Question time - general questions regarding GBC and KCC to Members and Officers present
Minutes:
- How will Northfleet and Gravesend West be able to capitalise
on 2012?
- The area will
capitalise on a whole range of things around 2012 – high
speed rail link, Ebbsfleet, Heritage
Quarter, Transport Quarter, proposed development at Northfleet Embankment.
A lot of these will help the area. At
the end of the recession we will be very well placed to capitalise
on all of those. We are keen to bring
some confidence to bear in the area for the upturn when it
comes.
- Now the application
for the traveller site at Springhead Road has been agreed as there
been any action around that?
- It is constantly
changing. The council applied for
planning permission which was granted and the travellers then
changed their application from temporary to permanent which would
suggest they do not want to move. It is
the council’s intention to try and encourage them to move
from that site and they have had another site offered to them which
now has planning permission so we will need to wait and
see. We are obliged to provide a number
of pitches within the borough and if we do not identify them we
cannot easily move them on if they just pull up into fields.
- Facility for
Occupational Therapists through KCC for house adaptation services
are done by KCC and funded by GBC but as money is not available
people cannot have the adaptations. KCC
provide the inspection and then it comes to a halt.
- There does not seem
to be a problem getting the inspection done but the problem is
getting the adaptations implemented. If
there is a problem let Cllr Christy know. There was a backlog of OTs going out. Last
year there was a catch up exercise and there has been a time issue
between being assessed and getting the adaptations. There is a big pot of money but we do have an
ageing population which could cause problems.