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From YouTube: BCP Council Live Q & A 24th June 2020

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BCP Council Leader Vikki Slade answers your questions. Tune in at 1:00pm noon every Wednesday on our Facebook page for the Live Q&A.

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Good morning, if you'll afternoon it's one o'clock, isn't it so it's been a long.

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Day already- and it's only lunchtime, please accept my apologies. If there's.

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Any background noise. I have got my door open because it's so hot in here I'm.

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Sure that we're gonna have a few are people listening today, they've got any.

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Sense, they'll be outside enjoying the sunshine, just notice that my daughter.

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Who is outside sunbathing has just logged on to listen. So I suppose we.

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Could get lots of people listening to us from the park or the beach? So it's been.

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Another difficult week in the land of the council, we have managed to make some.

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Progress in the last few days and getting some of our emergency active.

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Travel measures in place a notification started last saturday for some changes.

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To the lower high street and poole quay to make those more accessible to people and.

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Bikes there is a consultation that you can actually complete online. It's really.

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Interesting you're able to talk about whether you think this is a good thing, a.

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Bad thing how it might affect you, because the way that this particular.

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Process is working is that the the government require us to bring in these.

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Changes very very quickly, normally advertising change. It would.

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Take weeks or months before that was consulted on and then that would be.

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Considered and then go into place the way that these emergency and.

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Experimental traffic regulation orders work is that they have seven days notice.

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You open up a consultation that consultation can last for six months and.

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During that time, people can engage and we can adapt things any adaption that we.

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Make then we have to print to them, make some consultation changes on so there.

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Are businesses who have expressed some concerns about the closure of my street.

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There are other businesses who said this is amazing. This is going to bring forward a renaissance, so at the moment we're working really hard to make sure.

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That we can take advantage of these new opportunities, so please do engage with the process. Please do fill in the consultations. It's.

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Real great news: okay, so first question is around public toilets and at the moment, they're closing at about 5:00 5:30. That.

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We are moving to a seven o'clock closure that will require our staff to start.

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Work at 7:00 in the morning and finish at 10:00 at night, and that is all we can.

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Reasonably ask them to do at the moment, so my suggestion is, if you are going.

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Down to the beach in the evening, please consider going before you go but yeah. I.

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Recognize it is difficult with the kids, they will be going on till seven o'clock.

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Very very soon we have a significant number of staff in training this week.

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And by the next week we should be in a much stronger place. Anna asks are the dog.

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Wardens on duty, you need two people more specific hanna about a specific issue.

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Around dogs, we don't really have dog wardens in the the traditional sense.

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Apart from a specific area, so you might want to send a message about a specific.

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Location if you're all talking about dogs on the beach dogs are not allowed.

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On the beaches other than in dog friendly areas, our signage shows a red.

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And green about where the dog friendly beaches are, and you can also look on the.

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Website to see where dogs are welcome on the beach, but please do respect the fact.

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That, if it is a dog free beach, there should be no dogs there, not on leads.

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Not at all and our beach wardens will move people on if they're able to it's.

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Not always feasible to move everybody on the beach wardens can't be everywhere.

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Who do I report a barbecue to west cliff sorry to bother you on west cliff.

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Barbecues are they're not allowed in certain places on the beach. I don't.

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Believe they're actually banned on the cliff top. So you know if somebody's.

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Having a barbecue on the cliff top, it's not very sociable, but I'm not sure that.

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It's actually illegal, well I'll! Ask our comms department to double-check that.

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Your barbecues are, or a legal thing to do, but not on the beaches. Apart from a.

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Certain areas which are all listed on the website, please, can you say why one.

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Of the councillors is pushing for closure at the high street. Okay mark mark you're, fully aware of a situation with this. The the lower high street is something.

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Which we've been looking to to make more people friendly for years and years and.

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Years, if you look at our future high streets from the application of 25.

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Million pound investment in poole, and you will see that the closure of lower high.

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Street forms part of that and therefore because that forms part of that it and.

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Because it's been requested by so many people that we close the poole quay and.

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The lower high street to allow lots of our restaurants to open up and it spill.

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Out onto the pavement and allow people to go before small numbers of cars, it's.

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A process that we're very very keen to promote, I don't want to get involved.

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With your comment about individual councillors, this is something that's.

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Being led by officers with support of the cabinet and applicate comments are.

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Very welcome on the details around whether you support it or don't support.

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It from the purpose of is it the right thing to do so? I think that's very.

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Interesting and interesting that you think.

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Pedestrianisation, which isn't what we're doing it's actually closing its traffic.

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Quite different, the pedestrian isolation will push up the sale price that.

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Suggests you think this is a good thing, because if the sale price goes up, then.

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That that's good thing, but I would ask you just to please refrain from making.

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Those sorts of accusations do we know when we're able to reopen tennis.

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Memberships, okay, so the problem with tennis is apologies brett. I do have an.

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Answer to your question from last week, it's sitting in my inbox, with, along with.

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About 500 other emails, the situation is that, with the current numbers of.

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Memberships, we have for our tennis courts, we are at 96 percent of capacity.

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If we actually increase the numbers of people with memberships on our public.

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Tennis courts, then the people who already have memberships have got no.

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Chance of getting a court I'll speak briefly. My dad is a member.

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And my dad's only opportunity for booking a court this week was between.

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9:30 and 10:30 at night, which really wasn't an option, so we can't keep on.

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Adding to the numbers until the capacity drops down.

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So you know we will reopen that for more members, but unfortunately we simply.

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Can't keep adding the numbers of people who can be members, and then you become a.

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Member, you pay your fees and you can't get a court for three weeks. You'd be really frustrated by that mary sure. You can register the birth of your baby.

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Already that was agreed about two weeks ago, so I suggest you contact contact.

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Either bournemouth or poole or christchurch whichever your local registry office, is.

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They are open. Poole has an additional facility to create that social.

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Distancing because the building at the guildhall is very difficult to socially.

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Distance, so you can already register your baby. The flyer, tuesday bike night.

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So tuesday bike night have been suspended, as has all events on public.

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Land or organised by the council until the end of august, that was a decision.

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That was taken a few weeks ago to make sure that we were not encouraging large.

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Groups or inadvertently, causing some issues. There were no plans.

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At the moment to change that approach to bring back any public events before the.

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End of august, partly because we're already virtually in july and actually.

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These things take time to plan, so the other thing to bear in mind is that part.

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Of the quay is going to be closed pedestrians. Clearly, if people have a.

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Motorbike and they want to come down to poole quay, then they will come down to poole quay.

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But there'll be no organised events until the end of august. At the moment, if.

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That policy changes them will. Obviously let you know band practice. Can we do.

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Anything to support your organization, I asking for financial support, probably.

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Not unless you are an organisation that was able to to apply for the small.

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Business grant, if you have, if you have property on which you pay, rent and.

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Therefore, you have are the the business rate payer then, obviously, like any other.

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Charity, you are able to apply, you may have been able to apply if you have.

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Property costs related to business, but the scheme for business is closed.

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We're not in a position at the moment to fund any other organisations. However,.

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There are organizations that are able to give grant funding, so I would suggest.

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Looking at whether the dorset community foundation weather the bh postal lottery.

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Whether the talbot village trust foundation that whether any of those are.

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Able to support organizations at the moment.

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Toilets problem on ashley cross, okay, so the situation with ashley cross is the.

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Toilets were closed three years ago by the previous council in ashley cross and.

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Many other places the toilets in ashley cross were not one that was listed for.

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Reopening because we were able to allocate just under five hundred.

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Thousand pounds for a series of toilets in poole to be reopened in order that.

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There was a harmonization between the availability of public toilets in poole.

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As compared to bournemouth and christchurch one of the reasons ashley.

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Cross was not opened or put on that list for opening at the time was because.

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There is a large number of hospitality organizations based there where people.

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Are able to have a drink and use the toilet? The vast majority of people who.

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Are using the premises in ashley cross are frequenting one of the businesses.

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Are ashley cross and therefore there's a responsibility and, as a former cafe.

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Owner, I know if you provide a cafe or bar facility, you are required under the.

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Law to make provision for your own customers for toilets now at the moment,.

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We're in a very unusual sit, so that's one of the reasons why ashley cross was.

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Not listed as an area that required a publicly funded toilet block, as opposed.

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To white cliff or beta, where there is no facility, where you are going for a.

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Picnic where you might go for a long walk where you might spend the day now.

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The difference is that, in this unusual circumstance, what we're seeing is.

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Businesses who have opened up for takeaway and for drinking off of the.

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Premises are clearly not able to provide toilets for their customers and, although.

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I'm sure many of them would love to after this short period of time. What.

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We've had is this awful situation where people have gone drinking, I mean god how.

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Am I going to go for a way and they're doing disgusting things? Why I don't.

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Understand but you know, we've got to factor those in so we have taken the.

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Decision to put in portaloos they are in place, they are.

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Were available, there was a unisex and disabled facility on ashley cross.

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Available for people, however ashley cross is causing a problem. There are.

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People who are gathering in large groups, the police have had to be involved.

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Because, actually, these large groups are currently not allowed, so please be.

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Mindful that, if you are drinking, you are allowed to drink outside in in ashley,.

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Cross there is no public space protection order that prevents drinking.

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In ashley cross, I have that checked, you are able to eat and drink there and you.

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Are able to use the publicly provided portaloos? I must stress the government.

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Were very uncomfortable and remain uncomfortable with councils providing.

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Portaloos because they do not provide the same facilities as a fixed premises,.

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In that, you cannot wash your hands after you've left the toilet cubicle and there.

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Is various handling issues the we have no choice there? They will remain in.

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Place, certainly until such time as cafes and restaurants are allowed to open up.

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On the 4th from that point, I would fully expect that, if you're all getting a.

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Drink from x, premises, x, premises should be enabling you to use their toilet.

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Facilities that should be the norm clearly, if you're going for a picnic on.

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The green and you're not buying anything for the local premises. I would suggest.

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You do need to support the local businesses, then that this facility is.

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There for you, and we will consider whether we need to leave it in place over the rest of the summer. Somebody said all events on the quay.

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Council next year, absolutely no truth to that. No discussions have taken place.

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About what's going to happen next year, events are canceled across all of bcp.

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Until the end of august, can I provide information on the traveler community? Ok,.

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I knew this was going to come up, so let me clarify the rules related to.

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Travelers every year we suffer from unauthorized encampments of travelers.

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Who are moving through the area? It happens from about march until about.

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August every year and most seaside areas across the country are affected by this.

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Problem we have two ways of dealing with this. As a council, we are legally.

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Required to by a transit site for those people who.

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Are travelling through to stop at? We do not have a transit site anywhere in.

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Bournemouth, christchurch and poole until and unless we take the decision to build.

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A transit site which people traveling from the traveller community, the gypsy.

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And traveller community to visits when they then turn up on a park or a car.

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Park and they they impact on the rest of us. We legally cannot move them because.

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We do not have somewhere that we've provided to move them to now. That feels.

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Wrong, I understand that I understand the frustration and I personally stood in my.

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Local park and had a full-on row with people to try to move them on. I faced.

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The intimidation, most councillors have done their best to physically stop these.

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Encampments, the councillors worked hard to make some areas what they called.

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Target hardened to make it more difficult, but those things then stopped.

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Campervans being able to use our parks and then we have local people say I.

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Drive a campervan you're stopping me from accessing the park. Some of the.

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Places that they break into our car parks and therefore you know that that.

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Has an impact I must be able to use the car park. The situation we have here is.

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That yesterday afternoon, various people were reporting in travelers arriving. I.

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Was very involved with lots of the senior officers from about 5 o'clock.

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Through to about midnight in in recognizing, there were several groups of.

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Travelers all arriving in different parts of town, the police did a great job.

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And move them on move mom move them on. Unfortunately, what then happened is the.

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Group have got ahead of the police and have collectively settled on poor park.

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Have caused damage and are behaving in a very unpleasant way, and we've had some.

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Really unpleasant reports there has been an emergency meeting with the police.

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Today, the law states that the council have to carry out a needs assessment.

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That needs assessment is basically saying the children and vulnerable.

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People who live as part the traveller community have a right to be assessed to.

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Make sure they are safe, we make sure there's nobody there, that's being a.

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Victim of modern slavery that there are no children who are vulnerable.

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Not a big looked after properly and there's nobody who is ill once that.

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Needs assessment has taken place which we are required to do and morally I.

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Support doing we then start the process of a court order that court order.

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Process will start and it will run its course most traveler incursions.

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Disappear before that court date, because they know they're going to get an.

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Eviction order and they really don't want the aggro secondary to that. If.

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There is a major incident: the police are able to invoke something. I think it's.

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Called section 61, which it forces them to move immediately. There are thresholds.

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That have to be met, and you know, depending on where you look it up. It.

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Feels to me, like those thresholds, been met, but it's for the police to decide.

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Whether we have a section 61 situation which allows them to enforce movement.

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Whilst those people are there, yes, they're breaking the rules, yes, they're.

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Using the playground which are closed, yes, they are defecating in public, which.

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Is unacceptable? Yes, they have ruined our cricket ground.

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We recognize all of that, but actually, as a council, we have limits in what we can.

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Legally, do my request to all of you is lobby your mps because the the law needs.

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To change on this, so that councils have more protection and police have more.

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Powers without that we're going to face this all the time the alternative is as.

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A council we need to find a transit site. Somebody needs to be prepared to say I.

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Don't mind having 15 sets of caravans coming down to my location every year.

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And parking up three four five ten times, if you know of somewhere, that is happy.

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To do that, rather than the rest of the community having to deal with this from.

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Time to time, please let us know, because we all gladly look at that, but bear in.

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Mind that other local residents will probably have something to say about.

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That it was tried before it failed. Okay, so um recommend where schools reopen.

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Okay, so some recommendations about schools curriculum, that's not for the.

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Council will cemeteries have the grass cutting between the graves? Yes, the so.

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The work to cut grass was slowed right down. We are gradually reintroducing it.

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And there is a lot of work being done, not all of the.

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Cemetary areas will be cut because we are deliberately trying to encourage an.

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Ecological improvement to our cemeteries and other places you might want to.

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Clarify the exact details of your own cemetery: will we reduce parking costs to.

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To to boost the economy and sara really realistically, no actually car parking.

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Charges that beach are going up as of the 1st of july, to try and recover some.

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Of the money that we have lost so at the end of the day, we are 32 million. How.

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Short, as I think I've told you every week and with that, we have to gain.

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Whatever money we can, so it's unlikely that we're going to be and likely we're.

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Going to be reducing car parking cost anytime soon, the last six weeks, people.

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Have been telling me put car parking prices up so can't win.

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Splash parks are not allowed to be opened. Anything related to water is not.

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Allowed to be opened under their regulations 4th of july is the big date. So your you'll have heard that hairdressers are.

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Allowed to open hotels, air b&bs campsites are allowed to open, but.

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Internal things, such as swimming pools, water parks, spas, all those sort of.

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Things they're not allowed to be opened, they're going so far as how long someone.

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Have to wait to house with a gold band high medical needs are catherine, it.

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Depends what you're looking for we approved this morning? 14 four bedroom.

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Houses which which are desperately needed in kinson and west howe,, I.

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Understand that in bournemouth alone, not poole or christchurch, there are 283.

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Families waiting for a four-bedroom house, the average wait time for a.

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Council house for four bedrooms is eight years, so we have just approved 14 some.

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People don't like it, they don't want another 14 houses in their area. Those 14.

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Families are going to be incredibly grateful, but we can't build houses, quick.

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Enough, if you've been waiting for three months, I'm sorry you cut you. You are.

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Able to bid as the gold band your circumstances are special to you, but it.

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Depends if you're looking for a three four-bedroom house, you will be waiting for years. If it's a smaller place, it won't take so long. The government's.

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Encouraging visitors to seafront they want local authorities to respond.

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With measures to ensure local distance say, are we planning what is our plans.

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Okay, so until the fourth of july, we are retaining our policy of asking people.

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Not to come to the area if they're, not local, our comms messaging has gone out.

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Nationally, we've actually said we don't want our pictures on the weather as.

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Isn't it lovely here we do not want that until the fourth of july. We want to.

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Minimize the number of visitors coming from outside, because at the moment there.

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Are no hotels, there's no campsites, there's no air b&b! You can't stay in.

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Your second home, so that's what we're trying to do from the 4th of july. We.

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Have to expect and respect that our hotel industry, our tourism industry, is.

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Vital to our area, social distancing measures are dropping from 2 meters to 1.

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Meter we as the council will respond to that and make sure that our facilities.

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Are properly socially distanced, however, it's not reasonable or beyond that time.

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When the government is saying that we need to open up for us to them, just keep.

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Saying stay away from the 4th of july, we will be open for business and the idea.

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Is that this period of time has given us the space to get ready for that? We have.

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Lots of signage, we have lots of curing systems going in place even down at the.

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Ferry at sandbags we've closed off part of all of the car part, but we're only.

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Back to part of the car park to allow people who are using the ferry to then.

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Queue safely outside of the traffic. One of the reasons that we're closing things.

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Like the lower high street and a number of other places around for both.

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Christchurch and paul is to allow more space on the on the pavement so that.

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People can queue more safely so that people can be persuaded not to get back.

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In the car and safely go on they're on their bikes as people who are shielding.

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Come back into society, they're going to feel the need to have a bigger bubble.

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Around them, they're going to be very, very nervous. We need to make sure that.

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We create that space. Those people are also going to be more likely to want to.

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Go by car, which means we're going to see an influx of cars, so the more people we.

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Can encourage to use their bike or to walk in their local environment? The.

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Better because it will use that impact, for others will the new.

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Pedestrian area porky affect weddings for scotland's courts. Okay, you probably.

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Want that there are currently no weddings taking place over the summer.

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Where there is any sort of ceremony and we're expecting that weddings for the.

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The two people concerned, plus their witnesses, will be allowed to restart.

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From july, but we won't be facilitating any weddings at our venues and so at the.

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Moment they won't be relevant. So that's really not a question for now question.

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About government fund to build more evie charger infrastructure yeah. No, we don't.

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Prefer range rovers coming to teslas I'd; rather, we didn't have tests, there's all.

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Range rovers I'd: rather, you came in your fiat, 500 or walked, or got the bus and at.

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The end of the day we are looking at evie charging, but we're also looking at.

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The project preventing congestion, and that is about moving people out of cars.

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Altogether, we have quite a number of evie charges in public places. They are.

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All on a register and people do have the ability to to to charge their vehicle as.

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The council tends to build more houses and flats. How do we get people to downsize? Cristina, that's absolutely completely wrong. We build very few.

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Houses of the majority of what we're building is flats, so you know downsizing.

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Is is a personal thing? You can't force someone to downsize, although there are.

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People who are subject, if they're on housing benefit to their so-called.

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Bedroom tax, which is about encouraging people through their benefit system, to.

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Not stay in a house, that's too big for them. I'm not going to get back into.

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Talking about the travelers again, I've completely covered that you can go back.

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And listen to that later on: okay, what do we do regarding merrick park and drug.

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Taking I've reported this, you need to report criminal acts. It is not down to.

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Me all your counselors to actually report everything for you. We have a.

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Police 101 system, we have a council reporting system, we have to start.

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Expecting the public to take that responsibility to say. Oh there's a.

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Pothole I'm going to go on line, I'm going to take a photo of it and I'm.

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Going to report it in so it's in the work flow. If the police don't know that.

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There is behaviors or crimes being committed, they won't act.

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On it, there is no point telling me that something is happening you need to.

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Report it to the police and more often than not I'll report, something because somebody's reported to me as a counselor, I don't say, there's no.

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Record of this ever happening, so please please, please, we've got to all take some.

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Personal responsibility, cars parked on verges. We have a fantastic group of.

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Parking enforcement officers they are out at about every day from early.

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Morning till late at night enforcing the parking regulations they can't be.

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Everywhere, if people are parked where they shouldn't be, they will be ticketed.

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But they can't be everywhere. Sarah, louise I'm not talking about travellers.

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Anymore, I've already mentioned section 61. You need to go back to that. Okay,.

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Travellers sort of a know so peter talking about the travellers trashing, it.

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Just to clarify the sites we have at manning's heath is for settled.

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Travellers they have a right to that site. It's fine! Yes, there have been.

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Issues in the past, but they're perfectly well behaved people up there and they're.

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Not the same as travelers who have to have a transit site. So, okay, I'm not.

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Going to talk anymore about travellers, so not talking about that boscombe.

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Cemetery gloucester road cemetery, deborah you've, obviously got an issue.

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With lots of people in cemeteries, it is not a huge priority for us to cut in.

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Between graves, we are working as hard as we can. You have to bear in mind six.

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Hundred and fifty of our staff have been redeployed out of their normal job to do.

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Critical frontline services, we are moving them back. We will be running.

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Behind on lots of things, we've had the most incredible weather. The grass is.

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Growing, we cannot expect our staff to work any faster and we have a thirty two.

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Million pound hole in the funding, so therefore you will have to see more.

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Grass, let grow longer in more places, whether that's the side of the road.

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Whether it's in some of the parks, where it's not the direct area that you are.

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Using as a recreation ground, the alternative is, but we pay for more.

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Grass cutting and your council tax goes up even more and then people we.

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Complaining there pay more in their counter-attacks, yes, jenny. The law needs.

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Changing too many people out there and fern are out of jobs. It's not fair, fair.

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To reduce the castros, no, why should we reduce the council tax.

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I don't understand um if people don't have a job.

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And therefore they don't have an income they go on to universal credit. They can.

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Then apply for council tax benefit relief. That is a policy. That's always.

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The case, if you'd lost your job last year- and you were you- were living on.

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Universal credit you'd be able to apply to see whether your income, maybe you.

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Would get a discount on your council tax, so you can get a discount on your.

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Council tax, if you meet the threshold for a discount on your council tax, the.

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Fact that people are on furlough you've got eighty percent of your income. Eighty.

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Percent of your income would not give you a reduction your council tax, if you're not going out to work, you're, probably not paying fares either and.

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You're, probably paying a bit less tax if you're on 80 percent. So no the council.

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Tax isn't going to be reduced for anybody unless you meet the council tax.

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Reduction threshold is the coop duck, so the coronavirus testing site, yes, is on.

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The park-and-ride and will remain there currently till october longer, if.

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Necessary: okay, there's lots of very specific.

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Individual places, if you've got issues in your ward, where something is going on.

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Whether it's antisocial, behavior or you think some grass needs cutting. You have.

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A ward councillor, most of you have some of you have three the purpose of.

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Your walk, counselor to deal with your ward councillor issues. It is not the job.

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Of the leader of a council to look at every individual issue in every single.

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Ward, so please look on the website find out who your ward councillor is drop.

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Them in email and say what are you gonna do about x, y zed happening at x, y zed.

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Address that's their job. You elected them to do that. For you, they all work.

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From home they all have a laptop, they all know what to do. If they're not.

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Actually doing that for you, then you need to challenge why you elected them.

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Because those sorts of things really need to be done so blue badges, the rules.

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Of blue badges is, we only give out free parking blue badge holders that have a.

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Residence permit for free parking where it's relevant. You have to pay 25 pounds.

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For that, so if you live out of area, then, though you do have to pay to park but of.

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Course you do have the benefit of bigger parking spaces that are close to your.

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Location and, of course, people who have blue badges are allowed.

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Park, if necessary, on double yellow lines where it is safe to do so, so you have.

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Other places that you can park, okay, it's really difficult to actually watch a lot.

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Of these here and are we collaborated with dorset council-fire steps with.

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Banning of disposable barbecues, we are looking at what the law says on.

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Disposable barbecues, they are already found on our heathlands. We have to.

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Respect the fact that if you're coming here on your holiday and you're staying.

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On a campsite, then, you may need to have a bbq to eat. If you live in a flat and.

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You don't have the space on your balcony or in your communal garden, to have a.

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Permanent barbecue you may want to disposable bbq. I don't think we should.

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Make the assumption that? Because people use them in a in a completely.

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Unacceptable way that in the forest, where it will be banned because that's a.

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Site of special interest, then using it in your own domestic setting, should also.

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Be illegal, so we are looking at the rules on our public land and we may be.

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Able to look at banning on public land, but on private land. That would require a.

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Change in the law, if you want to use it in your back garden, okay, it's just gone.

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Half past, so I am just about to finish up just to say this week is armed forces.

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Week we have raised the armed forces flag, got all three of our of our civic.

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Center's and we're very proud to be part of the armed forces covenant scheme.

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We've got some work being done around homeless veterans. So if you are aware of.

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People from armed forces background that do not have the same access to services.

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Please let us know our armed forces, government team will be able to work.

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With that and over the next couple of weeks, you will see of that front with.

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Immediate and then we have approved additional budget for more emptying of.

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Bins in public places recognizing that people are having more picnics or.

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Takeaway drinks, because of the circumstances of not being able to eat.

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In or drink in a bar or a cafe episode, there is more bins that are going out.

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There, our staffing, are massively increased on the beachfront. Please be.

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Aware there are still very limited if any facilities of life guards. That means.

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That primary role of our beach rangers, the first a most important thing, will be around safety. The reason you'll see a.

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Lot of them in their vans is because, if they have an incident of first aid or a.

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Person in distress in the sea, in the absence of our ally, it will be our beach.

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Rangers who will go to their age? They can't do that if they're running along.

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The promenade of 15 miles, so you will see people in there fans. However, they.

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Are out and about? They are trying to encourage people to behave better.

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Clearly social distancing is going to be an issue, but social distancing is not.

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The law it's a guideline and we cannot enforce people to stay away from other.

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People, so the message remains: if you feel it's too busy out there for you.

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Then you need to move on to somewhere. That is less busy where you feel safe. We.

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Cannot and will not enforce space. What we will do is enforce rules so, where.

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Dogs are banned, we will enforce bearing in mind our capacity where cars are.

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Parked illegally willy, we will enforce, bearing in mind our capacity where.

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Barbecues are being had in the wrong places we will enforce, bearing in mind.

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Our capacity where toilets need servicing, they are being serviced. Three.

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Times a day where people are urinating behind beach, huts or worse, we will deal.

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With that, but we shouldn't have to because every one of our beachfront.

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Toilets with the exception of one, if the south born end and might be gordon's.

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Corners exactly one of those around there will remain closed because the.

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Size of it means it cannot be made safe, but camp eclipse is the last one to open.

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That's happening in the next couple of days, then, all of the toilets over on the.

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Whole of the seafront, our park, toilets and most of our town toilets are open, so.

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There is no reason for anybody to be doing that sort of thing. We will be.

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Extending the time they're open till seven o'clock as soon as we have the.

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Staff to be able to do so, we have an faq page about the dc front on our website.

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So you can see any changes that are happening, but I would encourage you if.

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You are going to go out to the beach dude be mindful it will be busy there.

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Are parts of the beach that we as locals know are less busy if you just.

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To head to the pier approach or sandbanks or branks and chime, you.

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Probably would expect it's gonna be, even so how about heading to the quieter.

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Areas there's a really quiet bit between shore, road and sandbanks that hardly.

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Anyone goes to because it's better walking, there's no ice cream, kiosk south.

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Borns, a lot quieter flag heads a lot: quieter: hamady beach lake, pier.

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Yay explore some of the other places in our area, which perhaps locals, would use.

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More, I would encourage you to stay away from those really busy areas, because.

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Other people who are visiting here will be making a you know heading there.

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Because they don't know any difference, so you know that would be my advice. Take.

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Your suncream take plenty to drink. Take plenty to eat, make sure you get the loo.

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Before you go check out where the nearest toilet is when you park your car.

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If you park your car, if you can get away with not driving go, you know under your.

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Own steam and bear in mind over the next few weeks, we'll be bringing in more and.

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More measures to help you to be able to do that. Please please, please remember.

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Our current a big plan, which is stay local shop, local, we're asking you to.

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Stay local to where you live, we'll ask you to support the local shops, help them.

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You get out of this crisis because we need them. Some of them have been there.

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For us over the last few months- and we need to be there for them now, as they.

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Start to recover so that we've got a thriving economy next year. There's lots.

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More to talk about, but we can't cover those today but next week and the week.

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After we'll be moving to thursday's, that's because I've got meetings that I.

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Can't get out of on the wednesday so thursday 12 o'clock, this will be.

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Promoted so you'll be able to see what's going on but, as usual, remember your ward.

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Councillors are your first port of call. Comms team are able to help wherever.

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They can, and I will see you all next week.