From:  "Andrew Rodgers" 
Date:  Fri Feb 18, 2005  2:47 pm 

Minutes of the February Meeting

09-02-05 19.00

Blackfriars Settlement, Rushworth Street.

Attendees:

Barry Mason, Rebecca Lack, Roger Stocker, Roger Geffen, Gareth Scarlett,
Eleanor Purser, Paul Stone, Kit Reynolds, Andrew Rodgers.

1. Minutes of the previous meeting agreed.

2. Cycle Saturation Update.
Southwark Cyclists have written to the school to formally award them the
project. Formal appointment has been made of SEA as project managers and
CTUK as a supplier. A meeting has been scheduled for the end of February to
discuss the project with the school and involved parties. The project
outline will be approved at this meeting as will the proposed budget plan.

3. Burgess Park, Mint Street Park and Southwark Park.
An application has been made, in conjunction with SEA for £10,000 of funding
for events, further development and running of the Burgess Park Bike Track.
We have been invited to submit an application, in conjunction with CTUK, for
up to £5,000 of funding for a summer of Cycling Project at Mint Street Park.
Barry and Roger Stocker attended a meeting with The Friends of Southwark
Park and other stakeholders about the future of Southwark Park. Southwrk
Council and the Friends of Southwark Park are looking to bring the park back
to the standard where it is eligible to receive a Green Flag for Parks,
recognising it's excellence as a local resource. It was proposed by Barry
and Roger that part of the plans should be to make Southwark Park cycle
friendly throughout and making it accessible as a portion of a commuter
route for cyclists. This proposal was well received and has been agreed,
subject to parkscape limitations from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Another meeting is set to take place in March which will include local
recreation group Fusion where they will be asked to become more involved.

The issue of Jamaica Road and the Rotherhithe Roundabout were raised as they
border Southwark Park and serve as impediments to access to the park. It was
agreed that there needs to be a review of the roundabout and access to the
park and this should include a safety audit of the roundabout. Alastair and
Barry will contact Gary Glover, a locally respected figure and campaigner,
to seek his help in gathering support in pressing for change at the
junction. Barry will also send a message to the e-group seeking local
support. (This has now been done)

4. Planning Round Up
Eleanor gave a round up of the activities of the planning group since the
last meeting. Whilst our policy is not finalised, we have used some of our
standard lines in response to planning items within Southwark.
Eleanor has received proposals for Safe Routes to Schools and will be making
responses on them.
Members of the planning group did a pre-CRIM ride on Saturday and Alastair
will be writing up our reccomendations for submission to Southwark Council.
Eleanor has received a pre-release copy of the Southwark Cycling Strategy.
The proper release will happen at the February Transport Forum. On looking
at the document, it is clear that it requires review and that it lacks any
focus or vision. SC should respond on how the Strategy could be improved.
Roger Stocker also mentioned that three consultations that SC provided input
on were presented and our comments were taken on board as these projects go
forward.

5. The Website.
Kit proposed that we use Google Ads as a cost free source of revenue through
the website. After dicussion it was agreed that Kit would obtainmore
information of what this would entail and make a report at the next meeting.
Eleanor proposed that we use the website to keep an accessible record of
live parts of our planning activity. This was agreed and Kit and Eleanor
will discuss how this should be done.
Andrew proposed that in light of SC's growing interest in members attending
community councils we should list the dates of the community councils on the
site. It was agreed that this would be trialed as part of the rides calendar
and also a single monthly reminder to the e-group.

6. Walworth Road
Following on from the community Council meeting addressing the Walworth
Road, Barry has made a formal complaint to Andrew Downs, who is managing
this project. We found the presentation at the community council and
handling of the community consultation to be lacking and the hard work and
input of SC on the project to be sidelined. As a response Andrew Downs has
agreed to ahve a meeting with SC about the project and we will endeavour to
get our concerns and proposals properly taken on board.

7. Bike Week
Barry presented the current schedule of events for Bike Week. At the moment
it is ride oriented and we need to look at what we can do both in terms of
advertising/raising awareness and also having more events both during and in
the lead up to Bike Week. Eleanor will look at getting a personal contact to
undertake some design work and look at some of the cost options for
advertising. We welcome any suggestions for non-ride oriented events.

8. Rides - Barry's Norman Foster Ride on the 26th Jan.

9. SouthwarK Council's Cycling Officer, Roger Stoker, spoke briefly about
the Councils spending plans. Southwark Council is keen to get the most
training out of it's cycling budget that it can, focusing mainly on working
with schools. There is also an interest inproviding a comprehensive range of
cycling facilities. All suggestions for parking should be fed through the
planning group to collate. Lockers are getting a lot of interest from tenant
groups as a better form of cycle parking.