Issue - meetings

To consider the indicative work programme for the Environment, Culture and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Panel for 2011/12 and select members to progress specific reviews in the work programme for the Panel.

The Environment, Culture and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Panel considered its draft work programme for 2011/12 and accompanying report.

The Panel noted that an extract of the 2010/11 Annual Overview and Scrutiny Report concerning work undertaken by the Environment, Culture and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Panel during the past year was being circulated to new Panel Members.

The Panel noted that the Director of Children, Young People & Learning had been requested to contact the Chairman regarding a review of the environmental management of schools. It was suggested that the Panel may wish this work to be presented at a future meeting.

Appendix 2 to the report suggested that a Working Group of the Panel be established to consider the next stages of the Site Allocations Development Plan Document.  As the Executive and Council were scheduled to approve the next stages of the document in autumn 2011, the Panel agreed that this review work should take priority over other new work programme items.

RESOLVED that:

a)      the Panel’s draft work programme for overview and scrutiny in 2011/12 be agreed with the additions set out in paragraph 1.4 of the report for adoption by the Overview and Scrutiny Commission.

a)      a Working Group of the Panel comprising Councillors Finnie, Mrs Angell, Brossard, Finch and possibly McLean be established in order to consider and comment on the next stages of the Site Allocations Development Plan Document prior to its approval.