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The forum will be held at Warwick Gates Community Centre from 6pm.

Other items on the agenda at the meeting, which is open to all Warwick residents, include an update on community chosen policing priorities and improving the environment through ‘The Big Tidy Up’.

Warwick District Council is one of 11 local authorities to be chosen to be a ‘Big Tidy Up’ Champion. The area selected to focus the campaign is Warwick and the campaign is running from September 2009 until March 2010.

Community Forums are regular public meetings that allow you to raise issues or local concerns and are a way of keeping you up-to-date with what is happening in YOUR community.

From 6pm, those attending the forum will be able to chat one-to-one with the police, councillors and representatives from local agencies and service providers about any issues or concerns they may have before the main meeting begins.

The first Warwick Community Forum, held in June, provided an opportunity for people living in Warwick to raise their issues of concern.

At the meeting, people were asked what made them ‘glad, mad and sad’ about living in Warwick. Local people made their contribution to discussions and came up with a range of issues and concerns.

The issues raised ranged from anti-social behaviour relating to Warwick Gates, Woodloes and the Forbes Estate, to concerns relating to improving communication with the public and a lack of active neighbourhood watch schemes.

The Mid Warwickshire Neighbourhood Watch, Warwickshire Police and representatives from both Warwickshire County Council and Warwick District Council were out and about in Warwick, arming residents with tools and information to keep themselves safe, on 24 September. The idea for the campaign came from the Warwick Community Forum in June.

Lots of other ideas were put forward for the forum to consider as part of their action plan and people were asked to prioritise which actions they would like to see progressed.

Ideas included improving public communication by erecting notice boards in Warwick Gates, Chase Meadow, Woodloes and Packmores Estates.

Local people also suggested that Warwickshire Police should provide high visibility foot or cycle policing to tackle anti-social behaviour in Warwick Gates, Forbes and Woodloes estates, and that the issue of parking on Hampton Road and problems with traffic congestion should be looked at.

The Warwick Community Forum Planning Group have been working to come up with actions to respond to these issues and will bring them back to the October Forum for discussion and agreement.

For residents who can’t make the meeting on 8 October, alternative methods of feeding into the debate are available, and the next meeting is on 21 January 2010.

There are a number of ways that people can find out about the issues discussed at the Community Forum and what progress is being made. 

Bernadette Allen, Warwick Community Forum Locality Lead Support Officer in the Warwick District Community Partnership Team, remains an alternative form of contact with the Forum members, email bernadette.allen@warwickdc.gov.uk.

Link to WCC