Goffs Oak - Village Life
Neighbourhood Forum
The neighbourhood forum meets twice a year and covers Goffs Oak and West Cheshunt, incorporating Goffs Oak, Flamstead End, Rosedale and Bury Green Ward areas and known as GOWEST.
The Chairman, Cllr. Dee Hart, she can be contacted on 01992 624730 or by e-mail dolores.hart@tesco.net
The next meeting of the neighbourhood forum is tba. Please see our events page for full details.
The aim of the group is to encourage the public’s engagement in creating a safer community. They consider local solutions to anti-social behaviour problems to help reduce the level of crime and fear of crime in the neighbourhood. A range of local issues has been examined over recent months, including nuisance youths, vandalism, illegal parking and under age drinking.The groups consist of members of the public, and representatives of the council and police. Issues other than those relating to community safety may also be discussed.
The Community Safety Team of the local council co-ordinate and arrange each meeting an agenda is circulated to all regular attendees, local councillors, the police and other local organizations and interest groups a minimum of seven days prior to the meeting. The date, time and venue for each meeting is advertised in the local press and on the council's website. The notes arising from these meetings are circulated to all attendees within seven working days following the meeting.
Visual audits are where local councillors and local residents meet with representatives of the Council and the Police to 'walk' a specific locality to identify community safety issues that need to be addressed.
Should the neighbourhood forum request a visual audit in a locality, the community safety team will arrange such an audit within 28 days of receiving the initial request and advise interested parties accordingly. A note will be kept of all issues raised at the visual audit and these will be circulated to all attendees and other appropriate persons within 10 working days of the visual audit. An update report on the response to the issues raised at the visual audit will be circulated within a further 28 days. The outcome of the visual audit will also be reported to the next meeting of the neighbourhood forum.
If you would like a copy of the minutes for any of the previous neighbourhood forum meetings, please contact the community safety team on 01992 785555 or email community.safety@broxbourne.gov.uk
The surgery car park has been completed and the whole area redesigned to incorporate the Neighbourhood Recycling Unit. Landscaping and remedial work in and around the village hall has been done adding to the general appearance of the area and the neighbourhood.
The War Memorial refurbishment and design has been completed and many residents have commented how well it looks and provides the focal point for the village.
The local Community Police hold their surgeries in the library on the 1st Thursday of each month between 10am-12 noon. Your local councillors will be in attendance.
The newly built Goffs Oak Health Surgery is fully operational with a wide range of state of the art medical services. It is a credit to the village and to all those who fought and worked so hard to make it happen. Local medical care and delivery of good medical treatment is an absolute must and we will ensure it is maintained.
Local Election NEWS
The result of the local election for Goffs Oak was as follows;
| Goffs Oak Ward Result 6 May 2010 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Mark Bevis James Mills-Bishop | 3,194 | 76.72 | -0.51 | |
| Labour | Cherry Lorraine Robbins | 649 | 15.59 | +4.30 | |
| BNP | Russell Jesse Shevill | 320 | 7.69 | -3.79 | |
| Majority | 2,545 | ||||
| Turnout | 4,163 | 67.14 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
