Issue - meetings

RESOLVED

That the minutes of the meeting held on 24 November 2011 be approved and signed by the Chair.

Matters arising

• The Chair encouraged members of the Committee to respond to the evaluation of the Governance Review and also to the request from Cllr Strickland for people to participate in the LDF Member Advisory Group. It was confirmed that participating in the Advisory Group would not constitute a subsequent conflict of interest in determining planning applications, and was a way of ensuring that all Members had the opportunity to engage in the process.
• It was requested that an item on the scheme of delegation be added to the agenda for the next meeting.
• It was confirmed that changes to Licensing regulations permitting Councillors to make representations on licensing applications had already been made, and that it was further proposed that the vicinity test be removed.
• It was confirmed that the period after which unauthorised works were established and therefore immune from enforcement action was 4 years and that this was the same for works within Conservation Areas.
• Cllr Schmitz agreed to circulate details of the arrangements for housing benefit paid to unlicensed HMOs to be returned to the Council, and it was agreed that the minutes would from now on be circulated at an earlier stage in order to enable actions to be picked up sooner.
• It was anticipated that enforcement notices dating from 1 January 2012 should be available online from the end of March 2012, with a facility to request older notices. The Committee would check that this was complete at the 12 April meeting.