Issue - meetings

(a)   Report of the Scrutiny Review of Extended Services In and Around Schools (To be introduced by Councillor Newton).

(b)   Report of the Scrutiny Review of Fly Tipping (To be introduced by Councillor Winskill).

Note by Head of Local Democracy and Member Services

Following consideration of the Fly Tipping Scrutiny Review by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee there were further developments.

The Panel’s report acknowledged that a substantial amount of Fly Tipping was associated with Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO). There were now two internal projects dealing with this issue.

• A Value for Money Review of Planning Enforcement which would consider planning policy and enforcement to restrain the development in HMOs;  and

• A pilot of HMO discretionary licensing which would look at ways of controlling poor HMO management

  Consequently the Panel wished to add the following  additional recommendation to the report -

That theDirector of Urban Environment ensure that the prevention of Fly Tipping is a priority output and that proposals arising from the two internal projects dealing with Houses in Multiple Occupation be reported back to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee within three months of  them being completed.

(The Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee concurs).