Issue - meetings

Councillor Jones stated the full reasons for the recommendations to refuse the applications for a Neighbourhood Forum and a Neighbourhood Area were described in the report.

The Council had assessed the applications and had found that the current distribution of the forum membership was not drawn from different places across the proposed neighbourhood area. Further, the membership was not representative of the area sought for designation with respect to sections of the community and business and education sectors within the area.

As a consequence of the recommendation to refuse the application for the forum, officers had also recommended that the application for the neighbourhood area should be refused, as alone it would serve no purpose.

AGREED UNANIMOUSLY BY CABINET:

That Cabinet:

1.    Refuses the application to designate the Avonmore, Brook Green and Addison Neighbourhood Steering group as a Neighbourhood Forum.

2.    Refuses the application to designate Avonmore, Brook Green as a Neighbourhood Area.