Register of Interests. June 2014

REGISTER OF INTERESTS

                                    COUNCIL

                                             Council requires all Members to complete this register within 28 days of their election.  If your circumstances change you are required, within 28 days of the change, to submit written notification of the change to the Monitoring Officer.

Name of Member…PAUL FULLER

I set out below my interests and those I am aware of relating to my spouse /partner under the various headings.

Disclosable Pecuniary Interests:

These are interests that are required to be declared by the Localism Act 2011 and the Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012.  These declarations relate to you AND any interests you are aware of relating to your spouse or civil partner or a person you live with as husband and wife or as if you were civil partners

Please put “None” where appropriate.

Category of Interest	Your Interests	Interests of your spouse/partner
Employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain. This includes any firm or company in which you, or your spouse, or your partner are a business partner or director.	ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCILLOR (FOR COWES WEST AND GURNARD)	SELF EMPLOYED AND CONTRACTED CLEANER AND PROPRIETER OF KAREN’S CRAFTS.
Sponsorship Any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from                                 Council made or provided in respect of any expenses incurred by you or your spouse or partner in carrying out duties as a member or towards the election expenses of you or your spouse or partner. This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.	PRIOR TO SERVING AS AN ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCILLOR IN 2009, THE GROUP STANDARDS NOT TIERS ENDORSED MY CANDIDATURE IN AN ADVERT FOR THE ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS.	NONE.
Contracts Any contract which is made between                                 Council or the Isle of Wight Council and either: a) you; your spouse; or your partner; or b) firm in which either you or your spouse or partner is a business partner; or c) a body corporate of which you or your spouse or partner is a director; or d) a body in which you or your spouse or partner has a beneficial interest (that is a firm in which you or your spouse/partner is a business partner or a corporate body in which you or your spouse/partner is a director or an industrial and prudent society where you or your spouse or partner are a member of the management committee or a corporate body in which you or your spouse/partner have a beneficial interest in its securities   (a) under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed; and (b) which has not been fully discharged.	NONE.	NONE.
Land Any beneficial interest in land which is within the Isle of Wight, excluding an easement, servitude, interest or right in or over land which does not carry with it a right for you or your spouse or partner alone or jointly with another to occupy the land or to receive income. Please give address or description sufficient to identify the location.	74 WYATTS LANE, NORTHWOOD, COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT PO31 8QA I HAVE CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS LIVING NEARBY AT: 29 PALLANCE ROAD, NORTHWOOD, COWES. (Grandparent) THE MOORINGS RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME, EGYPT HILL, COWES. (Grandparent) 19 CORONATION AVENUE NORTHWOOD, COWES. (Parent)	74 WYATTS LANE, NORTHWOOD, COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT PO31 8QA
Licences Any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in the Isle of Wight for a month or longer. Please give address or description sufficient to identify the location.	NONE.	NONE.
Corporate tenancies Any tenancy where (to your  knowledge) the landlord is the Isle of Wight Council and the tenant is a body in which you or your spouse or partner, has a beneficial interest. Please give address or description sufficient to identify the location.	NONE.	NONE.
Securities Any beneficial interest in securities (shares, debentures, debenture stock, loan stock, bonds, units of a collective investment scheme within the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and other securities of any description other than money deposited with a building society) of a body where that body (to your knowledge) has a place of business or land in the Isle of Wight; and either (i) the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body; or (ii) if the share capital of that body is of more than one class, the total nominal value of the shares of any one class in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class.	NONE.	NONE.

ADDITIONAL INTERESTS AGREED BY                                                COUNCIL TO BE INCLUDED IN THE MEMBERS REGISTER OF INTERESTS

Only your interests are required for these; not those of your spouse/partner.

1.    I am a member of or hold a position of general control or management in the following bodies to which I have been appointed or nominated by the authority as its representative:

COWES COMMUNITY BUS FORUM (Northwood Parish Council Representative);  COWES ENTERPRISE COLLEGE (Isle of Wight Council Local Authority Representative) GURNARD COMMUNITY TRUST (Independent Representative); ISLE OF WIGHT FOOTPRINT TRUST LTD (Director/ Trustee); THE FRIENDS OF NORTHWOOD CEMETERY (Trustee)

2.    I am a member of or hold a position of general control or management in the following:

a.    Public authorities or bodies exercising functions of a public nature:

NORTHWOOD PARISH COUNCIL, NORTHWOOD PARISH COUNCIL’S TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

COWES TOWN COUNCIL, COWES TOWN COUNCIL’S NORTHWOOD RECREATION GROUND COMMITTEE, ISLE OF WIGHT ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL COUNCILS (Town Council Representative)

GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL, GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL’S COMMUNITY PROJECTS COMMITTEE, GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL’S NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN COMMITTEE, t I have a special responsibility of Transport Issues. 

AS AN IW COUNCILLOR I SERVE ON THE PLANNING COMMITTEE (As Chairman); THE LICENCING COMMITTEE; THE AUDIT COMMITTEE; THE CHILDREN SERVICES EXECUTIVE ADVISORY COMMITTEE;  THE ENVIRONMENT & PUBLIC PROTECTION EXECUTIVE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE ADULT, HEALTH, COMMUNITY & WELLBEING EXECUTIVE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND THE APPEALS PANEL

I AM ALSO A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, SERVING ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT BENCH SERVING ALSO ON THE YOUTH PANEL AND DOMESTIC ABUSE PANEL.

b.    company, industrial and provident society, charity, or body directed to charitable purposes;

NONE.  I ALSO WISH TO FORMALLY PLACE ON RECORD THAT I AM NOT A FREEMASON, OR MEMBER OF ANY LIKE ORGANISATION.

c.    body whose principal purposes include the influence of public opinion or policy;

NONE.  I ADD THAT I HAVE NOT BEEN A PAID UP MEMBER OF ANY POLITICAL PARTY SINCE LEAVING THE GREEN PARTY IN 1994.

d.    trade union or professional association.

NONE.

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(Monitoring Officer or their representative)

Paul Fuller 6th July 2014

IW Councillors Report: June/July 2014

Surgeries:

4:30-5pm, Tuesday 3^rd June, Cowes Library, Beckford Road, Cowes.

5:30-6pm, Tuesday 3^rd June, Sports Bar, Isle of Wight Community Club, Park Rd, Cowes.

6-6:30pm, Thursday 12^th June, The Woodvale, Princes Esplanade, Gurnard.

1-1:30pm, Wednesday 18^th June, The Little Gloster, Marsh Road, Gurnard.

3-3:30pm, Wednesday 18^th June, Cowes Enterprise College, Crossfield Avenue, Cowes.

6-6:30pm, Thursday 26^th June, The Portland, Worsley Road, Gurnard.

4:30-5pm, Tuesday 1^st July,  Cowes Library, Beckford Road, Cowes.

5:30-6pm, Tuesday 1^st July, Sports Bar, Isle of Wight Community Club, Park Rd, Cowes.

Place Road Planning Application for 90 dwellings: Update.

Planning Officers are still in the process of drafting a recommendation for the above application.  Following a suggested likely recommendation for approval from Officers in May, further discussion has been necessary to discuss with the applicant issues raised regarding the layout.

It is anticipated that the Planning Hearing will take place on Tuesday 22^nd July.  Once this date is agreed, I will formally notify residents.  Confirmation of a likely recommendation will be made on 8^th July, whilst the report can be accessed from 15^th July. In the meantime, I continue to work with local residents, and other agencies to ensure that the Planning Committee are left in no doubt as to local opinion on this.

Planning Committee Report.

At the last Planning Committee, following a deferral over concerns in dealing with overflow car parking the application for a new hotel adjacent to Newclose Cricket Ground was Approved by members.

Planning Committee also approved Planning Applications to replace a newly built stable for new Holiday accommodation on land adjacent to Barnsley Farm, Seaview; a contemporary replacement home at Seagrove Bay also in Seaview and a community hub for Brighstone in the former Library.

Members recently received training in ‘Sequential Testing’ for retail units.  This follows confirmation being given for two alternative sites for retail units on the outskirts of Newport.  The hearing for these applications is anticipated for 2^nd July.

Other Planning Matters Updated.

Proposals to develop on land at 2 Cliff Road, Cowes continues ‘under negotiation’ with Planning Officers.  Officers consider proposals to have 3 dwellings on this site would be ‘overdevelopment’ of the site, despite no objection from  neighbours, or Cowes Town Council.

Similarly at land on the Gurnard Primary School site, Hilton Road, Gurnard, I understand discussions continue following proposals lodged to develop seven dwellings on the site.  Officers consider that the size, scale and mass of the proposals would be excessive to the outline application which was approved by Planning Committee.

Proposals to develop a retail unit on the former Readers site in Place Road has been delayed following the pending decision on the Newport applications.    

Car Parking Consultation. Many thanks to residents who have commented on proposals, these comments will be assessed by Leisure Services and the IW Council's Executive. This is an important, timely and necessary consultation which must fully gauge resident’s views. From my experience, I know several members will want to find alternatives to increasing charges, however because of the IW Council’s financial commitments particularly to Concessionary Fares and other transport associated commitments over the coming years- I sense certain increases (which has been frozen for almost 7 years) is an inevitability.

Coastal Protection.

Last month in Gurnard, I attended a meeting with local residents to discuss reinstating frontages and repairing the sea wall which has deteriorated over the last few years.

Should the wall be repaired, it is hoped this will allow the lost footpath CS35 to be reinstated.   I have been asked to find out whether funds may be available from local Councils to assist. A further meeting will be called in July.

Residents have also requested that I look into the feasibility of creating a Flood Defence Plan following the threat from coastal and river flooding earlier this year on Gurnard Marsh.

In the meantime repairs to coastal frontages in Solent View Road continue.  The work, which include taking vehicles on to the beach for reinstating the frontage of four different properties has been authorised by officers from the IW Council.

Coastal Path, Gurnard.

A number of residents have approached me to request action to support reopening the coastal path between Gurnard and Thorness.  Subsequently, this month I assisted in arranging a site visit between Rights Of Way Officers and Parish Councillors to view erosion of the path.  This I hope will be followed up with a meeting between The Council, Landowners and Parish Councillors

As I mentioned previously, the IW Council does not have statutory powers to ensure the path is reinstated once made unsafe, and the only way the diversion order could now be re-affirmed would be through the good will of landowners.

Chronology: Gurnard Coastal Path CS16.

·         Spring 2013.  To preserve the long term existence of the path the Landowner offered Rights Of Way the opportunity to divert the coastal footpath south of Chalets.  

This Diversion Order, supported by the IW Ramblers Association was referred to Gurnard Parish Council for views.

·         July 2013.  Gurnard Parish Council suggested to accept the offer, but made a request on whether the old footpath could remain open until it was deemed unfit for purpose.

·         September 2013.  Because landowners did not agree to keeping old path open, and due to receiving a petition signed by over 180 named residents requesting retention of old path, Gurnard Parish Council rejected the diversion order.

·         November 2013.  Landowners erected signage due to concerns raised by insurers over the safety of the cliff.

·      February 2014. Public Footpath was assessed as dangerous by Rights Of Way, following being undermined by storms.  Consequently, existing path was closed owing to Health and Safety concerns raised.

·    Spring 2014.  Offer to divert the footpath was withdrawn.

Highways Issues.

I am awaiting a response from Island Roads regarding improving the street lighting now, in a number of areas.  Of priority is Park Road, Mountbatten Avenue and Albert Road.

In Shore Road the Gas Main has now been capped with concrete, to allow at a later date contractors from Southern Gas to repair and replace pipework.

Potholes have been fixed in Solent View Road and Ward Avenue- whilst I awaiting confirmation from Island Roads on whether Ward Avenue is likely to be resurfaced before Cowes Week (as suggested earlier this year!)

Resurfacing of the footway in Crossfield Avenue was due to take place last week- However, this had to be delayed as residents were given less than 24 hours to trim their frontages to enable this.

I have requested Island Roads to maintain IW Council owned ground in King James Close.  This land has been managed by residents for a number of years and consideration may be given to sell this land which lies at the end of the close that adjoins Winston Road

Grass was cut back shortly after being requested in Gurnard who are anxious to reclaim their title for best kept village.

At the moment, I remain in the process of attempting to set up a meeting between Cowes IW Councillors and Island Roads to pursue collectively ongoing matters in and around the town.  As dates have not been circulated by Island Roads.

Consultations: Medina Valley Area Action Plan- Informal Discussion Document.

The council is preparing the Medina Valley Plan, to recognise and address individual characteristics needs of each area. The process for preparing such documents are set nationally but the council has prepared this informal discussion document outside of the required formal stages, to invite comments on its emerging thinking and the way in which it may go forward in the next stages of the Medina Valley Plan process.

Some issues have been included because the council covers a wide range of services. While the formal AAPs may not be able to address these issues, the information gained will be shared with other areas of the council where relevant.  Because Gurnard are undertaking their own Plan, this will run parallel to the Medina Valley Plan.

This Consultation (on-line, or through the library) continues until Monday 7^th July. The online link can be found below: http://www.iwight.com/azservices/documents/2787-AAP-Informal-Discussion-Document-Medina-Valley-FINAL.pdf

Southern Water.

Residents will be aware that the combined sewer where Worsley Road and Shore Road meet has began leaking again.

I am attempting to discuss with Southern Water what action they intend to take to repair the sewer (rather than in the short term!), and at the same time will ask for an update on necessary repairs to the Pumping Station, Gurnard Green.

I am supporting residents within the Crossfield Estate that are having issues regarding their combined sewage outfalls.  Residents have suffered from difficulties, within the Estate and I intend to address these once a date to meet with Southern Water has been agreed.

Island Waste.

In the last few weeks, I’ve received several complaints regarding the collection of organic and recycling waste being mixed with normal household rubbish by Island Waste. I am advised that refuse ‘IS’ segregated, and should residents have queries regarding this to let myself or the IW Council know, so this can be fully investigated.

I also know from experience that organic bins and food caddies do break. If this has occurred to you, please let me know and I can ensure you receive a replacement.

If you suffer from mobility issues the IW Council can arrange their your collection to suit your needs.  If this is the case please call the IW Council 821000 or alternatively, please let me know by calling: 289595.

Within the Crossfield Estate, I’ve received ongoing complaints regarding Flytipping (perceived by residents as left by commuters?) and complaints regarding remnants of litter being left behind, after collection.   Again I am monitoring this and am hoping ongoing concerns are resolved. If this is an issue for you please do not hesitate to let me know!

In the Last Month: In a nutshell.

·         At Full Council, I seconded outcomes presented by the Scrutiny Committee regarding the public meetings with Cross Solent Operators. See Details via: http://www.iwight.com/Meetings/committees/mod-council/21-5-14/Paper%20B.pdf

·         As a school governor, I have been involved with the staff restructuring at Cowes Enterprise College.  I know the focus on the school will continue to raise standards and strive to be an outstanding school.

·         I understand a parent was clipped by a motorist whilst collecting a child from Gurnard School in Baring Road.  I have offered to support the police in taking action against the driver, who failed to stop following the incident. 

·         I attended Gurnard’s May Queen Event, and supported Gurnard Parish Council determining priorities for the transferral of services from the IW Council.

·         I am due to meet with the Executive Member and Head of Planning this week to discuss concerns raised over planning compliance and enforcement and raising awareness through training for IW Councillors.  I am also discussing with Mr Murphy the need to involve more members as deputies, when absence occurs within the Planning Committee.

·         I continue to support residents affected by requests made by Empty Property Officers and am assisting a resident that has issues evicting a tenant for non-payment of rent.

·         I met with street traders in Newport, and received a request from traders for fees provided to the IW Council for businesses which trade within pedestrianized areas.  

·         I am supporting residents within the Crossfield Estate that are having issues regarding their combined sewage outfalls.  Residents have suffered from difficulties, within the Estate and I intend to address these once a date to meet with southern Water has been set.

·         IW Council land in Baring Road has been sold to a neighbour, who previously held a Garden Licence to upkeep the land by way of a Garden Licence.  I’m advised the land sold had no development potential, because of site restrictions.