Wallington North Liberal Democrat Councillors

Royal Mail is making some changes to the way it delivers mail in the SM5 and SM6 postcode areas over the next few weeks.

From this week postmen and women will use new delivery methods and adopt revised delivery routes as these changes are introduced on a phased basis.  Royal Mail are writing to every address in Wallington about these changes and this includes households, businesses and other organisations.

Royal Mail provides one of the most comprehensive and best value mail services in the world. The postmen and women play a vital role in Wallington, as well as across the rest of the UK, where they deliver to almost 29 million addresses, six days a week.

However, to modernise the operation. Royal Mail is making changes in Wallington to maintain their services and to keep the prices as low as possible.

What this means for the Wallington area:

• Royal Mail will continue to deliver in the morning and for a longer period during the day.
• Many customers will continue to get their mail by lunchtime.
• The time customers receive mail will depend on where they live on the new delivery route. This may be later or possibly earlier than current delivery times.
• When mail volumes vary, we may need to adjust delivery arrangements and times.

If you have any queries call Royal Mail Customer Services Team on 0845 601 1399.

Deaf and hard of hearing customers can use our Textphone: 0845 600 0606.

Legal Clinic – Thursdays 10 – 11am

Tweeddale Centre, Tweeddale Road, Carshalton SM5 1SW

• Domestic Violence
• Divorce & Money
• Child Residence
• Child contact
• Harassment
• Hate Crime

For an appointment call Tweeddale Centre between 8.30 – 5.45 Mon- Fri – Tel 020 8404 1640

Next BEDDINGTON AND WALLINGTON LOCAL COMMITTEE will take place on TUESDAY, 17TH APRIL, 2012, starting 7.00 pm at the Bandon Hill Primary School, Wallington.

I would like to encourage the residents of Wallington & Beddington to attend the meeting and let us hear your views.

AGENDA

1. APOLOGIES

2. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING (Pages 1 –

Minutes of the meeting held on 7 February 2012 to be agreed

3. QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC

15 minutes are allocated for questions from the public relating to items not on the agenda. Please pass these to the Community Development Officer at least

10 minutes before the start of the meeting.

4. PUBLIC REALM PROJECTS (Pages 9 – 14)

• • Round table discussions with Julie Young, Locality Officer
• • Beddington Park Cycle Lane briefing note from Lynn Robinson,

Engineering Technician

5. SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM

Update from Inspector Colin Baker

6. WESTCROFT LEISURE CENTRE AND LIBRARY (Pages 15 – 18)

Report from Colin Beech, Executive Head of Leisure and Libraries

7. CHANGES TO WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES

Oral presentation from Matt Clubb, Head of Waste Management and Fleet

Services

8. BUDGET ENGAGEMENT

Round tables discussion with Paul Brannon, Marketing Officer

9. PRIMARY SCHOOL EXPANSION

Round tables discussion with Nigel Simms, Building Schools for the Future

Director

10. LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FUNDING 2012/13 (FUNDING FOR

TRANSPORT SCHEMES) (Pages 19 – 30)

Report from Paul Blunt, Transport Planning and Programme Manager

11. POLLUTION STATISTICS – WALLINGTON HIGH STREET (Pages 31 – 32)

4 Request from community representative for statistics before and after the

Wallington High Street Improvements

12. COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES ISSUES

Community Representatives are invited to raise issues for future agendas or discussion at the meeting if the Chair deems the matter urgent. Please inform the Community Development Officer if you wish to raise an item

13. ITEMS FOR NOTING – UPDATE ON BUTTERHILL

Update from Faran Forghani, Traffic and Highways Works Manager:

A consultation document is being prepared to consult residents on the various options available, and seek their opinions and views in conjunction with our consultation with Transport for London and the application for funding in 2013-

14. The consultation which will be in the form of questionnaire will cover a wider area to include the residents from the neighbouring roads as well.

This will enable us to map out the results when formally informing and consulting the committee for a decision.

14. ANY URGENT BUSINESS

15. DATES OF FUTURE MEETINGS

Future meetings will be held at Bandon Hill Primary School at 7pm on the following dates:

5 July 2012,

18 October 2012,

6 December 2012,

14 February 2012,18 April 2013

Contac: sunita.gordon@sutton.gov.uk

A change in governance arrangements at Sutton Council is set to make decision-making more open and transparent and save taxpayers money. The plans, which will give more councillors more of a say on important decisions, were approved by Sutton’s Executive on Monday. Under the plans the existing Executive system – a council leader, deputy leader and eight decision-making executive councillors – will be replaced by a new committee system. Five new committees will be made up of cross-party, elected councillors from across the borough. The committees will each have a chair and decisions will be reached on a majority basis.

The committees, which will be launched in May, are:

• Strategy and Resources

• Environment and Neighbourhood

• Children, Family and Education

• Housing, Economy and Business

• Adult Social Services and Health

If approved by full council at its meeting in April, the councillors sitting on these committees, and the committee chairs, will be confirmed at the council’s Annual Meeting on 21 May. Committees will be politically proportionate, to reflect the council’s 43 Liberal Democrat and 11 Conservative councillors, and will meet in public every six to eight weeks.

The six existing local committees, which represent local areas of the borough, will remain, whilst the four existing scrutiny committees will be replaced by a single scrutiny committee which will be largely responsible for scrutinising the council’s activities around health, crime and disorder and risk management.

The next BEDDINGTON AND WALLINGTON LOCAL COMMITTEE will take place on TUESDAY, 17TH APRIL, 2012, starting 7.00 pm at the Bandon Hill Primary School, Wallington.

This year the Summer Festival in Sutton will start in mid May and continue until September to make the most of the historic events London is celebrating.

If you or your organisation would like to want to host an event in celebration of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics and Paralympics, we can help.

A not for profit organisation, hosting an event, you may be eligible to apply for up to £500 of funding provided by the council.  Providing your organisation meets the certain criteria as specified on our application form.

Alternatively, if you are an individual or small local group who just wants to put on an event for your local neighbourhood to celebrate Take Part Take Pride, such as a picnic or party in the park, a country walk with refreshments, or a more ambitious activity day, you could apply for a £50 supermarket voucher.

You can also apply for one of these if you’re putting on a street party or Big Lunch for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Street parties held over the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee bank holiday weekend from 2 – 5 June can also apply to have their street, or part of their street, closed and Sutton Council will waive the road closure fee. The latest date for road closure applications is 4 May

For the £500 funding opportunity or the £50 supermarket voucher you need to apply by 15 March 2012 using our online application form.

Even if you are not applying for funding, do let the council know about your event it can be promoted in the Summer Festival Programme and on the website.

The online application form and street closure form can be accessed on our website: www.sutton.gov.uk/summerfestival

If you’d like more information about the £500 funding please contact karen.holt@sutton.gov.uk

For more information about the £50 vouchers and the Summer Festival Programme please contact debbie.bacon@sutton.gov.uk.

The South London Waste Partnership, of which Sutton Council is part, has announced Viridor as the preferred bidder for its 25-year residual waste treatment contract. This follows a thorough procurement process to ensure the South London Waste Partnership (comprising the London Boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton) meets its statutory landfill diversion targets and avoids hefty landfill levies and fines.

At present over 200,000 tonnes of waste from households in Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton goes to landfill. Viridor’s proposal is to develop a state-of-the-art Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at its existing landfill and recycling site in Beddington. In order to develop a planning application for the proposed facility, Viridor will undertake a thorough consultation with stakeholders and the local community during early 2012.

People who wish to register an interest in being kept informed throughout the process can email beddington@viridor.co.uk

With London undergoing the digital switchover; please check the ID of the person presenting themselves as TV technicians and before allowing them access to your home.

The open-air fitness centre in Beddington Park will give residents the chance to work out in the open air. The range of equipment is suitable for everyone, from children and pensioners to fitness fanatics.

 The gym was installed following requests from local friends of the parks groups and funded by the Beddington and Wallington Local Committee’s public realm funds. The Friends of Beddington Park were among the first to try out the new equipment, which includes an air skier, hip twister, push up machine and an upright rowing machine.

Your ward councillors Sunita, Stan & Bruce are delighted that Sutton Council has installed its first outdoor gym in Beddington Park. It makes sense to use the space we have in Beddington Park to increase fitness at the same time as having fun.

The gym is located next to the playground at Beddington Park.