Please reply to:

 

 

Contact:

Christeen Abee

 

Service:

Committee Services

 

Direct Line:

01784 446224

 

E-mail:

c.abee@spelthorne.gov.uk

 

Date:

24 December 2025

 

 

Notice of meeting

 

 

Environment and Sustainability Committee

 

 

Date:

 

Thursday, 8 January 2026

Time:

 

7.00 pm

Place:

 

Council Chamber, Council Offices, Knowle Green, Staines-upon-Thames TW18 1XB

 

To the members of the Environment and Sustainability Committee

 

Councillors:

 

J.A. Turner (Chair)

J.R. Boughtflower (Vice-Chair)

L. Barker

M. Beecher

M. Bing Dong

 

T. Burrell

J.P. Caplin

D.C. Clarke

S.M. Doran

K.M. Grant

 

N. Islam

A. Mathur

H.R.D. Williams

P.N. Woodward

 

 

Substitute Members: Councillors

C. Bateson, S.N. Beatty, H.S. Boparai and R.V. Geach

 

Councillors are reminded that the Gifts and Hospitality Declaration book will be available outside the meeting room for you to record any gifts or hospitality offered to you since the last Committee meeting.


 

Agenda

 

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1.  

Apologies and Substitutes

 

 

 

To receive any apologies for absence and notification of substitutions.

 

 

</AI1>

<AI2>

2.  

Minutes

 

5 - 8

 

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the Environment and Sustainability Committee meeting held on 13 November 2025.

 

 

</AI2>

<AI3>

3.  

Disclosures of Interest

 

 

 

To receive any disclosures of interest from councillors in accordance with the Council’s Code of Conduct for members.

 

 

</AI3>

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4.  

Questions from members of the Public

 

 

 

The Chair, or their nominee, to answer any questions raised by members of the public in accordance with Standing Order 40.

 

At the time of publication of this agenda no questions were received.

 

 

</AI4>

<AI5>

5.  

Formal Endorsement of SCC Retrofit Strategy

 

9 - 102

 

Committee is asked to:

 

1.    Approve the formal endorsement of Surrey County Council Retrofit Strategic Action Plan; and

 

2.    Approve the Chair of the Environment and Sustainability Committee to sign the endorsement letter.

 

 

</AI5>

<AI6>

6.  

Adoption of the Spelthorne Design Code

 

103 - 320

 

Committee is asked to agree that the Spelthorne Design Code be recommended for adoption at Full Council

 

 

</AI6>

<AI7>

7.  

HMO Supplementary Planning Document Consultation Draft

 

321 - 356

 

Committee is asked to:

 

Agree that the Consultation Draft of the Spelthorne Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPD) be published for a 4 week public consultation under Regulation 12 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) Regulations 2012.

 

 

</AI7>

<AI8>

8.  

Budgets, Fees and Charges (E & S)

 

 

 

Report to follow

 

Committee is asked to:

 

1.    Review the draft detailed revenue budget for 2026/27 for Environment & Sustainability Committee and agree any amendments,

 

2.    Review the draft detailed Capital Budget for 2026/27 for Environment & Sustainability Committee; and

 

3.    Recommend to Corporate Policy & Resources Committee to approve the proposed budgets.

 

 

</AI8>

<AI9>

9.  

Forward Plan

 

357 - 360

 

A copy of the Environment & Sustainability Committee Forward Plan is attached.

 

 

</AI9>

<AI10>

10.  

Exclusion of Public & Press (Exemption Business)

 

 

 

To move the exclusion of the Press/Public for the following items, in view of the likely disclosure of exempt information within the meaning of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 and by the Local Government (Access to information) (Variation) Order 2006.

 

 

</AI10>

<AI11>

11.  

Service Plans - E & S

 

 

 

Committee is asked to consider the Service Plans for the Environment and Sustainability Committee.

 

 

</AI11>

<AI12>

a)             

Neighbourhood Services

 

361 - 388

</AI12>

<AI13>

b)             

Spelthorne Direct Services

 

389 - 400

</AI13>

<AI14>

c)             

Service Plan - Planning Development Management

 

401 - 418

</AI14>

<AI15>

d)             

Strategic Planning

 

419 - 432

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