Issue - meetings

To set out the Work Programme of the Policy Development Panel; to request items for consideration for inclusion; and to seek members’ input into the development of a Street Scene Task Group (report of the Assistant Director – Governance enclosed).

The Panel considered a report by the Interim Assistant Director – Governance (Monitoring Officer) which set out the Work Programme of the Policy Development Panel.

The Democratic Services Officer introduced the report and outlined the following main points:

Appendix A set out the dates of future Panel meetings along with proposed items for consideration. The programme included policies that were either due for review or were undertaking their first annual review, as discussed at agenda item 9 (SHDC Policy Register and S&ELCP Policy Register).

Appendix B set out the Task Groups that had been identified by the Panel.

Following discussions at the 25 July 2023 Policy Development Panel meeting, the report asked Panel members to consider whether they wished to set up a Street Scene Task Group.

The Chairman gave the following update to the Panel in respect of the breadth of a potential Street Scene Task Group:

• At the last meeting, the Panel had identified a potential Planning Policy focus for the task group however upon subsequent discussion the subject was deemed to have a broader reach which needed to incorporate other service areas;
• Some strategic improvement work had recently taken place in Spalding Town Centre which a task group could work with / learn from for the benefit of the district; 
• If the Panel wished to establish the task group, it was suggested that the lead officer responsible for the Spalding Town Centre improvements, the Assistant Director – Strategic Growth and Development, be invited to the first meeting in order to share the progress and plans for Spalding Town Centre. This would assist with the formation of a district-wide scope for the new task group and remove any duplication of proposed work;
• Members were requested to express their interest in joining the task group. Five members volunteered and membership of the Street Scene Task Group was confirmed as Councillors: Ashby, Gearney, J Le Sage, Whitbourn and Woolf.

AGREED:

a)    That the Policy Development Panel Work Programme 2023/2024 be noted; and

b)    That a Street Scene Task Group be formed with membership as stated.