Meeting held on 20th November 2012 Present: John Heywood David Bottomley John Bevan Steve Fisher Angela

Carr (JH) (DB) (JB) (SF) (AC) Chairman Treasurer Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member

Apologies: Jane Wood, Jo Cooksey (JC), Kathy Inglis (KI) Preamble to Meeting: JH confirmed that there were sufficient members present to form a quorum, under the rules of the constitution. The meeting, therefore, proceeded to the agenda.

Resignation of Joe Cooksey and best wishes for the future

JC has resigned from the committee due to ill health. The committee wishes her all the best for the future.

Report by SF on green space working party and matters arising.

SF reports that the meeting decision is to install a path for the dog walkers and plant up the area, a full report will follow. ACTION SF Next working party meeting will be end of February / early March. The committee agree to enhance the area with trees and shrubs to create a nature reserve. ACTION Working Party Further research into the legal position of the lease and utilities survey is required before we proceed with any improvements contact John Booth (Persimmons), JH suggested that we could approach New Charter about taking over the lease. ACTION SF Nicky Marshall, Tameside MBC, has replied to SF that there is no 106 money set aside for a play area, but, 14,000 is earmarked for green areas. ACTION SF

Facebook page
DB will look at the updating the facebook page now that JC has stood down. Chase up Astley Sports College over the web site and look at alternatives ACTION DB ACTION DB/SF

Review of minutes 16th October

BB has advised that they are currently reorganising and that they plan for a Liaison Officer for the Chester Avenue / Yew Tree Lane area. We believe this will be Claire; JH has tried to contact Ben Buckley, New Charter. ACTION SF

Review of AGM and matters arising We distributed 3,200 meeting leaflets, 240 The Circle leaflets and 1,500 Home Watch letters. JH proposed that we distribute leaflets to the whole area in January, two leaflets, one for the core area (ZONE 1 on our boundary map) (specific achievements and on going projects in the Chester Avenue area) and one for the secondary areas (ZONES 2, 3 AND 4 on our boundary map (more generic, come and tell us what you want), dates of all meetings for the year to be included. For individual meetings we just do the core area and at the next AGM we publish the Page 1 of 4

dates for 2014 together with two leaflets again. Thereafter we will only publish and deliver two leaflets annually, at the time of the AGM. Posters for display in shops and libraries to be designed including the dates of all meetings. The General meeting afterwards was dominated by the circle area. JH felt that he should have taken more control over the subject; one resident was very vocal about his opposition to any development at all. JH: in the future we will place a five minute time limit on discussing questions. SF to investigate membership/involvement with the District Assembly Action SF

Update on minibus project KI The Dukinfield Forum and Drop in centre have agreed 250.00 towards the minibus project, KI is seeking other partners, some groups are discussing our proposals and there are other groups still to approach. Action KI KI applied for New Charter community chest funding, 500, before the AGM, still awaiting outcome, deadline has not expired yet. Action KI Lottery funding, Awards for All, JH to apply for funds, max 10k. Action JH JH to fill in form and ask KI for additional information before sending. Action JH Meeting with NC We discussed our ongoing projects and exchanged ideas; Natalie Craig, Astley Sports College, suggested investigating the Play Builder Program. Action AC Chris Odell, New Charter's Youth Work Co-ordinator was suggested as a contact. Action JH

The small triangle area at the top of Kingsway / Chester Avenue, New Charter to plant this. JH to contact Claire about this. Action JH Passageway between Chester Avenue and Cheetham Hill Road (opposite Kingsway) still requires tidying and the hedges to be cut. BB has asked Green Charter to cut the hedges. Now actioned. The sides of the privet have been cut back, but the top has not been cut. DB has sent a form to Sue Cox, New Charter, she will pass on to Les Crowther, Grounds Maintenance Manager, New Charter JH to investigate printing and distribution via the college. JH has spoken to Karen Sweeney, Astley Sports College, about this and we need to advise them of our meetings as soon in advance as possible and she will see what they can do. Action JH Nick Sayers,TMBC, phoned JH before the AGM, he his liaising with New Charter on the deep clean and also the new bin at the shops. Action JH Web Site DB to chase up L. Ogden, Subject Leader for ICT and Business and Simon Bond, IT Manager Astley Sports College. Action DB SF to investigate alterative site creation software. Action SF Map of the area indicating who owns what has been provided by Linda Whyatt (LW). We are awaiting LW to explain what the colours mean. LW unavailable. Action JH Ward Funding

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JH has emailed councillors Claire Reynolds and Dave Sweeton today asking for a contribution from the ward funds. Action JH Dukinfield Forum and collaboration/merger possibilities. Meeting 20th August, limited collaboration options, a merger would be unlikely at present. KI will discuss with then further at their next meeting in November. Action: KI SF advised that there was funding available for empty properties under the localism act, SF is looking into and will report. Act does not come into effect until October 2012. SF is looking into neighbourhood forums, planning control within their area, requires 21 members as part of the localism act. Action SF Any other Business SF advised that a section of the fence panels on the lower passageway between Chester Ave. and Cheetham Hill Rd has been broken; this has been reported, but still awaiting New Charter action SF has put this on fixmystreet.com. Action New Charter The panel is still broken. DB version 2 of the constitution circulated by JH still says Issue 1 on the last page. Action JH DB NatWest balance 2,572.06 as per circulated spreadsheet. On line access is now available to JH and DB. Gating SF notice of plans to gate the passageway between Kenyon Avenue to Cheetham Hill Road have been publish. Committee decided, by vote, to support opposition to the gating of the foot path. AC has identified a site on the corner of Hitchen Drive and Oak Tree Drive that appears to have been a play area in the past and might be a possible site for a new one. SF will talk to the planning department at TMBC to see who owns it. Action SF Area of land encircled by Tennyson Avenue, which is a cut through between Broadbent Fold School and Shelly Rise. SF This is Tameside MBC land, designated as a public open space under the local government act 1972, half an acre in area. Logo The committee reviewed proposed logos from the Astley Sports College pupils. It was decided to keep with our existing logo and ask the pupils to enhance it so that it would appear satisfactorily in both colour and greyscale. Action DB SF suggested that reference to DERA contacts, within minutes of meetings, be clarified by means of an appendix at the end of the document, for those who are unfamiliar with them Saturday 24th November, St Johns Church open day for the new church hall 2pm-4pm Posters for review at next meeting, 1 core, 1 other areas. Action JH

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Date of next Meetings

Public: 7.00pm, Wednesday 16th January 2013, Astley Sports College (TBC) Public: 7.00pm, Wednesday 17th April 2013, Astley Sports College (TBC) Public: 7.00pm, Wednesday 10th July 2013, Astley Sports College (TBC) AGM: 7.00pm, Wednesday 18th September 2013, Astley Sports College (TBC)

Committee: 7.00pm, Wednesday 12th December, Astley Sports College APPENDIX (JH) (DB) (JB) (SF) (AC) (KI) (JW) (NC) (LW) (BB) (CS) John Heywood David Bottomley John Bevan Steve Fisher Angela Carr Kathy Inglis Jane Wood Natalie Craig Linda Whyatt Ben Buckley Caron Sweeney Chairman Treasurer Committee Committee Committee Committee Committee

Member Member Member Member Member

Director of Astley Sports Village New Charter New Charter Astley Sports College

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