The Web Log of Lewes Town Partnership

 
Lewes Town Partnership
Held at South Downs CVS
18th April 2005

Present: Rossie Eggar, Paul Rideout, Katharine Rayner, David Tuffnel, Michael Cahill, George Melloy
Apologies:Rachel Powell, Ruth O’keefe, Johnny Denis

Matters Arising
Crime Reduction:
there has been a reduction in crime over last 12 months, increase in crime detected. The main current concern is public place disorder, with a local focus of detecting volume crime, ie. Car crime. Rotten Row is crime hot spot at present. This year the focus is for residents to feed into the LTP and then work with the Local Action Team to build project and get funds. The impetus must come from residents and deal with their concerns
Action: ALL to work with the LAT to come up with a project and get money.

Transport Plan.
Has not met yet.
Action: Friends of Lewes, Living Street, and Cycle Lewes will put together suggestion for joint submission from LTP to be agreed at next meeting.

Local Strategic Partnership.
Paul Rideout elected vice chair, Ian Chisnell, the chair.

Current Consultations
Race Equality
Deadline 6th May. Largest group of foreign nationals is from the college.
Local Public Service Agreement worth looking at.

Action: JD and KR Talk to Lewes Group for Refugees and Assylum Seekers and John Mountford at Sussex Downs College.

Review of Action Plan and Priorities
Discussed need to look at what we set out to do, what we have achieved so far and what we can realistically achieve each year, to have small achievable targets against which we monitor our progress.
George Melloy left 8pm.

Action: All think about this and go through with Development Worker.

Bank Account
Queried whether we had enough signatories and open account to receive funds.
Action RE to ask JD about bank account and signatories.

Devlopment Worker
New Development Worker be in place soon and going through induction process. All to meet at SDCVS. They will attend some meetings, discussed whether best for them to attend all/ some meetings and future role of LTP to line manage them. Paul talked about communities talking speeding and road safety, can work with the new DW and police on this.

Action: ALL put together report of what achieved so far for the new worker; meet new worker.

Meeting with Rural Choices
7pm Yarrow Room at Town Hall, with Rural Voices to plan work with the Development Worker.

Date and Time of Next Meeting
Action : PR to check availability of CVS for next mtg
posted by Johnny Denis at 1:28 pm