Issue - meetings

To discuss the Strategic Priorities for 2024/25 for this Committee.

The Committee considered the Strategic Priorities for 2024/2025.

The Chair highlighted the following areas as potential focuses for the Committee; prioritisation of the Development/Regeneration properties, the Heathrow Rail Link, infrastructure in Town Centres to target antisocial behaviour, and partnership working to deliver infrastructure in support of new homes such as GP surgeries and roads.

The Committee requested an update on the Heathrow Rail link and were advised that the Group Head Place, Protection & Prosperity would be attending a meeting next week with the Heathrow Area Transport Forum on a draft report from HSPG (Arups) on a comparison between Southern Light Rail (SLR) and Heathrow Southern Rail (HSR) This draft report from the HSPG was expected by end of June 2024 and an item would be added to the Forward Plan for the Committee’s meeting in September. The Committee requested that as part of that item a summary of the history of the project could be included. There is a separate meeting between key councillors and HSR next week.

The Committee requested one priority should be to focus on the riverfront and making it more attractive and easily accessible to residents.