Minutes of Meeting for Crofton Children’s Play Area Association on 8th July 2002

 

Attendees:                   Paula Baker, Robert Baker, Julian Ellis, Duncan Thompson, Joan Helme, Marie Binns, Helen Tate, Sharon Gallagher, Christine Sinclair, Bev Schofield, Arthur Ripley, David Grundy, Trish Richardson, Cllr Paul Beckett

 

Apologies:                  Andrea Martin

 

 

Trish introduced Julian to the group as her replacement.

Questions were raised about Astroturf and the Community Centre.  It was also noted the uncomfortable situation of Granville giving a list of funding sources not to be used by us as they are making use of them themselves.

1.     The minutes of the last meeting were agreed to be a true and accurate record of the last meeting.

2.     The general consensus was that of a good day and a busy one.  £117.30 was taken & of that £92.30 was profit.  A number of prizes were left which included the tickets for Wakefield Wildcats.  Rob suggested selling these for £20 for a quick sale.  Paul Beckett & Joan Helme helped Rob & Paula on the stall on the day & Sharon helped with the organisation.  The presentation stand generated interest.

3.     Rob, Sharon & Paul attended the meeting with Jon Trickett & fed back to the group.  Jon was pleasantly surprised at our active involvement in having the play area renovated.  Jon thought there were 3 possible avenues to follow:
         a)   we shouldn’t have to pay for the work, Wakefield MDC should;
         b)   we find the capital, Wakefield MDC find the revenue for the upkeep
               etc;
         c)   we find our own capital funding & maintain the site ourselves.

 Trish’s response to the above were:
         a)   she has no idea when the playarea would be renovated as Wakefield
              MDC have other parks of greater priority to deal with;
         b)   the play area is already maintained by the council ( Friends of the Park);
         c)   this situation is highly unlikely to occur.

Jon pledged to speak with Denise Jeffrey and inform us of the outcome.

Jon thought we had been misinformed that we would be unable to use ‘educational land’ as the term no longer exists.  Julian expressed concern that the current funding for the play area would not necessarily be transferred with it if it was to move onto ‘educational land’.

4.     The next meeting is to be held at Shay Lane Primary School on Monday 9th September at 7pm.  A site meeting is to be held on Monday 22nd July at 7pm.






5.     As we have no choice with the location it was felt we now need to get on with the design of the play area.  The group agreed we needed to involve the local children through the schools.  Julian suggested holding workshops for the children to attend.

It was suggested we split the site into the 3 areas and see which fits best around what we’ve got.

Another suggestion was to flatten the whole site as this would be safer and is what everyone wants.