Community Council Monday Jan 11th

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The latest Walthamstow West Community Council meeting take’s place on Monday the 11th of January at Chapel End Junior School.  Refreshments are available from 7.15, and the meeting itself begins at 7.30pm.

Chapel End Junior School
Roberts Road, London, E17 4LS

Head along to put your questions to councillors on the local issues close to your heart.
You can raise any subject you want and the council is obliged to respond (this is different to actually listening or acting but it’s something).

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To read a full agenda for the meeting click here:

7.45  News Report

A brief summary of the response sheet, News & Announcements.
Current issues and developments from Council departments and Partners.
Contributions from residents (in advance) are welcomed.

8.00  Safer Neighbourhood Team

Feedback from the Chapel End team about what is happening in the Chapel End ward.  (Other ward feedbacks will be featured in Item 5, under News & Announcements).

8.10  Health for North East London (“Healthcare4NEL”)

A presentation by Daisy Camiwet, Head of Engagement and Michael Smeeth, Associate Director of Communications and Engagement NHS Waltham Forest explaining the current consultation on which health services could be improved over the next ten years and how this should be delivered

8.30  Community Forum – This agenda item will include:

• The Community Chair leads a session of community discussion.
• An opportunity for residents to raise any issues of local concern and discuss matters arising from the minutes / blue sheets.

9.10  Elections – Community Chair and Vice Chair

Residents will be asked to elect a Chair and Vice Chair for the next year.  An application form is attached. Nominated candidates will be introduced and any last minute nominations will be taken from the floor.  For more information about this post please contact the Community Council Manager listed at the top of the Agenda.

The minutes of and responses to questions raised at October’s Community Council in October are available on the council website: Mins / Responses

The last meeting featured a vote on how to spend the annual £10,000 “community” budget.  To read more about the bids read the document here.  The winning bids are listed below:

The Scouts were again awarded the largest slice of the money (5,000) despite complaints from some councillors that they hadnt provided any feedback on how the 10,000 they received last year had benefitted the community. In total 15,ooo out of the available 20,000 pounds has been awarded to the Scouts in the last two years without any evidence of increased access for community groups.

The vote itself was a total farce. Residents in each area were given 1 vote for the bid they wished to see approved.  If you picked a bid that only wanted a thousand pounds your vote was used up, and you couldn’t influence where the rest of the money went.  As a result the well organised Scouts won by default as the most highest scoring larger application.

Remarkably a bid for a noticeboard on Edward Road costing 2 and a half thousand pounds was approved despite only one resident voting for it.  Who suggested the bid, or the proposed site is unclear. It certainly wasnt BAG despite the threats of legal action we received last year for putting posters advertising an environmental event on local trees (Owners of lost pets were also threatened).

BAG tweets from the last meeting are below (although the time stamps may be a bit suspect):

Official high street result: scouts 5000, coppermill sch comm noticeboard 2500, disability taichi 2500, flower beds Nicholson court 1200
2:02 PM Oct 5th from TweetDeck Cllr macklin back in main room says he can’t comment on arcade site as it’s party political. Residents can read papers to see his views.
1:35 PM Oct 5th from TweetDeck Councilors vote to give 1200 to garden beds, 5000 to scouts and 2500 for community notice board on coppermill school (which only got 1 vote!
1:21 PM Oct 5th from TweetDeck Councilors vote to give scouts 5 thousand – meaning they’ve had 15000 of 20 thou total funds for area in last 2 years.
1:18 PM Oct 5th from TweetDeck Scout leaders brought in to ask if they’d accept less than 10 grand. They say it’s used by all community and they’d accept what they get
1:12 PM Oct 5th from TweetDeck Liaquat Ali points out scouts got full 10 thou last year and have provided no evidence of how it’s been spent and comm use.
1:05 PM Oct 5th from TweetDeck James orourke proposes giving scouts 5000 of 10,000 budget. Also suggests noticeboard get funding as council has stopped posters
1:03 PM Oct 5th from TweetDeck Councilors huddle to discuss proposals: move to give spare whole area money to cricket bid
12:57 PM Oct 5th from TweetDeck Insane voting system. Each resident given 1 vote for 10grand budget even if scheme they want costs only 1thousand. 9 thousand to roll over?
12:27 PM Oct 5th from TweetDeck #communitycouncil 18 votes for £1,200 raised flower beds at Nicholson Court. 9 votes for £10,000 for the scouts.
12:26 PM Oct 5th from Tweetie #communitycouncil scouts have applied for the full £10,000 High Street funding pot. They got the whole pot last year…
12:20 PM Oct 5th from Tweetie #communitycouncil apparently our votes are just advisory. Only the councillors present can decide. What’s with that?
12:10 PM Oct 5th from Tweetie #communitycouncil whole area funding of £2,400 voted for the Dyslexia Association to provide tuition and summer school.
12:06 PM Oct 5th from Tweetie #NLWP feedback sought 14 Oct – 24 Nov. See www.nlwp.net for options.
11:57 AM Oct 5th from Tweetie #communitycouncil North London Waste Authority has published its preferred options for waste facilities in the Borough #NLWP
11:55 AM Oct 5th from Tweetie A resident points out scout hut funding was not suggested by any residents but by James orourke. Residents wanted funding for comm centre
11:50 AM Oct 5th from TweetDeck Community Council meeting starting. Today we’re voting on the community funding proposals, apparently.