OSCOTT WARD ADVISORY BOARD UPDATE

As you may recall from my post 27th July the Oscott Ward Committee intended to keep its Community Ward Advisory Board.
I am pleased to tell your Oscott Councillors are winning our battle to keep Oscotts  WAB.
There will be a meeting of the Oscott WAB on November 7th at 6pm.

At this meeting Local Community Group leaders and representatives of organisations like Age UK, the Police, the Fire Service, Youth and Young Families voluntary agencies and so on will be able to have an update on how the Oscott Community Chest Funds are being used. They also give in depth updates on their own organisation activities and concerns as well as helping to fall stall possible problems arising in the area in the future.*. This also often saves unnecessary duplication and costs  due to lack of communication.

Your 3 Oscott Councillors feel it would be a major and possible costly mistake  if these important and low cost consultation meetings were to be prevented. However we recognise other wards may wish to do things in a different way.
Oscott Councillors do accept however that because of government cuts, savings have to be made across the board but given how inexpensive WAB's are to operate and any other form of consultation could well be more costly we will continue to battle to keep the Oscott WAB.