Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Strategy, Performance and Governance, (copy enclosed)

The Committee considered the report of the Director of Strategy and Resources that updated Members on the actions identified in the 2022/23 Annual Governance Statement (AGS). The Chairperson introduced the report and deferred to the Programmes, Performance and Governance Manager (PPG Manager) to present the detail.

The PPG Manager took the Committee through the report that covered the best practice governance actions that were identified in the 2021/22 annual governance statement and an update on progress against these to Quarter 4 (Q4).There were four outstanding actions for the 2021/22 governance arrangements, and one of these ‘improve engagement with the resident and business survey’ had been marked as complete in the Q4 updates. There were three open actions to be rolled over to the 2022/23 action plan as outlined in section 3.6 of the report. Those highlighted grey in 3.6 of the report table had already been reported as completed. It was noted that the  2022/23 Annual Governance Statement, for commentary on the Council’s governance arrangements and further follow up actions into 2023/24, would be considered by the Committee at the July meeting.

The Chairperson then moved the recommendation which was duly seconded and opened the discussion.

 In response to issues raised Officers provided the following information:-

• That the Local Development Plan (LDP) timetable had been updated and would be circulated outside of the meeting.

• That the Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (HELAA) had been released because a range of sites was required in order to develop the LDP. That all actions taken to date were appropriate and subsequent delays could not have been foreseen.

• That a list of the out-of-date policies would be circulated outside of the meeting.

There being no further discussion the Chairman put the recommendation to the Committee and it was agreed by assent.

RESOLVED that the Committee reviewed the Annual Governance Statements table and updates and challenged where necessary.