Agenda item

Written Updates attached are:

·       Wiltshire Care Commissioning Group (CCG) – Integrated Performance Management Report

·       Southern Wiltshire Issues System

·       Theme Update: Footpaths

·       Comments and reports on any other matters of interest to the community as a whole.

·       Wiltshire Fire & Rescue – verbal update

The Community Area Transport Group (CATG) next meets on the 25 February, at 6.30pm – Get your project ideas in to the Community Area Manager, Karen Linaker in good time for this meeting.

The Board noted the following written updates attached to the agenda:

·       Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) – Integrated Performance Management Report

·       Southern Wiltshire Issues System

·       Theme Update: Footpaths

The following verbal updates, questions and comments were received:

Issues System – Karen Linaker

Seven new issues had been raised since the last Board meeting, two of those had been taken to CATG for consideration. One new issue at Livery Road, Winterslow was concerning traffic not being able to pass on that road. This was being looked at by Transport.

Anyone can raise a new issue online, follow the link:

https://forms.wiltshire.gov.uk/area_board/index.php

Footpaths – Cllr Leo Randall

The Footpath Group was keen on welcoming new volunteers to help with forthcoming projects. The Group would be starting work in Whiteparish next Monday, anyone interested could meet at 10.00am at Halls Farm.

Question

Was Winterslow being left out of the work schedule this year? Answer: The Group had a schedule of planned projects, it just happened that the current work was around one area, the Group would be moving round the Community Area in future.

Fire – Cllr Chris Devine

Following the decision to merge Wiltshire and Dorset Fire & Rescue Services, a report had been published and the main Stakeholders had been asked to reply. The report would then be submitted to Eric Pickles and his Lawyers who would decide whether a public enquiry was needed.

If a public enquiry was required this would delay matters and we would miss the closing of Parliament at the end of March, which could bring a six month delay to the process. Whatever happens there would be a 100% frontline service in Wiltshire and Swindon.

Comments and other matters of interest to the community as a whole

Question

·       The Chairman of Britford PC asked whether the Board was doing anything in relation to the flooding and speed related accidents occurring along the A338 from Salisbury to the county boundary. Answer: If a list of specific issues and details of patches of that road could be produced, the issues would be looked at.

·       Although the parish councils felt that they had a good relationship with the Highways Community Coordinator, Tracy Myers, they asked whether there was a way to track the work logged on the system, referred to as ‘a magic ticket’. Answer: BBLP had their own monitoring system, the Chairman had been told by the relevant Cabinet Member that there was no reason for the Board not to have access to that. He asked for a list of the jobs logged with Tracy and he would seek further information on their progress.

·       Firsdown PC reported having similar issues with a particular job in the village which they had been in discussions about for over a year now. They also asked whether they could feed info of that job to the Board for investigation? Answer: Yes, feed back to the CAM.

·       Cllr Devine asked whether the Board could have an update from BBLP on the current work schedule update.

Action: CAM to request an update from BBLP.