Venue: Council Chamber
Contact: Susan Lightwing
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Welcome and Evacuation Procedure Minutes: The Chair welcomed all present to the meeting and read out the Evacuation Procedure. |
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Declarations of Interest To receive
any declarations of interest. Minutes: There were
no declarations of interest received at this point in the meeting. |
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Minutes: The minutes of the meeting of the Economic Development, Environment and Infrastructure Scrutiny Panel meeting held on 21 April 2021 were taken as read and approved as a correct record. |
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Overview of Environment and Community Services and Regeneration and Culture PDF 632 KB The Director of Environment and Community Services and the Director of Regeneration and Culture will be in attendance to provide an overview of their services areas. Recommendation: Panel notes the information provided. Minutes: The Directors of Environment and Community Services and Regeneration and Culture were in attendance to provide an overview of their service areas. Regeneration
and Culture covered four main areas, however only three related to this Panel’s
remit as follows:
The Director provided a comprehensive update on the
service area’s current workload which included the following projects: •
Conversion of Captain Cook Square to a leisure
destination. •
Development of Middlehaven
for urban living and commercial use. •
Development of Boho X. •
Restoration of the Old Town Hall and Captain
Cook Pub. •
Delivering land remediation through the
Brownfield Housing Fund. •
Developing two Levelling Up
Fund bids. •
Delivering the Future High Streets Fund programme. •
Delivering the Town’s Fund programme. •
Delivering 450 new homes across the town. •
Preparing Nunthorpe
Grange and Newham Hall for sale. •
Developing infrastructure plan with Nunthorpe Parish Council. •
Development of new community facilities at
Southlands and Nunthorpe. •
Improving the area around the rail station. •
Delivery of Heritage Action Zone improvements in
Exchange Square. •
Developing the next Local Plan. •
Improving Linthorpe
Road. Responding to
questions the Director provided further information in relation to Masterplans and
the details of the timetable for approval of the latest Local Plan. The Director
of Environment and Community Services’ presentation included updates on the
following areas of work being undertaken by the service: Environment
Highways Maintenance
Community Safety.
Locality Working. Libraries and Hubs. North East Migration Partnership. The Director
answered Members’ questions in relation to funding for grass verge repairs,
grass cutting, prosecutions for fly tipping and tree maintenance. The Chair
thanked the Officers for their attendance. AGREED that the information provided was
received and noted. |
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Setting the Scrutiny Panel's Work Programme 2021/2022 PDF 378 KB Minutes: The Democratic Services Officer
presented a report, the purpose of which was to assist Members of the Panel to
consider and agree its work programme for the 2021-2022 Municipal Year. A list of topical issues and the suggestions received in respect of the Scrutiny Panel's remit were contained in the submitted report. It was suggested that the Scrutiny Panel should select one topic for full review along with several short topics and updates. In addition there were two reviews from the previous years to be completed as follows: Middlesbrough Regeneration Post Covid-19, and Recycling and Waste Management/Waste Disposal Facility. The Director of Environment and Community was in attendance at the meeting and provided additional information as requested by Panel Members. Members discussed the information provided by Officers at the meeting, the topics suggested in the report and suggestions received from members of the public and the service areas. Following discussion, Panel Members agreed the following topics for review: Main Topic: 1. The Green Strategy and the Council’s plans for increasing bio diversity in Middlesbrough Short Reviews/Updates: 2. Regeneration of Captain Cook Shopping Centre and House of Fraser 3. Fly tipping and bulky waste collection service 4. Empty/derelict commercial properties 5. Bus Services 6. New Waste Disposal Facility 7. Broadband Infrastructure AGREED as follows that: 1. The information provided was received and noted. 2. The topics listed at 1 to 7 above, would be submitted to the Overview and Scrutiny Board for approval. |
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Proposed Meeting Schedule - 2021/2022 Municipal Year PDF 14 KB Minutes: A proposed schedule of meeting
dates for the Economic Development, Environment and Infrastructure Scrutiny
Panel for the 2021-2022 Municipal Year was submitted for the Panel's
consideration. AGREED that the proposed meeting dates for 2021-2022 were approved. |
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Final Report on Pest Control - Update Verbal update from Councillor Hubbard Minutes: Councillor Hubbard provided an update on the actions agreed by Executive from the Panel’s Final Report on Pest Control.
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Date of Next Meeting - 21 July 2021 Minutes: The date and time of the next meeting was confirmed as Wednesday 21 July 2021 at 10.30 am. NOTED |
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Any other urgent items which in the opinion of the Chair, may be considered Minutes: None. |