Agenda item

·  The Neighbourhood element of CIL for Bath – Councillor Fiona Darey

·  The Economic Development Group – Jeremy Boss

·  Bath City Conference Steering Group – Councillor Colin Blackburn

Neighbourhood Portion of CIL – Councillor Fiona Darey

Since the forum workshop took place we have met with a number of other council departments to gain a better understanding of how once the neighbourhood CIL projects have been agreed, what lead times will be required to be able to implement delivery. This is important as we have to have the input for projects that are to be delivered by highways, parks or any form of infrastructure, on how these will fit the extra requests into their programmes. The next steps will be to agree a criteria document and form for expressions of interest. Once these documents are completed we will circulate these to the forum members and publish on the Councils website. This would mean that by the time the forum meets in September we could have the process in place.

Economic Development – Jeremy Boss

Work with Bath Bridge on how the City Identity work could be taken forward Conclusion and recommendations for the BCF:

• That the work to develop the Brand is taken forward accepting the offer of Bath Bridge to co-create the work [A good offer to develop something tangible for the City]
• We should aim to work together to create a united shared vision for the City supporting the likely recommendations of the Destination Management Plan [There is a clear need and opportunity that we can deliver on]
• The BCF should be the client for the work and champion its development
• A strategy group should be formed based on an augmented Economic Development Sub Group [The groups already exists and is willing to take this forward with some further help from other stakeholders]
• Bath Bridge will develop working groups to engage with key groups from across the City, including younger people and underrepresented communities, with the support of BCF members [Working together we can reach a wide audience across the City]
• The first deliverable will be the brand strategy by the end of 2017 [Working at pace to deliver outcomes]

Councillor Dine Romero asked that the working group bring together a united, shared vision with an assurance that, the weight for recommendations will include input from unrepresented communities.

Jeremy Boss put forward the Sub Group requests that the Bath City Forum endorse these conclusions and approves that work on the brand identity working with Bath Bridge should proceed. Councillor Peter Turner seconded this recommendation; all other votes were in favour of endorsing the work to move forward.

Bath City Conference Steering Group – Councillor Colin Blackburn

•  “Building a stronger Bath” is the overarching theme for this years  
• Housing, Economic Development and Strong Communities are three exhibition areas for participants.
• We are still looking for suggestions for keynote speakers, at least two, the first at 1pm and the second at 4.30pm.
• ‘Ask the panel’ will take place in the evening 5.30-7.00pm.
• Bath Studio School are to produce a film that will show people from Bath giving their views on “what is important to them about the City”. This film will be shown at the start of the ‘ask the panel’ session.
• Visits will take place in September at several Bath schools prior to the conference, where pupils can put forward “what is important to them about the City”. If it is possible that this will be captured on film.
• The Conference takes place on Friday 13^th October and the exhibition stands open between 12:30pm-4.30pm.

Forum members are asked that they engage with their networks for participants for the event and Contact Mark Hayward with any further suggestions.

Transport

A request has been made that a forum member to take over chairing the Transport sub group. A forum member needs to chair the group but they can co-opt additional experts who are not forum members to take part in the work of the group.

Councillor Joe Rayment asked that whoever is appointed as Chair of this sub group takes on the role without pre conceived ideas and carries out the role with impartiality.

Fire and Rescue

An operational update providing local information was provided by Gareth Lloyd, Bath Fire Station Manager.

Councillor Dine Romero commented that the Fire Service attendance would be welcomed at future meetings.

Robin Kerr raised the concern around the forty-eight party houses that exist in Bath and would welcome an explanation on how many have had fire safety inspections?