Issue - meetings

To determine which reviews in the indicative overview and scrutiny 2008/09 work programme for the Environment Culture and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Panel should be progressed in 2008/09.

The Panel considered a report detailing the indicative work programme for Overview and Scrutiny for the current municipal year.  The Panel noted the Overview and Scrutiny Commission’s view that reviews already underway should be completed before new work started.

The Panel agreed that their initial work would focus on completing the Street Cleaning and Strategic Waste Reviews and that the Housing Strategy Review would be added to the indicative work programme for 2008/09.  The review of developments on the potential Leisure Trust should be deleted as the Trust would not be created.  An additional review of S106 arrangements should be considered.  The priority ranking of the reviews would be considered in a few months time, but the Parking review would probably have a high priority.

The Director of Environment, Culture and Communities offered to provide briefings on the framework for S106 arrangements and Council measures regarding climate change to inform the Panel’s deliberations on their programme.