85 BC/18/31 OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE REPORT PDF 210 KB
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Minutes:
85.1 The Chairman of Overview and Scrutiny presented his report and informed Council that the report focused on the five items that had been presented to the Committee at the meeting in November.
85.2 The principle item had been reviewing the first round of the bidding for the Community Infrastructure Levy, findings had been fed back to the Joint Member Panel for them to take forward to continue to develop the bidding process for the future. The Committee had also reviewed reports on the Homelessness Reduction Act and the Homelessness Prevention Fund Policy, the Committee had commended the Corporate Manger and her team, for the work that had been carried out so far, in preparation for the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act which had seen the work of the team quadruple. It was suggested that a further review be undertaken in another six months. The final two topics were in the form of information bulletins the first for the Community Strategy Engagement Process and the final item was on Corks Lane. As the Committee did not have the full information presented to it, the Committee did not feel it could go any further than note the preference for option 4 in the report relating to Corks Lane.
85.3 Councillor Maybury asked if the Scrutiny Committee could look at the question of disabled bus stop funding when it next reviewed the Community Infrastructure funding process.
85.4 In response the Chair of Scrutiny informed Council that the Committee would only be looking at the bidding process to ensure that the process was fair and reasonable any issues that fell outside of this process should be directed to the CIL Team.
85.5 Councillor Bavington asked the Chair of Scrutiny if he was satisfied that the Housing Reduction Act report was only funded for two years.
85.6 In response the Chair of Scrutiny stated that from a scrutiny point of view they were glad to hear that it was funded for as much as two years, however any concerns related to funding should be directed to the Corporate Manager.
85.7 Councillor Bavington also asked the Chair if the Committee had been happy with the proposals for the Community Engagement Strategy and what councillors would be involved?
85.8 In response the Chair of Scrutiny informed Council that it was envisaged that there would be a broad cross section of councillors involved in the process, however it was a question of trying to get a balance between getting it done reasonably quickly and trying to satisfy everybody that wanted to be involved. He was confident though, that anybody who wished to make any representations towards the engagement process would be very welcome to do so.
85.12 The Chairman thanked Councillor McCraw for his report.