Extraordinary Sustainable Development, Planning and Transport Committee - 20 February 2018

20 February 2018
Extraordinary Sustainable Development, Planning and Transport Committee - Tuesday 20 February 2018 at 7pm

REVISED

EXTRAORDINARY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, PLANNING AND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

NOTICE AND AGENDA

For an extraordinary meeting to be held in Room G50, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, on Tuesday 20 February 2018 at 7pm.

Members of the Sustainable Development, Planning and Transport Committee:-

Councillors:-      Stephen Giles-Medhurst (Lead Member)      Martin Trevett (Lead Member)

David Coltman

Steve Drury      Joan King

David Major

Peter Getkahn      Kate Turner

Angela Killick      Reena Ranger

Paula Hiscocks

Steven Halls, Chief Executive

12 February 2018

Lead Member Responsibilities:

Economic Development, Sustainability and Transport - Energy efficiency and Beat the Killer Cold; Economic Development; Sustainability – promoting energy efficiency and ‘green’ matters; Supporting public transport, better buses and cycling.

Housing, Planning and Strategic Schemes – Council house allocations and lettings (transfers and Choice-Based Lettings bids; Homelessness and housing advice; Housing grants for improvement and adaptation; Private housing condition and Houses in Multiple Occupation (including stock condition surveys); Building Control; Car parking (provision, fines, permits); Highways and infrastructure schemes; Development Management; Heritage (i.e. conservation areas, listed buildings, tree protection); Land Charges; Land Drainage; Local Plans (i.e. conservation areas, neighbourhood forums, local listing); To purchase any property for use as temporary accommodation.

The Sustainable Development, Planning and Transport Committee welcomes contributions from members of the public to its discussion on agenda items. Contributions will be limited to one person speaking for and one against each item for not more than three minutes. Please note that, in the event of registering your interest to speak on an agenda item but not taking up that right because the item is deferred, you will automatically be given the right to speak on that item at the next meeting of the Sustainable Development, Planning and Transport Committee.   Details of the procedure and the list for registering the wish to speak will be available for a short period before the meeting.

In accordance with the Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 any matters considered under Part I business only of the meeting may be filmed, recorded, photographed, broadcast or reported via social media by any person.

Recording and reporting the Council’s meetings is subject to the law and it is the responsibility of those doing the recording and reporting to ensure compliance. This will include the Human Rights Act, the Data Protection Act and the laws of libel and defamation.

  1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
  2. DECLARATION OF INTERESTES

To receive any declarations of interest.

  1. NOTICE OF OTHER BUSINESS

Items of other business notified under Council Procedure Rule 30 to be announced, together with the special circumstances that justify their consideration as a matter of urgency. The Chairman to rule on the admission of such items.

  1. CONTRACTING OUT OF HOMELESSNESS REVIEWS TO AN INDEPENDENT REVIEWER

Officers are seeking authorisation to contract out the function of homelessness reviews as part of TRDC’s statutory duties set out in Section 202 of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended by the Homelessness Act 2002, Localism Act 2011 and Homelessness Reduction Act 2017). The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Allocation of Housing and Homelessness Functions) Order 1996 enables the Council to authorise external providers to undertake these functions on behalf of the Council.

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  1. OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under item 3 above.
  2. EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

If any confidential business is approved under item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional item(s) and a resolution to be passed in the following terms:-

“that under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act. It has been decided by the Council that in all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.”

  1. OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under item 3 above.