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 required the Committee to undertake a quarterly review of the Thematic Strategies performance, as assurance that performance was being managed effectively to achieve the corporate outcomes as set out in the Council’s Corporate Plan 2023 - 2027. Appendix 1 to the report provided an overview of performance as at the end of Quarter 3 (Q3) (October to December 2023).

The Chairperson introduced the report and deferred to the Assistant Director – Programmes, Performance and Governance to present the detail. The Assistant Director took the Committee through the report starting with section 3.1.1. which provided an overall delivery picture against each of the corporate priorities. It was noted that as of December 2023 all six priorities were either on track or on track with conditional elements.

The Chairperson proposed that the recommendations as set out in the report be agreed and this was duly seconded.

A debate ensued and in response to questions raised the following information was provided:

·                Develop and launch of Maldon’s youth engagement programme – A Project Officer to deliver Section 106 capital projects for youth facilities had started this week and would be working to a timetable of when projects had to be delivered by in order to reduce any risks to the Council of losing funding. Members were reassured that there would be early engagement with Members as well as stakeholders and the young.

·                Councillor S J Burwood declared an interest in this item of business as he was a Heybridge Parish Councillor.  He expressed an interest in being involved in any items relating to Heybridge. The Committee were advised that Ward Members would be involved.

·                Deliver One Maldon District, multi-agency partnership action plan - Following a question regarding why the Council had only reached 30% and was therefore off its target, the Director of Service Delivery advised he did not have that information to hand and would therefore share it with Members outside of the meeting.

·                Progress of Local Development Plan Review - The Committee were advised that the Nature Conservation Study and Employment Land and Premises Study had been considered by the Planning Policy Working Group (PPWG) and once the related written reports were received these would be made available to all Members via Mod.Gov or SharePoint.

·                Members were advised that the Planning Policy Working Group reported to the Council. Its next report was due to be considered by the Strategy and Resources Committee at its meeting on Thursday 14 March 2024. There was some discussion at this point regarding Working Groups and the Committee were informed that all Working Group papers were available on Mod.Gov.

·                Delivery of Prom Park Management Plan – Members were reminded that the detail contained in the report related to Q3 and there had been progress on this Management Plan as part of Quarter 4 work. In response to a question, the Committee were advised that ‘Gateway Review’ involved looking at all information and work that  ...  view the full minutes text for item 633