NOTICE OF MEETING
COMMITTEE:
LOCAL ECONOMY & ENVIRONMENT
SCRUTINY
COMMITTEE
DAY/DATE: TUESDAY,
7TH JULY 2007
TIME:
2.00PM
VENUE:
COUNCIL CHAMBER
MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
EARLE STREET CREWE
Despatch date:
30th July 2007
Enquiries to: Diane Moulson
Tel: 01270 537026
Fax: 01270 537605
Email: agendas@crewe-nantwich.gov.uk
Chair: Cllr Peter Hallett
Tel/Fax: 01270 663549
Email: cllr.peter.hallett@crewe-nantwich.gov.uk
To: Members of Local Economy &
Environment Scrutiny Committee [Cllrs Campbell, Cartlidge,
Crawford, Hallett, Healey, Hollins, Johnson, Mottram, Parker,
S Roberts, Stafford and Wood], Chief Executive, Executive
Directors, Assistant Chief Executive, Local Press and Radio.
Notes for
Members of the Public
The Local Economy and
Environment Scrutiny Committee consists of 12 elected Members and
Councillor Peter Hallett is the Chair. There are 6
Conservative, 4 Labour, 1 Liberal Democrat and 1 Independent
Member.
The Borough Council welcomes and
encourages members of the public to attend its Committee, Board and
Council meetings.
If you plan to attend, please report
to the Reception Desk in the Municipal Buildings, where you will be
provided with a Visitor’s Pass.
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Municipal Buildings, but there are several town centre car
parks. There is a disabled access to the rear of the
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on Vernon Way. Please press the button for attention, and
someone will meet you and escort you through to the main reception
area.
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room, or public gallery of the Council Chamber, as quietly as
possible. Please ensure that if you have a mobile phone or
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You are not allowed to have drinks or
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Smoking” policy operates in the Municipal Buildings.
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If the fire alarm rings, you should
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as possible, and leave the building. Please follow any
instructions from staff about evacuation routes.
Copies of the agenda will be available
if you attend. Agendas are also made available on the Internet and
can be accessed via the Council’s website – see front page for
details.
On occasions, members of the press and
public will be excluded from the meetings when the business to be
transacted is of a confidential nature, for example, dealing with
individual people, contracts and financial affairs of other
parties.
If you require any further information, please
contact Diane Moulson the Committee Officer (details on front
page).
AGENDA
PART 1 CONSTITUTIONAL BUSINESS
2.00PM – 2.05PM
1.
Apologies
2.
Declarations of Interest
Any Member present (including non-Committee
Members) to declare any personal or prejudicial interest and the
nature of that interest, in any item of business on the agenda and,
if necessary, to leave the meeting prior to discussion on that
item.
Members who also serve as County, Town or
Parish Councillors are reminded of the need to make declarations in
respect of any item which directly concerns the business of the
appropriate authority.
Declarations are a personal matter for each
Member to decide. Whilst officers will advise on the Code of
Conduct and its interpretation, the decision to declare, or not, is
the responsibility of the Member, based on the particular
circumstances.
3.
Record of Meeting
To approve as correct the record of the
meeting held on 29th May 2007 (3).
4. Whipping
Declarations
Members to declare in respect of items where
the whip has been applied.
PART II BOARD/COUNCIL BUSINESS
2.05PM – 2.30PM
5.
Responses from the
Board
The Committee is asked to note the responses
from the Board (5) in relation to the Committee’s
comments on the appointment of Chairs to Performance and Overview
(Scrutiny) Committees, provision of Affordable Housing and Wulvern
Housing – Governance Review (5.3).
5.3 Wulvern Housing - See
Governance Arrangements
6.
Referrals from the Board/Council
To consider any matters which the Board or
Council may have referred to the Committee.
7. Renaming
of Performance and Overview
Committees
At Full Council on 13th June 2007,
it was agreed that the three Performance and Overview Committees
(Community, Organisation and Local Economy and Environment) be
renamed as follows, with immediate effect –
§ Community
Scrutiny Committee
§ Local Economy and
Environment Scrutiny Committee
§ Organisation
Scrutiny Committee
The Committee is asked to note the
change.
8.
Forward Plan of Board
Decisions
8.1
To consider the Board's Forward Plan for 20th September
and 15th November [8a and b
respectively]
Item 8a. Board Meeting
20th September 2007 - Provisional Items
Item 8b. Board Meeting
15th November 2007 - Provisional Items
8.2
At its May meeting, the Committee identified two items from the
forward plan for consideration in July. Members are asked to
note that the presentation on LAA 4
th Block Economic
Development has been scheduled for September. The report
relating to Civic Hall Car Park was deferred and will now be
considered by the Town Centre Advisory Group.
PART III COMMITTEE BUSINESS 2.30PM
ONWARDS
9. Progress
Report - Queens Park
The Council’s Landscape Architect, Allan
Leah will be in attendance at the meeting to address questions
arising from the Committee’s site visit to Queens’
Park.
10. Financial Out-turn
Report for 2006/2007
The Committee is invited to consider the
out-turn report for 2006/2007, as submitted to full Council on
27th June 2007.
Members are asked to bring their own copies
of the papers with them to the meeting which were submitted to full
Council on 27th June.
11.
Financial Monitoring
Report 2007/2008
To consider the Financial Monitoring report
for the period 1st April to 30th June
2007.
Members are asked to bring their own copies
of the papers with them to the meeting which were submitted to
Board on 26th July
2007.
11a. Performance
Monitoring
The report provides service performance
information on the agreed basket of key National Performance
Indicators for the period April 2007 - June 2007
(11a).
12.
Consultation: Public
Rights of Way
The Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is currently carrying out a consultation
exercise on the “implementation of the right to apply for orders to
extinguish and divert public rights or way, and associated rights
of appeal”.
As the body responsible for determining
applications for footpath diversions, the document will be
considered by Development Control Committee at its August
meeting. LE&E is also invited to consider the questions
set out in the document, with its responses being reported to both
Development Control and DEFRA.
The consultation paper is a large document
and copies will be provided for Members of the Committee
only. A hard copy will be made available in the Members’
Room.
13.
Crewe Town Centre Update
At the request of the Chairman, this topic
will be included as a standing item on future agendas, to enable
Members to be briefed on Town Centre
developments.
14.
Vacancy Panel
Decisions
To receive an update on the management of
vacant posts which fall under the remit of the Committee
(14).
15. Work
Programme
15.1 Task Group
Update
To receive update reports, if appropriate
from the Committee’s Task Groups –
· Affordable
Housing
· Town Centres
· Waste
Management
15.2 Climate
Change Task Group
The Terms of Reference for the Climate
Change Task Group were submitted to Community Scrutiny Committee
and Organisation Scrutiny Committee at their meetings on
18th July and 23rd July respectively,
together with an invitation to appoint two Members to the Task
Group.
Councillor Griffiths has been appointed to
sit on the Group by Community Scrutiny Committee; Organisation
Scrutiny Committee declined the invitation and no appointment was
made.
16. Date of Next
Meeting
11th September 2007
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