Delivery 2031
The Second Meeting of the AVA Board
Tuesday 14 December 2004
Minutes
Present:-
Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, Karen Boddy, Cllr Marion Clayton, Cllr Peter Cooper, Tony Edwards, Dr Jane O’Grady, Greg Lomax, Sir Nigel Mobbs, Liz McSheehy (deputising for Paul Hudson), Cllr Carole Paternoster, Cllr Rodney Royston, Cllr Alan Sherwell, Graham Hyslop (deputising for Dennis Hone)
Also in attendance: -
Tracey Aldworth, AVDC, John Byrne, AVDC, Richard Carr, AVDC, Liz Clowe, AVDC, Huw Jones, BCC, Teresa Lane, AVDC Julian Lomas, GOSE, Chris Ash, GOSE, Andy Scate BCC, Neil Gibson, BCC.
Apologies:-
Cllr Mike Appleyard, Cllr John Cartwright, Sunil Chavda, Dennis Hone, Paul Hudson.
1. Coach Tour of Key Sites in Aylesbury
The meeting commenced with a tour of the key sites in and around Aylesbury town, with a commentary provided by Andy Scate of the County Council, supplemented by an information pack distributed on the tour.2. Declarations of interests
There were no declarations of interest made in respect of the meeting and no members of the public were present.
The minutes from the last meeting were noted and approved and there were no matters arising.
The Board discussed the proposed response to the Milton Keynes and South Midlands Sub-Regional Strategy and suggested a number of amendments to the draft including:
It was RESOLVED:-
a) That the Local Authority Chief Executives in consultation with the Chairman and the Managing Director finalise the response to be submitted to the Government Office.
Teresa Lane gave a brief update on the current position with the marketing strategy and the development of the logo. AVDC is in the process of looking to allocate further funds to implementing the marketing strategy, with a budget bid of £50,000 for 2005/06, which will need Cabinet and Council approval as part of the budget setting process. Securing funding from other sources, such as the ODPM and other partners will also be progressed as opportunities arise.
The Marketing Strategy Group has now met for the last time and the action group will continue to move forward with the implementation of the activities in the plan. There will also be a logo sub group to finalise the arrangements for this to be progressed, using a local designer.
It was RESOLVED to :
Andy Scate of the County Council provided some further information about the projects proposed for submission to the ODPM’s Community Infrastructure Fund. The four projects being proposed were:
In addition to these four projects, it was proposed that the A418 Stoke Hammond scheme should also be included as a high priority project, as there was a need to find the gap funding for this scheme. It was then agreed that the projects should be prioritised as part of the submission and that the link between the schemes and their relevance to helping to create the right conditions for economic growth of the area should be emphasised.
It was also agreed that it would be helpful if key partner agencies could draft letters of support for the bids to be included as part of the submission to the Regional Assembly, who were involved with the co-ordination and analysis of the bids. These letters of support needed to be provided as soon as possible to the County Council.
It was RESOLVED: -
Details are to be circulated in respect of the Directors’ liability insurance as soon as possible.
Sir Nigel thanked Julian Lomas on behalf of the Board for all of his support and advice and wished him every success in his new role as the Director of Planning at Portsmouth City Council.
There was some concern about the dates proposed for future meetings, namely that the May and July dates clashed with a number of County Council meetings. More dates will be considered but the Board were asked to reserve the proposed dates in diaries for the time being.
The meeting concluded at 12.45 pm.
