Sweyne Park. <\/strong>There’s a lot of discussion between various local bodies on this and one approach is going to be to find some things to distract certain persons away from the current behaviour. Chris Black made some enquiries after the meeting and it seems that one part of this is going to be a teen shelter to be put into Sweyne Park for a trial period of six months. There’s no decision taken about it’s location yet.<\/p>\nJackie Dillnutt asked for an explanation of what crimes were covered by the term ‘wounding’ , bearing in mind that there’s about one per month in her ward of Sweyne Park. The answer is that wounding doesn’t have to involve a knife, it covers various serious types of assault.<\/p>\n
We had a presentation from John Gilham , the Chief Executive of the Southend Hospital <\/strong>NHS Foundation Trust. We heard lots of interesting stuff, especially about the hospital’s new robot in the pharmacy. (it shifts along the aisles retrieving the drugs for each patient). Ron Oatham asked how much of the hospital’s income comes from car parking, and new Conservative Rayleigh Town Councillor Ian Page asked about catering.<\/p>\nWe finished up discussing a number of highways issues. Our Lib Dem colleague Chris Lumley was rightly concerned about the emergency access from the Approach into Swallow Close<\/strong>– to provide an emergency access for over 300 houses. It’s generally agreed that yellow lines are needed to stop parked cars blocking it, but the County Council wants this handled through the ‘localism’ budget which means that 1) it will take longer to achieve and 2) instead of the County Council paying for what seems to have been a mistake at the planning stage, it will have to come from this localism budget , stopping another worthwhile scheme from being done.<\/p>\nFinally Ron Oatham raised the issue of the Downhall Park Way \/ Rawreth Lane<\/strong> pedestrian crossing that would already be installed if the County Council hadn’t forgotten about it and had had to give the money back to the developer. There’s no signs of anything happening soon. Chris Black pressed home the point that there was a cabling fault delaying vehicles coming out of Downhall Park Way and that this needed to be fixed soon as impatient drivers were now starting to go through red lights! Shaun Scrutton promised to take this up with County Highways himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot of issues got discussed at last Tuesday’s West Area Committee meeting (though some were discussed only briefly). We’ve mentioned on Onlinefocus before about how someone has posted complaints about Disraeli Road on the FixMyStreet website. However when Rayleigh resident Chris Stanley asked a question about this there was some scratching of heads from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24,41,37,16,3,4,39],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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