Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Strategy and Resources (copy enclosed).

The Committee considered the report of the Director of Strategy and Resources that sought the Committee’sagreement todeletethisitem fromitsscrutinyworkplan.

The Chairperson introduced the report and deferred to the Corporate Governance Project Officer to present the detail. He took the Committee through the report and advised that both the Working Group and the Committee had looked at Planning Enforcement over several months and received a lot of information. The enforcement work was now on a better track in terms of both resources and performance and no further areas had been identified that required closer scrutiny. The report was recommending removal from the Scrutiny Workplan but retention of a ‘watching brief’.

Clarity was sought on how the ‘watching brief’ would operate in practical terms and it was agreed that was a matter for the Committee and Working Group to decide. The Assistant Director, Planning and Implementation advised that in terms of the metrics around enforcement Officers would provide /produce a monthly report for submission to Working Group meetings. He further advised that the Enforcement Policy would be updated and submitted to the Working Group for initial review and discussion early next year.

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

RESOLVED thatPlanning Enforcement be removedfrom thescrutinyworkplan but kept on a watching brief with monthly reports to the Working Group and periodicreview by the Committee,includinginitial consideration ofthe reviewof thePlanningEnforcement Policy.