Agenda and minutes

Confirmation of the minutes of the meeting held on 4 June 2018, previously circulated.

The minutes of the meeting held on 4 June 2018 were approved and signed by the Chairman.

To receive the minutes of the meeting held on 11 June 2018.

The minutes of the meeting held on 11 June 2018 were noted.  

No declarations of interest were made.

A presentation will be made on the work being carried out, as part of the overall Council Strategy for the period 2016 - 2025, in relation to two of the Teignbridge Ten super-projects. These are ten connected areas of work, which will each have a widespread impact on the economy, community wellbeing, and the environment.

James Teed and Paul Nicholls will present the work of two of the programmes ‘Out and About and Active’ and ‘Health at Heart’.

Three presentations were made on the work being carried out as part of the overall Council’s strategy for the period 2016 to 2025 in relation to the Teignbridge 10 Super Projects, the ten connected areas of work which each had a widespread impact on the local economy, community well-being, and environment.

James Teed, Leisure Manager provided Members with detail in his presentation on ‘Out and About and Active’ and set out the availability of opportunities for a healthy active lifestyle.  He made particular reference to the Leisure Strategic Review document, which underpinned much of the Council’s work. A significant amount of activity and planning strategy work had already taken place, but more was planned with the public, with the aim of getting the ‘inactive active’. He also outlined the achievements in the first two years of the Council’s Strategy which included:-

·         168,000 activity sessions for older people, 

·         102,000 activity sessions for younger people,

·         1000 sessions aimed at getting people cycling,

·         improvements of green spaces, play areas and sports facilities to increase opportunities for activities also working with local communities,

·         offering a range of activities to encourage activity and remove barriers to participation through a number of leisure partnerships working through the health agenda including Active Devon, a Pre-Diabetes Pilot Project, Sport Relief, Sugar Smart, Refill Devon and school taster sessions,

·         the healthy information campaign and other interventional work with local G.P’s and the NHS,

·         a range of volunteer  development activities, and

·         theTeignbridge sport and community awards which celebrate sports and activity achievements of the local community as well as the South West Youth Games with 2000 young people expected to take part.

James Teed responded to a Member’s enquiry about participants in the South West Games and confirmed that over 10,000 young people were involved from across the south west. He also confirmed the opportunity for capturing meaningful data from participants or attendees at events.  He also took on Members’ ideas and suggestions about future events including the Open Field day, an annual event promoting greater public access to open space and fields, and to the Consortium of Gardens - COG, which was a collaboration of volunteers who help to maintain encourage the public to use gardens and open spaces.

Paul Nicholls, the Food Health and Safety Manager and Programme Lead for the Health at Heart Team provided an overview of the initiative and also spoke about the efforts to improve the health and well-being of Teignbridge’s population and community. This work included partnership work with other stakeholders who shared the ambition to design evidence-based services and support and pool resources and capacity in a coordinated manner to achieve the best possible outcome for the communities and those in greatest need of the support. He also put into context the opportunities to reduce health inequalities through their work with a range of partners in an effort to improve the population health and well-being outcomes. It was important to ensure that people could remain as independent as possible in  ...  view the full minutes text for item 69.

To consider the report from Business Improvement and Development.

The Business Improvement Officer Liz Gingell presented the report which provided data for Quarter 4 (1 January to 31 March 2018) on the progress made in respect of the Teignbridge Ten (T10) programmes.  Each T10 project had actions with performance indicators and/or projects which monitored progress against targets and milestones. There was also an overview for 2017 and 2018 as well as the key achievements and review of the proposed performance targets for 2018-20.

The report included the outcome of the Council’s Strategy Satisfaction Survey, which included a more detailed set of questions to a much wider audience including face to face interaction with residents and also respondents of the resident’s panel. A finance overview for 2017/18 revenue and capital budgets also set out the actual spend against the year-end estimate (outturn) and the base budget for the same financial year.  A total of 87 Performance Indicators (PI) reports were included, with 24 of the 44 PI's with targets performing above or well above target, whilst 11 PI’s were underperforming.  The detail of the actions being taken to rectify performance detailed in Appendix A was set out below:-

CSROH 5.1 - Number of rough sleepers on a snapshot date (Y1 – 2) - A Member welcomed the Council’s emphasis on this issue and support of vulnerable individuals and he felt this Council should be proud, and applaud the work of officers who were both sympathetic and empathetic in their approach.

CSROH 1.3 - Number of self-build homes provided - A Member commented on the relatively low number of plots for self-build properties. It was noted that the target of 31 per year related to a Local Plan target. Work would be undertaken to consider a compounded target for this PI by the Business Manager, Simon Thornley.

Clean Scene Summary - Council policies on dog fouling and access restrictions - A Member commented on the dog fouling restrictions and recent tragic incidents involving dog attacks on Dawlish’s black swans. He was concerned at the lack of progress made and uncertainty of the enforcement and requested a PSPO for the  Dawlish Lawn to be implemented as soon as possible. A request would be sent to the Environmental Protection Manager, David Eaton to pursue.

CSCLS 5.1 - Household waste recycled and composted - The Chairman referred to the static figures and the proposed Member Working Group on recycling and waste.He advised that some background work was needed, but action sooner rather than later was desirable.

CSCLS 7.1 -% of monitored sites not meeting the air quality standard for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) – A Member referred to the upgrade of the South Devon Highway and sought an assurance that air quality monitoring would continue in the adjacent locations. It was noted that this request would be passed to the Environmental Protection Manager. The Chairman also suggested that with the change in the traffic flow it would be useful to obtain similar data for Newton Abbot.

Going to Town summary –

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Resolved  - The Committee noted the Executive Forward Plan.

to identify any areas of work for future meetings of the Committee.

It was noted that the Chairman would liaise with officers to ensure there were items for future meetings.  A request had been received from a Member for a discussion on Park Home legislation and the most appropriate contact would be identified to bring a report forward. 

Resolved - The Work Programme for the remainder of the year was noted.