Central South and West Area Committee

We met again today at St. Barnabas' School on Hart Street in Jericho.  The agenda was short so the meeting lasted on an hour.  We discussed the proposals to make Jericho a conservation area and talked about usual street scene issues including the mess near the "backside entrance" (phrase of the night award to Cllr Stephen Brown!) to a building in the Walton Street area.

We were disappointed that the person from First Great Western who had come to listen to the concerns of many residents about noise and pollution from Jericho sidings was unable to attend due to being stuck in a traffic jam on the M1.  What does that say about FGW's attitudes to transport I wonder?

We also expressed our horror and the County Council's proposal put increase the cost of residents' parking permits by a whopping 25%.

We were pleased to note our committee's unblemished record this year (rolling to 31 Aug 10) on planning appeals - not only had no appeals against our decisions been allowed, none had even been lodged.

It was good to see  Daniel Lowe, OUSU Vice President (Charities and Community) present at the meeting.