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Report on last night’s West/Central Area Committee Meeting
Here is a short round up on what happened at last night’s West/Central Area Committee meeting:
1. Councillors voted to approve the two planning applications relating to Radcliffe Court.
2. Councillors voted to approve the application relating to 108 Barton Road, with an added condition.
3. The Open Forum covered a number of topics, including a long discussion of the 20 mph zone.
4. Jim Meikle, the Community Fire Safety Officer, gave a presentation on fire safety and the danger of emergency vehicle obstruction.
5. Councillors agreed 3 new police priorities: 1) Addressing antisocial cycling; 2) Dealing with antisocial behaviour in the Fair Street/Fitzroy Street/Burleigh Street area; and 3) Supporting the fire safety initiative identified in the earlier agenda item.
6. Councillors rejected the officer recommendation and approved a proposal to move forward with a traffic calming measure in Canterbury Street, as described in Option 1 in the agenda minutes, noting that another consultation would take place under the terms of the TRO.
Apply for a Safer City Grant
The agenda for last night’s West/Central Area Committee was supposed to include an item on Safer City Grants. The item was removed because City Council had not received any applications. We would encourage residents to apply for these grants. A bit about the Safer City Grants from the City Council website:
The Safer City grant scheme provides start-up funding to new on-going community projects or one-off grants to new time-limited community projects that will help tackle crime, the fear of crime and antisocial behaviour in Cambridge.
You can apply for a grant up to a maximum of £5,000. The Safer City grant scheme budget for 2012/13 has been set at £50,000; this is equally split between the four Area Committees of Cambridge and a “Citywide” pot.
As with any other application for a City Council grant, you must demonstrate that there is a need for the funding and support this with evidence. You must also have a clear plan of what you want to spend the funding on and support this with costings and quotes, where appropriate.
More information, including the application form, can be found on the City Council website.
S106 Area Workshop – 13 September
From Tim Wetherfield, Urban Growth Project Manager
23 August 2012
Developers are often asked to make payments to the City Council to address the impact of their developments on Cambridge. These developer (or Section 106) contributions are used to provide or improve local amenities such as play areas, parks and open spaces, sports facilities and community centres.
The City Council has agreed to devolve to Area Committees decisions on which new local projects will be funded from particular types of developer contributions. To help inform these decisions, the City Council is holding public meetings in each area to seek views on current facilities and how these could be improved to help meet changing local needs, within the amounts of money available to spend in each area.
The West/Central Area Workshop will be held on Thursday 13 September 2012 at 7.30pm at Castle Methodist Church Hall.
Invitations are being sent out to Residents Associations and local community groups. Members of the public are also welcome to attend and take part. If you would like to, please phone 01223 457200 or email S106@cambridge.gov.uk.
Following the area workshop, we aim to report back to the area committee later in autumn 2012 on the workshop feedback and costed options for possible projects, so that the area committee can then prioritise which projects in the area to take forward.
For more information, see the Council’s website.