Issue - meetings

To receive the following Chairman’s announcements:

(a)  Consultation on Waste Sites

(b)  Street Trading Consultation

(c)  Queen Elizabeth II Playing Fields

(d)  Westwells Road Update

(a)  Consultation – Wiltshire and Swindon Proposed Submission Draft Waste Site Allocations Development Plan Document

Wiltshire Council is updating its policy framework to ensure that future proposals for waste development in Wiltshire are for the right types of facilities in the right locations.  Consultation will commence from 13 June to 5 August 2011.  The consultation will be available on the Council website http://consult.wiltshire.gov.uk/portal.  Hard copies will also be available for inspection at Wiltshire Council and Swindon Borough Council main offices as well as all libraries throughout the County and Borough.  For further information please contact the Minerals and Waste Policy Team at Wiltshire Council by telephone (01225 713429) or email: mineralsandwastepolicy@wiltshire.gov.uk.

(b)  New County Wide Street Trading Scheme

At a meeting on the 5 April 2011 Wiltshire Council’s Licensing Committee considered the issues raised by public consultation on the proposed council-wide street trading scheme.

The main issues raised by public consultation were:

·         The scope of the street trading scheme

·         The level of bureaucracy and length of time it would take to process applications

The level of the proposed street trading fees

The street trading scheme will now be revised in the light of these decisions. Council officers will undertake a second, two week, public consultation commencing mid June 2011 with all interested parties including area boards.

The consultation document will be available on the Council’s website: http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/council/consultations.htm

The Licensing Committee will consider the revised street trading scheme and the results of the second public consultation at a meeting in September 2011, with a view to the council adopting the council-wide street trading scheme by the end of 2011.

(c)  Queen Elizabeth II Playing Fields

The Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire on behalf of HRH Prince William has asked Wiltshire Council to assist in supporting the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge. The aim of the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge is to protect 2,012 playing fields in communities all across Britain by 2012.  Further details will be sent to the Town and Parish Councils in the Corsham Community Area for action.  Suggestions for playing fields will then be put forward will be brought to the next meeting of the Area Board on 18 August when the two nominations for the Corsham area will be decided.

Action

Dave Roberts, Community Area Manager

(d)  Waiting Restrictions Westwells Road

The consultation period for the proposed waiting restrictions on Westwells Road were finalised on Friday 27 May 2011.  During the consultation the Council received a significant number of objections (approximately 23 in total) with an additional number of letters in support (approximately 10 in total).

It is now the Council’s intention to proceed with the statutory report to the Lead Cabinet Member for his deliberation.  The report will address the concerns and objections raised as well as noting the notices of support made.  It will take approximately 2-3 weeks for the report to be considered which includes a statutory period of advert on the Council’s website and it was hoped that a final  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7