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SCRUTINY WORK PROGRAMME UPDATE

Meeting: 23/03/2015 - Policy and Performance - Regeneration and Environment Committee (Item 53)

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Minutes:

A report of the Chair of the Committee updated Members on the current position regarding the Work Programme for the Regeneration and Environment Policy and Performance Committee.

 

The Chair thanked Members and Officers for the excellent work undertaken over the past 12 months.

 

Further to Minute No 46, 3 February, the Chair updated the Committee on progress on the two items currently included in the new Work Programme agreed on 3 March 2015:

 

·  A Task and Finish Review on the Council’s Coastal Strategy – progressing, with initial scoping having already been undertaken, and a detailed scoping exercise to commence on the 25 March 2015.

 

·  A Task and Finish Review on homelessness within Wirral – initial scoping scheduled to be carried out in the new municipal year.

 

Resolved – That the Regeneration and Environment Policy and Performance Committee work programme for 2014/15, as detailed in the report appendix, be approved.

 

 


Meeting: 03/02/2015 - Policy and Performance - Regeneration and Environment Committee (Item 46)

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Minutes:

A Report by the Chair of the Committee updated Members on the current position regarding the work programme for the Regeneration and Environment Policy and Performance Committee.

 

It was reported that at the agenda setting meeting held on 6 January 2015, the Chair and Party Spokespersons for this Committee agreed for two items to be added to the Work Programme including:

 

·  A Task and Finish Review on the Council’s Coastal Strategy

·  A Task and Finish Review on homelessness within Wirral.

 

Members heard that the task and finish review on the Councils Coastal Strategy would commence this year whilst the review on homelessness would begin in the new municipal year. Members were advised that membership of the Council’s Coastal Strategy Task and Finish Group would be Councillors Sullivan, Hale and Mitchell.

 

A Member requested that the issue of utility companies that had been causing damage to areas of the Borough be considered as an item of the Committee’s Work Programme. The Member was informed that Wirral Council are moving towards becoming a Permit Authority, however, this matter may be considered at a later date.

 

A Member then requested that levels of under occupancy be reviewed in the future.

 

Resolved – That Members approve the Regeneration and Environment Policy and Performance Committee work programme for 2014/15.