Agenda item

The Board will receive a presentation from the Campus and Operational Delivery Programme regarding the proposal to develop a community campus in the Tisbury Community Area and to implement the Preliminary Management Project that will test community led management of local services.

Lucy Murray Brown, Campus & Operational Estate Management Lead

The Board received a presentation form Lucy Murray Brown, Campus and Operational Estate Management Lead. The Cabinet had approved the principle of six pilot campus schemes, one of these would be develop in the Tisbury Community Area.

The following issues were covered:

•        A campus is a building, or buildings, in a community area that will provide the services the local community needs in an accessible location

•        This would be an Area Board led project

•        Local community involvement would be critical to the success of this project

•        A campus would reduce the long term financial, environmental and operational pressures on operating aging, low quality buildings

•        There was potential to co-locate with partner and voluntary organisations

•        The council would explore wide ranging innovative management and operational arrangements

•        The core criteria to all campus buildings included shared reception, community space, accessible IT provision, personal care facilities and catering facilities

Timescales

•        Initial Area Board meeting – April 2011

•        Audit and research work - Spring 2011

•        Community consultation phase one – Spring 2011

•        Community consultation phase two – Summer 2011

•        Area Board consideration/formal consideration – Summer/Autumn 2011

•        Design, planning and construction – Autumn 2011 onwards

•        Community Campus in place Autumn 2012

The Area Board was asked to consider the draft terms of reference for a Shadow Community Operations Board and if it would like to consider setting up a Shadow Community Operations Board comprising of 8 members. Expression of interest forms to be a member of this group were available at the meeting.

Following discussion, the Chairman proposed that the Board set up a Shadow Community Operations Board (COB) and asked for interested people to make an expression of interest by completing the form which was available in the reception after the meeting. TAPCAP should be appointed by the COB to undertake the consultation required to establish which services and facilities would be provided on the Campus.

Decision:

1. That the Area Board shall be the conduit through which consultation regarding the community campus will take place and shall act as the local decision making body on this project.
2. A Shadow Community Operations Board (COB), representative of stakeholder and community interests, will be establishes as a sub group of the Area Board to work with Wiltshire Council in developing a Tisbury community campus. The role of the COB will include communications, securing local engagement and influencing the design of the community facilities to be recommended by the Area Board for implementation by Cabinet. In line with the approval from Cabinet on 15^th February 2011, the COB will also have an ongoing role in the indirect management and strategic planning of the resultant campus facilities.
3. The Area Board invites expressions of interest for membership of the shadow COB (comprising no more that 8 members) to be constituted by the Area Board and which will then operate in accordance with the terms of reference agreed by Wiltshire Council. The Board formally agrees these terms of reference subject to an amendment to reflect the wishes of the Area Board to be the conduit through which consultation regarding the community campus will take place and to act as the local decision making body on this project.
4. That Councillor Tony Deane shall be agreed to be the Wiltshire Councillor Member of the Community Operations Board.
5. It is recommended that Tisbury Parishes and Community Area Partnership (TAPCAP) be asked to submit an expression of interest to be a member of the COB and that TAPCAP undertake the required consultation within the required timescales.
6. An extraordinary meeting of the South West Wiltshire Area Board shall take place to consider the outcome of the consultation and put forward a recommendation to Cabinet on the scope of the campus.