Councillors will provide an update on community issues and progress on Area Board working groups. This will include:
a. Skate board park working group
b. Cycle network working group – to include the Calne area transport group
c. Highways working group
d. Turn off the lights working group.
Information will also be provided about Sandpit Road:
Development of Sandpit Road was approved on appeal. The provision of pedestrian crossings and other improvements at the development will be funded by secured developer contributions. Community views identified by the Area Board will determine priorities for the area.
It is proposed that the Area Board will include an agenda item on the next full Area Board agenda on 28 June 2011 to involve the community in a discussion about what these priorities should be.
Minutes:
Councillors provided an update on community issues and progress on Calne Area Board working groups.
a. Councillor Marshall explained plans for the skate board park had been made and costed and these would be considered at the next meeting of the working group. He expressed disappointment that the existing park had been damaged as a segment of concrete had been removed and there had been a fire at the site.
b. Councillor Berry reported a second community cycle event would be held on 18 June 2011. Anne Henshaw then gave a short presentation about the work of the Calne Area Transport group. A new map was being produced to encourage walking and cycling in and around the town. The condition of existing routes has been assessed by a team of volunteers and areas in need of work had been identified. Lack of dropped kerbs had been highlighted as a common problem. Anne Henshaw was pleased to be able to return an under spend of £417.80, awarded to the group for the project, to the Area Board budget. The Chairman noted how unusual this return of funding was and thanked the volunteers for all their hard work.
c. Councillor Crisp provided an update about the highways working group. The group had met and considered road safety priorities and traffic issues in the Community Area. A pedestrian crossing on the A3102 at Hilmarton would be overly expensive. Having a refuge was being investigated and a topographical survey had been undertaken with results that should be available mid May. Officers had devised a signage scheme to improve traffic at Curzon Street/The Square. The scheme should be in place by the end of May 2011. New signage should be in place on the A4 at Studley Crossroads by the end of June 2011. The consultant Mouchel had been commissioned for a lighting scheme and work at this site would be carried out at no cost to the Area Board. A pedestrian count was to be undertaken on the A3102 at Goatacre by HAGGIS on behalf of the highways working group. At the Lake View site in Quemerford a vehicle count had been completed and a pedestrian count and analysis was due to be completed with results available by the end of April. A new project for the next year had also been identified in an overused shortcut with an accident history at Sandy Lane.
d. Jane Vaughan, the Community Area Manager, gave an update on the turn out the lights project. The Area Board had put forward two sites to have their lights turned out. Several sites had since expressed interest in the project. With the help of the Parish Council, a survey had been sent to every household in Yatesbury, to collect views on turning off the lights from 12 pm until 5 am. The majority of surveys which had been returned were in favour of the project.
Resolution
Yatesbury would go ahead with the turn out the lights project.
Resolution
The Area Board agreed to continue funding for the turn out the lights project for the financial year 2011/12.
The Chairman also provided information about the development of Sandpit Road, as in the agenda pack. The Area Board would include an agenda item on this issue for the meeting to be held on 28 June 2011. An officer from the highways department would be present at this meeting to discuss the development and what could be achieved with developer’s contributions funding. In order to receive an informed response, if you have any questions or concerns that you would like to raise regarding the Sandpit Road development at the next full Area Board meeting, please contact Jane Vaughan, the Community Area Manager, on 01247 721447 or jane.vaughan@wiltshire.gov.uk.