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Lothian and Borders Fire Board's strategy is for a shift from an operational (intervention) focus to a prevention focus in order to improve fire safety in our communities. Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service's year two plan is therefore to:
- Review the location of our fire stations to ensure they best meet our response needs,
- Review the working patterns of our staff in our fire stations to ensure they are best suited to meet the organisation's needs; and
- Increase our community safety work.
Proposals for an improvement plan to meet these objectives were presented to the Fire Board at its meeting on the 24th June 2005. The proposals and following discussion documents and reports are attached below. The Board met to make its decision on January 27th 2006.
Outcome of the meeting on 27th January 2006 of
The Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Board
on the
subject of the
Making Safer Communities:
Service Improvement Plan 2005/2010
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Having considered the Chief Fire Officer’s report and the representations made today and at many public meetings, it is proposed that:
Subject to the detailed points made below, the recommendations in the Chief Fire Officer’s report should be approved;
- No closures of facilities or transfers of staff and fire appliances be implemented before the necessary new or alternative facilities are operational;
- The Chief Fire Officer identifies a site for each of the two Edinburgh Fire Stations and reports back on the effect of the locations on response times and fire cover;
- Any decision regarding the proposed closure of Melrose Fire Station is deferred until the position regarding the financial implications is clarified by Scottish Borders Council and a further report is submitted to the Board;
- Livingston Station should be designated as a Community Fire Station in the same way as the new East Lothian Station;
- The proposed community safety initiatives should be initiated in the first year of the improvement plan;
- Early priority be given to the proposed community safety initiatives in the Melrose, Marionville and Tranent areas;
- The Chief Fire Officer bring forward as soon as practicable a five year outline plan for the Board’s consideration, giving an overview of the planned action for each relevant year, together with a detailed investment plan;
- The Chief Fire Officer bring forward an action plan for the Board’s consideration, on an annual basis; and
- This action plan should include an update on the relevant risk assessments together with any demographic changes that have taken place in the preceding year. Particular scrutiny will be required to ensure that the service developments and initiatives planned in the early years of the Service Improvement Plan are sufficiently robust to deliver an effective longer-term community safety structure in areas where there are known to be significant increases in population
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Our two annual Integrated Risk Management plans are also included on this page.
Making Safer Communities SIP 2005-2010
Report to the Lothian and Borders Fire Board
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This report from the Chief Fire Officer introduced Consultation Analysis Report B (below) to the Fire Board at its meeting on 27th January 2006.
Report to the Lothian and Borders Fire Board (PDF - 81KB) |
Making Safer Communities SIP 2005-2010
Consultation Analysis Report B
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This report outlines the public responses to the consultation period and analyses them in relation to the Service Improvement Plan 2005 / 2010. It was taken to the Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Board on 27th January 2006.
Consultation Analysis Report B (PDF - 5.9MB)
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Making Safer Communities SIP 2005-2010
Consultation Analysis Report A
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This brief report outlines the extent of public responses to the consultation period for the Service Improvement Plan 2005 / 2010. It was taken to the Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Board on 18th November 2005.
Consultation Analysis Report A (PDF - 30.3KB)
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Integrated Risk Management Plan 2005/2010
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At The Lothian and Borders Fire Board on 24th June 2005, The Board agreed to carry the proposals contained in Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service's document; Making Safer Communities - Addressing the Risk - Service Improvement Plan 2005/2010 (PDF - (1.52MB), forward to the next stage, a three month consultation period which ended on 31 October 2005. The views and opinions we received during this consultation period on the proposals outlined in this document will be analysed and reported on at a future meeting of The Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Board.
The next meeting of the Board is 18th November 2005, when the extent of the responses will be reported.
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