Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Assistant Chief Executive which provided members with information contained within the Council Plan 2016-2019, relevant to the work of Environment and Sustainable Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee. This allowed members to refresh the committee work programme to reflect the three objectives and subsequent outcomes identified within the Council Plan for the ‘Altogether Greener’ priority theme which highlighted development of the wildflower planting scheme, working in partnership to conserve areas of distinctive landscape character and relocation of the fleet vehicles to align service delivery (for copy of report see file of minutes).

Members were reminded of work undertaken in the last twelve months and of the number of updates coming forward from this work.

Members discussed the work programme and commented that they already had a lot of work in the current plan and 2017 was a County Council election year so it was important to complete the work programme by March 2017.

The Chairman suggested that they leave the plan as it is for now and bring back to a future meeting.

Recommended: (i) That the contents of the report be noted.

(ii) That no amendments be made at this stage to the work programme for 2016-2017.

(iii) That a further report detailing the committees work programme for 2016-2017 be submitted to the meeting on the 8 July 2016.