Thank you to everyone who attended September’s meeting – and to those who attended the Stirchley’s Celebrating Communities Fund too.
The minutes from the meeting on Monday 13th September are available here.
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September’s agenda and previous minutes
In September you get two for the price of one! As well as the usual Forum meeting Karen Cheney will be leading the selection process for the first part of the Celebrating Communities Fund (info after agenda here).
For this meeting we will be trying something different in that Rob Morris (our Chair) and some of the Committee members will be in the hall whilst everyone else is on Zoom. This is to enable us to try out the technology with a view to having hybrid meetings (in the Hall and on Zoom) going forward.
There is a special item on the Agenda this month as the Forum has been made aware of a proposal to move the post office currently on the corner of Dogpool Lane further up Pershore Road to the Nisa store (almost opposite the BP garage). There is an opportunity to make your views known.
Although it is not in Stirchley we know that many Stirchley residents will be interested in (and affected by) development of the former Fitness First site. A planning application has been lodged and can be found here.
Agenda
MONDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER 2021
7.30pm
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- Welcome
- Apologies
- Minutes of meeting 12th July 2021 (posted here)
- Matters arising
- Police Update – subject to operational issues PCSO Paul Blackford will be present
- Planning issues
- Changing location of the post office currently in Dogpool Lane
- Networking
- Any other business
Next Forum meeting Monday 11th October 2021
Minutes from June’s meeting
Minutes from the June 2021 meeting are available here. They cover the meeting that took place on Monday 14th June, including topics such as Commonwealth Games Funding, police update around crime figures and road safety, planning issues and an invitation for the Forum to challenge the council as part of the Pioneer Places initiative.
If you would like to attend the next Stirchley Neighbourhood Forum meeting, it will take place on Monday 12th July at 7.30pm, on Zoom. To be added to the newsletter circulation list to recieve the Zoom link, please email stirchley.forumb30[@]gmail.com
Notice of June Meeting. What is on your mind?
In this Newsletter;
- Meeting Agenda
- Joining information
- Information about the latest Seven Capital planning application
- Challenging Birmingham City Council
June’s Stirchley Forum Agenda
MONDAY 14TH JUNE 2021
7.30pm, online using Zoom
- Welcome
- Apologies
- Minutes of meeting 10th May 2021 (found here )
- Matters arising
- Police Update – subject to operational issues PCSO Paul Blackford will be present
- Planning issues, including latest Seven Capital application
- Birmingham City Council Challenge
- Networking – including; Pioneer Places
- Any other business
- Next meeting Monday 12th July 2021
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Seven Capital has applied for planning permission for the Hazelwell Lane site
Reserved Matters Consent seeking permission for appearance, layout, scale and landscaping of a food retail store with associated parking, engineering, landscaping, drainage and infrastructure works following outline approval 2018/10370/PA f
Details are available here.
Challenge the Council
As part of the Pioneer Places initiative we have been invited to challenge Birmingham City Council. At a recent meeting Cllr Thompson (Cabinet member) emphasised how important it was that the Council continued to be challenged around its commitment to Localisation and for the council to learn from what hasn’t worked well and how it could have been done better.
Councillor Thompson has just set up a Localisation Star Chamber – where service areas will present what they have been doing that contributes to the Localisation agenda as well being challenged as to what else could be done
Pioneer Places have been asked to contribute into the star chamber process with the Challenge Case Studies.
Below is a pro forma form which we have been asked to complete so bring your ideas to the meeting (we can submit more than one form – the more the merrier).
Pioneer Places – BCC CHALLENGE Case Studies
The 4 key Measures of Success as outlined in the “Working Together in Birmingham’s Neighbourhoods” Strategic Document are: –
- Services being different, better suited to the area, and more efficient
- Officers working for “one council”, putting shared outcomes and local places first, not their service or directorate
- Local councillors having more influence on services
- Residents feeling they are more in control of their services and their local area
Minutes from May 2021 Stirchley Forum
Thank you to everyone who attended May’s Stirchley Neighbourhood Forum; including representatives from Taylor Wimpey, PCSO Paul Blackford and Councillor Mary Locke.
The minutes are available online here.
The next Stirchley Forum meeting is on Monday 14th June at 7.30pm on Zoom. A link will be sent to those who have signed up to receive notifications. If you would like to attend, please email stirchley.forumb30@gmail.com