CENTRAL COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY PLAN 2011/2012

1. What do local people and communities want?

During the spring and summer of 2011, we have used a range of methods to find out the important issues for local people in the wards of , , Broomhill and Central. The important issues remain: • Things for young people to do • Education, jobs and incomes • The environment • Good shops and local services • Traffic and parking • Community support and people getting on together • Health • Community Safety

Section 2 sets out the new things that the Community Assembly will make happen through its own budgets and activity. Section 3 of this plan sets out some things that mainstream services will be doing to address these issues, and what the Community Assembly can add to this existing or planned activity.

2. New things which the Community Assembly will do with its budgets and time

What and by whom? Where? Targets Budget Timescale Citizens Targets in italics THINGS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO DO Youth Choose – an event-based Central CA wide To support activities and one- £10,000 + June 11 th 2011 grant fund for young people to off events that young people £13,428 (Kids use, run by the Assembly Team want Can Do small grants) Youth provision at weekends by City Centre Detached youth work when ongoing Futures and partners required Activity Sheffield – Sport in the (Sharrow and Sport in the Park – 80 £17,807 March 2012 Park, Activity camps, fun days Lowfield schools, Highfield sessions, 2000 participants. 1 Adventure Playground) , (Sports Activity Camps – 23 sessions, Centre, Myers Grove, 690 participants Wisewood School, Spider Park) Hillsborough (Park Evening Sessions – 90 and HASA), Winn Gardens, Edward Street, HASA Fun Days – 7 sessions, Ruskin Park, Weston 280 participants Park, Sheffield Futures – additional Upperthorpe and Outdoor Activity Sessions – 3 £2,468 March 2012 holiday sessions; Dark Nights Netherthorpe, sessions for 10 young people programme Hillsborough, Broomhall, Cinema – 6 sessions for 10 Sharrow young people Bowling – 6 sessions for 10 young people Laser Quest – 6 sessions for 10 young people Power League – 8 sessions Sheffield Wildlife Trust – Ponderosa, Hillsborough 30 2-hour sessions, reaching £8,726 March 2012 environmental activities Park, Spider Park, 300 children Lynwood Gardens, Sunnybank, General Cemetery Broomhall Forum youth clubs Broomhall 2 weekly clubs, 70 sessions. £6,000 March 2012 50 young people attending per week 4 new volunteers trained Develop proposal for Skate Park Bolehills, Walkley/ Following consultation, Potentially some Steering Group to be on Bole Hills Recreation Ground. installation of Skate Park if S106 and re-started Autumn Also explore other options for site appropriate Assembly 2011 and a skate park. Parks and funding. Countryside with others including the Friends of Bolehills and South West Community Assembly

2 Review Youth Provision in Broomhall Ensure that the Review Within existing Sept 2011 Broomhall to ensure it is effective recommendations are operational (workshop) and and well-communicated. Implemented budgets ongoing

What? Where? Targets Budget Timescale (Citizens Targets in italics) EDUCATION, JOBS AND INCOME Broomhall Schools Project Broomhall 40 sessions per year, with 40 Broomhall Centre: To March 2012 children per week homework support activities £6,989

Tutor costs for 10 weeks Somali To December 2011 Community and Cultural School: Study support activities £4,800 Learning Co-ordinators – Central ward 150 people attending training £15,000 Until July 2012 To support two learning co- sessions ordinators in Central and one in 30 learners gaining Walkley, who provide the link qualifications between people out of work/economically inactive, and Walkley ward 3 training and participation £11,811 education, employment and initiatives training opportunities 72 people assisted to find employment 10 volunteers engaged Promoting English for speakers of Central CA wide Train and enable volunteer Potential to fund Autumn 2011 other languages (ESOL), via the tutors for English language Phase 2 being onwards development of volunteer tutors classes and conversation clubs explored Workers Education Association – CA wide 1x 12 hour course £1,200 Autumn 2011 – Introduction to Teaching in Adult March 2012 Education

3 What? Where? Targets Budget Timescale (Citizens Targets in italics) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS Continuing the successful extra Highfield and Responsive local street £30,000 ongoing Street Force street cleaner in Crookesmoor cleaning leading to cleaner Highfield, and spreading good area practice into another part of the area. Fund initiatives to reduce the Area-wide Spend funds effectively £30,000 (Climate March 2012 carbon footprint of the area Change Fund) Tackling grot spots - fund half- Area-wide Visible and timely improvement £26,000 Until March 2012 time Neighbourhood in selected grot spots Environmental Action Team (part of SCC Public Realm) to respond to requests; and to support employment training opportunities Improving local parks • Ben Lane Visible and specific £35,000 Until March 2012 • Philadelphia improvement projects • Upper Hanover • Morley St allotments • Ponderosa • General Cemetery • Middlewood Park

• Hillsborough Walled

Garden

• Bolehills

Supporting the Sharrow £10,000 ranger/gardener project

Environmental improvements Area wide Bring Out Your Rubbish days £4,000 Provision of community skips

4 What? Where? Targets Budget Timescale (Citizens Targets in italics) TRAFFIC AND PARKING Making small-scale (under Crookesmoor Rd/Barber Timely response to residents £75,000 budget Until March 2012 £10,000) and medium-sized Rd tactiles requests where possible. (devolved from highways improvements to benefit Transport & pedestrians Small schemes including Highways) dropped kerbs and hand rails

SIDs Twenty’s Plenty Wisewood; 20mph zones in selected areas Wisewood funded (20mph zones) Winn Gardens; from £75,000 Hanover/Exeter Drive; allocation. Taptonville; Harcourt Rd Possible access to centrally held LTP3 budget for other schemes.

What? Where? Targets Budget Timescale (Citizens Targets in italics) COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND PEOPLE GETTING ON Broomhall Neighbourhood Plan Broomhall Priorities to be implemented £5,000 Until March 2012 Enabling residents’ engagement, Hillsborough £30,500 Until March 2012 and supporting local voices e.g. Hillsborough Forum; ZEST; N’thorpe/U’thorpe Broomhall Forum; Sharrow Forum Broomhall

Sharrow Action Plan for Broomhill - to help Broomhill ward Responding to the threats £5,000 Conference Spring residents plan for the future of posed by pollution and poor air 2011; ongoing. their area. quality

5 Responsive and co-ordinated Broomhill Closer collaboration between Existing Ongoing planning and licensing services in Sharrow communities and services localities under pressure Strengthening links with city City Centre Attend and support City Centre Existing Ongoing centre residents Forum

Attend and support Wicker Forum

Develop e-network of city centre residents Community Chest decided CA wide 2 You Choose events to be £30,000 8th & 15 th Oct 2011 through Participatory Budgeting held (PB) (Hillsborough/Walkley) (Broomhill/Central) Inter-agency co-ordination Sharrow Team Sharrow – regular Existing meetings

Hillsborough Team Hillsborough – regular meetings Improve consultation process for CA wide Devise programme of activity to Existing Spring 2012 next year’s plan – particularly engage with identified groups including disabled people/those (Involvement Plan) with learning disabilities.

Particular consultation exercises Workshops to inform future with: CA wide plans and priorities £5,000 October 2011 and Chinese Community Centre March 2012

Improved links and cohesion Project for new Cohesion, strategy for Asian communities Sharrow/Abbeydale Migration and Safety Team

Sharrow programme – Business Sharrow Business plan for Nursery £5,000 To Winter 2012 Plan Support Infant building produced

6 What? Where? Targets Budget Timescale (Citizens Targets in italics) HEALTH Supporting the health champions Sharrow Full details to be confirmed. £15,000 Until March 2012 programme; and community Draft proposals being health checks discussed for the £15,000 Supporting the costs of a local Broomhall Assembly contribution to the Until March 2012 training programme for residents NHS Sheffield’s “Healthy Grow local; eat local – helping N’thorpe Communities Programme” Until March 2012 with local food growing U’thorpe Langsett Supporting the family support Winn Gardens Until March 2012 project Health provision and support for City Centre Until March 2012 homeless and vulnerable; and outreach work with BME communities

What? Where? Targets Budget Timescale (Citizens Targets in italics) COMMUNITY SAFETY Community Safety Budget for Area-wide £10,000 By March 2012 small projects

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3. Some of the things which Council services and other agencies are doing What? Where? Who? Targets Budget Timescale Can the Assembly (Citizens Targets in add value? italics) THINGS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO DO Youth Clubs, trips and Area-wide Sheffield Futures Appropriate provision Ongoing Yes – requesting work activities, detached and other for young people in specific locations, work partners across the Assembly partnership activity, Area some additional funding Sports activities Area-wide Activity Sheffield Active young people Ongoing Yes – requesting work in specific locations, partnership activity, additional funding MyPlace at Lowfield – Lowfield Park, U-MIX Project Lobby government Ongoing Yes – support for proposed new building, Sharrow Group Youth facility built Project Group and sports facilities and park Green space local improvements improved consultation/publicity School premises improved Activities / youth work In city centre Sheffield Futures Programme of events Ongoing Yes – scope for small sessions for young and other / activities, especially budget contribution people coming into the partners at school holidays. city centre Helping young people Area-wide, Sheffield Futures Variety of ways Ongoing Yes – core principle of speak for themselves including Winn and other developed for young Community Gardens, partners people to make their Assemblies Netherthorpe,Bro voices heard omhall, Sharrow/ Lowfield, Forge Valley

8 New Forge Valley Catchment Effective travel plan Autumn Yes – assist with Community School includes Maximum community 2011 consultation and Wisewood, Malin use information provision Bridge and Walkley Bank New use for Wisewood Wisewood Establish agreed new School Yes – support Secondary School Site use for site, in line closed in community use. with community July 2011. views and Council Consultation need. in Autumn 2010 on new uses. Universities using Area-wide Contribute to Climate Ongoing Yes – via Partner expertise to benefit local Change Fund Panel discussions area process Volunteering by students

What? Where? Targets Budget Timescale Can the Assembly (Citizens Targets in add value? italics) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS Improved recycling Area-wide Veolia and SCC Promote and support Ongoing Yes – publicise facilities Waste new kerbside kerbside scheme, Management collection scheme as work with local people it spreads throughout to identify new Bring our area. Sites.

Identify new places for bring sites Monitor waste collection Walkley and area- Veolia and SCC Identify problem Ongoing Yes – alert services to including collection of wide Waste areas for regular problem areas. green sacks Management waste collection

9 Implement the Master Crookes Parks and Agree priority actions Existing / Ongoing Plans for parks Valley/Ponderosa Countryside Seek funding S106 /Philadelphia Spider Park, Friends Groups Wisewood Better parks Area-wide, Parks and Every Assembly Area Assembly to influence maintenance including Bole Countryside to have an additional Parks activity through Hills, park raised to Green Parks Tasking Officer. Hillsborough, Friends Groups Flag status Mount Pleasant and Spider Park, Wisewood Regeneration of the Sharrow/ Sheffield General Regeneration project Yes – promote role of General Cemetery Road Cemetery Trust established P&C, help to get Parks and Brown Signs for Countryside Cemetery Safeguarding important Area-wide, but Preserve buildings Ongoing Yes – raise local buildings and the including Dial and support awareness, link with development of House, Wisewood, community other Council services significant sites Pisgah House, involvement in their and with potential Broomhill, 45 Marlborough Rd; preservation funders. Crookes Valley Methodist and Help the community Crookesmoor Vestry express their views Hall; General on the appropriate Cemetery Anglican chapel; Sharrow St development of key John Methodist sites. Church (buildings); Whitehouse Lane; Northumberland Road (sites) Improve enforcement Broomhill; Place portfolio Actively support the March 2012 Yes – ensuring views services in the Council Walkley; Sharrow ‘Good Neighbours; of local people shape – planning, licensing, Great Communities’ developments noise, parking, litter pilot and consolidate

10 Grit bins CA wide Street Force and As part of a review of Existing March 2012 Sheffield Homes winter maintenance Highways Maintenance CA Wide Approved Ensure that local From Yes – helping to Private Finance contractor views and needs December identify priority streets Initiative Council client shape the work 2011 and trees for the work team programme of the programme and PFI contractor helping to involve and inform residents. What? Where? Targets Budget Timescale Can the Assembly (Citizens Targets in add value? italics) GOOD SHOPS AND LOCAL SERVICES Thriving district and All centres Good community Existing Long term Yes – helping with local shopping centres including consultation in consultation. Broomhill developing plans South Rd Ecclesall Rd London Rd Hillsborough

Upperthorpe ZEST; Transport Improvement and 2012-13 Supporting the project & Highways; and refurbishment of management local partners Upperthorpe precinct Local libraries Hillsborough Community Existing Yes – developing membership drive Upperthorpe services much closer working Walkley relationship with Broomhill and Library Service Highfield Libraries

New and improved Broomhill New library opened Library Highfield Refurbishment - accessibility Supporting the use of CA wide Transport & Local projects to Ongoing Yes – identify public transport Highways access local services locations and lobbying

11 Improving walking and Around city centre Transport & Make underpasses To be Both shorter Yes cycling around the Inner Highways safer and more establish- and longer- Ring Road pleasant. ed term solutions to be indentified

Walkley Active Travel Walkley Transport & Improvements for Both shorter Corridor Highways pedestrians and and longer- cyclists: South Rd - term WATC group University solutions to be identified Better toilets in Hillsborough JC Decaux Holme Lane Existing Ongoing Yes – keep lobbying Hillsborough SupaLoo replaced for facility to be operational

HEALTH What? Where? Targets Budget Timescale Can the Assembly (Citizens Targets in add value? italics) Older people’s provision Sharrow and Identify a number of To Sites Yes – could fund Hillsborough / bus shelters which identify – identified by seats, with South area wide need seats in them 2012/13 March 2012 Passenger budget Transport to install year?

Follow-up Existing February Yes – arrange event Hillsborough Older 2012 with partners People’s event Supporting local food Area-wide Allotment groups, Assist with bringing Ongoing Yes – use of growing food-growing sites into use for food Assembly funds and groups growing resources Promote access to allotments

12 Link to local Food Plan Alcohol usage in Sharrow and NHS Sheffield; CRI local Existing By February Yes – promote the Sharrow area-wide CRI; DATT involvement and 2011 service. focus Heart disease – Walkley NHS Sheffield; ward ZEST BME Mental Health Area-wide, Health & Social Develop project Existing Ongoing Yes – linking up Project building on good Care Trust; NHS proposal and identify partners. practice from Sheffield; ZEST funding Netherthorpe and Sharrow

Making the most of the Upperthorpe ZEST Ensure maximum Ongoing Yes – Promotion via ZEST Healthy Living use by local people YouSay and other Centre events; partnership activity What? Where? Targets Budget Timescale Can the Assembly (Citizens Targets in add value? italics) COMMUNITY SAFETY Neighbourhood Action Sharrow & Community See NAG Plans Existing Ongoing Yes – partnership Group priorities Broomhall 1 services; SYP; activity; and small Broomhill 2 local partners community safety City Centre 3 budget Hillsborough 4

1 Environmental maintenance and open space improvements; youth engagement – particularly activities for 19-25 yr olds; alcohol and substance misuse; community cohesion; prevention of robberies, burglaries, car crime 2 Youth provision; housing in multiple occupation – reduction of burglaries and improvements in fire safety; community cohesion – Broomhill and Crookes (students and non-students); develop neighbourhood watch groups 3 Business and retail crime; good management of the night-time economy; environmental issues; vehicle and auto crime; youth issues; violent crime; ASB and quality of life issues 4 Reduce ASB in Wisewood; Hillsborough centre and Park; Netherthorpe (Brightmore Drive); Infirmary Rd 13

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