Issue - meetings

To consider a presentation of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services & Deputy Chief Executive.

Communities across Stockport and the UK came together in the earliest days of the COVID pandemic to provide support and neighbourliness, and this continued throughout the pandemic.

Communities then turned their energy towards commemoration of this period; this happened organically and without statutory intervention.  With this in mind, the Council has used a variety of networks to promote the COVID Commemoration Project and a number of proposals have been received from communities across Stockport.

The Area Committee is recommended to note the report and consider the proposals (if any) for projects within the area represented by the Area Committee.

Officer contact: Holly Rae on 0161 474 301 or email: holly.rae@stockport.gov.uk

Lindsey Mallory (Service Manager Public Sector Reform and Neighbourhoods, Stockport Council) attended the meeting and submitted a presentation (copies of which had been circulated) regarding a community led COVID Commemoration Project which had been promoted by the council and reported that a number of proposals had been received from communities across Stockport.

The following comments were made/issues raised:-

·         It was reported that there had been no proposals in Hazel Grove and Stepping Hill.

·         Members welcomed the proposal that had been received for Offerton ward for an indoor mural at Offerton Community Centre. Ward members were happy for officers to develop this project and requested that any monies remaining were reported back for further development.

·         In respect of the wards which had no proposals, Members stated that they would speak to residents and community groups to generate interest.

·         Members encouraged officers to continue to explore their own contacts to generate interest.

·         In response to a question around funding, it was reported that 5-7k was available per ward and the funding for this project was required to be allocated by the end of the financial year.

·         It was requested that officers provide a list of acceptable locations for the murals to guide Members in their conversations with residents.

RESOLVED – That the presentation be noted.

To consider a presentation of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services & Deputy Chief Executive.

Communities across Stockport and the UK came together in the earliest days of the COVID pandemic to provide support and neighbourliness, and this continued throughout the pandemic.

Communities then turned their energy towards commemoration of this period; this happened organically and without statutory intervention.  With this in mind, the Council has used a variety of networks to promote the COVID Commemoration Project and a number of proposals have been received from communities across Stockport.

The Area Committee is recommended to note the report and consider the proposals (if any) for projects within the area represented by the Area Committee.

Officer contact: Holly Rae on 0161 474 301 or email: holly.rae@stockport.gov.uk

Holly Rae (Head of Strategy and Design, Stockport Council) attended the meeting and made a presentation in relation to a number of proposals that had been made by residents as part of the COVID Commemoration Project within the area represented by the Werneth Area Committee.  It was noted that for the Werneth area, this included a 1m-separated bench in Bredbury Recreation Park and an outdoor mural on a wall of Woodley Precinct.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         It was suggested that young people could be involved in the design of the mural as way of remembering a time of separation from friends and social interaction.

·         The allocation of funding toward this initiative had been ring-fenced from the Stockport Local Fund.

·         It was important that long term support and maintenance of any scheme was built into the proposal from the outset.

RESOLVED – That the proposed schemes within the Werneth area be endorsed.