Report re Neighbourhood Renewal Funding Update 2007-08

NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL FUNDING 2007/08

Background

The Local Action Plan for the allocation of NRF was agreed by the Area Panel in February 2006. The current allocations for 2006/08, and particularly 2007/08, are provided in the appendix.

Programmes

Active Burngreave is a small contribution towards a community chest scheme aimed at local sports and recreation voluntary provision
Fir Vale youth activities is run by Activity Sheffield to provide a variety of activities (sports and non-sports) for children and young people (8-19) in the (mainly) Fir Vale area, with some provision in Firshill
Burngreave Engagement is to support the Panel’s community chest and additional funding for communications infrastructure in Burngreave – BCR and the Messenger. The Messenger is using this additional funding to pilot expansion into Fir Vale for a number of issues this year
Burngreave Community Forestry project is developed by Parks & Woodland to support a whole range of activities related directly to preserving and extending the range of trees in this Panel area – and to attract new sections of the population into an awareness of trees and woods and forests (e.g. forest camps on Parkwood Springs)
Additional support to the Area Panel is to provide the Panel with a full time post of area action officer
Community Festivals is to provide the infrastructure costs (salary of post at Green City Action) for arranging the four events each year – Environment Day; Abbeyfield Park Multi- Cultural Festival; Fir Vale Festival; Festival of Lights
Clean up project – is to provide an opportunity for households in Burngreave to remove a wide range of unwanted bulky domestic waste free
Streetscape – to contribute to a brightening up of the local streets – via hanging baskets; window boxes; flower towers and large planters (at Page Hall; Ellesmere Green and the Toll Bar. And in the winter, street lighting displays around Ellesmere Green
Parks and Open spaces- used to support some development projects in local green/open spaces. This funding ahs helped secure greater resources for Burngreave Recreation Ground and Devon Gardens
Adventure Playground – to provide architects drawings to help support applications for a major refurbishment
Verdon St Recreation Centre – to help support the core running costs of the Centre, as the base for the BNDC supported Active Burngreave project for a further three years
Street Sports project. To contribute towards core costs of a peripatetic project aimed at introducing young people to various slightly extreme sports and mobile provision

Proposed change 2007/08 – Clean Up

The Clean Up campaign has provided every house in Burngreave with a ‘bring out your rubbish day’ for the last three years. There is still a need to provide this service to particular localities where there is still the evidence of need (justified by the amount of tonnage shifted in previous years). However, perhaps because of more cars (and therefore greater use of the bring-it centres) and more re-cycling – some localities are quite low users of the bring out your rubbish days. The table below shows the localities for bring out your rubbish days in descending order by the tonnage of rubbish removed:

Locality	Tonnage removed 2003-06
Fir Vale 2 (Bolsover, Wheldrake, Cammel)	40.82
Osgathorpe	39.32
Abbeyfield	35.76
Whiteways	34.48
Burngreave Rd	31.24
Wensley	30.92
Scott Rd	29.48
Crabtree	28.56
Robey St	25.80
Barnsley Rd	24.10
Skinnerthorpe	22.51
Page Hall	21.60
Pye Bank	20.20
Fir Vale 1 (H’dean, Idsworth, Firth Park Rd)	19.68
Fir Vale 3 (Vivian, Hamilton, Addison)	19.56
Ellesmere	18.08
Catherine St	17.42
Carwood	17.05
Earldom	15.10
Firshill	13.44
Cookswood	12.58
Brunswick	12.48

It is proposed that the Clean Up resources this year are concentrated on the top 12 localities for a bring out your rubbish day (i.e. down to, and including, Page Hall). The cost to the Panel would be £10,305 (nine days purchased via NRF and three days allocated to each Area Panel by Street Force). This would make available another circa £11,000 for re-allocation under the Local Action Plan for NRF allocations in 2007-08.

If agreed, dates will be arranged with Street Force, with the ‘bring out’ days being held in the autumn.

New project – Fir Vale Youth Project

It is proposed that the Panel agree to re-commission Fir Vale youth project for an additional session at the project. As members will know, the youth project received a commission in 2005-6. Following recent discussions connected with the use and development of Osgathorpe Park pavilion, it is proposed that the youth project open a Sunday afternoon session from September onwards run by a female and male youth worker, with a particular emphasis on attracting more girls and young women to the centre. The costs of this would be circa £3,000 until March 2008.

Recommendation

That this Panel approves;

a) The reduction of spend from the Clean Up allocation in line with the emphasis on re-use, re-cycle and reduction of waste

b) The commission from Fir Vale youth project for an additional session aimed at increasing the number of girls and young women using their facilities

c) Receiving a further report in September 2007, which outlines the current, NRF spend for this year, and agrees on a final allocation of any unallocated funds.

Andy Shallice

2nd July 2007

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