Infrastructure, Housing & Economic Development Committee - 15 November 2022
NOTICE AND AGENDA
For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Northway, Rickmansworth, WD3 1RL on Tuesday 15 November at 7.30pm.
Members of the Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee:-
Councillors:-
Paul Rainbow (Lead Member Transport and Economic Development) (Co Chair)
Stephen Giles-Medhurst (Lead Member Infrastructure and Planning Policy) (Co Chair)
Andrew Scarth (Lead Member for Housing) (Co Chair)
Dominic Sokalski
Philip Hearn
Lisa Hudson
Abbas Merali
Reena Ranger
Khalid Hussain
Kevin Raeburn
Joan King
Joanne Wagstaffe, Chief Executive
7 November 2022
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 are 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 are asked to register on the night of the meeting from 7pm.
Please note that contributions will be limited to no more than three minutes.
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.
Those wishing to observe the meeting are requested to arrive on the night of the meeting from 7pm.
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 meeting will not be broadcast/livestreamed but an audio 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 on 11 October 2022.
22-10-11-ihed-minutes3. 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 Chair to rule on the admission of such items.
4. DECLARATION OF INTERESTS
To receive any declarations of interest.
5 BUDGET MONITORING REPORT Q2 (PERIOD 6)
This report covers this Committee’s financial position over the medium term (2022 – 2025) as at Period 6 (end of November)
The Period 6 comprehensive Budget Management report will be presented to the Policy & Resources Committee at its meeting on 7 November 2022 which will seek approval to a change in the Council’s 2022 - 2025 medium-term financial plan
05i-budget-management-report-period-605ii-budget-management-report-appendix-26. STRATEGIC CORPORATE AND SERVICE PLANNING 2023-2026
This report enables the Committee to comment on the emerging draft Service Plans of those Council Services which report into this Committee.
06-strategic-coprorate-framework-draft-servce-plans-report06i-corporate-framework-2023-26-draft-for-consultation06ii-draft-service-plans-2023-20267. HOUSING ALLOCATIONS POLICY UPDATE 2022
To provide the Committee with an overview of the proposed changes to the Council’s Housing Allocations Policy.
The full policy can be found in Appendix 1.
07-22-11-07-pr-i-housing-allocations-policy-report07i-22-11-07-pr-i-housing-allocations-policy-updated-20228. RICKMANSWORTH WEST PARKING SCHEME
This report asks the Committee to determine which streets to include in the Rickmansworth West parking scheme area before the detailed design is progressed to the statutory notice of a Traffic Regulation Order, taking account of the response to public consultation and the detailed discussion of the issues as set out in the report.
08i-22-11-15-ihed-i-parking-report and appendices A to Cappendix-d-consultation-packappendix-e-detailed-design-planappendix-f-options-indicative-mapping9. WORK PROGRAMME
To agree the Committee’s work programme.
09i-work-programme-cover09ii-work-programme10. OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under item 3 above.
10a. TURN OFF THE LIGHTS TO SAVE ELECTRICITY
Council to note that the motion below (motion 3) has been referred to the Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee meeting on 15 November 2022 under Rule 11(5) of the Council Constitution
Councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst, seconded by Councillor Paul Rainbow
Turn off the lights and save Electricity
Three Rivers Council is determined to do what it can to tackle the Climate Emergency whilst also dealing with the current fuel crises.
Therefore Council urges business and employers to re-double effort to ensure excessive use of lighting and air condition particularly addresses the need to:
1. Turn off lighting, including neon display lights, when shops and offices are unoccupied
2. Not use air conditioning unless essential for business purposes
3. Install water saving/recirculation devices
11. 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.)
1 OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under item 3 above.
General Enquiries: Please contact the Committee Team at committeeteam@threerivers.gov.uk