Agenda and minutes
Venue: Microsoft Teams Virtual Meeting
Contact: Rebecca Binstead
Media
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Chairman's Welcome Welcome from Cllr David Anthony, Chairman of the Beeches Community Board |
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Apologies Minutes: Apologies were received from Cllr R Bagge and Cllr T Hogg
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Minutes of previous meeting PDF 426 KB Minutes: RESOLVED The minutes of the meeting held on 17 February 2021 were AGREED as an accurate record. |
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Declarations of Interest Minutes: There were no declarations of interest. |
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Beeches CB Introduction 202122 PDF 1 MB To review the Community Board’s achievements for 2020/21 and discuss updated procedures for 2021/22 Minutes: Mr J Pearce, Community Board Co-Ordinator, referred to a presentation a copy of which would be appended to these minutes.
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Service Director Update PDF 249 KB To receive an update on any Council-wide matters of interest from the Director of Education, Simon James Additional documents: Minutes: Mr S James, Service Director for Education, joined the meeting to give an overview of Children’s Services at Buckinghamshire Council.
Mr James highlighted the following:
RESOLVED Members of the board NOTED the updated. |
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Update on Action Groups PDF 402 KB To consider and agree the action groups for 2021/22 and receive the notes of the previous round of sub-group meetings for information · Notes of the Infrastructure & Highways sub-group -17th March 2021 · Notes of the Supporting Older & Vulnerable People sub-group – 23rd March 2021 · Notes of the Young People sub-group – 18th March 2021 Additional documents:
Minutes: Chairmen of the board’s action groups referred to the updates circulated with the agenda.
In addition Cllr D Dhillon, Chairman of the Young People Action Group noted that issues with anti-social behaviour, including drug use, in Mill Lane, Burnham had been reported. Work was underway to identify a way forward.
The following action groups would be formed for the year ahead:
Those interested in joining action groups should email Mr J Pearce Jack.Pearce@buckinghamshire.gov.uk.
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Presentation - Economic Recovery Minutes: Ms J Ford, Local Economic Growth team, gave a presentation.
Ms Ford stressed the important of feedback from local areas to know what local wants and needs were.
The following ideas were raised:
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For attendees to ask any questions submitted in advance or to receive questions from those in attendance Minutes: Residents Ms D Walsh and Ms M Waruhiu raised concerns about noise, vibrations and air pollution, which left visible diesel particles on windows, caused by heavy goods vehicles (HGV) on the narrow A355 through Lalkland. This affected nearby houses and several local schools.
They raised the following points:
Concern was raised over the number of emergency vehicles using sirens in addition to blue lights at the Park Road junction, Farnham Royal, including late into the night when there was no traffic around.
Mr Pearce gave an update on the parking consultation carried out across the county in May/June 2021 following concerns raised about inconsiderate parking in areas of natural beauty. Locally Dorney Lake and Burnham Beeches had been identified as having issues. There had been over 1500 responses and local events had been well attended. The Parking team would now collate responses and prepare a report which would be brought to the Highways and Infrastructure action group once available.
Mr S Garwood referred to the policing update provided by Thames Valley Police, a copy of which would be appended to these minutes.
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To note applications which have been considered since the previous meeting Minutes: Mr J Pearce, Community Board Co-Ordinator, referred to the paper circulated with the agenda.
Buckinghamshire Culture There was an ongoing application, previously circulated to members, from Buckinghamshire Culture for £2000 to support the Buckinghamshire Open Weekend. This would allow Buckinghamshire Culture to make 8 additional microgrants from their existing pool of applications. Any unspent monies would be returned to the community board. Members of the community board were not minded to support the application reasons given included:
RESOLVED Members of the board REFUSED the application made by Buckinghamshire Culture for £2000.
Lighthouse Cllr T Egleton queried why the applications made by the Lighthouse group to support their summer childcare programme had been refused by several community boards. Mr Pearce explained that while the programme would be made available to the whole community the application had made specific references to promoting one particular religion and was therefore felt to be unsuitable. This application would be reviewed with the new Cabinet Member for Localism.
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Looking ahead - ideas for themed meetings throughout the year Minutes: It was agreed that the focus for the October meeting would be community safety with an attendee from local policing team.
Suggestions for topics for future meetings should be sent on to Mr Pearce.
The first meetings of the new action groups would be in July and a timetable for work/future meetings would then be agreed.
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Date of next meeting Minutes: 19 October 2021, time TBC
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