Minutes of the meeting held on 25 May 2004
Present:
Allen Arnott Interim Chair of GPP Board
Richard Astle GPP Director
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John Durance |
GPIA |
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Harmesh Lakhanpaul |
Peterborough Race Equality Council |
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Gillian Beasley |
Chief Executive PCC |
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Councillor Franklin |
PCC |
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Lynda Rowbotham |
PCVS |
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Julian Stanley |
Chair of Culture and Tourism Partnership |
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Keith Nelson |
Peterborough Learning Partnership |
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Ken McKay |
Chair Environment & Transport Partnership |
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John Coolbear |
Go East |
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Liz Wade |
Peterborough City Council |
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Roger Tallowin |
O & H Hampton Ltd |
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Marco Cereste |
Chair, Health Partnership Trust? |
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John Bridge |
URC? |
1. Apologies for Absence
Apologies for absence were received from Nigel Sunman, Chris Town, Chris Banks and Rebecca Stephens.
2. Minutes
The minutes of the meeting held on 1 April 2004 were agreed.
3.
Matters Arising
Community Co-hesion
A meeting of the community co-hesion group would be arranged as a matter of urgency as we need to confirm how we will manage our role in this before our next meeting. Bishop Ian agreed to be involved in the group.
4. Get Healthy Week
We welcomed Louise Melina to our meeting who had produced a feasibility study on holding a "Get Healthy Week" in Peterborough. We noted all the current health improvement activity for Peterborough which goes on during the year and the encouraging aspect of much of the work was that there was obvious links between many of them.
The conclusion from the report was that GPP support the development of existing work being undertaken and create opportunities to extend partnerships, but hold an "Awareness Raising Week" next year to actively promote these new opportunities. The awareness raising week would have the additional advantage of being research based and would mean that the focus of the week remains user friendly as promotional activity could occur within the communities themselves as well as city wide. An outline plan of action had been prepared together with costs.
We agreed to leave the project until next year and asked officers to carry out further investigations on things such as sponsorship and report back to our next meeting. Julian Stanley said that the Cresset would be willing to offer facilities for the co-ordinator to work from there.
5. Public Service Agreements - What's in it for Peterborough
We welcomed John Coolbear to our meeting who advised us that the Council were starting negotiations for a new Public Service Agreement with the DPMO. John had already met with Richard Astle and Ken Fairbairn to discuss the partnership side of it as this was one of the focuses this year.
There would be a
clear link with the Community Strategy.
The money available amounted to £750,000 plus £1 per head of
population. A reward grant of 2½% of one year's net revenue expenditure was also on offer and the
division of reward against each target area was part of the negotiations.
The GO role is confirming that the priority areas that the Council puts
forward are linked to Community Strategy priorities, CPA improvement plans and
other key local documents. It is
also required to confirm that the LPSA was supported by effective partnership
arrangements. The pilot phase has
been held in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire and negotiations are still to be
completed.
GPP can contribute by linking the LPSA to the community strategy
priorities, help to shape the agreement, indicators, targets, 'real world'
outcomes and the management/monitoring of the process. Gillian Beasley asked for clarification
on the timetable and advised that we had asked for an extension to submit our
bid. John Coolbear said there was
a backlog forming of the bids and he was going to a meeting in London tomorrow
and would advise Ken and Richard of the outcome. Richard said we had identified 3 priority-working areas but
we needed to work on the detailed targets, we were expecting to meeting the existing timetable.
6.
Review
of Progress to date - Consultation, priorities and targets
We were advised that we had produced the priorities and looked at the
targets.
7.
Community
Strategy up-date
Richard advised that the community strategy would be circulated in
mid-June and comments included for the discussion with the Best Value POC and
all other partnerships and then finally to Full Council in July.
Public
Engagement and consultation
We
had received a selection of responses on the vision Peterborough and safety,
culture, entertainment and transport comes up quite a lot. We were going to have stands at
Roadshows and major events in the city focusing on the 3 priorities.
What's
the Big Idea
We
need to look at the targets already in the Community Strategy and see what we
need to do to relate these to our priorities and to achieve the vision.
These
were some of the ideas that we should consider in line with the big idea should
it fail we should have a fall back situation:
·
Central Ward
·
Have two BHI's
·
Major venue for
Olympics
·
Commonwealth
Games
·
Revolutionary
Transport System
·
Journey to Work
·
Encourage more 18
year olds not to leave Peterborough - Higher Education/University
·
Peterborough
Festival - similar to Edinburgh
·
Revitalise
Peterborough Environment City
·
City of Festivals
- Street Based - Intra Cultures
·
Community Pride
and Ownership - Best Street, Miles Better (Glasgow)
·
Public Art -
Sculptures
·
"Angel of
the North" (something similar)
Environment City could be linked with a lot of the themes. Do not put too "many eggs" in
one basket. Perhaps Peterborough
should have a no smoking policy in public places. Solving the issues of Central ward, developers will come in
and redevelop the area - URC should put this as a major regeneration area.
Richard agreed to edit the list and come back to our next meeting with a
number of projects that people could vote on.
8.
Any
Other Business
Richard advised that another meeting of the board would be held in
June/July at Gladstone Park Community Association with a tour of the area and a
discussion with the community afterwards.
Richard would advise members of details and keep the police informed.
The meeting having commenced at 5.00pm concluded at 6.55pm.