PLEASE NOTE VENUE CENTRAL NEIGHBOURHOOD CONSULTATIVE FORUM AGENDA Thursday 14 June 2007 at 10.00 am in Committee Room ‘B’, Civic Centre MEMBERS: CENTRAL NEIGHBOURHOOD CONSULTATIVE FORUM: Councillors Akers-Belcher, Brash, Coward, Cranney, Hall, Hargreaves, Henery, Kaiser, Laffey, Lauderdale, London, Morris, Payne, Richardson, Shaw, Simmons, Sutheran, Tumilty and Worthy Resident Representatives: James Atkinson, Ian Campbell, Bob Farrow, Alan Greenwell, Ted Jackson, Jean Kennedy, Evelyn Leck, Alan Lloyd and Brian McBean – 1 vacancy 1. W ELCOM E A ND I NT RODUCTI ONS 2. APOLOGI ES FOR A BS ENC E 3. TO RECEIV E ANY DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST BY MEMBERS 4. M INUT ES 4.1 To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 29th March 2007 (attached) 4.2 Matters arising (maximum of 10 minutes) – Feedback sheet from last meeting attached. 5. PUBLIC QUESTION TIME and WARD ISSUES (maximum of 30 minutes) Foggy Furze Grange Par k Rift House Stranton Burn Valley Elw ick 07. 06. 14 - CENTFRM Agenda Hartlepool Bor ough Council PLEASE NOTE VENUE 6. ITEMS FOR CONSULTATION 6.1 Presentation - Building Schools for the Future – Stage 3 Consultation – Paul Briggs, Assistant Director (Children’s Services Department) 6.2 Presentation - New Deal for the Communities Neighbourhood Action Plan (NDC NA P) – Mathew Walker, New Deal for Communities Manager 7. ITEM S FOR DISC USSION and/or INFORM ATION 7.1 Tees Valley Joint Minerals and Waste Development Plan Documents: Key Issues and Alternative Options Report – Tom Britcliffe, Principal Planning Officer 7.2 Street Naming Request - Church Street area – Head of Technical Services 7.3 Minor Works Budget 2007/08 – Director of Neighbourhood Services 8. ITEMS FOR DECISION 8.1 Minor Works Proposals – Jon Wright, Central Neighbourhood Manager 8.2 Rift House / Burn Valley Neighbourhood Action Plan (NA P) Update (Final for Endorsement) – Head of Regeneration 9. DATE, TIME AND VENUE OF NEXT MEETING The next meeting of the Central Neighbourhood Consultative Forum w ill be held on Thursday 9th August, 2007 commencing at 6pm in The Baltic Suite, Hartlepool Maritime Experience (please use main Quay entrance). The Central Area Police and Community Safety Forum w ill be held on Thursday 6th September 2007 commencing at 10am – venue to be identified. 10. ANY OT HER BUSINESS AGREED BY THE CHAIR 07. 06. 14 - CENTFRM Agenda Hartlepool Bor ough Council 4.1 WARDS Burn Valley Elwick th Foggy Furze 29 March, 2007 Grange Park Rift House Stranton The meeting commenced at 10.00 a.m. in the Civic Centre PRES ENT : Chair: Councillor Lilian Sutheran - Rift House Ward Vice-Chair: James Atkinson (Resident Representative) Councillor Gerald Hall - Burn Valley Ward Councillor Pauline Laffey - Park Ward Councillor John Lauderdale - Burn Valley Ward Councillor Frances London - Foggy Furze Ward Councillor Dr George Morris - Park Ward Councillor Carl Richardson - Grange Ward Councillor Victor Tumilty - Grange Ward Resident Representatives: Ian Campbell, Alan Greenwell, Ted Jackson, Evelyn Leck, Alan Lloyd and Brian McBean Public: Miss Booth, Mr and Mrs Johnson, D Kirkwood, Mr, Mrs and Miss Loynes, Mr and Mrs Lumley, Mr Lynch, Mr McAndrew, Mr Morrish, Mr Nugent, Mrs Unwin and Mr Weld Officers: Jon Wright, Acting Neighbourhood Manager (Centre) Adele Wilson, Senior Regeneration Officer Albert Williams, Maintenance and Buildings Manager Cyril Winskill, Consultant Architect Jo Wilson, Democratic Services Officer PCT Representative: Ali Wilson North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust Representative: Jan Atkinson NDC Representative: Brian Dixon Police Representatives: Sean Price and Claire Humble Housing Hartlepool Representative: Lynn McPartlin 07. 03. 29 - Central Neighbourhood Cons For um Minutes of Meeti ng 1 HARTLEPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL 4.1 59. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE needed to be a real concerted effort by police and public. Pressure needed to be Apologies for absence were received put onto the parents and schools to from Councillors Stephen Akers-Belcher, provide discipline and structure to young Pam Hargreaves, Gordon Henery, Bill people. Iseley, Robbie Payne, Ray Waller and Gladys Worthy and Resident The Chief Constable also paid tribute to Representatives Bob Farrow, Patrick his officers for the improved financial Finnan and Jean Kennedy. status of the force. He advised that thanks to the amount of money left over Councillor Victor Tumilty advised that at the end of 2006 there would be 22 new Resident Representative Patrick Finnan police officers in 2007 along with more had recently been hospitalised. The PCSOs and special constables. This Chair asked that the best wishes of the would mean over 2,000 uniformed Forum be passed on to him. personnel would be available in Hartlepool which would in turn make the 60. TO RECEIVE ANY community safer. A number of officers DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST had also been moved from the custody BY MEMBERS suites back onto the front line to help combat that threat from organised crime None and terrorism. The Chief Constable concluded by stressing the need to keep working on 61. MINUTES these achievements and not rest on st existing laurels. The minutes of the meeting held on 1 February 2007 were confirmed The following questions/issues then arose: 62. CHIEF CONSTABLE Chief Constable Sean Price gave a verbal • Resident Representative Alan update on current issues facing the Greenwell asked if there was any police. He advised those present that provision in family anti-social crime statistics had continued to fall while behaviour orders for the the detection rate continued to rise, application of a curfew. The Chief making Hartlepool the best performing of Constable advised that curfews the four neighbouring districts. This usually applied to individuals but success was attributed in large part to could be applied to an area as a neighbourhood policing. Following a whole. He acknowledged that successful pilot this would now be displacement could be a problem. implemented across Cleveland from April 2007. • Resident Representative Ian Campbell highlighted two further Anti-social behaviour was high on the list areas he felt were partly of concerns for the police. responsible for the rise in anti- Neighbourhood Policing had some social behaviour, the social involvement and special units had been security system and negative set up to tackle this problem but there images and bad language on the 07. 03. 29 - Central Neighbourhood Cons For um Minutes of Meeti ng 2 HARTLEPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL 4.1 media. He acknowledged that full-time patrol officers. However these were not within the remit of their powers were limited to less the police but urged them to take serious crime, such as anti-social what action they could. The Chief behaviour, graffiti and vandalism. Constable agreed that young They were able to issue tickets people needed to be given options and for anything more than that to s top them following their parents they were in contact with Police onto the cycle of social security. Officers. PCSOs were trained for four weeks whereas Special • Councillor Victor Tumilty reported Cons tables were trained for two that the dedicated phone number years. for community policing issues was often engaged. In addition he • Resident Paul Nugent referred to advised that the telephonists were Neighbourhood Watch. He asked often unaware of the geography of if there was a scheme where new certain areas and asked if it would Police Officers would work with the be possible for them to be local Neighbourhood Watch. The provided with a postcode system Chief Constable advised that there to enable them to identify an area was a general lack of faith in on a map. The Chief Constable Neighbourhood Watch across the felt this was not a bad idea country but officers were working however when people phoned to with Safe in Teeside to turn to report an incident accents and rectify this. Resident obvious emotions often gave Representative Evelyn Leck telephonists problems identifying requested that an e-mail system areas. If a postcode system was be set up to replace the defunct used it would often need to be Ringmas ter s ys tem . repeated for those reasons as the priority was for officers to be The Chair thanked the Chief Constable despatched to the correct address. for attending the meeting and answering members questions. • Councillor Frances London praised the Chief Constable for the positive 63. PUBLIC QUESTION TIME AND steps taken. However she asked if WARD ISS UES more resources could be provided to turn potentially anti-social Resident Representative Ian Campbell children onto a different path. The referred to the term of office for the Chief Cons table advis ed that in Deputy Vice-Chair, which he and many cases it was the parents who Resident Representative Evelyn Leck needed to be turned in the right were sharing on a six-monthly basis, direction rather than the children. however in order to coincide with Councillor terms of office this would leave • Councillor Carl Richardson asked a seven-month gap. Mr Campbell for a definition of the difference suggested that rather than one person do between PCSOs and Special six-months and the other one month it Cons tables . The Chief Cons table would be preferable to split the seven advised that Special Officers months equally between them. The Chair worked on a voluntary basis and agreed this would be the best solution. had the same powers as Police Officers. PCSOs were paid to be 07. 03. 29 - Central Neighbourhood Cons For um Minutes of Meeti ng 3 HARTLEPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL 4.1 The Chair made reference to a letter, in Grange Road. The Acting signed by several Councillors, which had Neighbourhood Manager (Centre) recently appeared in the Hartlepool Mail informed members that the matter was calling into question the continuation of already being looked at in a co-ordinated the Neighbourhood Forums. The Chair approach between the anti-social said she hoped that the Forums would behaviour unit, the police and the continue for a long time as they served a Council.