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Strengthening Area Panels Ododo Dafe

City Assembly (Nov 2013)

Reasons for strengthening the Panels

• Increasing consultation before decisions

are made

• Give consideration to residents’ views in

Housing Committee reports

• Reinvigorating the Panels as the bedrock

for input in decision making

• Focus on citywide issues

How this could be achieved

• Elect a resident Deputy Chairperson
• Reporting from the Service Improvement

Groups

• Feedback from the Area Panels part of the

consultation process of Housing reports

• Differing views can be expressed

Better communication

• Summary of Housing Committee decisions
• Area Panel work in Homing In, feedback at

TRA meetings and in newsletters

• Use Homing In and website to show

residents the important work of Panels

Increasing number of meetings

• Keep one Panel meeting to make

decisions on the Estates Development Budget

• Have four Panel meetings looking at

Housing Committee reports

• Pencil in two additional meetings

Realign the Panels to match the wards

• Housing doesn’t work to the old housing
• ffice areas
• Housing teams work East, Central, West,

easier for residents to know key staff

• Other council services and the police work

East, Central, and West

• Existing Panels cross ward boundaries

Realign the Panels to match the wards

• East Brighton is split between East &

Central

• Queens Park and St Peters & North Laine

are split between Central and North & East

• Hollingdean and Stanmer is split between

East and North & East

• Easier to identify Councillors

Realign the Panels to match the wards

• Brings together Hove and Portslade
• Moulsecoomb and Whitehawk were

bought together under New Deal

• Easier for local information sharing
• Data eg government deprivation statistics

is held at Ward level

Size of the Panels

• Currently cover between 3,150 to 4,150

homes

• Would cover between 4,000 to 5,150

homes

• Currently 11 to 18 member Associations
• Would have 11 to 24 member Associations

Attendance at Panel meetings

• Attendance at the Panel meetings has

been in decline

• This week there were four Associations at
• ne Panel
• Between 9 and 14 Associations have

attended Panel meetings this year

• Based on this 18 would attend East, and

11 would attend Central and West

Making the Panels work

• Meetings venues could be rotated
• Consult on meeting time and venue
• Taxis continue to be funded
• Agenda items circulated in advance
• Stronger chairing

Thank you for listening Any questions?

City Assembly (Nov 2013)