Issue - meetings

For Cabinet to note the following Scrutiny Panel reports:

a)    Area Forums/Committees – Interim Conclusions and Recommendations of Communities Scrutiny Panel Project

b)    Waste and Recycling Part II: Further Policy Options to Increase Recycling

c)    School Places: Conclusions and Recommendations of the Children and Young Peoples Scrutiny Panel

d)    Interim Scrutiny Report on Strategic Parking Issues Ahead of the Tottenham Hotspur Redevelopment

Cabinet considered the following Scrutiny Panel reports:

a)    Area Forums/Committees – Interim Conclusions and Recommendations of Communities Scrutiny Panel Project

b)    Waste and Recycling Part II: Further Policy Options to Increase Recycling

c)    School Places: Conclusions and Recommendations of the Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Panel

d)    Interim Scrutiny Report on Strategic Parking Issues Ahead of the Tottenham Hotspur Redevelopment

Area Forums/Committees – Interim Conclusions and Recommendations of Communities Scrutiny Panel Project

Cabinet noted the report as circulated, and that the response to the report would be considered at the next Cabinet meeting.

Waste and Recycling Part II: Further Policy Options to Increase Recycling

Councillor McNamara, Chair of the Environment and Housing Scrutiny Panel, introduced the report summarising its contents noting that the Panel had focused on how recycling rates could be improved in the borough, with particular reference to recycling from flats and the use of incentive and enforcement schemes. 

School Places: Conclusions and Recommendations of the Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Panel

Councillor Martin Newton, Chair of the Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Panel, introduced the report and summarised its contents noting that the Scrutiny Panel had focused on the issue of pupils who were not offered any of their preferences for school reception places as expressed by their parent(s) or guardian(s).

Interim Scrutiny Report on Strategic Parking Issues Ahead of the Tottenham Hotspur Redevelopment

Councillor McNamara, Chair of the Environment and Housing Scrutiny Panel, introduced the report and summarised its contents noting that the Scrutiny Panel had focused on the investigation of strategic parking issues ahead of the Tottenham Hotspur redevelopment.

RESOLVED

i)             That the contents of the reports be noted.

ii)            That the responses to the reports be compiled, and brought back to the Cabinet for consideration.