Agenda item

To receive any verbal updates including an update from the Community Area Transport Group (CATG).

To note the attached written updates from:

·       Fire and Rescue Service

·       Police

·       NHS

·       CATG

The Board noted the attached updates in addition to the verbal updates received.

Wiltshire Fire Authority

Councillor Devine gave a brief update, the Fire Authority had been looking at the budget for the coming year. There would be no cuts to the frontline services.

Wiltshire Police

The community Neighbourhood Policing Team report was attached to the agenda and Inspector Noble gave a further update during his presentation in item 11.

Community Area Transport Group (CATG)

Tom Bray, Community Area Manager, drew attention to the update included in the agenda pack. Parish Councils were invited to identify new schemes which could be considered in 2012. It had not yet been confirmed whether funding would be available the following year for transport projects, however the Board felt that it was important to identify any schemes which needed looking at in the community area.

Tom requested that Parish Councils review any new requests for schemes in their area and report them to him by 24 February 2012. 

Youth Update

Tony Nye, Youth Development Coordinator, gave an update to the Board relating to forthcoming changes, he added that one of the ways his team was able to continue to provide all of the services was with continued support from  the Area Board and others. The Leisure Credit scheme was not funded by the Youth Service, so providing there were other avenues for funding or access to grants the leisure credit scheme would continue in 2012/13.

Questions and comments were then taken from the room:

·       Could Trading Standards be asked to provide the information collected from the Lorry Watch groups? Answer: Tom Bray would liaise with Trading Standards who run the scheme.

·       Downton Parish Councillor Chris Hall raised a query relating to the Community Asset Transfer (CAT) which had been agreed at the previous Board meeting, involving the Chalk Pit, Muddyford Lane, Redlynch.

He felt that as the land lay just inside the boundary of Downton, the Council should have offered the land to Downton Parish Council, rather than the applicants; Redlynch Parish Council. He asked for the Board to suspend the transfer of land until both parishes had had an opportunity to meet and discuss the transfer in more detail. Answer: The Chairman agreed to suspend the transfer until Redlynch and Downton Parish Councils could meet in January 2012. Councillors Randall and Johnson agreed to attend the meeting and feed back to the Board at its next meeting on 2 February 2012.

·       West Dean Parish Council asked if the Board would audit their VDS, which they had completed in 2009. The parish of West Dean straddled the border between Wiltshire and the Test Valley, so a copy of the VDS had also been sent to Test Valley Council who had already adopted it. Answer: The Chairman agreed to conduct an audit of the VDS on behalf of the Area Board, but noted that the Board did not have the powers to formally adopt the document.

Action: Cllr Britton to conduct an audit of the VDS submitted by West Dean Parish Council.