The West Area Committee meets four times per calendar
year and represents the following wards:
Burnt Oak
Edgware
Colindale North
Colindale South
West Hendon
Hendon
Cricklewood
Childs Hill
The West Area Committee
has the following responsibilities: -
1) Provide an opportunity for any
resident to raise matters affecting the area (except matters
relating to licensing and planning applications).
2) Responsibility for all area
specific matters relating to the local environment including
parking, road safety, transport, allotments, parks and
trees.
3) Consider area specific matters
as agreed with the Chair.
4) Consider matters relating to
Town Centre regeneration and designating conservation
areas.
5) Determine the allocation of
Community Infrastructure Levy funding within the area subject to
sufficient of the budget allocated to the Committee being
unspent.
In addition to the above, the West
Area Committee also:
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Consider issues submitted by citizens on
local matters and determine how they are to be taken forward,
including instructing an Officer to provide an additional response
within 20 working days.
o
To submit a Resident Issue please
use this link
o
Issues must be submitted to the
Governance Service by 10am on the tenth working day before the
meeting.
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Consider petitions which receive between
501 and 3000 signatures relating to the functions and
responsibilities of the Area Committee. Following consideration of
the petition, the Area Committee can determine how the matter is
taken forward. The Committee will decide
to:
• Take
no action
•
Refer the matter to the relevant Cabinet Member or Committee Chair
to provide a written respond to Lead Petitioner within 20 working
days; or
•
Instruct an officer to prepare a report for a future meeting of
Cabinet or the Committee on the issue(s) raised with a recommended
course of action
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The link to the petitions site can be
found here -http://barnet.moderngov.co.uk/mgEPetitionListDisplay.aspx?bcr=1
Detailed
responsibilities of the West Area Committee, including a complete
list of the Committee’s powers and duties) can be found in
the Constitution under Part 2B Terms of
Reference of Committees and Part 3C
- Committee
Procedure Rules
Details on Petitions can be found in
the Constitution under
Part 3F Petition
Scheme