Lansbury Estate Steering Group

Technical Sub-Group

14th September, 2004 at 6.30pm at Lansbury Lodge, Ricardo Street, E14

MINUTES
  1. . Present: John Winney (Chair), Simon Kempson, George Farmer, Valerie Durrance, James Durrance, Margaret Tough, Marilyn Baltutis, Michelle Gordon, Nigel Goddard (Baily Garner), Jonathan Smith (Baily Garner), Asma Yakub (Baily Garner), Robin Whitby (Poplar Harca), Andrew Hargreaves (Poplar Harca)

  2. Apologies were received from Femi Apata

  3. Matters arising from the previous meeting were:

    James Durrance expressed concern over the reluctance of the council to release information regarding open spaces and the group was concerned that the council are planning to retain key open spaces after transfer.

    Action: RW will continue to pursue Femi regarding open spaces.

    The group expressed a desire to know what the latest information was regarding Bartlett Park.

    Action: AH to present up to date Bartlett Park information at next Tech sub.

  4. Nigel presented information on the decent homes standard for the group's information.

  5. Nigel tabled the draft block and environmental proposals for the resident consultations.

    The following actions arose from the discussion:

    AH to invite Bernie Rees from Tower Hamlets Recycling Consortium to speak to the steering group.

    RW will get Peter Harrold to put together a plan for potential CCTV sites.

    AH will find out how high the CG fence is and other details regarding Chiltern Green.

    SK will ask the steering group to officially approve the two locations for sports areas at the back of Heckford House and Alton Street.

    AH will send everyone who's attended ESG meetings the current plans for their block, emphasising how draft they are and invite comments. SCS to go out with this.

    JS will send AH information from consultations.

    AH will send out the block-by-block information from consultations to those at the meeting last night and others you think appropriate.

    AH will begin process of getting Harca geared up for developing play areas in the two areas that were agreed in principle.

    BG to decide which proposed NCER sheets they are going with (or make it clearer what the difference is between them) and email pdf's to Simon and John.

    BG to add CCTV information to drawings once it's available.

    BG to produce overview drawings that concentrate on a single issue and which have the entire estate on one sheet. To have separate drawings for each of the following: play areas, open spaces with question marks, places where we want to encourage people to take their dogs, trees that will be planted, walking routes, cycle routes and anything else you think appropriate for the next tech sub in 2 week's time.

    BG to e-mail PH and JW copies of the drawings as they currently are.

    Asma would like feedback from the group as to what they would like to see happen concerning the areas marked with question marks.

  6. The resident questionnaire will be based largely on the last consultation questionnaire and will be approved in two week's time.

  7. There was no other business and it was agreed that we would meet again on Tuesday, 28th September, preceeding the regeneration sub-group, where the group will provide feedback on the plans.

    Minutes were prepared by Andrew Hargreaves

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