Decision details

Raise awareness of the review process and key findings to date. Invite comments to gain a local perspective and develop stakeholder engagement.

The Committee received a report from the Community Funding & Development Manager.

The report gave an update on the work of the review to date and proposals for the next steps of the information gathering exercise.

The Committee were also provided with a list of community facilities identified to date across the city that were invited to complete a survey and a map of those that had responded to the facility audit.

The Committee made the following comments in response to the report:

       i.          The County Council had launched a Resilience Strategy that could tie into community engagement work.

     ii.          Suggested community facility information could be disseminated via an app so people could find information easily.

In response to Members’ comments the Community Funding & Development Manager said City and County Council Officers were in contact regarding various strategies, community hubs, libraries etc. The intention was to provide joint member briefings and to join up approaches.

In response to Members’ comments the Community Funding & Development Manager was aware of County strategies and said the City and County Council Officers were in contact regarding various strategies, community hubs, libraries etc. The intention was to provide joint member briefings and to join up approaches wherever possible.

A member of the public made a number of comments, as set out below.

1.       A member of the public raised the following points about the map of community facilities:

                i.          There was a demand for this information.

              ii.          Would it be available on line?

The Community Funding & Development Manager said:

                 i.          Some community facility details included personal information. The intention was to put a list of facilities on-line once permission to publish people’s contact details had been obtained. (Contact details were obtained during the community facility mapping process). Further details would be set out in the report going to Community Services Scrutiny Committee 30 June 2016.

               ii.          Various ways of publishing the information would be considered, on-line apps can be included.

Following discussion, Members unanimously resolved to:

       i.          Note the work of the review and initial findings of the city-wide community facilities audit.

     ii.          Promote the ‘call for evidence’ stage of the review and encourage stakeholders to feed in their experience and evidence as detailed in sections 5 and 6 of the Officer’s report.