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Report on Issues Affecting our Community Area

Written updates are attached. Anyone can give a report on items of interest to the Community Area as a whole.

 

·         Police

·         Fire & Rescue Service

·         Wiltshire Council (Carers Small Grant Scheme & State of the Environment)

·         CCG - NHS 111 Service update

·         Southern Wiltshire Issues System

·         Any other comments or reports

Minutes:

Police – Inspector Andy Noble

Information concerning the decommissioning of Salisbury Police Station would be circulated through the media over the next couple of weeks. Some of this will include:

 

·         Prisoners would be transported to the custody suite in Melksham, until a new purpose built suite was built in Salisbury.

·         Some of the Police business would be moving to an estate already in use in Amesbury. This is where the police officers would start and end their shift from.

·         Other Police services would be co-located with Wiltshire Council in Bourne Hill Salisbury, until the completion of the Salisbury Campus.

 

In addition to the crime statistics attached to the agenda, Andy noted that there had been some non-dwelling burglaries in Alderbury and Whiteparish. A group of Officers had been allocated to work on this, two arrests had been made. A further update would be available at the next Area Board.

 

Comments and Questions included:

 

·         Recently some allegations were made against how other Forces may be manipulating statistics. What procedures are in place to ensure it would not happen in Wiltshire? Answer: The way we classify crime in Wiltshire, has been continuously tightened over the past years. If a victim reports something as a crime, then we must report it as such.

 

The local Neighbourhood Police Teams reported figures are low enough to be able to carry out regular checks. In a 12 month period, there were 20 reported domestic burglaries within the Southern Wiltshire area. However the statistics can only represent reported crime, the real level of crime is under reported.

 

 

Fire – Mike Franklin

The usual Fire statistics report was not available at present due to teething problems with new software. A report would be available at the next Area Board. Salisbury Station Manager Dave Dunford, was in attendance to answer any questions.

 

Wiltshire Council Updates

The Chairman drew attention to the Carers Small Grant Scheme update attached to the agenda.

 

CCG – NHS 111 Service Update

The Board noted the information attached to the agenda, in addition the Chairman noted that there would be a Healthwatch item on the next agenda.

 

Southern Wiltshire Issues System

Tom Bray, Community Area Manager informed the Board that parishes had been invited to a HGV meeting scheduled for 11 December, where a lorry watch update would be presented.

 

Good Neighbour Scheme - Nicola Wilson

Over the last year the scheme had managed to reach out and help over 2000 elderly and vulnerable people across Wiltshire. In Southern Wiltshire Nicola had personally helped 120 people within the community area.

 

Nicola would be stepping down as coordinator for the south, at the end of December, until the position was filled, the work would be covered by an existing coordinator in Idmiston. Nicola urged people to continue in identifying those in need of support and to get in contact with the Good Neighbour Scheme. 

 

For further information, follow the link: http://www.wiltsgn.org.uk/

 

The Chairman noted that the Good Neighbour Scheme was a valuable service but that it was still not widely advertised. He urged parishes to spread the word.

 

Old Sarum Community Centre – Cllr Ian McLennan

Work had not yet started on building the new Community Centre. Bricks would not start to be laid until spring 2014. Under the Section 106 agreement, this building should have been built and handed over to the community to run.

 

530 of the new properties at the Persimmons housing development were now occupied, may triggers had been missed and Persimmons had shown little regard for the building of the Community Centre.

 

Action: Cllr McLennan to contact Corporate Director Carlton Brand to discuss the matter.

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