PRESENT:
Ian McGhee (Chairman)
Carole Phillip (Secretary)
Susan Barclay (Minutes
Secretary)
Frank McCambridge
Elizabeth Smith
David Stewart
Gary Wilson
IN ATTENDANCE: 2 Community Police Officers
Cllr Gerry Leonard
Local
Residents
APOLOGIES: William Murray (Vice-Chairman)
Paul
Martin MSP
The Chairman welcomed the members of the public and thanked everyone
for taking the time to attend.
POLICE REPORT:
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Crimes reported in the area - including Breach of Peace; road traffic offences and 14 thefts (includes theft from houses,
cars and local Asda store).
Concern over number of thefts - ask all residents to be aware,
and practice good house and car security.
Residents noted play
area within Cala area recently vandalised - will look at tomorrow and graffiti team will also be contacted.
Cllr Leonard thanked the police in their co-operation when dealing with residents being harassed
by local youths.
This was dealt with by increased police presence and youths'
parents were spoken to by police - which has lead to a reduction of the problem over the past 3 months.
COUNCELLORS'
REPORT:
Safety Road Barrier at Brookfield Roundabout - still to be replaced
- will look into.
Glendale Trees - still at legal stage of agreement.
Currently starting to work on some areas using money gifted by Dawn Construction.
The trees and paths at lower end of Glendale - ongoing discussions over boundary lines with Stewart Milne.
One Glendale resident expressed concern re overhanging trees and bushes from Glendale woods
into her garden.
Also woods used by youths as den/shelter. Cllr Leonard will discuss
with Land Services - possible one off clean up of wooded area meantime.
The wooded
area would be a great walkway if improved long term.
Play area at Wallacewell
Primary School - the money is allocated for this proposal. Currently delay is due to manpower.
The area will be maintained by Glasgow City Council. This play area will provide excellent play activities for local
families.
Road Sweeper - Copy of Road/street cleaning services for the
area requested by committee - to contact Steven Egan for copy.
Suggestion raised to use
community service workers to clean up communal areas within Robroyston - will discuss with Paul Martin.
Pockets of land around estates - committee members suggested
creating a sub group to look at ownership of each pocket of land
Robroyston, which will
help committee hold owners to account for lack of maintenance. Previously Steven Egan, within Glasgow City Council,
has created a similar map - Cllr suggested contacting Mr Egan for copy of his map and perhaps inviting
him to future meeting.
SECRETARY'S REPORT:
Relevant planning
applications read out - no objections noted.
Stewart Milne's formal
planning application lodged last week. Proposed 1600 houses this side and other side of motorway- to include plan for
school, community and sports facilities. We need to keep a close area on this proposal and
application - a big impact on Robroyston.
Local government boundaries
- report on internet with maps for next 6 months
Funding
- there is lots of avenues of funding which our committee could consider and possibly apply for. Most funding requests have
large attachments - looking
for volunteers within the committee to create
a sub group and look at possible funding for our committee more closely - Any volunteers??
STEWART MILNE:
Water Pump charges discussed. Agreed to arrange a meeting with Paul Martin, Cllr Leonard
and representatives from Scottish Water and Stewart Milne to discuss this issue further.
Poor standard of roads
within Stewart Milne estate also discussed. Hope to raise at meeting with Stewart Milne.
Need to hold Stewart Milne
to account for current developments within Robroyston before they plan to create further developments within the area.
FUTURE:
Our Community Council has been established for almost
5 years - in that time mainly reactive to residents concerns and representations to elected members.
There is lots of funding available if we have a good project - looking for ideas.
We are asking residents
- Do you have any suggestions what our committee should be trying to do as a community council??
As a community council we don't have much powers however we do have good working relationships with elected bodies.
Our committee is asking residents to take the time to contact our website and give your suggestions which we
will discuss at future meetings.
REFURBISHMENT OF WALLACE'S WELL
Currently in progress. Plans from Greenbelt to create a footpath - but who would accept public liability.
FUN DAY
Our Fun day was a great success - great turnout from local residents and their
families, and the weather just made it perfect.
The clean up in the morning also went well - however it would have
been great if more residents had participated.
The event raised £1652 - once all costs are covered our committee
will present a cheque to Marie Curie Big Build, supporting our local hospice.
Susan and Carole thanked all the committee for all their hard work in the preparation stages and on the day - this event
would not have been
possible without great team work and local support. Also a special
thank you to all local retailers who supported our event.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS:
Piece of metal on pavement (part of old hand rail) across from Bus stop on Standburn Road
- look at replacing handrail - Cllr Leonard will look into.
Advertising
- Our local Homebase store has agreed to erect a notice board within their store for our use, this will be located near checkouts,
hope to be
in place by end of summer. Asda store will have a community notice board
which we can use to advertise forthcoming meetings and events also.
The next meeting will be held on Thursday 2nd September 2010.
