Infrastructure, Housing & Economic Development Committee - 16 November 2021

16 November 2021
Infrastructure, Housing & Economic Development Committee - Agenda and Reports

NOTICE AND AGENDA

For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Northway, Rickmansworth, WD3 1RL on Tuesday 16 November 2021 at 7.30pm.

Members of the Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee:-

Councillors:-

Stephen Giles-Medhurst (Lead Member                    Joanna Clemens

Transport and Economic Development)                     Reena Ranger

Matthew Bedford (Lead Member Infrastructure          Ciarán Reed

and Planning Policy)                                                Stephanie Singer

Andrew Scarth (Lead Member for Housing)               Paul Rainbow

Alex Hayward                                                         Joan King

Tony Humphreys

Joanne Wagstaffe, Chief Executive

8 November 2021

Lead Member Responsibilities:

Transport and Economic Development – Community Toilet Schemes, Cycling Policy and Cycleway Provision, Economic Development, Highways, Parking, Public Transport, Rivertech, Town and Village Centre Improvements

Infrastructure and Planning Policy – Brownfield Register, Building Control, Conservation Areas and Local Listing, Community Infrastructure Levy, Development  Management Policy, Heritage, Infrastructure Schemes, Land Charges, Land Drainage, Listed Buildings, Neighbourhood Planning, Right to Build Register, Tree Protection

Housing – Housing Policy, Homelessness and Housing Advice, Housing and Disabled Facilities Grants, Management of Traveller Sites, Private Housing and Houses in Multiple Occupation, Residential Environmental Health, Temporary Accommodation.

The Council welcomes contributions from members of the public to aid discussions on agenda items at the Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee meetings. Details of the procedure are provided below:

For those wishing to speak:

Members of the public will be entitled to register and identify which item(s) they wish to speak on from the published agenda for the meeting.  Those who wish to register to speak (for or against an item) are asked to please notify the Committee team by e-mail ( CommitteeTeam@threerivers.gov.uk ) 48 hours before the meeting or may come on the night to register to speak from 7pm.

Registering 48 hours before the meeting allows the Committee Team time to prepare the speaker sheet in advance of the meeting.

Please note that contributions will be limited to no 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 be given the right to speak on that item at the next meeting of the Committee.

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 Legislation and the laws of libel and defamation.

The Committee meeting will not being broadcast/livestreamed but a recording of the meeting will be made.

1.  APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

2.  MINUTES

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee meeting held 21 September 2021.

21-09-21-ihed draft minutes

3.   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.

4.  DECLARATION OF INTERESTS

To receive any declarations of interest.

5.   BUDGET MONITORING – QUARTER 2

This report covers this Committees financial position over the medium term (2021 – 2024) as at Quarter 2 (end of September)

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The Quarter 1 comprehensive Budget Management report has already been presented to the Policy & Resources Committee at its meeting on 1 November 2021 which sought approval to a change in the Council’s 2021 - 2024 medium-term financial plan

6.    STRATEGIC, SERVICE AND FINANCIAL PLANNING 2022-2025

This report enables the Committee to comment on its draft service plans.

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app-1_housing-services-service-plan-2022-25-draft

7.   WORK PROGRAMME

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To agree the Committee’s work programme.

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

9.  EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

If the Committee wishes to consider the remaining item in private, it will be appropriate for 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(s) of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under Paragraphs 1 to 7 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.”

(Note: If other confidential business is approved under item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional items.)

  • OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under item 3 above.

General Enquiries: Please contact the Committee Team at  committeeteam@threerivers.gov.uk