Agenda item

Councillor Initiative – Area Board Project Funding

SID Funding

South West Wiltshire Area Board will consider an Area Board project proposal to allocate up to £8,000 towards a Community Speed Indicator Device Scheme.  Full details of the proposal will be made available at the Area Board meeting on 31.5.17.

Community Communications Project

The Board will consider the following project:

Community Area Grants

The Board members will consider 3 applications for funding from the Community Area Grants Scheme for 2017/18:

Councillor Initiative – Area Board Project Funding

Speed Indicator Device (SID) Funding

A report was circulated at the meeting detailing the request for £8,000 to be ring-fenced, for this initiative, with any remaining unused funds to be returned to the Area Board budget.

The Board invited parishes or groups of parishes, to apply for funding to help towards half the cost of purchasing a SID. The Board had allocated enough to fund five SID devices at 50% of the cost. Cllr Jeans had been running the area board SID in the Mere and Kilmington areas.

Frank Freeman frankfreeman@btinternet.com  – Hindon resident, joined the pc to see if anything could be done about the speeding through the village. He found Community Speedwatch to be a slow burner, but that it was now slowly having an effect. Like in Dinton, it seems to have an effect after a while, but then the SIDs need to be moved around as they lose their effectiveness after two weeks.

In Hindon they move the SID every week to another location. When considering purchasing a SID the parish needs to look at where they would be sited, how they would be sited and check with highways. Your insurance policy needs to cover up to £5m liability. Posts need to be installed or available to fix the SID to. Hindon’s newest SID also had a solar panel to charge the unit, after two weeks the battery is still charged.

Cllr Jeans noted that the SID at Semley was the community SID and would need to be circulated around the community area. The brackets cost £2,000.

Questions

·       Was it still the fact that they must be sighted on private land?

Answer: Originally yes, but since then the posts have been erected on roadside verges. The policy had recently changed.

·       What were the insurance costs? Answer: That information was not to hand, standard PC type insurance policy. The CEM could email out the information from Highways on the insurance requirements.

Action: CEM to contact parishes to invite them to be engaged in the project

Decided

The South West Wiltshire Area Board agreed to ring-fence £8,000 for the SID initiative for 2017/18.

Community Communications Funding Project

James Body, Chairman of Bowerchalke Parish Council spoke about their project to install a broadband connection and associated infrastructure to support digital inclusion sessions in Bowerchalke Village hall, particularly for the senior members of the community. They were looking for capital expenditure only, as the running costs would be made by the parish council.

The installation would aid the library van every second week, as they had experienced issues as there was no current connection for them to run their systems to check books out. The phone aspect of the broadband would be used by the Chris Brown Day Centre. The parish had also procured a defibrillator and planned to install a telephone that could only make outgoing calls next to that.

Decision

The South West Wiltshire Area Board awarded £635 toward the Bowerchalke Community Communications project.

Community Area Grants

The Board considered three applications for funding from the Community Area Grant Scheme for 2017/18, as detailed in the report attached to the agenda, these were:

Wilton Town Council - Wilton Town Trail and map boards

Peter Edge gave an overview of the project, which was hoped to be installed by July. This was part of a project to build Wilton and integrate new residents on estates. Encouraging tourism into Wilton.

Cllr Church noted that the project had so far cost £17.500 with over £13,000 found locally already.

Decision

The South West Wiltshire Area Board awarded £3,800 towards the Town Trail project and map boards.

Bowerchalke Village Hall – Renovations

The village hall was very active, and had bookings for all occasions and events.  A painting party was held. Other work included infrastructure repairs, floor and car park repairs. The total project cost was £14,000, the village had raised £3,800. Disabled toilet also needs renovating.

Decision

The South West Wiltshire Area Board awarded £5,000 towards the renovations at the hall.

Wilton Community Land Trust – Wilton week and the Great Big Lunch

Zoe, the Wilton Town coordinator, explained the project. This was an event being held between 12^th – 17^th June, with a week of pop up shops through the town centre. Local independent traders, usually working from sheds and homes were able to come free of charge and trade out of Wilton.

The aim was that they would want to come and trade from an empty shop after the event.

On Sunday 18 June the Great Big Lunch would take place, hosted by the Wilton shopping village. Some of the stalls had already been booked, with over 200 people from local community groups taking part.

Peter Edge noted that Zoe was doing a fantastic job, to find so many small businesses interested in the event. Increasing the commercial offering in Wilton.

This project would be funded from the H&WB budget as the opportunity here was encouraging local groups to showcase themselves combatting social isolation issue. And supporting local businesses.

Cllr Church added that this was a great initiative for Wilton. Wilton has a large and diverse population and so this would bring all areas of our community together and encourages new businesses to Wilton.

Decision

The South West Wiltshire Area Board awarded £2,500 towards the Wilton week and great big lunch project.