TRESA public meeting. 7.30pm 20th January 2016
Attendance
Present: RM, NW, AM, GA, SH
Apologies: SA, CJ, JB, AS, PH
Company Secretary
nothing to report
Membership
Now stands at 103
Talk of Totterdown
Geoff will take over from James Gray as the hub for his area.
Zone A
Simon proposes to apply for a grant from Bristol City Council to cover the cost of installing metal tree portico. Query whether TRESA installing it on the land as intended will infringe any legal rights. Suzanne is invited to clarify this with Mark Bailey. SA
Website
This is working well. No issues to report.
Energy Group
Simon intends to do more thermal imaging when the weather allows
Public Meeting
1.Stanley Hill
Rebecca summarized the recommendations of the University of the West of England students. Those present were very impressed with their work. Rebecca discussed the possibility of the skateboard park at the bottom of Park St being registered as a community asset. She and colleagues were also pursuing plans to paint parts of the road surface on Summer Hill as a visual clue to through traffic of its residential status, subject to canvassing local residents and to street closure permission.
2. Park Street
There was discussion as to improving the amenity value of the land at the bottom of the street extending down from the community orchard. Ownership of the plots neighbouring the orchard is unknown. It was agreed that some outline plans for the area would be helpful. Local resident Cat Colvin kindly offered to see if she could put together some ideas for consideration.
3. Street party
Rebecca plans to apply for permission to hold a street party on 11 June 2016
4. Any other business
Green St Mosque were holding an open day on 24 January 2016 from 1.30 to 2.30. TRESA welcomed the opportunity to meet the members of the Muslim community. It was thought that there was scope for TRESA to see if there were ways of involving community members more in TRESA’s activities.
Playing out in Totterdown – it seems that funds have been set aside for the benefit of Bushy Park, as a condition of the granting of planning consent pursuant to Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. TRESA could consider schemes which might be appropriate to attract grants from those funds, e.g. outdoor exercise equipment.
Opportunity to host mayoral candidate – Rebecca’s husband has been offered the opportunity to bring a mayoral candidate to a community group meeting. She will ask him to see if he can get Labour’s Marvin Rees to come, and Simon will approach the Green Party candidate Tony Dyer. RM; SH
Date of next meeting
Directors only meeting on Wednesday 17 February 2016, 7.30 p.m at Totterdown Canteen.