Venue: Melksham Town Hall, Market Place, Melksham, SN12 6ES
Contact: Kevin Fielding
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Registration & Refreshments Registration, refreshments and opportunity to look at display material and ask questions of Highways staff.
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Introduction Introduction from event host – Cllr Seed.
Minutes: The Chairman welcomed everyone to Melksham Town Hall for the public consultation to discuss the future of lorry parking in Melksham, he advised that the aim of the meeting was to get the views and opinions of the attendees and for the Area Board members to try and agree on an outcome that suited everybody.
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Apologies for Absence Minutes: There were no apologies.
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Declarations of Interest Councillors are requested to declare any personal or prejudicial interests or dispensations granted by the Standards Committee. Minutes:
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Results from the online survey Minutes: Andrew Jack (Wiltshire Council) gave a brief overview of the feedback from the survey that local residents had been invited to take part in.
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Lorry parking in Melksham
The key points of the report on Feasibility Study of the Lorry Park will be presented – Parvis Khansari, Wiltshire Council Minutes: ParvisKhansari (Highways Department, Wiltshire Council) advised that it was important that the Area Board members heard the views of the local residents and then made the right decisions so that things could move forward, he then introduced Kirsty Williams (Mouchel) who outlined the key points with a power point presentation of the feedback from survey resulting from issues raised by residents living near the King St car park.
Points made included:
The Chairman thanked Parvis Khansari and Kirsty Williams for their input.
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Discussion on the future of lorry parking in Melksham Discussion on the future of lorry parking in Melksham.
Minutes: The Chairman invited the Area Board members and attendees to express their opinions and points of view concerning the lorry park and possible locations that it could be re-sited at.
Points made by Area Board members included:
Points made from the floor included:
The Chairman thanked everybody for their input in the discussion.
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Public vote using handheld voting equipment Minutes: The Chairman presented the results of the voting carried out by the public in attendance using the handheld voting equipment.
The results were:
The Chairman thanked the public in attendance for taking part in the interactive vote.
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Summary and closure, Cllr Seed Minutes: Cllr Seed briefly summarised what the residents of King Street and Beanacre Road wanted from the meeting, Area Board members then voted on the way forward.
Note
Cllr Steve Petty requested that his vote against the recommendation was recorded.
Decision
Cllr Seed thanked everybody for attending and contributing to a very productive meeting.
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Meeting ends |