DAWN - AUGUST 2013 

WEST FELTON PARISH PLAN 2013-2014 STEERING GROUP MINUTES

MEETING HELD AT:     Methodist Church Hall – West Felton

DATE/TIME          :       Tuesday 23rd July 2013 – 7pm

MEETING 5 – MINUTES 5

PRESENT     :     Heather Gibson, Matt Gibson, Steve Haworth    

John Houghton, Chris Jones, David Inns, Ian Walker, Chris Jones (C), Peter Sturgess

APOLOGIES  :      Gill Porter (RC), Pauline Lovegrove, Judith Roberts, Corrie Davies                    (SC), Gordon McCombe, Pat Mabe,

ITEM 1- Welcome

SH welcomed the group members.

ITEM 2 - Apologies

SH gave apologies for those who were unable to attend the meeting. SH said that CD was at another meeting, but will keep up to date with what we are doing. GM has got an eye injury. PM is not feeling well. PL is on holiday. GP cannot attend. MD turned up early to say “he will have to resign”, he is feeling unenergetic, but will still help.

ITEM 3 – Minutes of Meeting 4 – 25^th June 2013 to be agreed

     Minutes agreed by the group.

ITEM 4 – Matters Arising from Meeting 4

          SH confirmed that the group had received a copy of the 2005 questionnaire. Item        10.

ITEM 5 – LJC youth activities grant application – SH, CD

 SH advised in the absence of CD that we had been awarded the £500.00, this          will be in the account within the next few days.

ITEM 6 – Carnival Stalls Report – SH, PS, JH

SH and PS had a stall at the Carnival to collect information on young activities. JH and IW had a stall for the environment.  The group looked at the overall results which had been emailed to them.

     A thank you to MD for the amount of photo he had taken on the day. Hopefully      they would be available for publication.

ITEM 7 – Finance Report - PM

Same as last time except for the payments for £15.00 room rent and £28.00 for the mini bus trip.  £1833.66 left in bank.      

ITEM 8 – Planning Application 13/01221/OUT – Update - CJ’s

SH said he is not aware of any changes. Hopefully we should hear that the planning application will be heard at the next planning committee meeting.

ITEM 9 – Blog site - PS

SH asked if PS would speak to MD about putting some of the carnival photos on the website.  PS put the school meeting on there.  SH updates on the progress of the group.

ITEM 10 – Project Plan Group – progress & Monitoring – IW, SH

SH said just to update IW from the last meeting, the group was finding the document difficult to read, due to the size.  IW said he will make the text bigger and re-email it round.  SH said is important for when we come into our more active period which is approaching fast.  We will need to keep this up to date and mark off as the group complete items.

 ITEM 11 – Group progress Reports

i.            Schoolchildren and Young persons – PS, SH,

PS said on the advice of JP he did not use the questionnaire at the carnival.  This will be revised and sent out with the main questionnaire. This is where the £500.00 comes in where they will go around the leisure actives in the village and arrange the vouchers.  All the children who fill in the questionnaire will have the change to collect a voucher, as long has the parent agrees.

ii.          Sports/Leisure Clubs/Elderly and Disability/Churches – PM, PL, PS

Nothing new, update at next meeting.

iii.        Workers/employers/ICT/Commercials – HG, MG, PS, GM, DI

GM email address will be in the next parish magazine asking if any local business would like to contribute.  Shropshire Council are very keen to have an updated list, they would like to hopefully be able to offer means for development.

iv.         Liaison with surrounding Parishes – IW,JR

CD has emailed IW as suggested that The Five Perry Parishes meeting he should attended.  SH said “the next LJC meeting will be in West Felton Village Hall”. He should also contact the clerks and council members; he will email and see when he is back and wait development from there.

v.           Parking/Traffic/Highways/infrastructure-SH, JH

Nothing new to report.

vi.         Bridging, Planning and Building Development – CJ, CJ (c)

CJ is keeping an eye on the Tedsmore development and CJ (c) is watching out on the pylon.

vii.         Environment – JH, IW

JH when through his email sent to the group.  The information gathered via the store at the carnival.

viii.     Transportation – GM, DI

DI spoke to the group about his thoughts on this topic, he has put a questionnaire together, and the group spoke on the best way forward with this.

ix.         Publicity – MD, PM

SH thinks we can still rely on MD for help in smaller issues.

ACTION – EACH GROUP TO PUT TOGETHER A PROPOSAL ON HOW THEY WILL PROGRESS FORWARD. GROUPS NEED TO MEET UP AND WORK OUT WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO.

SH WILL SEND OUT GILL PORTERS DETAILS, THE GROUP CAN TALK TO HER IF NEEDED ON WHAT THEY NEED TO DO.

ITEM 12 – Any other Business

SH reminded the group that they need to start thinking about any money they need to spend.        

SH said that we used to have three Parish Council members before PE resigned, would the group like another Parish Council member on the group, group said yes.

PS said he will not be able to attend meeting from September, he will be working away.         

    

ITEM 13 – Date of next meeting

          4^th September 2013 at 7.00pm

Parish Plan Update 6 - Creating Working Groups' Terms of Reference

PARISH PLAN UPDATE 06

PLANNING GROUPS’ TERMS OF REFERENCE

The 5^th Steering Group meeting was in the Methodist Church Hall at 7pm on Tuesday 23^rd July.

The West Felton Carnival produced some good results for both the young people’s working group and the environment working group from their respective stalls. Each group showed their findings. For young people the best favoured aspect of the Parish was considered its environment, the worst feature being traffic and travel around the area.

A reminder that any West Felton based, young persons’ activity provider interested in being part of the scheme to promote their activities, through the Plan, should contact Steve on 610126 or Pete Sturgess on 611811.

There was considerable interest in the environment group’s stall which showed some old photographs of the Parish leading to many good old reminiscences – most of which are probably true! We are hoping to get these published on the blogsite in the next few weeks. This can be viewed on: wfparishplan.blogspot.co.uk .

They also found out a great deal about the things West Feltoners like to do in their leisure time as well as the things about the local environment which they want to maintain, improve or do away with. – Walking is the most favoured activity. Many people want to have controlled building development and improved cable connections for ICT. Three major nuisances were made known: - speeding traffic, dog-fouling and, the most reported, building development.

On the latter subject, most people will be aware that there is now a revised outline application for Tedsmore estate’s land north of Tedsmore Road. This can be seen on Shropshire Council’s Planning website for the 13/01221/OUT application. The new suggestion is for 35 houses and 4 commercial units. Opinions can still be placed on the website as before and would be welcomed for this adjusted scheme.

Each of the working groups reported on their progress. The business, employment, ICT and commerce group have made great progress in determining the many companies working within the Parish, but are still interested in trying to assist particularly smaller businesses to get recognition and any possible help from Shropshire Council. A reminder of the contact for anyone wishing to make their business known: - Gordon McCombe by e mail at gordonmccombe@aol.com .

These and the other groups will be establishing their plans over the next few weeks so that by late summer they can really get stuck into finding out quality information to lead to improving the quality of life in West Felton Parish

Those groups again are:

• Schoolchildren and Young Persons
• Elderly & Disability Groups with Sports & Leisure clubs and Churches
• Liaison with surrounding and Perry Parishes
• Business, Employment, Commerce and ICT
• Parking, Traffic, Highways, with Infrastructure (statutory undertakers)
• Bridging, Planning & Building Development
• Environment
• Transportation issues (buses, trains, coaches, taxies, canals, airstrips etc) -
• Publicity

We are likely in a few weeks to need some extra legs to help with particular group work. If you might like to help, please contact either me Steve on 01691 610126 to discuss or nominate the group/s you’d like to help with.

Further information via Steve Haworth – 610126