Members : 5
Meeting frequency : Bi-monthly (Minimum 4 meetings per year)
Responsibilities
This Committee has no decision-making responsibility and can only make recommendation to Full Council.
To develop the Town Council’s strategy towards the use of public amenities including Town Council owned leisure facilities, the promotion of sport, and the provision for our youth and the Town Council owned cemetery.
The Town Council will provide a member of this committee as the Town Council representative on the Angus Buchanan Committee & the Christmas Lights Committee.
King George V (Pavilion and Playing Field)
- To ensure that the KGV Playing Field and Pavilion are properly maintained and conform to all relevant legislation.
- To ensure that adequate facilities are provided for the user groups.
- To promote the use of the playing field by the community.
- To provide a safe environment.
- To generate income where appropriate.
- To ensure the Town Council effectively manages the users of these facilities in accordance with appropriate terms and conditions.
Town Centre (inc Clock Tower)
- To ensure that the Town Centre provides a showpiece for the Parish which enables everyone to have access, whilst maintaining the character of the town
- To ensure that the Town Centre is properly maintained and conforms to all relevant legislation.
- To promote the use of the Town Centre as an open performance space.
- To ensure any works carried out in the Town Centre take due regard of the ancient nature of the buildings and conform to listed building regulations.
- To ensure that the Town Centre is a safe environment.
- To co-ordinate a working party to review current and future use of the Clock Tower.
Bells Field
- To develop the Bells Field as a multi-age, multi-use leisure area
- To engage with local residents and wider parishioners in achieving the above
- To look to provide more facilities for the youth
- To promote the use of the field by the community.
- To provide a safe environment for all to enjoy.
Leisure & Play Areas
- To ensure that the Town Council provides imaginative play areas for young people of all ages.
- To ensure that play areas are safe environments that conform to relevant legislation and that RoSPA checks are completed annually.
- To work with partners, e.g. FoDDC, GCC and the Police.
- To support local play areas provided by Trusts and Charities within the Parish.
Other Open Areas
- To ensure that the Town Council protects open areas entrusted to its care for the benefit of the community.
Infrastructure (e.g. Benches, Toilets and Bus Shelters)
- To ensure appropriate measures are put in place to risk assess and adequately maintain all infrastructures (within our control) within the Parish.
- To continually review the need for additional benches, dog waste and litter bins with the Parish.
Coleford Town Cemetery
- To ensure that the Town Council’s regulations relating to burials conform to the requirements of the Home Office as described in the paper “Burial Law and Policy in the 21st Century.
- To ensure that memorials are kept within the sizes laid down by the Town Council and that their design and lettering is acceptable. The Town Council will reserve the right to insist that gravestones are to be brought to the Town Council office before installation so that the exact size may be checked.
- To ensure that work to all memorials is carried out in accordance with the latest recommendations and Code of Practice of the National Association of Monumental Masons.
- To ensure the provision of well-maintained and safe area for the benefit of visitors to the burial ground and to investigate any complaints made to the Town Clerk with reference to the Burial Ground and the access road leading to it.
- To recommend adequate provision to comply with the Equality’s Act requirements.
- To ensure an adequate record is maintained of all burials and interment of ashes, also scattered remains.
Other provisions
- To meet as necessary with any body or company making arrangements locally for the provision of crematoria or other similar services.
That the committee contribute to the production of a 4 year Town Council Plan and produce a recommended budget for the forth coming year for its account codes to be put before Finance and Office Committee at its October / November meeting.