London Road LAT

The London Road LAT is in the St Peters and North Laine ward, and covers the northern end of the ward. The boundaries are; Ditchling Rise to the north, Ditchling Road and the Level to the east , St Peters Church to the south and the New England Quarter to the west.

Meetings are currently held at the Calvary Church on Viaduct Road (next to the firestation at Preston Circus) on the first Tuesday of each month (not August) at 6.30pm. Meetings are attended by ward councillors, the neighbourhood policing team, council officers, residents and community association representatives and local residents and traders. meetings are open to anyone living and/or working in the area of interest. The Chair and vice-chair of the LAT are local residents Philip Wells and Charlotte Overton-Hart and they can be contacted by email at [email protected] and [email protected]

The next meeting of this group will be on Tuesday June 12th 6.30pm at the Calvary Hall on Viaduct Rd (next to the Preston Circus fire station). The Agenda for this meeting and the minutes of previous meetings are available below.

Meeting of the London Road Area Local Action Team

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 6.30pm, at Calvary Church

AGENDA

1.   Welcome, apologies & introductions

We hope to welcome Samantha Raeburn (Information and Development Worker, Carers Centre), to make a brief presentation about the services available for carers.

2.  Minutes of previous meeting

3.  Chair’s Report 2011-2 and appointments of officers for 2012-13. The current chair and vice-chair are willing to stand

Possible future objectives/projects for the LAT

4.  Matters arising, ongoing and updates

a.  Updates on developments, including the Level and Lewes Road

b.  Planters and the London Road Station Partnership – update from Elspeth and Darren

c.  Thanks and update from PC Dodd.

d.  Alcohol licensing for Somerfield and planning for Blockbusters (both items via Pete West)

e.  Student lets / HMOs consultation and draft city plan consultation – would we like Liz Hobden (LDF Team Manager) to attend the July LAT?

f.  Email update from Sally Pinkus appended to agenda (Equinox Alcohol Outreach Service) – would we like her to give a report in person?

5.  Police Issues

a.  Review of our three policing priorities for this month. Last month’s were:

·  York Place/St Peter’s Place/street drinking/anti-social behaviour

·  Shop-lifting

·  Fly-posting and graffiti

b.  Police stats (from May 2012)

c.  Update on policing resources for London Road.

d.  Squatters in the old Co-operative building

6.  City-wide parking review – new on-street parking charges (from last meeting)

7.  Environmental Improvement & Highways

a.  Street Focus feedback – any updates/improvements made

b.  Request for pavement deep clean

c.  LICI/Providence Gardens update – final judging feedback from Philip

d.  Traffic issues e.g. pedestrian crossing timings (observations, if any)

8. Co-operative Redevelopment – any updates by email from Rebecca Mitchell

9.  A.O.B (any other items, please notify Chair at [email protected] before the meeting)

Date of next meetings: 6:30pm 3rd July. No meeting in August.