Issue - meetings

The Scrutiny & Elections Officer introduced the item reminding Members of the work completed at recent meetings.  This report was the final report to be submitted to Executive in December.

Members were reminded that due to the lack of national legislation in relation to the issue, the Council had no powers of enforcement and the creation of a Charter would be more of a statement of intent to add to the national lobbying on the issue.

The Environmental Health Service Manager (Commercial & Environment) also confirmed that the core outcome would be to show local leadership on the issue rather than create a local legislative change.  The Council could however add to the national campaign through their lobbying recommendation.

Moved by Councillor Nick Clarke and seconded by Councillor Jen Wilson.

RESOLVED that (1) the Committee endorses the recommendations of the review as outlined in section 2 of the report,

(2) the report be presented to Executive for approval, in accordance with the Scrutiny Committee Terms of Reference – Part 3.6 (3) of the Constitution,

(3) if approved by Executive, monitoring of the recommendations by Committee takes place over a twelve month period via the PERFORM system with an update report to Committee at the end of the monitoring period.

(Scrutiny & Elections Officer)