An investment plan for Parks and Green Spaces
The Neighbourhood Partnership is developing an investment plan for parks and green spaces. The plan which will be considered by ward councillors at the December meeting of the Neighbourhood Partnership. Once agreed it will inform how devolved funding is allocated to parks and green spaces.
This is an important piece of work for the area and will be of particular interest to resident/parks groups.
Last year the Council published its ‘Parks and Green Spaces Strategy’ for consultation. Some of you will have responded to this document.
Using the feedback the Council Parks Team is making a number of recommendations about the priorities for the Ashley, Easton & Lawrence Hill area. The full document explaining the process and the recommendations is attached and available here:
http://issuu.com/aelh/docs/ashley__easton_and_lawrence_hill_ve
Your feedback
Attached is a feedback sheet, or download here:
http://issuu.com/aelh/docs/parks_and_green_spaces_consultation_feedback_sheet
which lists the proposed priorities for across area (strategic), the priority parks and the things that need doing in each of the parks. Next to each priority is a box for you to say if you agree, disagree or to make alternative proposals. We need this information by the end of September.
What next?
We will collate the feedback sheets and use this to decide if there’s a need for any further consultation work or discussion. If there is broad agreement it will be a fairly straight forward process to develop a plan. If however there is disagreement or lots of alternative suggestions we may need to have further meetings. Parks groups or residents groups which include a park are very important in this process. If you have plans for the park but they are not reflected in the recommendations we need to know about them. Councillors will consider the final document at the Neighbourhood Partnership meeting on the 14th December.
Membership of the Neighbourhood Partnership
The NP is reviewing the membership of the Neighbourhood Partnership.There are four possible ways of going forward set out in the document at:
http://issuu.com/aelh/docs/np_membership_options_sept_2011
plus a list of current members is here:
http://issuu.com/aelh/docs/ae_lh_np_membership_list_for_review_sept_11
Three options will be presented to the NP for consideration at its meeting on the 5th October. We would like to hear from you which option or options you prefer? We will pass your feedback to the NP meeting in October. The NP will then need to decide which option should be developed during October, November for agreement at the December meeting. The new arrangements will be implemented in January 2011.
Traffic & Environment
Some funding to help with minor traffic schemes (e.g. pedestrian crossing) and cleaning up grotty spaces is devolved to ward
councillors. If you have suggestions or ideas please let us know.
All these items were discussed at the Ashley Neighbourhood Forum and will be discussed at the Easton & Lawrence Hill Forum on Tuesday 13th September, 6.30-8.30 at the City Academy.
From an email from Penny Germon,
Neighbourhood Manager For Easton & Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Management, St Pauls Unlimited & the Ashley, Easton & Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Partnership
