Decision details

To note the Annual Report of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee and recommend it to  Full Council for approval.

Councillor Buttironi, in his capacity as the Vice Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, introduced the Overview and Scrutiny Annual Report for 2023/24 and the Proposed Annual Work Programme for 2024/25.  The work of the Committee was detailed including its consideration of the Council’s finances and the Marketfield Way Project. The Committee’s Proposed Annual Work Programme for 2024/25 had been prepared and agreed by the Committee and the Leader consulted on its contents. It was being presented to Council for approval. This included the commitment to establish a Local Plan Scrutiny Panel as well as plans to review revisions to the recycling service as a consequence of the Government’s new Resources and Waste Strategy. Other planned areas of scrutiny included the Leisure & Culture Strategy as well as wastewater arrangements.

RESOLVED to note the Overview and Scrutiny Annual Report for 2023/24 and approve the Overview and Scrutiny Proposed Annual Work Programme for 2024/25.