Agenda

Environment and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Panel - Wednesday, 26 March 2025 7.30 pm

Venue: Function Room - Time Square, Market Street, Bracknell, RG12 1JD. View directions

Contact: Email: committee@bracknell-forest.gov.uk 

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for Absence/Substitute Members

To receive apologies for absence and to note the attendance of any substitute members.

2.

Declarations of Interest and Party Whip

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests and the nature of that interest, including the existence and nature of the party whip, in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

 

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

 

Any Member with an Affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

3.

Urgent Items of Business

Any other items which, pursuant to Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, the Chairman decides are urgent.

4.

Public Participation

To receive submissions from members of the public which have been submitted in advance in accordance with the Council’s Public Participation Scheme for Overview and Scrutiny.

5.

Public Protection Partnership scrutiny review pdf icon PDF 114 KB

The panel will discuss the information presented by the Cabinet Member for Leisure, Culture, Public Protection and Democracy, Councillor Iskander Jefferies; Assistant Director: Contracts, Damian James and the Public Protection Manager: West Berkshire, Sean Murphy, in regards to the peer review of the Public Protection Partnership (PPP) Service. This a shared service delivering Environmental Health, Licensing and Trading Standards on behalf of Bracknell Forest Council and West Berkshire Council. It also shares a range of services with other organisations including Wokingham Borough Council.

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