Overview and Scrutiny Committee (4 November 2024)

Summary:

• agenda pack for this meeting
• live broadcast and recording for this meeting
• minutes of the meeting

Agenda:

1. Apologies for Absence and Substitutions

2. Chairs Announcements

3. Minutes

To consider the minutes of the meeting held on 14 October 2024.

4. Decision and Action Sheet

To consider the decisions and actions from the previous minutes from the 14 October 2024 meeting.

5. Declaration of Interests

All Members are reminded that they must disclose any interests they know they have in items of business on the meeting’s agenda and that they must do so at this point on the agenda or as soon as they become aware of the interest. If the interest is a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest they are also obliged to notify the Monitoring Officer within 28 days of the meeting.

6. Public Question Time

Any member of the public may ask a question or make a statement at this point in the meeting. Each person has two minutes and a maximum of 20 minutes is allotted to public questions/statements, which must be about matters for which the Committee is responsible.

The Chair may disallow a question if it is offensive, substantially the same as another question or requires disclosure of exempt or confidential information. If the question cannot be answered at the meeting a written response will be provided after the meeting.

Any member of the public who wishes to submit a question or statement to this meeting should email it to committees@chelmsford.gov.uk 24 hours before the start time of the meeting. All valid questions and statements will be published with the agenda on the website at least six hours before the start time and will be responded to at the meeting. Those who have submitted a valid question or statement will be entitled to put it in person at the meeting.

7. Decisions Called-In

To report on any Cabinet decisions called in and to decide how they should be progressed.

7.1. Call-In Decision: Declaration of John Shennan Field as a Local Nature Reserve

The Overview and Scrutiny Committee is to consider the decision taken by Cabinet on 8th October 2024 which was called in on 10th October 2024. The decision relates to the declaration of John Shennan Field as a Local Nature Reserve.

8. Work Programme

9. Urgent Business

To consider any other matter which, in the opinion of the Chair, should be considered by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) as a matter of urgency.