Agenda item - Member Involvement

To consider the following matters raised by Members:

(a)      Petitions: to receive any petitions submitted to the full Council or at the meeting itself;

(b)      Written Questions: to consider any written questions;

Councillor Mac Cafferty – Non-Core Designations in the Downland (copy attached).

(c)      Letters: to consider any letters;

(d)      Notices of Motion: to consider any Notices of Motion.

(i)      Asset Management Panel – Notice of Motion referred from the full Council meeting held on the 15^th December 2016 (copy attached).

(ii)    City Infrastructure – Notice of Motion referred from the full Council meeting held on the 15^th December 2016 (copy attached).

              Member Questions

110.1    Councillor Mac Cafferty asked: “Can the Chair of this committee please outline where the Labour administration is in making clear what non-core designations are in relation to Downland?”

110.2    The Chair provided the following written answer: “The report on this agenda titled “Policy Review Panel – City Council’s Urban and Rural estates” addresses this question through the NoM presented to December PRG by the Conservative and Green groups. This requested a Policy Review Panel to look at governance and policy with respect to  the City’s urban and rural estates and will include a review of the respective sections of the Corporate Property Strategy & Asset Management Plan 2014-18 (AMP) agreed by December Policy, Resources & Growth Committee as they concern Downland asset definition and disposal.

              This clarification will be addressed through the Policy Review Panel and the PRG report explains how the Policy Review Panel is proposed to be set up and it is proposed that this aspect will be part of the scoping exercise and terms of reference to be agreed at the first meeting of the cross party Policy Review Panel.”

              Notices of Motion

110.3    Councillor G. Theobald noted that the whole area of asset management needed Member oversight, he hoped that a formal Asset Management Panel would be set up, but noted that this could be one of the recommendations from the policy review panel.

110.4    Councillor Mitchell noted, it her expectation, that the policy panel would undertake a task and finish scoping exercise which would inform a new permanent Asset Management Panel.

110.5    RESOLVED – That the Committee note both Notices of Motion.