Residents Association Meeting, 21st February 2008
Minutes of the Executive Committee meeting held on Thursday 21st February 2008, in Broadstone Library. The Winter Magazine was distributed.
PRESENT John Noyes (Chair), P.A. Talbot, J. Milhofer, F. Wood, D. Hawker, R. Jefferies, J. Sayers, Cherry Lorberg, Sally Banford, Rosemary Mitchell, Bob Williams, R.Godfrey, D. Hull (Secretary), and six road wardens.
GUESTS, D. Williams
1 APOLOGIES
Cllrs M Brooke, D Martin, G Mason and Les Burden, D. Rogers , Julia Helliker, Barry Smith.
2 PREVIOUS MINUTES for 10th January 2008.
These were accepted as an accurate record of the meeting, but there was comment that the Agenda had reverted to an abridged form.
3 ACTIONS and MATTERS ARISING
Numbers in brackets refer to the item in the previous minutes..
(3) Broadstone Farmers Market had shifted to the playground at the First school.. It was a different lay out, and the general feeling was that there were fewer people than when it stood in the Toastrack
(5) Broadstone Hotel Site. The developers were pushing on with the refurbishment of the old hotel building, in advance of the flats. They had hopes of opening at Easter, with the new name of ‘The Goodsyard’.
(6) Magazine and Newsletter – deferred to item 6 on the full agenda.
4 CHAIRMAN’S REMARKS
JN reported that Footpath 5 was again in trouble. This time the problem is with Safety concerns, raised by the Poole planners. It appears that the path down from the fence on the Corfe Hills area, to Ashington Cutting, is now too steep, and will need some redesign to achieve a safer route. Some design had been done, but presumably needing more money.
JN also commented on the first item in the monthly Neighbourhood Watch report, where an apparently violent assault had resulted only in a ‘warning’. David Williams told us that it involved children, and as such there was not much further action that could be taken.
5. Planning
PAT reported for the last period. It had been a fairly quiet period with just 25 applications.
5 Westheath Rd, had now been passed despite difficult parking arrangements, thanks to the say-so of the transportation man.
136 Lower Blandford Rd, had been refused despite officers’ wishes to Accept. It would now either go to appeal, or an amended plan would be put forward.
14 Ridgeway. The plan to build a block of flats had been replaced by an application to retain the old house and convert internally to flats. There was also a plan to build a sunken bungalow in the steep rear garden.
42 Upper Golf Links Rd. The latest plan was to demolish and rebuild.
6 Treasurer
There had been very little activity since the last meeting.
We had received £143 in subscriptions and paid £248 for the repair of the Post Office notice board.
This leaves our cash and bank balances at £13,516, of which just over £13,000 is on deposit with Scottish widows Bank.
7 Magazine
The meeting expressed its disappointment that neither the Editor nor the Assistant Editor had been able to attend.
We did however get a full report from John Milhofer who had been fully involved in producing the Winter Magazine, and had views as to the future editing scene. John Sayers had produced a set of labels for distribution, and despite a problem with the guillotine at the printers, the magazine was now distributed to the wardens. The Spring Newsletter, is in difficulty. Nothing has so far been done, apart from the Chairman’s report, but there is still time to get the Newsletter ready by April 17th. Probably much will be done by John Milhofer, but there must be an advert in the Newsletter asking for an Editor.
8 AGM
Speaker. PAT has been negotiating for Margot Teasdale to come and speak about Broadstone and the Conservation Area. Should know by 24th Feb
Wallace celebration. We could put a trailer in the Newsletter, followed by a longer article in the Summer Mag. Lots of info around – Sec, Wikipedia, B.net, Natural science museum, Linnean society. Who will write stuff??
Ingrid Sumner has a rare photo of the original Wallace house.
Constitution - set up a sub committee of JN, Sec, RJ to look at our Rules and get changes in order for the Newsletter. Meeting on 29th Feb, 09.30 hrs.
JN and PAT to provide written nomination for RG.
Editor looks dodgy. Other officers prepared to stand again.
BS will continue with the advertising.
We could do with an assistant planning man/woman
Refreshments. JS says not any more. If we go to external caterer, could be expensive (Vikki Slade? But we did have external before with the Combi Shop). RJ suggested we ask the ‘team’ at the Methodist church, whether for a suitable consideration, they might help out.
Order of AGM meeting. Preferable to do it in the old format – formal bits first, then refreshments, speaker last.
9 Reports from Officers.
Education. DR asked the meeting to consider a newspaper report on ‘Feral Youths’. This referred to the use of the youth club building, during the day, as the Poole ‘referral unit’. This brought a host of problem youngsters into Broadstone, and combined with some ineffectual teaching, led to a number of unsavoury moments in the Broadstone Hotel/Deja Vu area. Derek hawker had read a news article citing Poole as one of the worst areas in the country for school exclusions.
DW said the situation was better now, but BW asked for more information on the current status. Perhaps DR could explore further – numbers of kids involved now? Is the Council building a new referral centre?
Chief Warden – happy for now.
Chamber of Trade – nothing other than Market shift.
Neighbourhood Watch. Another rash of tumbled walls. One third of this month’s list are ASB incidents. Further patrols have identified some culprits, but very limited success. Too dark for CCTV cameras.
Poole is to have a new superintendent, transferred from Winfrith. He will be at their AGM.
Karen Preston is going to stay on in Broadstone.
10 AOB
Broadstone in Bloom have their AGM on 14th March, library, 7.30 PM.
Old Station Hotel, re-opens at Easter. New name is “The Goodsyard” (Goods Yard??)
RG raised the question of Library Hours. It would appear that the Council Executive have voted to cut library opening hours, to save money. Broadstone is due to lose 7 hours/week. They have prepared a ‘comment’ book for the public to sign, and have had a very positive response.
The meeting closed at 21.30.
The next meeting, on Thurs. April 17th, will be an Executive Committee Meeting and distribution of the Spring Newsletter.
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