Agenda item

Verbal Update on Review of Durham County Council's Allotment Services

Minutes:

The Overview and Scrutiny Officer gave Members a verbal update on the review of Durham County Council’s Allotment Services.

 

Members were advised that the review group had met twice and at the first meeting Members had looked at the allotment service, the current policy and management arrangements.

 

The last session looked at the importance of a good policy, key elements of a good policy and regional examples of new policy implementation. They also looked at the comparison of the current policy and the proposed new policy and a comparison of regional allotment policies which generated lots of questions. In view of this it was decided to defer the transition arrangements to the meeting to be held on 1 February 2018 and to include the future management arrangements of category 3 allotment plots.

 

Arrangements have been made for an additional meeting to be held on 9 February 2018, which will look at the proposed arrangements for the future management of category 1 and 2 allotment plots.

 

The meeting scheduled to be held on 16 February 2018, Members will hear from some Town and Parish Councils representative who have been invited to attend the meeting.

 

The Chairman commented that the review was a detailed piece of work which was important and wished to thank those members that had attended the review group meetings.

 

Resolved: That the report be noted.