Agenda item

To note the written updates attached to the agenda and to receive any verbal updates from representative’s present.

a)    Salisbury City Council (SCC)

b)    Laverstock and Ford Parish Council

c)    Police

d)    Fire

e)    Salisbury BID

f)      Community Engagement Manager

g)    Air Quality Group

h)    Plastics & Recycling Project Group

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

The Board noted the written updates attached to the agenda and received

verbal updates from representative’s present.

Salisbury City Council (SCC) – Annie Child Clerk

·         Salisbury had been declared one of the most litter free cities in England

·         The Sunday Times had awarded Salisbury as the best place to live 2019

·         The Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group had a schedule of six Community engagement meetings, with further information available on the SCC website.

·         The annual Mayor Making will take place on Saturday with a Civic luncheon on Sunday. Cllr John Walsh will be made Mayor for 2019/20.

Laverstock and Ford Parish Council – Karen Beard 

·         The boardwalk replacement project was moving forward with contracts for tenders about to be issued.

·         Progressing on the Neighbourhood plan

·         The ownership of the Country Park was transferred to the PC in April

·         A Ranger had been taken on and was putting together some sub working groups.

·         There had been slow progress on the link paths from Old Sarum to Longhedge.

·         Old Sarum Water Meadows was the area’s green corridor.

·         Thanks, were given to the Area Board for the £1000 contribution towards the hoggin path near the school. Children used it for first time last week.

Police – Inspector Pete Sparrow

In addition to the written report in the pack, Inspector Sparrow updated on the following:

·         A new inspector was in post for the Amesbury area, which now allowed Pete to focus on the Salisbury area.

·         A County Lines Intensification week was coming up with a strong focus on drug dealing problems associated with this issue.

·         We continue to do our checks on our vulnerable people. We had recently made 4 arrests.

·         Crime figures published showed there had been a decrease of 3% in Salisbury.

·         Burglary and vehicle crime went down 25%. Robbery went up so we will look at the possible reasons for that.

·         Our teams would be focusing on antisocial behaviour over the summer months.

Questions:

·         The geographical areas for your Officers are not clear on the update, could we have a boundary map? Answer: Yes, I will circulate one to Board members after the meeting.

·         There may be a typo on p58 of the pack as the allocation of staff looks duplicated for one area? Answer: I will take a look

Community Engagement Manager – Karen Linaker

A Beat the Street poster was circulated at the meeting. This advertised a new initiative to get people out and active. Collect a card/fob from either the Library or Leisure centre, make your way around the city to find the sites. Log in at each site on lampposts to show you have been out and about. A voucher award was available for participating schools.

Air Quality Group

The group had not formally met since last time. The sub group had met to pull through all the amazing ideas from the themed meeting in January and were working on an action plan which would be presented at the next AQMG meeting next month.

Comments: Cllr Douglas – The action plan was great. WC had decided to have a Cabinet member for climate change, it would be useful to connect to that person.

Plastics & Recycling Project Group – Mike Lennard.

The Group had produced an action plan with 22 actions, as detailed in the paper attached to the agenda. Some of the actions included working with businesses to encourage a return bottle offer and the installation of some duel waste bins.

The next event was scheduled for 22^nd June.

Questions and comments:

·         With the duel waste bins, you note that you haven’t been able to contact anyone. It seems that Wiltshire were resisting these bins. Someone must be able to join this up.

·         I would recommend that you contact the Cabinet member for Climate Change, the CEM can put you in touch.

Salisbury City Council – The duel waste bins are part of a trial we are due to run in the next couple of weeks in the market square.