Agenda and draft minutes
Venue: MS Teams
Contact: Liz Charter, Community Board Manager
Media
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Minutes: Welcome to everyone and highlighted how the Community Board can interact on projects for the benefit of the Community and linking back to Buckinghamshire Council. Tonight’s theme is on Community Safety and we welcome our presenters from TVP, Bucks FRS and Buckinghamshire Council |
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Apologies/Declarations of Interest / Minutes of last meeting PDF 151 KB Minutes: Apologies – Cllr David Brackin, Cllr Grant Kirby, Cllr Tim Butcher, Cllr Andrew Wood, Cllr Guy Hollis, Cllr Jonathan Rush No declarations of interest Minutes of last meeting – agreed as an accurate record |
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Buckinghamshire Council Updates PDF 131 KB Simon James, Service Director Education Minutes: Makyla Devlin – Senior Community Board Manager
Question – Cllr Isobel Derby - rural broadband – no of premises in the area that have been affected – how do any of the items within the update affect Denham and Gerrards Cross CB? ACTION LC – to feed back to Board and include with action notes of meeting – see full Corporate update for details |
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Community Matters Questions from members of the public can be submitted in advance of the meeting to denhamgxchalfonts@Buckinghamshire.gov.uk Minutes: Public Questions – none received prior to the meeting |
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TVP – James Ellis Neighbourhood Inspector, TVP Community Safety – Abdul Rahim, Community Safety Manager, Buckinghamshire Council. Additional documents: Minutes: TVP – Inspector James Ellis –. The report was attached to the agenda pack
Question – Cllr Carl Jackson – ASB from secondary school pupils intimidating residents. How should this be reported. Answer – further presence in the area by TVP and look at interventions with parents of pupils and working with Bucks Council Community Safety Team. Residents to be encouraged to report incidents on line rather than 999
Abdul Rahim – Buckinghamshire Council – Community Safety (slides will be provided with the action notes)
Question – Cllr Des Bray – ASB including public sexual activity in the open. Can the Council do something about it as the school holidays are imminent. It is in Hodgemoor Woods ACTION – AR will liaise with Forestry
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Community Board Update Engagement Event & other activities Action Groups Minutes: Engagement event and other activities Coronation events, a CB engagement event as well as Proud of Bucks Awards have taken place.
Projects
Budget position 2023/24 £108,496 |
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Action Group Updates Community Safety TS Sustainability Action Group JC Infrastructure & Highways JR/DB Health & Wellbeing ID Minutes: Community Safety – Cllr Tony Shinner – Chairman Sustainability- Cllr Jane Chamberlain- Chairman Infrastructure and Highways – Cllr Des Bray- Vice Chairman Health & Wellbeing – Cllr Isobel Darby – Chairman
MEMO TO Liz Charter & Members of the Community Board FROM Tony Shinner (Cllr Chalfont St Peter Parish Council) DATE 13.07.2023 RE Acton Group: Community Safety
1 My apologies to those attending for my being unable to take part in Tuesday’s Community Board meeting due to IT problems.(I had been using internet throughout the day without problem but had trouble logging into MSTeams, then found neither video nor microphone would work, nor could I use the chatbox. I did listen to most of the meeting however and this is what I intended to say ref Community Safety
2 I have discussed this prevliousy with Liz Charter as coordinator and we generated a short list of issues we think merit most attention. Mindful of the limited funding we should look for other actions his action group can recommend
3 A significantly increasing problem concerns Fraud, and how we as smaller communities can help challenge it. I include in this cold calling especially to garner house and garden repairs; but internet and telephone activity is reaching serious levels
These activities cross over with ID theft and other criminal activity. Sadly the profile of the victims tends to be the more vulnerable in the community,
The issue is often in getting advice to those sectors of the community, and providing them with the knowledge to resist scams. A number of organisations already provide this sort of service (eg Help The Aged). It would be helpful to find out what advice is available in the different communities this board services
4 Of concern to residents in the SL9 area in particular is the Pony Trap racing on the A413. We hope to receive an update of the work Bucks Council and Thames Valley Police have been investing in by way of partnership. This is an extreme example of several Public Order issues which need to be compared from community to community
5 In two previous years we have discussed CCTV and we were asked by Buckinghamshire Council to think twice about investing in new systems and/or software whilst they agreed a uniform approach across the county.
6 CCTV goes hand in hand with another issue: Fly Tipping. Again an exchange of information between communities can be helpful as much of this activity takes place along country lanes between communities
7 Speeding and Parking issues continue to irritate members of the public. In some communities (eg ChStPeter) inconsistent enforcement leads to abuse of free parking facilities, yet one hour free parking is often the make or break for survival of many small businesses. What is your experience?. Should the larger T&PC’s be allowed to contribute towards the cost of additional enforcement. Chalfont St Peter have been asking for this for at least three years
Tony Shinner (cllr. ... view the full minutes text for item 7. |
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Date of Next Meeting and Close Minutes: 16th November 2023 6.30pm via Teams |