Agenda and minutes
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Webcasting Please note: This meeting may be filmed for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's internet site - at the start of the meeting the Chair will confirm if all or part of the meeting is being filmed. The images and sound recording may be used for training purposes within the Council.
Generally the public seating areas are not filmed. However, by entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings for webcasting and/or training purposes.
If you have any queries regarding this, please contact the Committee Clerk at the meeting.
Additional documents: Minutes: The Chair welcomed all present to the meeting and informed all that the meeting was being webcast.
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Apologies for Absence Additional documents: Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Adamou and McNamara.
Councillors Basu and Mallett were in attendance as substitutes.
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Urgent Business It being a special meeting, under Part 4, Section B, Paragraph 17, of the Council’s Constitution, no other business shall be considered at the meeting. Additional documents: Minutes: It being a special meeting, under Part 4, Section B, Paragraph 17 of the Council’s Constitution, no other business was discussed.
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Declarations of Interest A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:
(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and (ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.
A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.
Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor Mallett declared a personal interest in that she was cycling champion for the Borough. She confirmed that this would not affect any decision that she would take in her role as substitute Committee Member.
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Deputations/Petitions/Presentations/Questions To consider any requests received in accordance with Part 4, Section B, paragraph 29 of the Council’s constitution. Additional documents: Minutes: None.
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i) Report of the Monitoring Officer ii) Report of the Director of Place and Sustainability TO FOLLOW iii) Appendix (for information only)
a) Copy of the ‘call-in’ b) Draft minute extract of the Cabinet decision of 10 September 2013 c) 10 September 2013 Cabinet report - Local Implementation Plan Annual Spending Submission for Transport 2014/15, Cycling fund submission 2014-17 and Local Implementation Plan three year Delivery Plan 2014-17.
A decision on the above item was taken by Cabinet at the meeting on 10 September 2013. The decision has been called in, in accordance with the provisions set out in the Council’s Constitution, by Councillors Jenks, Beacham, Engert, Whyte and Scott. Additional documents:
Minutes: Councillor Jenks introduced the call-in:
· The call-in was about asking for more consultation and transparency from the Council. Councillor Jenks was first alerted to the consultation on 27 September 2012, and was informed that a full consultation would be carried out in March/April 2013. He followed this up in January 2013 and July 2013 and found out on 8 August that there would be no consultation and the recommendations for the funding would go directly to Cabinet, based on the 2010 consultation. · Transport was a big priority for residents across the borough and there was a need for regular consultation, with a transparent decision making process. · Statistics for Priory Road and Park Road show an increase in accidents since 2010 – this proved that things have changed since 2010, and dialogue with local Councillors would have been useful, since there was new data available. · The Cabinet minutes of 10 September state that “Cabinet was advised that the allocations were based on an assessment of roads in the borough and this demonstrated that there was greatest need in the east of the borough; however, there was work planned for areas throughout the borough and these were detailed in the report”. It seems that Cabinet accepted this without any evidence within the report and no definition of what was ‘East’. The Cabinet needed to ensure that no preference was given to ‘Labour’ wards, and that the Council was operating as one Borough. · Expenditure was not equal across the Borough. The seven wards to the West of the railways lines represent a third of the wards, and only a quarter of the expenditure. · Councillor Jenks requested that the report be referred back to Cabinet, as the decision maker, so that a full consultation can be carried out and recent data used.
The Chair invited Councillor Engert to speak, following her request to address the Committee:
· Councillor Engert was speaking as the Chair of the Muswell Hill, Alexandra, Fortis Green and Highgate Area Forum and Committee. · She referred the Committee to the protocols for Area Committees, in particular paragraph 4.1.4 which states:
“Local Highway and Transport Improvements Area Committees shall be able to submit ideas to the Local Implementation Plan, asked to prioritise between proposed schemes in their area, and consulted on the detailed design of successful schemes. Officers shall provide feedback to the Area Committee on the outcome of their recommendations” · Councillor Engert then provided the Committee with a list of issues which were raised at the Area Forum and Committee on 27 June 2012, and had been appended to the Area Plan for that Forum. Highways had responded to these issues and advised that consultation for the 2014-17 LIP would commence in April 2013 for submission in September 2013. · Councillor Engert requested to know what had happened to the promise of consultation and who had decided not to go ahead with it.
Tony Kennedy – Sustainable Transport Manager – responded to questions from the Committee:
· Extensive consultation was carried out in 2010. ... view the full minutes text for item 251. |