River access via meadows where boom prolonged Siege of Derry would be ‘amazing’ - video Dailymotion

River access via meadows where boom prolonged Siege of Derry would be ‘amazing’

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00:00officers facilitated a face-to-face residence engagement process on the 4th of September

00:07um and members that focused on the regeneration plans for the the landscape parkland and not

00:14uh in particular on the the future plans for boom hall house and that are being pursued by

00:20the boom hall trust members there was very good engagement in that um with uh 62 participant

00:27attendances um and very good face-to-face engagement um and the appendix um gives some

00:34details of that particular engagement and um the views of some of the participants um so members

00:42there were a number of actions that the team have suggested following that in terms of potential

00:49upgrades etc to the um the boom hall master plan and members are also aware that uh on in june of

00:57this year at the committee members had a deputation by boom hall trust um who sought um some clarification

01:05in relation to um the potential for them to um lease the site and members officers are working

01:13with the trust and indeed on that issue and we'll bring a further report in due course in relation

01:19to that so members today we're asking you to endorse the engagement and the feedback from residents and

01:27i'm happy to take any comments or questions member have in relation to that thanks pleasure farrell

01:33uh thank you chair for letting me in and thank you karen for the report um the report is very much

01:46welcome and it was great to see mostly very positive feedback from a good number of persons asked um

01:55we are looking forward to all the works that are going to be carried out um when the time comes and

02:00we're happy to endorse the report as well thank you thank you alderman middleton coach referral yeah

02:08thanks chair and thanks karen for the report like alderman middleton happy to endorse the contents i

02:15think you know the site at boom hall offers so much opportunity and it's really heartening to see

02:23the time effort and dedication we're taking to get this right you know we're consulting extensively

02:29and that's really really important and i'm not going to comment on all the actions but the one for

02:35me the number eight you know the feasibility of adding you know river access opportunities you know

02:41that'll be amazing um so like i'm looking forward to seeing the updated master plan but you know

02:47it's a real step in the right direction thank you you culture for uh creature murphy

02:52thank you chair thank you karen for the report um i attended the engagement and it was it was very

03:02busy when we were there at that time a lot of engagement and i know the council officers were

03:07very impressed by what they were hearing from people who had grown up around the site and and

03:13in some cases had worked on it elderly people so it was great and just to agree with rory uh

03:20uh uh there's great potential with everybody working collaboratively with boom hall thrust especially

03:27that they're still there and it was i think for a while maybe they thought that their views weren't

03:33being listened to in some of the discussions that you may have had with them but uh it's great to see

03:41that collaborative work going on and and it's great to see these steps and and hopefully they're implemented

03:55you