SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE – 27 FEBRUARY 2019 REPORTS OUTSTANDING - PROGRESS

Item Date of Request Subject Action Required Action By Progress 1 27 September 2016 Review of Category A Listed Submit a Report to the Committee if a feasible Director for Report at item 7 on the Agenda. Buildings – Update on and acceptable plan for the renovation of the Communities Progress Buildings has not been produced and renovation works pertaining to that plan have not started after the statutory two month period following the serving of the Notice, detailing the current position. 2 14 June 2017 Skills Subsequent to liaison with key partners and Director for Report to May 2019 Meeting of the Investment Plan consideration by the Programme Board, report Communities Committee. back on governance arrangements. 3 6 December 2017 Broadcast Media Activity Submit a joint Report on the use of the main Director for Report at item 9 on the Agenda. Update studio facility at Studio Alba. Communities and Director for Education, Skills and Children’s Services 4 5 December 2018 Section 50B Overview Submit a Report to the in relation to Section 50B Director for Report at Item 8 of the Agenda. of the Crofters () Act 1993, as Communities amended, providing further information on:  how 50B provisions can progress the Comhairle policy of Community Empowerment in relation to Crofting Communities in the context of the recent ruling by the Crofting Commission with regard to the Trust and the , and Branahuie, Sandwick/Sandwick East Street and Sandwick North Street Grazing Committees;  how an agreement with third parties would take precedence over an extant statutory lease agreement between a Landlord and Crofters;  how the economic interests of Crofters in their grazing could be impacted on as a direct consequence of a reduction of rights in their extant statutory crofting lease; and  the legal definition of the term ‘detrimental to the interests of the owner’.