Environment Committee 15 March 2017 Member’s Item Cllr Alon Or-bach - Donoghue waste management and skip hire Cllr Alan Schneiderman - Funding of Bowling Clubs Title Cllr Agnes Slocombe - Hire of parks, green spaces and other council premises Cllr Dr Devra Kay - Parking of large vans that turn residential streets with no parking restrictions into car parks Cllr Adam Langleben - Improving air quality around schools Report of Head of Governance Wards All Status Public Enclosures None Paul Frost, Governance Service Team Leader Officer Contact Details Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 8359 2205 Summary The report informs the Environment Committee of a Member’s Item and requests instructions from the Committee. Recommendations 1. That the Environment Committee’s instructions in relation to this Member’s item are requested. 1. WHY THIS REPORT IS NEEDED 1.1 Members of the Committee have requested that the items tabled below are submitted to the Environment Committee for considering and determination. The Environment Committee are requested to provide instructions to Officers of the Council as recommended. Name of Councillor Member’s Item Cllr Alon Or-bach Donoghue waste management and skip hire Residents are concerned about air quality around the Donoghue waste management and skip hire site in Claremont Road NW2. I recognize that LB Barnet has been awarded the Cleaner Air Borough accreditation, which is part of the Mayor of London’s Local Air Quality Management (LLAQM) framework, and I therefore request that the committee considers and agrees what action can be taken locally by the council to improve things in the Claremont Road area. In particular I request that the committee considers commissioning a full air quality audit for this area. Any audit should include the neighbouring children's play area, nearby community center and Handley Grove which directly abuts the site. Appropriate enforcement action should then be taken if breaches of air quality standards are found. Cllr Alan Schneiderman Funding of Bowling Clubs At the last meeting in relation to ongoing negotiations with the borough’s bowling clubs the Committee agreed “that the remaining clubs should have the opportunity to continue to negotiate with the Council and prior to any significant development the item be reported back to the Environment Committee.” I request that the Committee is updated with how the negotiations with each of the clubs are progressing and that the council confirms that the final agreed position will be based on ensuring that the clubs have a secure and sustainable future. Cllr Agnes Slocombe Hire of parks, green spaces and other council premises At last year’s East Barnet Festival a plastic water pipe was accidentally cut through during the set-up of the main tent. In order to help prevent incidents of this kind occurring in the future during any hire of Council land or premises I request that the committee receives a report at a future meeting setting out how the council can advise people hiring out Council land or premises for events where pipes and cables are. Cllr Dr Devra Kay Parking of large vans that turn residential streets with no parking restrictions into car parks Across Barnet large commercial vans are using residential roads that have no parking restrictions to park overnight and often for days at a time, taking up all the parking spaces in a street, preventing residents and their visitors from parking anywhere near their homes, depriving properties of daylight, threatening security by obscuring the front of buildings and pedestrians walking along the pavement, turning a residential area in which they do not belong into a car park. Residents feel distressed, intimidated and helpless living with this situation and the lack of any measures to deal with it. To date residents are told that such parking is entirely legal. The process of installing a CPZ can take a year or two or longer and is not appropriate in all cases. Mayfield Gardens in West Hendon is one such street plagued by vans taller than the residents, higher than the first storey of the houses, that for several years have taken over the parking spaces in the road. Residents have complained repeatedly to the Council to no avail. I request that the Environment Committee receive a report on the most effective potential solutions to what is a borough-wide problem. Cllr Adam Langleben Improving air quality around schools Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, recently commissioned a study of areas around schools and other educational institutions in London where levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) had breached EU legal limits, which the Government accepts is harmful to health. According to the study, fifteen Barnet schools / educational institutions were near areas where air tests show NO2 is above the legal limit of 40. Forty two other schools were near areas where air tests show NO2 is between 35 and 40. As LB Barnet has been awarded the Cleaner Air Borough accreditation, which is part of the Mayor of London’s Local Air Quality Management (LLAQM) framework, I request that the committee is updated with details of what local action the council is taking to reduce pollution around these schools. *See table A below *Table A Rank LA Institution NO2 Type 3163 Barnet Wentworth Tutorial College 52 Other Independent School 3060 Barnet Beis Soroh Schneirer 47.8 Other Independent School 3047 Barnet Rhodes Farm School 47.5 Other Independent School 3027 Barnet Torah Vodaas 47.1 Other Independent School 2996 Barnet Mapledown School 46.5 Community Special School 2981 Barnet St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 46.1 Voluntary Aided School 2938 Barnet Ayesha Community School 45.1 Other Independent School 2937 Barnet Unity Girls High School 45.1 Other Independent School 2900 Barnet Beis Medrash Elyon 44.7 Other Independent School 2776 Barnet Wessex Gardens Primary School 43.1 Community School 2587 Barnet Whitefield School 41 Academy Converter 2559 Barnet Tudor Primary School 40.7 Community School 2541 Barnet Beis Yaakov Primary School 40.6 Voluntary Aided School 2474 Barnet Hasmonean Primary School 40.1 Voluntary Aided School 2459 Barnet The Orion Primary School 40 Community School 2406 Barnet Golders Hill School 39.6 Other Independent School 2374 Barnet All Saints' CofE Primary School NW2 39.4 Voluntary Aided School 2308 Barnet St Agnes RC School 39 Voluntary Aided School 2212 Barnet Brampton College 38.4 Other Independent School 2191 Barnet Ambitious College (Grahame Park Campus) 38.3 Special Post 16 Institution 2177 Barnet Pardes House Grammar School 38.2 Other Independent School 2176 Barnet Pardes House Primary School 38.2 Voluntary Aided School 2175 Barnet Limespring School 38.2 Other Independent Special School 2158 Barnet Kisharon Day School 38.1 Other Independent Special School 2138 Barnet Holland House School 38 Other Independent School 2123 Barnet St Paul's CofE Primary School N11 37.9 Voluntary Aided School 2122 Barnet Dwight School London 37.9 Other Independent School 2085 Barnet The Hyde School 37.7 Academy Sponsor Led 2008 Barnet Our Lady of Lourdes RC School 37.3 Voluntary Aided School 1988 Barnet Kerem School 37.2 Other Independent School 1959 Barnet Alma Primary 37 Free Schools 1914 Barnet St James' Catholic High School 36.7 Voluntary Aided School 1899 Barnet Claremont Primary School 36.6 Community School 1880 Barnet Hendon School 36.5 Academy Converter 1843 Barnet Childs Hill School 36.3 Community School 1842 Barnet The King Alfred School 36.3 Other Independent School 1841 Barnet London Academy 36.3 Academy Sponsor Led 1811 Barnet St Theresa's Catholic Primary School 36.1 Voluntary Aided School 1800 Barnet Blessed Dominic RC School 36 Voluntary Aided School 1799 Barnet Martin Primary School 36 Community School 1788 Barnet Nancy Reuben Primary School 35.9 Other Independent School 1787 Barnet Parkfield Primary School 35.9 Academy Sponsor Led 1745 Barnet Woodhouse College 35.7 Further Education 1725 Barnet St Martin's School 35.6 Other Independent School 1724 Barnet Barnet and Southgate College 35.6 Further Education 1704 Barnet Courtland School 35.5 Community School 1703 Barnet Sunnyfields Primary School 35.5 Community School 1702 Barnet Akiva School 35.5 Voluntary Aided School 1687 Barnet Susi Earnshaw Theatre School 35.4 Other Independent School 1686 Barnet Christ's College Finchley 35.4 Academy Converter 1685 Barnet Rimon Jewish Primary School 35.4 Free Schools 1659 Barnet Manorside Primary School 35.3 Community School 1658 Barnet Talmud Torah Tiferes Shlomoh 35.3 Other Independent School 1657 Barnet Peninim 35.3 Other Independent School 1641 Barnet Barnfield Primary School 35.2 Community School 1640 Barnet Hasmonean High School 35.2 Academy Converter 1639 Barnet Finches School 35.2 Other Independent Special School 1608 Barnet Brookland Junior School 35 Community School 1607 Barnet Brookland Infant and Nursery School 35 Community School 1606 Barnet Beit Shvidler Primary School 35 Voluntary Aided School 1556 Barnet Mathilda Marks-Kennedy Jewish Primary School 34.7 Voluntary Aided School 1555 Barnet Kisharon College 34.7 Miscellaneous 1554 Barnet The Northgate School 34.7 Miscellaneous 1553 Barnet Northgate School 34.7 Pupil Referral Unit 1552 Barnet The Archer Academy 34.7 Free Schools 1534 Barnet Beth Jacob Grammar School for Girls 34.6 Other Independent School 1516 Barnet Menorah Primary School 34.5 Voluntary Aided School 1499 Barnet Garden Suburb Junior School 34.4 Community School 1498 Barnet Garden Suburb Infant School 34.4 Community School 1497 Barnet Independent Jewish Day