Agenda item

To receive updates from any of the following partners:

Ø  Wiltshire Police

Ø  Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service

Ø  NHS Wiltshire

Ø  Warminster and Villages Community Partnership

Ø  Town and Parish Councils Nominated Representatives

Ø  Warminster Community Area Young People’s Issues Group

Ø  The Warminster and District Chamber of Commerce

Some written updates have been received and are included in this agenda.

Written updates had been received from the following partners before the meeting and were included in the agenda:

·         Wiltshire Police Authority

·         Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service

·         NHS Wiltshire

·         Warminster Town Council

·         Horningsham Parish Council

·         Maiden Bradley with Yarnfield Parish Council

·         Upper Deverills Parish Council

·         Longbridge Deverill and Crockerton Parish Council

Further comments were made by:

·         Warminster and Villages Community Partnership – Michael Mounde reported that the Partnership was holding a consultation event on 26 January 2013 at the Warminster Civic Centre about the WVCP Community plan.  He encouraged everyone to come along to the event to air their views and make comments on the Plan.

·         Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service – Mike Franklin reported on the following additional issues:

o   That he had written to all the Parish Councils in the Warminster area offering the Fire and Rescue Services help with the preparation of Emergency Plans

o   That the Fire and Rescue Service had purchased 30,000 reflective arm bands.  20,000 were available for school children to wear during the dark evenings and 10,000 were available for the general public to pick up free of charge from local fire stations

o   The Fire and Rescue Service were developing their 2013-16 Safety (Business) Plan and welcomed any organisation, Parish Council or individual to register as a stakeholder in order that the Service could engage with them during the plan building and formal consultation phases.

Interested parties could register at:

http://www.wiltsfire.gov.uk/departments/corporate_planning/stakeholder/form.php