Issue - meetings

To receive updates from the following partners:

a.    Wiltshire Police

b.    Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service

c.    NHS Wiltshire

d.    The Traffic Working Party

e.    Devizes Community Area Partnership

f.     CAYPIG

g.    Town and Parish Councils.

a)     The written update from Wiltshire Police was noted. The Chairman explained that it would be Inspector Noble’s last Devizes Area Board meeting and thanked him for his hard work in the Community Area.

Inspector Noble added that boundary changes were taking place to Neighbourhood Policing Teams to reduce bureaucracy and make teams coterminous with Area Board arrangements. There would not be a net reduction in resources.

Inspector Peach would be taking over from Inspector Noble at the next Area Board meeting.       

b)     The written update from Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service was noted.

c)      The written update for March from NHS Wiltshire was noted.

d)     Councillor Gamble went through the prioritised Devizes area traffic schemes schedule, as included in the agenda pack. Councillor Gamble added that the Traffic Working Party were also looking into cycle routes in the Devizes Community Area and improving the lighting on the new crossing at the Market Square.

Concerns were raised about the ecological implications of work to improve  bridges in the Southgate area. These would be raised before the work was started.     

e)     The written update from Devizes Community Area Partnership was noted. Paula Winchcombe stated that the Partnership could be contacted at the following email address: admin@dcap.org.uk.

f)       Richard Harris explained that he was the full time youth worker in the Devizes Community Area for 13 to 19 year olds. CAYPIG (the Community Area Young People’s Issues Group) meet six times a year and had discussed local issues such as cycle routes, the skate park and activities. There would be a CAYPIG presentation at the next Area Board meeting regarding activities available for young people in the Devizes Community Area. Please find a written report attached to the minutes.     

g)     There were no updates from the Town and Parish Councils, however a parish forum was running successfully and updates would be available.

A question was asked of the Area Board members by Mr Tony Duck, regarding the direction in which each member had voted in Full Council on the new parking strategy.