HIRA Executive Committee

- Tue 12th Oct 2004

Minutes for meeting held on Sept. 14th, 2004 at Sunnyside Hall.

HIRA Executive Committee.

Minutes for meeting held on Sept. 14th, 2004 at Sunnyside Hall.

Present: L Neale (LN), A Higham (AH), D Turvey (DT), P Fisher (PF).

Councillors: A Lenaghan (AL)

Apologies: Robert Blindell (RB), Colin Richards (CR), Mary Mortimer (MM) Shirley Adams. (SA).
It was noted that Fred Gibson had resigned from the committee but wished to keep in touch with the committee’s activities. We thank Fred very much for his past work.

Minutes of July meeting

These were approved.

Matters Arising

Planning Issues

The development adjacent to the Barley Mow had been rejected for the moment.

Objections were raised from all points of view with respect to the application at Hayling Trailers.

TESCO in Havant was under extensive discussion.

The exact state of the Hayling Bay Hotel development was unclear, but it was believed that refurbishment as residential accommodation was in hand, with some talk of a restaurant being included.


Charging at Health Centre Car Park

This was objected to from all quarters. Problem was that other parts of Borough had been charging for years. Various suggestions were made including barriers and tokens issued from Health Centre.

Billy Trail Survey

This had been completed, largely successfully. Results are suggestive of better consideration by HCC of issues raised at local levels. About 1000 questionnaires were completed, most of which indicate a wish for continuation of status quo, but with completion of commensurate quality of link to Havant.

HIRA had contributed to the contents of the questionnaire and that was good use of our abilities.

AGM

This would be on 21st. October. David Willetts was expected to attend.

Community Board

This had now been set up under the local chairmanship of AL. He outlined the aims to the Committee and said there was £50K to spend initially and more to come subject to sensible proposals being put forward for approval. Money had to be spent by March 2006, so there was a degree of urgency in getting the programme moved forward.

AL stated that he was only in office to start up the Board. A new chairman and other officials had to be appointed in due course, the mechanism for doing so having not yet been determined.

CCTV

The CCTV for the Community Centre was being installed. DT asked what had happened to the system on the bridge. It was believed that this was still to be repaired.

Membership

MM was to start canvassing Islanders for subscriptions.

SA was taking over the role of Membership secretary from FG.

DONM

Tuesday, October 12th at 7.30 in the Sunnyside Hall.

Distribution

Committee members, Councillors and others.

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