shower facilities is variable, and some of the shower heads are fixed to run down the shower cubicle doors, so there is nowhere to hang a towel. GYM • The machines are old and are consistently out of order. There is no TV reception on some of the screens, and most of the bikes used for the spinning classes need replacing. • Some of the keys are missing from the weights machines, and customers have to spend time looking around for replacements before using the equipment. As an example, there is a weight machine that has been taped up and out of order since 4th August 2015. It has just been fixed this week, commencing 26th October, but there is now another machine covered in tape SWIMMING POOL 2 • The level of cleanliness is unacceptable, and as a result, customers have experienced ear and foot infections. The paying customers should not be expected to endure these very poor facilities. A succession of Managers have come and gone, and still the underlying problems are continuing, and urgent action is needed to bring this leisure Centre up to an acceptable basic standard. All of the above matt ers require urgent attention, in particular the Health Suite. Staines Road We would like the council to introduce residents permit parking zone in between Carlton House and Bedfont Lane. It has recently became extremely difficult with finding parking spaces outside odd numbered properties , due to motor traders, pub patrons, rail station commuters and local business employees vehicle parking. When spaces are unavailable residents have to resort to parking on the other side of the road (even numbers),which often results in those vehicles being vandalized. The Council must accept responsibility to impose specific parking restrictions to ensure only residents can park , making it a safer, nicer, and a peaceful neighborhood. 3 Agenda Item 4 Feltham Neighbourhood Policing Team January 2016 report Author A/Inspector Chris Mulrooney Feltham Neighbourhood has a new Inspector starting on Monday 18th January 2016. Chris Mulrooney takes over from Nigel Treacy who moves over to take up a position on the Emergency Response Team. Chris Mulrooney has almost 15 years service in the police, 5 years with Surrey and the past 10 years with the Metropolitan Police Service. Chris has worked within a number of uniformed posts, including Emergency Response, Pro-active, and Neighbourhoods. His last posting was running an Emergency Response team at Feltham. Chris has worked on Hounslow borough since October 2009, and has previously run the Town Centre team at Hounslow winning the MPS Safer Neighbourhood team of the year award in 2013. Chris also previously ran the Oxford, Regent, Bond Street Safer Neighbourhood team which is one of the largest, and high profile in the country. Chris is looking forward to his new post and working closely with the residents and councillors of Feltham. His priority for 2016 is to increase the visibility of officers on the street, and better use of social media. He is also looking for a reduction in all MOPAC crimes as well as a reduction in ASB. Feltham North Neighbourhood Policing Team PS Fiona Watts 88TX PC Mark Bradshaw 225 TX PC Catherine Richards 524 TX PC Scott Fitton 103TX PC Stephanie Hynes 463 TX PC Amanda Smith 409TX PCSO Matthew Brown 7107 TX Team e-mail address [email protected] Office number 020 8247 6311 Feltham North Local Policing Team Priorities The team priorities have remained the same and are burglary, drugs and anti- social behaviour. The team patrol the ward on a daily basis to prevent these offences and apprehend offenders. 4 Burglary Burglary continues to be a ward priority and there has seen a large decrease in the number of reported burglaries over the past three months with 21 burglaries being reported as compared to 40 burglaries during the same period in 2014. There are now 65 Neighborhood Watches established on the ward with almost all of the residential roads on the ward now covered.