West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 4 – West Kirby health centre, minutes, Youth Service, yellow lines, road markings, Lifeboat Museum

John asked if they would use the newspaper. Kevin Adderley said if they submitted a planning application then there would be the opportunity to leave comments and it would be advertised in the usual way with a site notice. Cllr Ellis said it as moving ahead and that Hughes Court would be tidied up next … Continue reading “West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 4 – West Kirby health centre, minutes, Youth Service, yellow lines, road markings, Lifeboat Museum”

John asked if they would use the newspaper. Kevin Adderley said if they submitted a planning application then there would be the opportunity to leave comments and it would be advertised in the usual way with a site notice. Cllr Ellis said it as moving ahead and that Hughes Court would be tidied up next week.

A member of the public said following criticism at an earlier meeting at the way the minutes were taken that the current minutes were clear. The Area Forum co-ordinator said that thanks should go to Michelle. Regarding page thirty, she had spoken to the [local] Hub Manager for the Youth Service who had reported there were faults with the report and not all the information was correct. Cllr Ellis asked anyone who wanted to know more to see Tracy separately after the meeting.

John Percival thanked [Wirral Council] for the resurfacing and repainting of lines, however there was a missing Give Way, missing yellow lines and missing central line, had it been inspected. Cllr Ellis asked Mark Traynor, a senior office of Streetscene to respond to how they had painted a yellow line around a parked Aldi also.

Mark Traynor said he had been led to believe that it was all finished. John Percival said he would see him after. Cllr Ellis said they had asked for the yellow lines to be covered over, however Wirral Council had insisted on putting them back outside the new museum. John Parr said there was a short film about the lifeboat museum, which he was pleased to have started off. He introduced the film and said “without community support it wouldn’t have happened”. He said the “community had written to the Board of Peel Holdings” which had been a “major step forward”. Following the award of £30,000 they had made this film, which was seven minutes long. He joked that Tom Hanks had failed the screen test so he’d had to step in.

West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 3 – Bridge Court, Hughes Court, GP, Nightingale

Kevin Adderley said they had asked Wirral Partnership Homes and the PCT to submit design work about reprovision for what would be on the site. He was confident it would happen, but he was waiting for the detail. Cllr Watt and Cllr Green had been invited to a meeting at the health centre about the plans. Cllr Elderton said he couldn’t attend as he had to be neutral as he was Chair of the Planning Committee. However a councillor said h was in favour of wanting to see it for the last ten years.

Elizabeth asked what Wirral Partnership Homes was doing regarding the Hughes Court site. Cllr Ellis said he was concerned, but it was basically the same position. The demolition had been completed this week and they had promised to landscape and not leave it like Aldi. There were discussions with the neighbours to discuss how they would like it to be landscaped, it could end up being another block of social housing. However they would tidy it up next week.

Paul Bromley, a GP from the West Kirby health centre said about the meeting on Friday they would be showing the feasibility study that Nightingale the architects had done. Progress was being made on the West Kirby health centre moving to Bridge Court. John said he was pleased regarding the comments but what was the facility for healthy people to make comments?

Cllr Ellis said he didn’t know, the GP said it was open in the main waiting area. On Friday it would be discussed with a wider group and also with the patient group at the practice on Friday.

West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 2 – Bridge Court, WPH & health centre

The meeting went on to consider the minutes of the last meeting and matters arising starting on page 12. Regarding the demolition by Wirral Partnership Homes of Bridge Court, they could speak after the meeting as there was nobody from Wirral Partnership Homes present. On page 17 they were always looking for input into the structural maintenance programme. Pages 19-20 set out what Streetscene would be doing over the next year regarding local roads.

Cllr Ellis said it was a great innovation to get the Streetscene list and it was useful that they were getting better information out of the council. Regarding Bridge Court he was disappointed that the PCT had not sent a senior person which made him very disappointed. They had sent a statement, it had been knocked down by Wirral Partnership Homes as it was not fit for purpose. It was owned by Wirral Partnership Homes but he encouraged the PCT to look at it. Discussions between the PCT, Wirral Partnership Homes and Kevin’s department had pointed out it was practical to move the health centre which was “not fit for purpose”. It might move there which was very promising.

Sandra Wall of the Older Peoples Parliament said she was a member of a patient group and anyone who was registered with one of the three practices could fill out a sheet of paper and submit their comments. She was keen for people to submit their ideas for a rebuild and encouraged as many as possible to do this. Cllr Ellis quipped that they’d need a large piece of paper.

West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 1

The West Wirral Area Forum agenda, minutes of the previous meeting and Area Coordinator’s report can be read by following the link.

The Chair Cllr Gerry Ellis welcomed over eighty people and said it was “lovely that so many were here tonight”. He said Cllr Foulkes had sent a written statement and there was a short film about the lifeboat museum introduced by John Parr which Cllr Ellis described as amazing. Cllr Ellis said there were a “number of other issues”, but they’d “whiz around the main table” to introduce people.

Present:
Jim Thompson (Community Safety Team)
Myles Platt (Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service)
John Percival (private sector representative)
Sandra Wall (Older People Parliament)
Cllr Eddie Boult
Cllr David Elderton
Cllr Geoffrey Watt
Tracey Smith
Cllr Gerry Ellis
Kevin Adderley (Lead Officer)
Margaret Shaunessy (Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust)
Cynthia Radford (Community rep)
Inspector Mike Blease (Merseyside Police)
Jim Lester (Head of Parks & Open spaces)
Mark Traynor (Streetscene)
Gary Evans (Community rep)

Apologies were received from Cllr Hale and Cllr Green who were at a local government conference

Pension Committee 27/6/2011 – Part 11 – Public Accounts Committee

The officer introduced the report and appendix stating it was for information. It was reviewing the major chances in 2007/2008 on public sector pension schemes. The LGPS had been impacted in most ways. Looking at the unfunded schemes such as teachers and the NHS many points equally applied. 4.2 included the normal retirement ages and the cost sharing arrangements. 4.4 had comments on the findings of the committee.

The savings to taxpayers over fifty years were detailed including cost sharing which hadn’t been implemented since the 2007/2008 review. There were fewer changes to the scheme, but there were differences between the local government scheme and unfunded schemes. The Chair said he was grateful for the painstaking work and noted the report.

Report 21 was on Castle Chambers. Peter asked for approval for the tender and for acceptance of the second lowest tender. There was a time pressure due to a potential tenant who wantd the refurbishment and internal alterations. Using the same contractor for both and not using the lowest cost would prevent it being a vacant space. There were minimal additional costs.

The Chair pointed out appendix 32. Cllr Harry smith asked if this element should be recovered from the occupier. The answer given was that the current occupier was in administration. The second lowest tender was accepted.

The committee then thanked the press and public for their attendance and considered the remaining items in closed session.

These were
23. INVESTMENT MONITORING WORKING PARTY MINUTES (Pages
159 – 172)
24. MANAGEMENT OF PRIVATE EQUITY (Pages 173 – 176)
25. SOUTHERN ELECTRIC CONTRACTING (Pages 177 – 180)
26. ACTUARIAL TENDERS (Pages 181 – 184)
27. INVESTMENT ADVISOR TENDERS (REPORT) (Pages 185 – 188)
28. INVESTMENT ADVISOR TENDERS (APPENDIX) (Pages 189 – 192)
29. BALFOUR BEATTY WORKPLACE (Pages 193 – 196)
30. BOND REVIEW (Pages 197 – 202)
31. PEOPLES CENTRE (Pages 203 – 206)
32. CASTLE CHAMBERS (Pages 207 – 208)
33. ANY OTHER URGENT BUSINESS APPROVED BY THE CHAIR