Hackney LCC meeting
Wednesday 2 February 2005
Venue:
51 Rochford Walk, London E8
Present:
Marian Farrugia, Patrick Field, Therese Kilpatrick, Richard Lewis
(secretary), Trevor Parsons (communications), Brenda Puech (treasurer),
Oliver Schick (co-ordinator).
Apologies:
Sally Haywill
Topics
discussed:
1. AGM
and spring seminar
2. Bike
recycling project
3.
Valentine's campaign
4. Bike
week
5. Burns
Night debrief
6. Old
Street cycle lane proposal
7. Downs
Park Road, Cricketfield Road, Pembury Road
8. STA Bikes and the cycle training budget saga
9. Consultation
responses
10. Any other business
1.
AGM and spring seminar
Venue and food are booked. Theme will be cycle friendly housing: how can residential
design encourage
more walking and cycling? Invitations to LCC members and anyone else
who wants to see more cycling in Hackney going out with the Desire Line
(new expanded Hackney LCC newsletter), plus to officers in the local
authority in planning, transport, housing,
parking and community safety.
Panel to include Anna Eager Shoreditch
Trust - leads
on housing;
Dave Holladay of Transport Management Solutions; Barry Mason of
Southwark Cyclists (and Southern Homes).
For AGM business, Brenda will do the treasurer's report, and Oliver
will do co-ordinator's report.
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2.
Bike recycing project
Therese is gearing up to start
a bike recycling project in Hackney. Has talked to Paul Standeven. Need
to contact the Co-operative Development Agency. Need to publicise via
newsletter/website/mailing list, looking for people to join the
project.
The Waltham Forest recycling project is further along. Therese not so
sure she wants it to be so much a council-sponsored project as WF. But
potential to work with other organisations involved with recycling in
the borough. Therese has written to Cam Mattheson at East London Recycling Project but hasn't heard back from him.
All the threads are
coming together. try to get somethinig together by
april or so. Oliver has emailed Jessica Crowe asking about
premises but
not heard back yet.
- Action:
Therese to contact the Co-operative Development Agency.
3.
Valentine's campaign
Oliver would like to run this again this
year. "We love you for cycling" in a card. Complaints about litter when
people dropped their cards after passing us before. Broadway Market was
littered with cards, says Brenda. Either we give them something that
they want to keep, or... Oliver quite attached to having
cards. Possibly include chocolate? Could do a survey at Shacklewell
Lane. Richard suggests we could get the council to fund such an
after-scheme
satisfaction survey. Patrick and Therese interested in helping. Either
morning or evening. 0730 to 0930 and 1630 to 1830.
- Action: Oliver to co-ordinate
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4.
Bike week
Hackney
parks - LBH community and leisure have asked for details of anything we
are
doing. Richard: mention that we'd like to talk to them about cycle
parking at any events they put on. Marian interested to talk to council
about licensing of events. Hackney doesn't do handholding around
putting on events. They need to make the matter of holding events in
parks easier
for groups, she suggested.
Deadline for details of bike week events is 4th April to go into the
Hackney publicity.
Oliver will do Bike the Bounds again. London Fields Bike Breakfast:
don't forget shovel to clear space of dog
do. Marian is going to convene a steering group meeting this
month for an outdoor cinema, perhaps a mobile cinema. "The Movies".
Like the last scene in Belleville Rendezvous. Cost for static show last
year estimate was £400 for hire etc.
Therese interested. Simon likes the idea. Patrick thinks it's ambitious
but is happy to help, perhaps especially on the sound.
We'll pursue the possibility of doing a cycle pitstop again with
council's traffic team. There was apparently an issue with quality of
back
lights sold.
Should also organise a feeder ride to Bikefest in Trafalgar Square
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5.
Burns Night debrief
Well done to all involved. Slightly fewer people attended than last
year because some people paid but didn't
turn up. Made profit of
about £1280 - bit lower because of furniture hire and fee to
school (£150). Could
probably accommodate another ten or 20 people next year. Richard and
Marian: seemed to
run very smoothly this year. Ben did a thorough survey of bigger venue
a
few years ago. There's a bigger room upstairs. Could serve food
downstairs
and have seating there, and have the music and dancing upstairs. Stage
isn't as big. Question about cooking capacity. Could cook one third
more. Size of
ovens is limiting factor. Trevor reckons we could
double the numbers! Use upstairs and have additional entertainment.
Let's have a cloakroom as well.
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6.
Old Street cycle lane proposal
Trevor
explained the proposal received from the TfL Streets area team for Old
Street, and presented comments he has drafted, which suggest kerbline
changes in place of cycle lane, which we think would discourage people
from taking the primary position on the road, which is what you need to
do often on this winding section of street with much kerbside activity.
Marian said there is
confusion for northbound cycle traffic entering Pitfeld Street. Trevor
thinks that may be best left to when Pitfield St is readdressed.
Apparently Steve Decker of TfL Streets and Steve Walker of Hackney
Streetscene are now once again talking about
banning the right turn from Great Eastern Street into Pitfield St and
(we hope)
reordering the apex junction as a whole.
Andy Best confirmed that they had engineered the apex junction with a
view
to removing the right turn. We
hope they are also talking about Curtain
Road going two-way.
The meeting approved the draft comments.
- Action: Trevor to present our comments to TfL Streets
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7.
Downs Park Rd, Cricketfield Road, Pembury Road
Looks as if a street closure is
being put in without a cycle gap. Danny Gayle is the engineer working
on
this. We are concerned.
- Action: Trevor
to call and/or
drop a line to Danny and investigate.
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8.
STA Bikes and cycle training budget
STA Bikes finance remains a worry. The
council has apparently still not released on the funding for this year
(04/05). Sticking point appears to be
STA Bikes unwillingness to compel use of conspicuity apparerel and
crash helmets. Still with the legal team. Financial year ends in April.
In
the meantime no cycle training has taken place.
Agreed to monitor, and if necessary do an
action insert for the forthcoming
issue of Desire Line.
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9.
Consultation responses
We rounded up the various responses we have
done to consultations recently.
We have given info on STA Bikes to a
physical activity mapping project being done for the Primary Care Trust.
Hackney transport strategy: councillors are encouraging us to encourage
our members to write in. Individual lettters matter. Petitions are
counted as almost
worthless. Richard is drafting a follow-up on our strategy response.
On-street cycle parking audit done for Hackney by TPI: we have given
positive feedback on a good piece of work done. Richard
thinks a lot of Adam Bowes of TPI.
Broadway Market junction scheme: Brenda to find out what's happening.
Crime and disorder audit consultation: we have done a good response,
pushing
to get road user behaviour to be included in priorities.
Lower Clapton traffic review: Oliver has sent quick letter.
Upper Clapton neighbourhood renewal consultation: Oliver
attended drop-in session run by Llewelyn Davies.
Lower Clapton Road bus priority scheme: we are concerned about this
because it proposes to set loading bays into the footways, reducing
pedestrian space, and potentially increasing speed and therefore road
danger. Richard to help draft response with Brenda.
CRISP response on LCN+ route 10: we're very late with that, and routes
8 and 16 also need doing.
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10.
Any other business
Brenda said that there are lots of cyclists
on her estate. No cycle parking, but about 100 garages. Residents being
asked to pay for the upkeep of the garages. £120 each resident,
even though we're not even allowed to enter. The non-car owning people
are now challenging this. Previously the £5k environmental
improval budget always used to go into the garages. Now it's going on
flowers and more generally pleasant stuff.
Richard: Robin at London Fields Cycles is no longer stocking/promoting
LCC membership, because the London Cyclist magazine carries an advert
from Evans and Cycle Surgery offering discounts on new bikes. There is
very little profit on new bikes, therefore his business being severely
undermined. LCC as an organisation should, he says, rule against that
sort of predatory LCC discounting working against small shops. LCC
needs to review this. Oliiver to bring it up with the Finance &
Admin Committee and with Anna the marketing and membership officer at
LCC.
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Next
Meeting
Wednesday 2 March 2005, 7pm [note unusual time], Hothouse. See diary.
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