Overview and Scrutiny Committee (March 2025)
Summary:
Agenda:
1. Apologies for Absence and Substitutions
2. Chairs Announcements
3. Minutes
To consider the minutes of the meeting held on 10 February 2025.
4. Decision and Action Sheet
To consider the decisions and actions from the previous minutes from the 10 February 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.
8. Cabinet Portfolio Update from the Leader of the Council
9. Cabinet Portfolio Update from the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for a Fairer Chelmsford
10. Annual Report of Key Housing Delivery Statistics
10a Appendix
11. Cabinet Portfolio Update from the Cabinet Member for a Greener Chelmsford
12. Responding to the Climate and Ecological Emergency and Meeting the Council’s Biodiversity Duties
12a. Inform and Debate Report
13. Report on the Updates from Council Representatives on Outside Bodies
14. Work Programme
15. 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.
Part II (Exempt Items)
To consider whether the public (including the press) should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following agenda items on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information specified in the appropriate paragraph or paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 indicated in the agenda item.
16. Review of Parking Provision
Category: Paragraph 3 of part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972
(Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).)
Public interest statement: It is not in the public interest to release details of this report at present, on the grounds that the report contains information that is commercially sensitive.