Ibrox/Cessnock Community Council
Approved minutes of meeting on Wednesday June 17th at 7pm at Kinning Perk In attendance: Tommy Ball, Bill Copleton, Shona Craven, John Foster, Iain Henderson, John McKinstry, Margaret Prunty, Ray Prunty, Anne Ross, Denis Ruddy, Bailie Fariha Thomas Apologies: Lorraine Horn, John Anderson Chairman John Foster opened the meeting, gave apologies and approved the minutes from our last meeting. Correspondence was shared from Urban Roots, organisers of the Ibrox Street Party on Saturday June 20 in Ibrox Flower Field and Hinshelwood Drive, as well as further correspondence from the Wheatley Group regarding the proposed flats development in Ibroxholm Oval and the second public consultation held in Ibrox Library on June 9.The community council will continue to raise objections to this. Correspondence was also received from community councils officer Steven Dowling regarding the forthcoming community council election. Resignations have been received from Mary Dick and Maureen Thomson. Resident Denis Ruddy gave an extensive update on the cleansing problems he and fellow residents have tried to deal with in back courts, focusing on improvements as well as failures and the essential long-term solutions that need to be found.. Shona Craven provided an update from Patricia Roche of Glasgow City Council cleansing department regarding the problem of rats on Paisley Road West, explaining that work tackling this has stalled due to the worsening of the problem. Iain Henderson gave his report on a meeting held at the Pearce Insititute about the problems of alcohol in the area that was addressed by various bodies including Glasgow Council licensing standards and Community Safety Glasgow. Bailie Thomas spoke of the new planned closed circuit TV cameras and shared a large map of those that are already installed. The community council decided to hold a community clean-up event on the evening of Thursday July 9. It was decided that given Denis Ruddy's tremendous efforts with back court cleaning, his block should be the focus of our first event. The meeting place is to the the corner of Harley Street and Middleton Street and posters will be displayed in closes the weekend before. Shona Craven undertook to follow up problems identified with an abandoned newsagents shop on Harley Street. The meeting was closed at 8.30pm. Our next meeting will be held on July 15.
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