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Written 30/05/03
A meeting of the CPG was held at the Glade Infants School on Friday 23rd
May 2003 at 7.00pm.
Present:
| Martin LeGrand | Secretary
| | Dave Benham | Resident
| | Pauline Williams | Resident
| | William H.C.Harvey | Resident
| | Ronald Black | Resident
| | Bella Cobby | Resident
| | Guy Parfect | WSCC
| | Kim Lampitt | SRA Ltd.
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Appologies:
Susan Gallant, Fiona Mosley, Andrew Clark (Chairman)
In the absence of the Chairman, and there currently being no Vice-Chair,
Guy Parfect very kindly stepped-in to act as Chairman for this meeting.
- Matters Arising The Secretary reported the resignation of Mr Dave Parsons
as an active member of the CPG due to work commitments. He had expressed a
wish to be kept informed, and said he would still help if he was available
when the need arose. No other matters were raised.
- Report from Steering Group Guy Parfect delivered this report in the
absence of Vince McCabe. The preliminary plans of the Home Zone were
presented at the Steering Group meeting for comment prior to the Workshops
to be held on Saturday 10th May. Guy detailed the proposed changes to the
Home Zone streets. A technical design group is to be appointed as a sub-
group of the Steering Group to provide feasibility information on the
design proposals, to be incorporated into the next version of the plans.
This next version will be the final architects' plans which will be the
basis of the engineering plans.
A youth representation meeting was held at the Youth Club and attended
by Kirsty Routledge and Vince McCabe, but produced no positive
results. A Saturday meeting may be convened at the Youth Club in one
further attempt to attract youth representation to the project. The
next Steering Group meeting will be 3rd June.
- Home Zone Design Day 10th June Two sessions were held to enable the
consultation process to be more manageable. This also allowed resident
children to participate.
Each session began with a presentation delivered by Joe Marchant
followed by discussions in groups around tables at which the plans
made available for comments by the residents. Among the issues raised
were parking spaces, access to driveways, traffic speeds, street
lighting, litter, and suitability of layout for visually impaired
people. It was stated by the designers that the design should be self-
policing, and obstructions such as deviations in road alignment should
be no more than 40 metres apart. A continuous walkway of at least 1
metre width was required between the buildings and road.
The residents expressed a desire for the planting to be restricted to
semi-mature trees. It was also made absolutely clear that there will
be major disruption to normal use of the streets during the
construction phase.
The children expressed their concerns about broken glass laying in the
streets, the lack of facilities in the recreation park, and crossing
roads to school, etc..
The Low Speed Zone consultation should be in late July.
The plans of the Home Zone which were displayed at the Workshops were
also made available to this CPG meeting for members to study and
discuss.
- Nominations for Vice Chair Guy Parfect asked if anyone was interested in
this post and Ronald Black responded. The Secretary reported that the
Chairman had ideas on the "officer" membership of the group and suggested
this item be deferred until the next meeting to enable the Chairman to
reveal his ideas. This item is, therefore, deferred until the next CPG
meeting.
- CPG Name Change A suggestion was made that since most of the Project area
was in the Pevensey electoral ward the name should include "Pevensey". This
was unanimously supported by all present. The Secretary, Chairman and Vice-
Chair designate were instructed by the Acting Chairman to meet and discuss
this item to bring a firm suggestion to the next meeting.
Constitution - This item must be addressed urgently if funding beyond
present project is required.
- Social Event SRA Ltd. volunteered (through Kim Lampitt) to fund a prize
for the event. The date of the event could be late June/early July. It is
essential this timing be achieved, but it must be no later than the middle
of July to coincide with publication of the plans of the Low Speed Zone.
- Nomination for Social Event Organiser - It was noted that Vince McCabe had
previously offered to take-on this task. The committee gratefully accepted
this in his absence.
- Any Other Business Agenda and Minutes to be distributed to all interested
parties by no later than two weeks prior to the next meeting. Sample
information packs for street reps. to distribute to new residents to be
available at next meeting. The Secretary to provide a list of all CPG
members to Kim Lampitt , to enable him to check and confirm that all
streets are represented on the committee, and to include details of all
committee members in the information packs so that residents know who to
contact for up-to-date information about the projects.
Date of Next Meeting - Wednesday 18th June 2003 at 7.00pm at the Glade
Infants School.
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