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Venue: Alamein Suite - City Hall, Malthouse Lane, Salisbury, SP2 7TU. View directions

Contact: Lisa Moore  (Democratic Services Officer)

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7.00pm

58.

Welcome and Introductions

Minutes:

The Chairman, Cllr Mary Douglas, welcomed everyone to the meeting of the Salisbury Area Board and invited the members of the Board to introduce themselves.

 

59.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Apologies for absence had been received from:

 

·       Cllr Atiqul Hoque

·       Cllr Matthew Deane

·       Irene Kohler  - Older Person’s Champion

 

60.

Minutes

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 9 November 2017.

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

Decision

The minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 9 November 2017, were agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

 

61.

Declarations of Interest

To receive any declarations of disclosable interests or dispensations granted by the Standards Committee.

 

Minutes:

There were none.

62.

Chairman's Updates

The Chairman will give an update on outcomes and actions arising from previous meetings of the Area Board.

 

Minutes:

The Chairman gave the following updates:

 

·       There had been ongoing disagreement over the use of the athletics track at South Wiltshire Grammar School. The Board was aware and work was underway to reconcile the matter.

·       Following the last meeting, where we focused on the topic of Rough sleepers, the Community Engagement Manager (CEM) had produced an update of the main points to be taken forward. A copy was circulated at the meeting. Work was now taking place to help people in different ways.

·       The Railway Tavern public house had been listed as a community asset.

 

Questions and comments:

 

·       Cllr Rogers noted that the Board had previously awarded funding to the athletics track project, and he asked whether that was subject to there being the legal framework in place to take the project forward. He felt uncomfortable that public money had been awarded and yet the track had now been closed for 2 months. Answer: The Chairman noted that in theory the funds should not have been transferred to the applicant until the legalities were in place. However, the funds would not be used if the build did not take place, and would be returned if not used for this, and would not be used for anything else.

·       What information would be published on the Rough Sleepers work? Answer: The paper handout was circulated at the meeting, the next step was to make things happen.

 

63.

Information items

To note the following written information items:

 

a.     Supporting those with SEND into employment

b.     Public Space Protection Orders

c.     Work Wiltshire

d.     Clean Up Wiltshire

e.     Clinical Commissioning Group – Dec

f.       Healthwatch – Dec & Jan

g.     Consultations online: http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/consultations.htm

h.     Police and Crime Commissioners Precept:

https://youtu.be/lsKkPmUd1Nc

 

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

The Board noted the following written updates and information available online via the links provided in the agenda:

 

a.     Supporting those with SEND into employment

b.     Public Space Protection Orders

c.     Work Wiltshire

d.     Clean Up Wiltshire

e.     Clinical Commissioning Group – Dec

f.       Healthwatch – Dec & Jan

g.     Consultations online: http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/consultations.htm

h.     Police and Crime Commissioners Precept:

https://youtu.be/lsKkPmUd1Nc

 

7.15pm

64.

Salisbury's Transport Issues

Come and contribute to the new Salisbury Transport Strategy, and hear your local Councillors’ ideas for wider transport infrastructure.

 

Minutes:

The Chairman introduced the main item on the agenda, Salisbury Transport Strategy Development. noting that with the increasing numbers of new houses already built and yet to be built, this impacted on the highways infrastructure. The Transport Strategy was being produced to accompany that growth.

 

Officers and Partners were in attendance to present information, hold round table exercises and answer questions.

 

Allan Creedy, Head of Sustainable Transport delivered a presentation, a copy of the slides are attached to these minutes for information.

 

Consultation was an important part of the process. The previous Strategy dated back to assumptions made in 2009, since then things had changed, particularly in the development world.

 

Adrian Taylor explained that Atkins was providing transport planning support to Wiltshire Council. They had been working on the Salisbury Transport Strategy.

 

Traffic Master data had shown that lot of short distance trips were made by car, people travelling to work on short journeys. This data could show where journey speeds were less than 10mph during the morning work traffic.

 

The Strategy will to look at extra movement/traffic from the new housing sites.

The model developed looked at a 10-year period, from 2016 to 2026 to see what impacts on the network would be, in two periods ten years apart.

 

The central area of Salisbury was also an air quality management area, there were some issue areas around the city.

 

There were several city centre car parks, the information suggests that the demand for parking did not exceed capacity. Suggesting an oversupply of city centre parking. That will affect the attractiveness of park and ride.

 

Sustrans did an audit review of the network and identified some gaps in the scope of cycling networks and a poor level of footways in the city centre. There were a significant number of residents in Salisbury who are travelling short distances by car.

 

Eight objectives had been created, these were shown on the slides at the meeting.

 

Questions and comments were taken, these included:

 

·         The A30 gets blocked, when were your figures taken as the new development of housing at Riverdown has had an impact on that road. Answer: There is existing queueing on there, it is something we have to look at.

·         The Park and Ride (P&R) provision closes down quite early compared to other cities, so workers on later shifts do not find it practical to use the P&R as it was closed. Travellers were also arriving to find the toilets closed and nowhere to wait. People have given up with the P&R as the routes have now been incorporated into other routes and take too long. Answer: The bus companies have been to stakeholders meeting and we will look into those issues.

·         The graph stating that car usage was high, how was that judged? Was it in comparison to other cities? Answer:  Car usage and car occupancy, was shown for Salisbury, Wiltshire and Nationally. This focused on the trips less than 2km in length. 30% make  ...  view the full minutes text for item 64.

8.00pm

65.

Partner and Community Updates

To note the written updates attached to the agenda and to receive any verbal updates from representatives present.

 

a)    Salisbury City Council (SCC)

b)    Laverstock and Ford Parish Council

c)     Police

d)    Fire

e)    Salisbury BID

f)      Community Engagement Manager

 

 

 

Note: Speakers are reminded that they each have a 3 minutes slot, unless they have previously discussed alternative arrangements with the Chairman.

Minutes:

To Board noted the written updates attached to the agenda and received verbal updates from representative’s present.

 

a)    Salisbury City Council (SCC) – Cllr Sven Hocking:

 

·         Butcher Row / Fish Row – Improvements to the footway had stared with the contactor now on site.  The black top and broken stones by the Poultry Cross would be replaced with similar removed from Fish Row and the rest would be replaced with York stone slabs as per the other pedestrianised parts of the City

·         SCC was setting up a working group to look at other areas of the City which might benefit from pedestrianisation, short, medium and long term.  WC was in the process of providing the previous reports around this work, so SCC did not have to start completely from scratch and once we have that we would draw up a wish list and go from there.

·         City Stewards were on station on a daily basis, they were assisting the public generally, keeping ASB at a super low level in the City Centre and monitoring and assisting the Police with intelligence around more serious cases.  Cllr Hocking and the stewards would be meeting with WC Licencing officers tomorrow to look at the ease at which high strength alcohol still seemed to be accessible to some of the street drinkers in the city. Working with WC officers and charitable partners to help those in this group with their various problems and assimilate them back into normal society.

·         The process to recruit a new City Clerk to replace the recently retired Reg Williams was underway.

·         Litter Working Group was gathering evidence around those businesses who dump their commercial waste on the street regardless of what day it is supposed to be collected and was also starting to have conversations with the waste collection companies around collecting on the days they were supposed to.  We are also working up policies and procedures for enforcement and the issuing of fixed penalties and were talking to other Councils which had the same in place currently.

·         The Parks and Grounds Maintenance team have a had a big splurge on graffiti in and around the City.  To keep a lid on the issue, they were now carrying a few tins of paint with them when they were out and about to cover new tags when they find them.

·         We have had an initial presentation around the Maltings development which was still in its infancy but, while there was still a way to go before there was a finite plan, the developers brought a whole gang of people from the Architect working up the designs to the Agents who would be selling the space so there was a clear sense that they were serious in their aspirations and committed to the project – far more so then the original outfit Stanhope – so all very positive.

·         The first meeting on Neighbourhood Planning (NHP) would be held on 29th July.

·         The Bike Show looked like it would be back  ...  view the full minutes text for item 65.

8.20pm

66.

Community Area Grants

To consider applications for funding from the Community Area Grants Scheme, as detailed in the attached report.

 

Applicant

Amount requested

Applicant: Wiltshire Council
Project Title: Sarum Sports Partnership

View full application
 

£5000.00

Applicant: Strange Old Things - The Mobile Museum
Project Title: Mobile Museum support to Mental Health Recovery

View full application
 

£750.00

Applicant: St Martin's Cof England VA Primary School
Project Title: Installing an Automated External Defibrillator AED

View full application
 

£615.56

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

The Board considered the applications for funding from the Community Grants Scheme as detailed in the report attached to the agenda.

 

Applicants present were invited to speak in support of their project and to answer questions. Following discussion, the Board voted on the applications in turn.

 

Decision

The application from Wiltshire Council/Sarum Sports Partnership was deferred until a future meeting.

Reason – The applicant had requested a deferral.

 

 

Strange Old Things - Q – What was the link to the Salisbury demographic?

A - It came out of the Human Henge project, where it was found that access to heritage was beneficial to mental health recovery, that was ongoing but what we have found that people were going through the experiment and coming out with friends. There was a wealth of statistical evidence to say that this works really well.

 

Decision

Strange Old Things – The Mobile Museum was awarded £750 towards the project to support mental health recovery.

Reason

The application met the Community Area Grant Criteria for 2017/18.

 

 

Decision

St Martins CoE England VA Primary School was awarded £615.56    towards the installation of an automated external defibrillator.

Reason

The application met the Community Area Grant Criteria for 2017/18.

 

8.35pm

67.

Health & Wellbeing Grants

To receive an update from the HWB Group and to consider any recommendations for funding as detailed in the attached papers.

 

Applicant

Amount requested

Recommendation

Juno Theatre – Salisbury Tales project

 

£800.00

Funding to be contributed from the Health & Wellbeing Group budget

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

The Board received an update from the Health & Wellbeing (HWB) Group from Lead Member, Cllr John Walsh.

 

·       Volunteering day on 2nd June – please consider this.

·       Dementia Friendly showcase from 9.30am – 1.00pm on 27th February.

 

 

The Board then considered the funding bid as detailed in the agenda.

 

Decision

Juno Theatre – Salisbury Tales Project was awarded £800 towards the project.

 

 

8.45pm

68.

Local Youth Network (LYN) Update and Youth Funding

To receive a update from the LYN and to consider any recommendations for youth funding projects as detailed in the attached report.

 

Application

Grant Amount

Applicant: SUKOSTA theatre company
Project Title: THEATRE EXERCISES

£4300

Applicant: South Wilts Grammar School for Girls
Project Title: Salisbury Schools Art Exhibition

£500

Total grant amount requested at this meeting

£4800

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

The Board received an update from lead Member Cllr Derek Brown:

 

·       In May, the Board raised concern that the level of young people involved in the LYN had fallen to such a low level that it was no longer representative of the young people. It was proposed that we moved the meetings to schools to raise numbers.

 

·       Following this move, we had 22 girls from SWGS taking part in the discussion at the last LYN meeting, where we considered the funding requests.

 

·       Thanks were given to the schools for working with us to enable more young people to be involved.

 

The Board then considered the recommendations for funding as detailed in the agenda papers.

 

Decision

The bid from Sukosta Theatre Company was refused.

Reason

The Board supported the LYNs view that the project would be more beneficial for primary school aged pupils.

 

Cllr Hocking noted that when an applicant puts in a funding request, it was preferred that a representative for the project, be in attendance to speak and answer questions.

 

It was also noted that the applicant; SWGS had been twice in the past for other funding projects, and that the Board would not keep giving money to the same group year on year.

 

Decision

South Wilts Grammar School for Girls was awarded £500 towards the Salisbury School Arts Exhibition, with the following note:

 

Note: The applicant be advised that this would be the last time they would be funded.

 

9.00pm

69.

Close

 

 

The date of the next meeting is Thursday March 15th, 7pm at City Hall, Salisbury.

 

Minutes:

David Brown: a year ago we debated what could happen on the Southampton Road, they said they would come back and never have.  Chair’s response:

Highways England are in charge of the A36, they have been twice to the Area Board. 

Karen – we had hoped they would be here tonight but only if they had a meaningful update for us. They will be back later in the year.

 

The Chairman thanked everyone for attending and noted that the next meeting of the Salisbury Area Board would be held on Thursday 15 March 2018, 7.00pm at City Hall, Salisbury.