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Work Programme

Meeting: 20/03/2023 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 14)

14 Work Programme OSC23-014 pdf icon PDF 144 KB

Reporting Person: Councillor Ayesha Azad

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Minutes:

The Chairman introduced the report on the updated Work Programme, drawing the Committee’s attention to the key changes since the document had last been received.

Members again agreed to offer Affinity Water the opportunity to attend a meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

A suggested addition to the Work Programme, included at a previous meeting of the Committee, was to invite Thames Water to another meeting.  Members agreed a timescale in principle for the end of the 2023-24 Municipal Year, once renovations had progressed at local sewage treatment works.

A request was made for the Committee to consider the Master Plan that had received resident feedback.  Giorgio Framalicco, Strategic Director of Place, agreed to discuss with Members outside of the meeting to identify specific strands of the Master Plan that would benefit from scrutiny by the Committee.

Councillor Kirby, Chairman of the Housing Infrastructure Fund Housing Outputs Task Group, which had remained on hiatus through the 2022-23 Municipal Year, enquired whether its remaining work could be added to the remit of the Local Development Framework Working Group.  Councillor Kemp, Chairman of the Housing Infrastructure Fund Task Group, informed the Committee that the Group had not met recently as the HIF process was under review nationally, thus impacting any remaining work of the HIF Housing Outputs Task Group.

It was requested whether the Committee could receive an update from the South East Coast Ambulance Service and Surrey Fire and Rescue Service at a future meeting.

The Work Programme contained a minor inconsistency.  The Council was to consider that the names of several Groups be changed from Task Group to Working Group.  As such, the Work Programme should reflect such change.

Resolved That

the Work Programme be noted.