Environment and Sustainability Committee
Decisions taken at the meeting held on Tuesday, 14 January 2025.
Meeting Time:
7.00 pm
Meeting Venue:
Council Chamber, Council Offices, Knowle Green, Staines-upon-Thames TW18 1XB
PRESENT: Councillor Malcolm Beecher (Chair), Councillor Kathy Grant (Vice-Chair), Councillor Lisa Brennan, Councillor Tony Burrell, Councillor Jolyon Caplin, Councillor John Doran, Councillor Sue Doran, Councillor Anant Mathur, Councillor Joanne Sexton, Councillor John Turner, Councillor Howard Williams and Councillor Paul Woodward
5. Environment & Sustainability - Draft Detailed budget for 2025/26 |
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The Committee resolved to recommend to Corporate Policy and Resources Committee to approve the proposed budget with the agreed amendments. |
6. Environment & Sustainability - Draft Detailed Capital Budget for 2025/26 |
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The Committee resolved to recommend to Corporate Policy and Resources Committee to approve the proposed budget. |
7. Audited Financial Statements for Spelthorne Direct Services Ltd (SDS) for the year end 31 March 2024 |
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The Committee resolved to note the report, and particularly the unqualified audit report. |
8. Heathrow Easterlies Alteration Consultation* |
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The Committee resolved by majority to make comments to the Planning Committee advising that the Environment and Sustainability Committee agrees with the officer’s attached draft report to raise objection on unacceptable noise impact on Spelthorne properties in Stanwell Moor. |
9. Conservation Area Appraisals |
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The Committee resolved to 1. Note the comments received on each Conservation Area Appraisal; and 2. Agree the Laleham Conservation Area Appraisal and boundary revisions; 3. Agree the Lower Halliford Conservation Area Appraisal and boundary revisions; 4. Agree the Lower Sunbury Conservation Area Appraisal with additional text at S5.0 Summary of Issues and boundary revisions with alterations at Swan Island; 5. Agree the Manygate Lane Conservation Area Appraisal; 6. Agree the Shepperton Conservation Area Appraisal and boundary revisions; 7. Agree the Stanwell Village Conservation Area Appraisal and boundary revisions; 8. Agree the Upper Halliford Conservation Area Appraisal with text amendments at S4.0 Summary of Issues, and boundary revisions with retention of 34 Upper Halliford Road. |
10. Update to Sandbag Policy |
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The Committee resolved to approve the update to the Sandbag Policy. |
NOTES:-
(1) Members are reminded that the “call-in” procedure as set out in Part 4b of the Constitution, shall not apply to the following matters:
(a) Urgent decisions as defined in Paragraph 9. of the Call-in Scrutiny Procedure Rules;
(b) Decisions to award a contract following a lawful procurement process;
(c) Those decisions:
i. reserved to full Council
ii. on regulatory matters
iii. on member conduct issues.
(2) Those matters to which Note (1) applies, if any, are identified with an asterisk [*] in the above Minutes.
(3) Within three working days of the date on which this decision is published, not less than three members from two or more political groups by submission of the standard call-in pro-forma, may ask for that decision to be referred to a meeting of the Corporate Policy and Resources Committee for review (call-in). The completed pro-forma must be received by the Proper Officer by 5pm three working days after publication of the decision.
(4) The members exercising the right of call-in must not be members of the Committee which considered the matter.
(5) When calling in a decision for review the members doing so must demonstrate the following exceptional circumstances:
a. Evidence which suggests that the decision maker, did not take the decision in accordance with the principles set out in Article 11 (Decision Making); or
b. Evidence that the decision fails to support one or more of the Council’s Corporate Plan priorities to the detriment of the majority of the Borough’s residents; or
c. Evidence that explicit Council Policy or legal requirements were disregarded.
(6) Once the request for ‘call-in’ has been deemed valid by the Monitoring Officer the matter will be suspended until the call-in procedure has been exhausted.
(7) The Chief Executive, in consultation with the relevant officer, will determine if the interests of the Council or Borough would be prejudiced by a delay in implementing a decision such that the call-in cannot wait until the next ordinary meeting of the Corporate Policy and Resources Committee.
(8) Where the call-in cannot wait until the next ordinary meeting, the Monitoring Officer will arrange an extraordinary meeting of the Corporate Policy and Resources Committee to review the decision subject to call-in at the earliest possible opportunity.
(9) In exceptional cases, where there is clear evidence that a delay to the implementation of a decision would lead to a specific and significant financial or reputational harm to the Council, a call-in request may be refused by the Chief Executive following consultation with the Chair and Vice-Chair of Corporate Policy and Resources Committee.
(10) In reviewing a matter referred to it under the call-in scrutiny procedure rules, the Corporate Policy and Resources Committee shall follow the procedure for dealing with call-in scrutiny at its meetings as set out in Part 4b of the Constitution.
(11) The deadline of three working days for "call in" in relation to the above decisions by the Committee is the close of business on 20 January 2025.