Minutes:
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Name of Councillor asking Question
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Name of Cabinet Member(s) Responding |
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Councillor Crow to the Cabinet Member for Housing.
I was appalled to read that Crawley ranked 304 of 324 English local Authorities on social mobility, especially those living in the most disadvantage homes in the town.
What did the Cabinet Member believe were the reasons behind this were and what was he doing about this with regards to housing?
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Councillor Joyce – (Cabinet Member for Housing).
We don’t have many bad houses in Crawley. I’m going to address this by building more houses, with over 200 being built across the Borough at present.
People shouldn’t be disadvantage because of the housing in the Town and our stock generally is excellent. |
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Councillor R Burgess to the Cabinet Member for Wellbeing.
With regards to the minutes of the last Full Council quotes Councillor Mullins, saying ‘the aim was to have it rebuilt in the Memorial Gardens for the Christmas period, so it could be used for the Christmas carols.’
However a recent press release stated that work on the Bandstand would commence in 2018.
Please can the Cabinet Member confirm when the Bandstand would be completed? |
Councillor Mullins – (Cabinet Member for Wellbeing).
There have been unexpected delays such as the need to reproduce additional sides of the Bandstand, which had been found to have been damaged. The works will be finished during the early part of 2018 and it would be worth the wait.
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Councillor Guidera to the Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development
Would you join me in, investigating the possibility of that the streetfood stalls and trucks that run in conjunction with the market, of extending their ability to trade across the week rather than simply the same times as the market?
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Councillor P Smith – (Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development)
I’ll take the idea back to the Town Centre Manager to investigate further, but having those food trucks/stalls do add a lot to the Town Centre. However I do believe there are very specific rules governing the number of days that the market can be in use and that limit might include the food vendors. |
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Councillor B Smith to the Cabinet Member for Resources
During the winter please can the Cabinet Member for Resources ensure that there was heating on in the Council Chamber as it is 4c outside and it is colder than that in the Chamber tonight?
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Councillor Skudder – (Cabinet Member for Resources)
I’ll look into this. |
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Councillor Eade to the Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development
Some streets in the Borough are seeing an ever increasing number of HMO’s. Is the Cabinet Member willing to use planning policy to address this and what does he feel is an expectable number of HMO’s in a residential street?
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Councillor P Smith – (Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development)
Our current policy defines exactly what a HMO is, along with the regulations required for owning such a property. I don’t have the exact information on HMO’s to hand but can get them sent to you.
There is a difficult balance on housing in terms of the amount of properties needed to the land available.
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Councillor B Burgess to the Cabinet Member for Housing
Are there any plans to redevelop the original Tilgate gatehouse in Three Bridges, which had recently been the vacated by Barclays Bank? The gatehouse was locally listed. |
Councillor Joyce – (Cabinet Member for Housing)
I’m not aware of any plans for the building and I don’t believe that we own the building.
Councillor P Smith – (Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development)
I’m aware that the Three Bridges Community group have put forward some ideas for that building and the surrounding area. Unfortunately we don’t own any land in the vicinity. However that doesn’t stop us working with our local community to develop further ideas for this site.
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