Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Community Initiatives Manager on the development of neighbourhood management initiatives within the District.

  Agreed that further discussions be undertaken with other significant service providers to develop the neighbourhood management proposals and that the areas of Oxmoor and Eynesbury be developed as neighbourhood management initiatives reporting via the Huntingdonshire Strategic Partnership. 

The Cabinet gave consideration to a report by the Community Initiatives Manager (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) on the possible introduction of neighbourhood management initiatives in two areas of the District. 

Members were informed that the neighbourhood management model employed a focussed approach to  distinctive areas comprising between 5,000 and 12,000 residents which exhibited relatively high levels of deprivation and which would benefit from a more co-ordinated and local approach to the delivery of services.  In that respect Eynesbury and Huntingdon North (Oxmoor) had been identified as areas potentially suited to this approach having regard to indices of deprivation published by the Government.  Having discussed the partnership contributions likely to be available from the agencies involved and the extent to which neighbourhood management might be addressed in the forthcoming White Paper on Local Government, the  Cabinet

RESOLVED

  (a)  that further discussions be undertaken with other significant service providers to develop the neighbourhood management proposals outlined in the report now submitted; and

  (b)  that the areas of Huntingdon North (Oxmoor) and Eynesbury be developed as neighbourhood management initiatives reporting via the Huntingdonshire Strategic Partnership.