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objectives and status
Crime and Policing
Ensure that Sidcup is given priority for permanent policing by fully qualified officers.
Monitor and report anti-social behaviour.
Support the police in their action against the sale of alcohol to minors.
Press for proportionate penalties for criminals and switch support to their victims.
Planning, Licensing and the High Street
Monitor planning & licensing applications and ensure that residents are aware of developments that will impact on their environment, peace or safety. The Group is recognised by the Council as a Formally Constituted Representative Organisation.
Encourage sympathetic and proportionate developments that comply with the UDP, Mayor’s London Housing Design Guide and Design for Living guidelines.
Fight for a viable High Street with a mixed retail profile and enforcement of planning conditions.
Public Health
Lobby for facilities and life-styles to sustain high levels of public health.
Fight for the retention of facilities at Queen Mary’s and the future of the hospital.
Press for the retention of Health centres in locations convenient to patients.
The Environment
Resist the destruction of Green Belt land, allotments and other green spaces which are valuable contributors to public health.
Encourage residents to register local green spaces.
Promote re-cycling, energy conservation and sustainable development.
Urge effective action against graffiti, fly-posting, fly-tipping and littering.
Traffic and Transport
Provide feedback on solutions to Sidcup’s traffic problems.
Campaign for a correct balance between protection of the environment, the safety of pedestrians, the peace of residents and the convenience of motorists.
Press for safe, clean and affordable Public Transport with adequate measures to deal with anti-social behaviour and fraudulent travel.
Heritage and History
Lobby for the retention, renovation and protection of historic buildings.
Fight for the retention of what remains of Sidcup’s character.
Support Bexley Civic Society to achieve these aims.
OUR concerns
In an ongoing survey of our members, the following were the prime concerns at at May 2010:
Decline of the High Street 36%
Anti-Social behaviour 24%
Unacceptable developments 24%
Decline of Queen Mary's Hospital, Litter, Traffic congestion, Sale of alcohol to minors.
OUR STATUS
Formally Constituted Representative Organisation
In January 2009, Bexley Council’s Planning Control Committee directed its Head of Development Control to conduct an audit of all representative organisations that they consult on planning applications.
This exercise was intended to ensure that only bona fide organisations are included.
The criteria for a Formally Constituted Representative Organisation is summarised as follow:
• Has a written constitution setting out aims, objectives and ground rules for how the organisation will be run.
• Has a list of active members of the organisation relating to a defined geographical area represented by the organisation.
• Has an elected committee with a chairman, secretary and treasurer with evidence that such an election takes place annually.
• Has regular minuted meetings at least four times a year.
• Has a minimum membership of 10 persons from 5 or more property addresses.
• Has a written statement agreed by members indicating how representations are to be made on planning applications and, where an individual has been nominated by the organisation to make representations on behalf of the organisation, evidence to be made available in support of this nomination.
This procedure was agreed at the Group’s AGM on 22nd October 2008:
Appropriate Planning Applications open to consultation should be sent to the Secretary, Mr P.Laundy. He will forward this application to one of the members on the Executive Committee to draw up a draft response and return it to the Secretary. He, in turn, will confer with the Chairman in order to make a final draft. This will be returned to the Council in the name of the whole Group.
• All such arrangements to be reviewed annually at the organisation’s AGM and written records to be kept and made available to support this.
The Group’s secretary submitted the above evidence in an application on 8th January 2010 in a form that satisfied the Council’s criteria but did not contravene the principles of the Data Protection Act.
On 8th April 2010, the Chairman of Bexley Council Environment and Regeneration Services confirmed recognition of Sidcup Community Group as a Formally Constituted Representative Organisation.
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