PACT meeting - Wednesday 5th March 2008

Partners and Communities Together (PACT) gives you a chance to meet the team and influence priorities in your neighbourhood.

Register your prioritiesCurrent public priorities were established on 17th December 2007.

1. Levels of car crime - criminal damage to vehicles in Monksdale Road.

2. Litter - increase road sweeping.

3. Speeding in Third Avenue, Monksdale Road and Hillside Road.

Next public meeting5th March 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at St Alphages Church, Oldfield Lane, Oldfield Park, Bath.

All members of the public are welcome to attend...

PACT meeting - 5th March 2008

Partners and Communities Together (PACT) gives you a chance to meet the team and influence priorities in your neighbourhood. Register your priorities

Current public priorities were established on 17th December 2007

1. Levels of car crime - criminal damage to vehicles in Monksdale Road.

2. Litter - increase road sweeping.

3. Speeding in Third Avenue, Monksdale Road and Hillside Road.

View previous priorities

Next public meeting

5th March 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at St Alphages Church, Oldfield Lane, Oldfield Park, Bath.

All members of the public are welcome to attend...

Public invite to the Election of Mayor Ceremony - Saturday 17th May 2008

The Charter Trustees of the City of Bath

request the pleasure of your company at the

Annual General Meeting & Election of Mayor Ceremony

at the Bath Abbey on Saturday 17th May 2008

11.00 a.m. to 12 noon

Members of the public are asked to arrive at Bath Abbey to be seated by 10.40 a.m..

If you are not able to attend the Ceremony you may like to watch the Civic Procession led by the City Swordbearer, Macebearers, Mayor, Charter Trustees and Honorary Aldermen of the City of Bath in their robes together with Mayors of neighbouring Towns and Cities. This will leave the Guildhall at 10.40 a.m. and return at 12 noon.

St John's RC Primary School - Public Meeting

Many thanks to all the local residents near the poposed St John's RC Primary Site on Oldfield Lane for responding to our recent Focus newsletter about the potential traffic proposal associated with the planning application for St John's RC Primary School.

We will be forwarding your comments on to the appropriate officers / department within the Council.

You will almost certainly be aware that The Council agreed in 2006 that the preferred site for the new replacement St John’s Catholic Primary School is the existing school site in Oldfield Lane.

A planning application will be submitted shortly by the architects acting on behalf of the school.
Through discussion with Council Officers we can now anounce that there will be a public meeting, so that residents in the area have an early opportunity to see and comment on the proposals prior to the formal planning consultation process.

The Public Meeting is to be held at:

St Alphege’s Parish Hall on June 7th between 5.30 pm -7.30pm.

We hope as many local residents and represenatives from the Wansdyke Business Units will be able to attend to ask questions of the Officers from the Council, and the School and their Developers.

Cllr McGall will be attending the meeting (unfortunately Cllr Sandry is unable to due to a prior committment) and he keen to reflect the views of local residents and businesses who have concerns and questions about these proposals.

We hope that you will be able visit the display but if not you can see and comment on the planning application through the Council’s website when it is submitted in early June.

Response forms for comments will be available at the parish hall.

Comments can also be sent to:

Schools Capital & Organisation Team
Bath & North East Somerset
PO Box 25, Riverside, Temple Street
Keynsham, Bristol BS31 1DN

If you have access to e-mail you can also send your comments to: stjohn’s_bathpublicviews@bathnes.gov.uk and we would appreciate you copying your replys to both Cllr McGall, shaun_mcgall@bathnes.gov.uk and Cllr Will Sandry, willsandry@blueyonder.co.uk .

Have your say on the way the Council involves the community in planning issues

People who live or work in Bath and North East Somerset, as well as those who have an interest in the area are being asked for their views on how the Council proposes to involve them in planning decisions.

The Council wants to improve the way it involves the local community in planning. It wants to encourage more people to be involved and to make their involvement as easy as possible.

It has published a policy document that explains how the Council intends to involve the community in drawing up planning policy and deciding planning applications. This document will now be examined by the Secretary of State.

This ‘Statement of Community Involvement’ has already been subject to two public consultations which have influenced and shaped it. Over 170 different organisations and individuals have already been involved, including a range of local and national interest groups, community and voluntary sector organisations and Parish & Town Councils.

There will now be a final period of consultation, which closes on the 6 June 2007.

For more information and to have your say, please visit www.bathnes.gov.uk and click ‘Statement of Community Involvement’ in the A-Z.

Students and the local community - Public Meeting

The next public meeting to discuss issues surrounding the growing number of privately rented houses in the city is due to be held on Wednesday 28th March 2007 at 7.00 p.m. at St Luke's Church Hall on Wellsway.

Cllr Shaun McGall who is Chair of the Council’s Student Liaison Committee said, “The Council is committed to working with local residents, the universities and their students’ unions to improve ‘Town and Gown’ relations and these public meetings are one small part of the activities we are funding to try and improve the situation.”

Local residents are encouraged to come along to the meeting to ask questions, make statements or just listen to the debate. More information can be found at: www.townandgown.org.uk

Public Meetings: "Students and the local Community"

The Student Liasion Committee which Cllr Shaun McGall chairs, is holding a series of public meetings in order to give local residents in the City of Bath the opportunity to raise issues concerning students and the local community.

Meeting dates for 2006/07:-

All meetings are scheduled to start at 7.15 p.m. and will end at 9.00 p.m.

Date: 27th November 2006 Venue: Hayesfield Lower School (School Hall), Brougham Hayes
Date: 24th Janaury 2007 Venue: Ascension Church (Chruch Hall), Claude Avenue
Date: 28th March 2007 Venue: St Lukes Church (Lower Hall), Hatfield Road
Date: 30th May 2007 Venue: Green Park Brasserie (Bath Society Meeting Room), Green Park

Please come along and put your questions to the panel comprising local Councillors, represenatives of the two Universities and their Students' Unions, the Police and relevant Council Officers.

There will also be a presentation on the work of the Student Liaison Committee.

If you are unable to attend any of the meetings, but would like to raise an issue or ask a question, please write to Wali Rahman;

Community Liaison Co-ordiantor,
B&NES Council Student Liaison Committee,
c/o University of Bath Students' Union,
Claverton Down, Bath. BA2 7AY