1. Present: John Winney (Chair), Simon Kempson, Maureen Bell, Mary Fennell, George Farmer, Valerie Durrance, James Durrance, Margaret Tough, Marilyn Baltutis, Jonathan Smith (Baily Garner), Asma Sarfaraz (Baily Garner), Robin Whitby (Poplar Harca), Andrew Hargreaves (Poplar Harca)

2. Apologies were received from Nigel Goddard.

3. Matters arising from the previous minutes were as follows:

   Marilyn Baltutis complained that, despite her asking for a walking audit in the holidays or after five o'clock, Baily Garner had sent her a letter regarding a viewing of her property during the day. As a consequence Marilyn had been unable to attend which was frustrating. Baily Garner apologised for this.

   Action: Baily Garner to give Marilyn and any others on the steering group an opportunity to conduct a walking audit at the steering group on 18/5.

   Simon Kempson was expecting to see a stock condition survey for Elgin House at this meeting before BG did the rest.

   Action: Baily Garner to produce a stock condition survey for Elgin House by the steering group (minus the roof information due to problems with access.)

   Action: AH to ask lan Pither to break the padlock and install a new one for Elgin House roof to gain access for BG and John Winney, within the next couple of days.

   There were two outstanding action points:

   Action: AH to prepare technical sub report history by the steering group.

   Action: BG to produce North Lansbury before and after costs by the next Technical sub.

4. Jonathan Smith reported back that 5 days of walking audits and viewings have been completed on the estate. The next stage of the process would be to complete an overall estate plan with environmental proposals for the consultation day on 5th June. There will be designs for 5 different types of block on the estate.

   MB expressed concerns that there wasn't enough time for this and that the proposals would be rushed. SK and MB felt that Poplar HARCA had been rejected last time due to errors made in the planning process. The group felt they should see the plans first.

   SK proposed that the consultation day be postponed and the rest of the group agreed. It was agreed that a suitable date for the consultation would be either the 26th June or 3rd July. Therefore BG would need to get the plans ready for a special design meeting of the technical sub on Thursday 10th June.

5. AH gave a report back on the resident questionnaire. Disbelief was expressed about the amount of people satisfied with car parking and questions were raised about who owned what roads after a transfer.

   Action: RW to obtain demarcation of estate roads and highways from the council for the next meeting.

   There was some discussion about the availability of community facilities such as Trussler Hall.

   Action: AH to send out Trussler Hall programme with the minutes and put community facilities on the agenda for the next regeneration meeting which SK suggested should be at Trussler Hall.

   SK expressed concern about the new build question in the questionnaire. Whilst 63% appeared happy with new build SK thought there need to be some distinction between replacement and additional new build.

6. AH explained the plans for the next consultation day and the group added suggestions such as make sure there are plenty of chairs, video the event and demonstrate the webcam.

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