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Community Priorities

Community Priorities. Presentation to Handsworth Wood Ward Committee 12 September 2012. HHNF. Established communities Green belt (Sandwell Valley) Good facilities (schools, golf course, pavilion) Loss of assets (Hawthorn House) Community safety (murders, ASB) Handsworth Wood brand

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Community Priorities

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  1. Community Priorities Presentation to Handsworth Wood Ward Committee 12 September 2012

  2. HHNF • Established communities • Green belt (Sandwell Valley) • Good facilities (schools, golf course, pavilion) • Loss of assets (Hawthorn House) • Community safety (murders, ASB) • Handsworth Wood brand • Tackle traffic congestion (Hamstead/Friary) • Make better use of facilities (Pavilion) • Tackle hotspots

  3. WHNF • Location • History of resident activity • Green belt (Sandwell Valley) • Community safety (ASB Sandwell Rd shops) • Environment (fly-tipping, planning failure!) • Facilities (Camp Lane, Oakland, Laurel Rd) • Support elderly (safety, income, activities) • Revamp Neighbourhood & Street Watch • Tackle ASB (street drinking, noisy neighbours)

  4. CONF • Facilities (schools, playing fields, Hamstead industrial estate) • Community Safety (burglaries, drugs/ shooting-Bramley, drinking-Grange) • Environment (overhanging thorns & bushes, vermin in gated areas, parents parking) • Loss of facilities for public use (C/Orchard school) • Improve pathway from Romilly to C/Orchard • Improve effectiveness of neighbourhood forums • Improve communications – news. events, etc

  5. TNA • Facilities (College Road shops, St. Andrews Sports & Com Centre) • Community safety (ASB, poor lighting) • Environment (dumping in public spaces, planning failure @ Tesco) • Community(loss of civic sense & pride) • Tackle traffic problems (congestion @ College Rd, speeding at HW Girls School) • Integrate new communities • Create a Community Hub

  6. Street Survey - Priorities • Community safety • tackle speeding • Increase and improve policing • Environment • Improve lighting • Fill potholes • Maintain trees • Remove rubbish and litter • Clear, gate & maintain alleyways • Community • Restore civic pride • Improve usage of facilities for young people and elderly • Provide Information, advice and guidance post library and neighbourhood office closure

  7. Public Survey – Priorities • Enforce law on Crime and Anti Social Behaviour – street drinking, drug dealing, litter dropping, dog fouling, develop derelict land and properties • Provide information, advice and guidance/ training for new migrants to enable their integration • Integrate planning to maximise job opportunities for local people • Reinstate play areas and ensure they’re within walking distance • Require agency staff to get out of their cars and offices and onto bikes and public transport.

  8. Trader Survey - Priorities • Improve the local shopping centre experience • Better lighting • More bins cleared more regularly • Replace manhole covers • Improve paving • Clear alleyways • CCTV to deter anti social behaviour and theft • Promote local shopping centres • through branding, advertising, signage and loyalty schemes • Encourage integrated Agency action (e.g., schools and police) • to discharge their duty of care by encouraging people using local facilities to be more community conscious and to deal with their litter and noise

  9. Ward Focus Group - Priorities • Community Safety • Ensure visible and effective policing • Revamp Street/Neighbourhood Watch and connect with Neighbourhood Forum/s and Neighbourhood Task Group/s • Empower young people to lead safer, cleaner, greener works. • Environment • use community payback on cleaner, greener, safer work • improve street lighting around public spaces • Tackle traffic management hotspots • bring back into use derelict and vacant spaces and gate or assign ownership • task urban designers to solve grass verge/parking tensions, make better use of greenbelt

  10. Ward Focus Group - Priorities • Economic Impact • Create a Community Hub for new starts & micro businesses • Launch a hard hitting jobs and business support programme • Apply Mary Portas approach to local shopping centres) • Community • Launch a robust integration programme for new migrants • Launch a groundbreaking community resilience programme • Launch a dynamic website to replace lost Neighbourhood Office & library • Develop Neighbourhood Forum capacity to act as a community development trust • Pressure GPs and Hospitals to reduce appointment and waiting times • Make better use of facilities and create a sense of community with Annual Summer Festival and Achievement Awards

  11. Ward Focus Group - Priorities • Governance • Council should focus its resources on building local community resilience and sustainability • More strategic and operational leadership to make the most of diminishing resources • Hold an Annual Ward Conference • Communication • Produce & distribute Newsletter • Develop and maintain Social Media channels • Initiate new ways to engage and involve residents (e.g., virtual ward meetings and Councillor surgeries)

  12. Recommendations • Deliver an Annual Ward Conference • Capacity Build the Forums and at least 10 Community-led TSOs operating in the Ward • Improve civic engagement • Produce a newsletter for Ward wide distribution • Create a Community Hub at suitable location

  13. Recommendations • Establish a Development Agency • Deliver a FutureLeaders Programme • Develop proposals for better public space and facilities utilisation • Local agencies consider the community identified projects and priorities as part of their planning and implementation arrangements.

  14. Staying in Touch • Blog • http://handsworthwoodblog.wordpress.com/ • Facebook • https://www.facebook.com/groups/187101398066815/ • Report • Executive Summary • Download from Handsworth Wood Neighbourhood Forums Blog • Next meeting of local Neighbourhood Forum

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