Final arrangements are now in place for the Open Meeting on Thursday 19th May 2011 at 7.00 pm prompt at Brunton First School.
Sue Wannop, our Neighbourhood Coordinator has sent apologies, but she has confirmed the following representatives will be attending from Newcastle City Council:
Mick Firth - Newcastle Great Park and Major Projects Lead Officer
Derek Ord - Principle Engineer
Ian Poll - Head of Democratic Services (Parish Council Boundary review)
Confirmation still awaited from Billy Browell, Senior Planner
For the Consortium:
Peter Jordan - Persimmon
John Driver - Persimmon
Brian Cunningham – Senior Engineer, Taylor Wimpey
Councillors:
David Downs - Parklands Ward
Lord Shipley - Parklands Ward
Representatives from the Community Police (subject to availability)
Residents who attend the meeting are reminded that there will not be a formal Agenda, but points for discussion (in no particular order) will include:
• The Bund and Landscaping works
• Completion of road and footpath resurfacing and Featherstone Grove
• Deregulation of the bus route along Featherstone Grove
• Street lighting
• Outstanding works preventing adoption of Warkworth Woods
• Planning conditions/restrictions relating to shop units
• The Parish Council boundary review
• Anti-social behaviour and estate policing
The purpose of this meeting is for you to ask your questions of the Consortium and the City Council which relate to the completion of the outstanding works to Melbury and Warkworth Woods. The Association cannot enter into dialogue with individual residents concerned about alleged breaches of planning consents and defective properties which may be sub-judice, and consequently neither the Consortium nor Newcastle City Council will enter into dialogue concerning this at the open meeting.
Outcomes from the open meeting will be recorded and an agreed list of actions will be produced from notes taken and agreed with invited representatives. This will then be posted on the Melbury and Warkworth Woods website, and forwarded to Sue Wannop for her to arrange for it to be displayed on the notice board in Featherstone Grove.
If you are interested in becoming an active committee member of the Association, please arrange for a nomination form to be completed on your behalf and returned to the Association Secretary, Dick Godfrey at 11 Halton Way by Wednesday 1st June 2011, one week prior to the AGM at the latest. Nomination forms will be available at the open meeting.
