Your magazine from the Isle of Wight Council Issue seventeen July 2008 LKB'PI>KAwww.iwight.com Flying the sporting fl ag Young athletes star at world games Your magazine from the Isle of Wight Council Issue seventeen LKB July 2008 One Island is published each month, except for September and January – 'PI>KAwww.iwight.com 5BI@LJB these editions are combined with those of the previous month. If you have community news to share with other readers or would like to advertise in One Island, we would like to hear from you. We also welcome your letters – you can contact us by post, email or telephone. Post One Island, Communications, County Hall, Newport PO30 1UD Email [email protected] Telephone 823105 Flying the sporting flag Young athletes star at world games J>HFKD@LKQ>@Q @LRK@FIJBBQFKDP USEFUL CONTACTS Isle of Wight Council, County Hall, Unless otherwise stated, all meetings Newport PO30 1UD are in public at County Hall. Call Fax 823333 823200 24-hours before a meeting to Email [email protected] ensure it is going ahead and to check if Welcome to the July issue of Website www.iwight.com any items are likely to be held in private the council’s magazine, which session. this month celebrates the TELEPHONE SERVICES achievements of our young Council Call centre 821000 sportsmen and women at the FACE TO (council chamber) Mon to Fri: 8am to 6pm recent Youth World Island Saturday: 9am to 1pm FACE SERVICES 16 July (6pm) Games in Guadeloupe. For telephone assistance we Newport Help Centre Cabinet recommend you contact the call 29 July (6pm) Wroxall Community Centre Th ey proudly fl ew the Island’s centre directly where we aim to Tel 821000 19 August (6pm) venue to be confi rmed sporting fl ag at the games and answer as many enquiries as possible County Hall, Newport PO30 1UD many, no doubt, will be playing at this fi rst point of contact. Mon to Fri: 8am to 6pm Audit Committee a major part when the Isle of Popular numbers Sat: 9am to 1pm (committee room one) Automated telephone payments 559310 5 August (6pm) Wight hosts the Island Games Ryde Help Centre Council tax 823901 Planning Committee in 2011. Tel 812678 Education 823455 (council chamber) Also in this edition we look Ryde Library, 101 George Environmental health 823000 22 July (4pm) ahead to Skandia Cowes Week, Street, Ryde PO33 2JE Housing benefi ts 823950 Licensing Committee Mon to Fri: 9am to 5pm and provide useful information Libraries 203880 (committee room one) about many of the onshore Licensing 823159 Brading Help Centre 14 July (4pm) arrangements organised by the Planning 823552 Tel 401770 11 August (4pm) council for the regatta. Refuse collection 823777 West Street, Brading PO36 0DR Licensing (Determinations) A few months ago we heard Roads and highways 823777 Mon and Fri: 9am to 12 noon, Tues, Sub-committee about the Island’s success in Tourism 813813/813818 Wed, Thur: 9am to 4.30pm (committee room one) Trading standards 823396 securing major investment Shanklin Help Centre 14 July (10.30am) Consumer Direct 08454 040506 for our roads through the Falcon Cross Hall, Falcon Road, Shanklin Scrutiny Committee Leisure services 823828 government’s Private Finance Mon only: 10am to 4pm (committee room one) Wightbus 823782 31 July (6pm) Initiative. In advance of this we Dial-a-bus 522226 West Wight Information Centre Ethical Standards Committee are carrying out a signifi cant Adult and children’s services Tel 821000 (committee room one) resurfacing programme on our Adult services 823340 Freshwater Library, School Green Road, 21 July (6pm) highways, details of which can Children’s services 525790 Freshwater PO40 9AP Policy Commission for Care, Health Local centres: Cowes 291144 Mon: 9am to 5.15pm, be found in this issue. and Housing During the summer, as Newport 823340 Tues and Wed: 9.30am to 5.15pm, Thur: Ryde 566011 (committee room one) (closed), Fri: 9.30am to 4.45pm. Closed for throughout the rest of the Sandown 408448 20 August (6pm) lunch (1pm to 2pm each day) year, we will be involved in Headquarters 520600 Policy Commission for Business and numerous projects to improve Housing 823040 Wootton Bridge Centre Infrastructure services and facilities for Island Tel 884361 (committee room one) residents and visitors. Many of EMERGENCY NUMBERS Joanne’s Walk, Brannon Way, 23 July (6pm) these are part of our One Island In an emergency dial 999 Wootton Bridge PO33 4NU Policy Commission for Children and IW Council desk – Mon, Tues, programme, which linked Fire and rescue School Results control centre (24hrs) 525121 Thurs, Fri: 9.15am to 1pm with our Eco Island vision, (committee room one) Out of hours: Cowes Help Centre 6 August (6pm) will continue to bring the Highways 525121 Policy Commission for Safer improvements which the Island Waste disposal 0800 3283851 Beckford Court, Beckford Road, Cowes Wightcare 821105 Fri (mornings): 9am to 12 noon Communities deserves. (committee room one) Isle of Wight Council A to Z of services 17 July (6pm) A comprehensive listing of all the council’s services and contact A simple and easy to use guide Councillor David Pugh, to your local services numbers can be found in our A to Z booklet. It is designed to make Island Strategic Partnership Board Leader of the Isle of Wight it easier for residents to access all our services, across every council (committee room one) Council directorate, from abandoned vehicles to the youth service. Including information about 15 July (5pm) your council tax Incorporating Hampshire Police2008-2009 Authority policing budget and priorities LKB'PI>KA 'KQEFPFPPRB NEWS DESK 4 Council and community 'PI>KAFJ>DB news FEATURES 8 Skandia Cowes Week 2008 Preview of onshore arrangements 10 A green and vibrant Island Promoting tourism 12 Flying the Island’s sporting flag World Island Youth Games round-up 14 £5 million for roads Major resurfacing project REGULARS 15 Coast and country Rural and coastal news 16 Trailers Events and activities Cover picture: Charlie Occomore, Ryde High School, a member of the Isle of Wight team (athletics) at the Youth World Island Games in Guadeloupe ONE ISLAND is published by the Isle of Wight Council. The council does not accept responsibility for goods or services offered by advertisers. Additional copies are available from the Customer Service Centre at County Hall, libraries and other council facilities. Typetalk calls welcome. Written, designed and produced by Corporate Communications, Isle of Wight Council. ISSN 1752-8038 © COPYRIGHT 2008 Isle of Wight Council, County Hall, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 1UD. Printed on recycled paper by Engage Group. Picture by Mrs Doreen Gazey: Carnival celebrations One Island is available on request as an audiotape, in large print, in Braille and in other languages. For further details, please contact One Island on 823105. The magazine is also available online at www.iwight.com (RIV KBTPABPH Fewer councillors likely after 2009 elections The number of councillors elected to the Isle of Wight Council looks set to be reduced from 48 to 40. The Boundary Committee has also recommended a reduction in the number of wards from the current 48 to 39. It means all wards will be represented by a single councillor, except for a new large ward covering St Helens, Brading and Bembridge, which will have two members. The fi nal recommendations will now go to the Electoral Commission School reforms – to make the necessary legislation to bring about the changes. It is expected the new arrangements will come into effect for the consulting on the fi nal 2009 local elections. Full details on the changes and a fi nal opportunity to comment can proposals be found at www.boundarycommittee.org.uk Consultations on the council’s Separate meetings are being Summer is with us – but fi nal formal proposals for school organised for staff and governors Summer spoilers so are those hot weather reorganisation are now underway. at individual schools. – booze, sunburn perils of booze, sunburn and Meetings are being held to A full list of meetings is and salmonella salmonella. Health experts explain what stage the council available via the council’s website are reminding us of some has reached in the reorganisation www.iwight.com or at www. simple measures to help process; how it arrived at its eduwight.iow.gov.uk. avoid the misery of the current position; what happens The formal consultation period terrible trio. next; and how people can make began on 23 June and lasts until Booze Remember how their views known during the 26 September at 5pm. much is too much; men formal consultation period. Representations can be made three to four units a day and The council has published a list in writing to Alex Moffat, School women two to three units of meetings – some of which have Reorganisation Project Manager, a day (bottled beer, ordinary already been held – for parents Isle of Wight Council, County Hall, strength is 1.3units, and a of schools that are proposed Newport PO30 1UD or via email red or white wine, 250ml, is for either closure, federation or to [email protected] 3.3units). amalgamation. Meetings at other Sunburn Seek shade schools will be held in September, In the 27 June edition of One between 11am and 3pm; and parents will be invited by Island, two schools were omitted make sure you never burn; their child’s school. in error from our school-by-school cover up with a hat, t-shirt Two public meetings were also listing for the Cowes area under and sunglasses; take due to be held in July, and diocese- the fi nal reorganisation proposals.