Agenda and minutes
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Minutes of the last meeting To approve as an accurate record, and the Chairman to sign, the minutes of the meeting held on the 9th December 2014.
Minutes: RESOLVED -
That the minutes of the meeting held on the 9th December be approved as an accurate record subject to the following changes:
The chair requested that the Friends of Wormwood Scrubs attendance at the previous meeting be recognised in the attendance list of the previous minutes.
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“The Friends notified Members that they had encountered many people”
to become:
“The Friends notified Members that they had encountered some people”
Matters Arising
In response to the action to seek legal advice on the HS2 mitigation proposals officers reported that the only route open to the trust as influence was petitioning.
Councillor Harcourt confirmed he had sent information regarding the meeting with Victoria Mills to the group.
Officers updated the trust that the open space that was being sought for the MDC north of the canal did not include the existing nature reserve, and that a new area was being proposed.
Officers reported that the price for the installation of the barrier had been quoted as £27,300, which would not include maintenance. Members reported that more quotes needed to be sought for the decision to be signed off by a Cabinet Member.
The Friends of Wormwood Scrubs notified members that the memorial bench had been installed and was due for inauguration on the 7th March at 10am. This was to be followed by the Friends of Wormwood Scrubs AGM at 11am, to which all members were invited.
In response to the request in the previous meeting the director of finance explained that as the £200,000 was being treated as a reduction on the arrears it would not be possible to split the £200,000 payment from the car park to allow the trust to report a budgetary surplus. Members asked that enquires were made to the hospital to see if they would be willing to release any amount of the money, even just the small amount needed to make the trust break even. Action: Mark Jones
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Apologies for absence Minutes: Apologies for absence had been received from Dave Page, Director for Safer Neighbourhoods.
Apologies for lateness had been received from Cllr Carlebach and Ian Ross. |
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Declarations of interest If a Councillor has any prejudicial or personal interest in a particular item they should declare the existence and nature of the interest at the commencement of the consideration of that item or as soon as it becomes apparent.
At meetings where members of the public are allowed to be in attendance and speak, any Councillor with a prejudicial interest may also make representations, give evidence or answer questions about the matter. The Councillor must then withdraw immediately from the meeting before the matter is discussed and any vote taken unless a dispensation has been obtained from the Standards Committee.
Where Members of the public are not allowed to be in attendance, then the Councillor with a prejudicial interest should withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is under consideration unless the disability has been removed by the Standards Committee. Minutes: There were no declarations of interest.
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To receive a report from the Director for Safer Neighbourhoods and the Director for Finance and Resources, ELRS on recent management activity.
Minutes: The committee received a report from the Director for Finance and Resources updating the trust on management activity carried out since the last meeting.
The report covered the following areas:
Opposition to the Wetland Mitigation Area Proposed in HS2 Bill
Officers updated the trust on a meeting that had taken place between Cllr Harcourt, the Friends and HS2 on the 4th February, in which the removal of the artillery wall had been highlighted as the desired mitigation. HS2 had given more detail to what the mitigation had to entail, explaining that 21 hectares of railway siding would need replacing and the mitigation area had to be equivalent to what was being removed. The wall’s removal would not meet these requirements; with the additional factor cited of there already being a habitat against the wall. The mound had also been proposed to HS2 as a mitigation option, but this had been rejected a as a proposal for being too isolated.
Officers reported however that the wall had been officially designated as a “dangerous structure” by the council. This would guarantee its removal using council funds. A contamination study had also been carried out on the scrubs and it was reported that a small amount of asbestos had been found in the mound. This meant that the best means of containing the contamination may be for the mound to remain in place.
Councillor Chumnery questioned the timings of the report into the Artillery Wall removal. It was reported that Mark Cosgrave would be handling the project and that the money would not be coming out of trust funds.
Members queried whether the trust could ask HS2 to seek mitigation for their scheme elsewhere. Officers reported that HS2 were willing to work with the trust to find mitigation that would enhance the scrubs and its ecology. A meeting had taken place between ecology experts on both sides and potential areas for improvement were being identified, for example the removal of some Japanese knotweed or the extension of hedgerows. Both experts would draw up a map of what was acceptable to them and these would then be compared. They had accepted that the trust did not want the Wetland proposal to be progressed.
The friends questioned whether it was likely that the issue would be resolved prior to the select committee hearing. Officers updated the committee on the plans of the select committee to visit the scrubs and meet those connected to it. Cllr Harcourt reported that he had not received an invite to this event and Cllr Carlebach raised it as a serious breach of etiquette by the committee. Officers noted that the invitation for the meeting was unexpected as the select committee were considering the scrubs earlier than expected. Both Jackie Simkins and Chris Bainbridge had been invited and would be taking forward ten petitioning points to the meeting. It was felt that a letter from the chair expressing his disappointment should be delivered to the select committee, raising the lack ... view the full minutes text for item 21. |
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Dates of the next meeting Dates of the next meetings:
29th June 2015 21st September 2015 8th December 2015 Minutes: 29th June 2015 21st September 2015 8th December 2015
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