Fran Melvin, Simon Fullylove, Julie St Clare-Hoare, Susanna Pressel, Anne James, Rebecca Carley, Ossi Mosley, Rebecca Harty
Apologies: Anna Pearson, Peter Lund, Ann Furtado, Philippa Lanchbery, Richard Thurston, Doug Nevill, Vicky Hirsch, Kate Stewart, Fr Russell Dewhurst,
Updated action plan to take the place of meeting minutes. Actions in bold
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Flooding |
- The subgroup is adapting the Environment Agency’s flood plan template headings and layout to suit the needs of the West Oxford community. A small group is working on flood procedures- by categorising streets and looking at what needs to be done on a street-by-street basis, and establishing if there are street representatives on each street. JSCH suggested that pupils at West Oxford Primary School could work on producing/ publishing the plan possibly in the summer term. OM/ grp to progress and cost flood plan production
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Anti-social behaviour and drug dealing
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- In preparation for the NAG public meeting on Tuesday 26th February 10.00am in the Old Library, Oxford Town Hall, the Police have been engaged in doorstep consultation in West Oxford, asking what the top three issues are in the area. They will be sharing the findings and looking at solutions at the meeting in February.
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Traffic and environment
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Traffic:
- The Low Carbon West Oxford Group has merged with the traffic and transport community planning group to become- Low Carbon West Oxford Transport Solutions Group
- FM and Richard Mann have produced an audit of traffic issues in the area and possible solutions. They categorised issues as short, medium and long-term. F and R presented their findings to the subgroup meting 04/02/08. The meeting expressed thanks for F and R’s hard work.
- The group will be meeting with a Highways Engineer on Wednesday 27th February to begin a dialogue about the audit and explore if any of the issues identified can be addressed. The report and accompanying photographs will be available to view on the WOCA website shortly.
- New bus shelters installed on the Botley Road can be moved nearer the curb to make sure that the cycle track runs behind them, so that cyclists and bus users are not competing for the pavement if highways approve.
Litter and other environmental eyesores:
- West Oxford Primary School will be taking part in the OxClean project on 15th March. It could be that other groups in the area tie in with the school to clean up the wider area. There was some concern about timescales to co-ordinate local groups in time for OxClean. West Oxford Primary School will be staging an Eco Festival in July, perhaps this group should work towards co-ordinating an effort to tie in with the festival.
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Social inclusion working group |
- The two main issues identified for the subgroup to tackle:
- strengthen links and participation of different types of people in the area- many living in West Oxford are not making use of local community facilities and services
- specific interventions- possibly producing a local service directory that could be distributed to all households in the area, promoting local facilities and services on offer. Opportunity to bring a lot of information together within one publication. Would need to be certain that not duplicating the work of the WOCA newsletter and that work is joined up- Richard Grant is planning a publication aimed at children and young people in the area. The leaflet could be web-based, linked to external websites such as County Councils Children’s information service.
- SF presented a costed proposal for an Internet café for children and silver surfers who do not have access to a computer/ the Internet at home. The group agreed to commit £500.00 from the community plan budget to get the initiative off the ground.
- Richard Grant is also planning to set up a kids club at WOCC aimed at 9-11 year olds
- AJ would like to be involved in the social inclusion work
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