Issue - meetings

To receive and consider the attached report of the North East Area Manager.

Time – 15 mins (Executive Function)

The North East Area Manager submitted a report which provided an update to the Area Committee on the Intensive Neighbourhood Management Initiative in the Chapeltown Area and provided details of the activities and projects being developed within the area which addressed issues of the environment, crime and worklessness.

Helen Steele, Area Co-ordinator, brought Members’ attention to the new community caretaking service, the Chapeltown Environmental Pride Team,  which would be replacing the existing CAST service in the area.  Randal Brown, Director of City Services reported that the new teams would take a more pro-active and preventative approach and it was anticipated that the team which had been recruited from local unemployed people, would complete their training and be ready to deliver services in August 2006.  Members were informed of funding streams for the programme and maps were tabled which detailed areas of work to be targeted.

Further issues discussed included the following :-

·  In response to a question of whether this programme had the capacity and budget to deal with damaged and missing street nameplates, it was reported that this had been identified during other works with Groundwork Leeds and it would be dealt with from other resources.

·  The project was not part of EASEL but would complement their work.

·  Further to a question of why the initiative covered Harehills, it was reported that the project also covered areas outside the North East Inner area that were classed as a wider Super Output Area and funds were shared.

(Councillor Dowson declared an interest in this item due to her capacity as a Director of Groundwork Leeds)

Resolved – That the progress on Intensive Neighbourhood Management in Chapeltown be noted.