Environment, Development and Transport Committee Date: Friday, 09 November 2018 Time: 10:00 Venue: Edwards Room, County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 2DH Persons attending the meeting are requested to turn off mobile phones. Membership Mr M Wilby (Chairman) Mr M Castle Mr A Grant Mr S Clancy (Vice-Chairman) Mr T Jermy Mr P Duigan Ms J Oliver Mr T East Mr B Spratt Mr S Eyre Mrs C Walker Mr C Foulger Mr T White For further details and general enquiries about this Agenda please contact the Committee Officer: Hollie Adams on 01603 223029 or email [email protected] Under the Council’s protocol on the use of media equipment at meetings held in public, this meeting may be filmed, recorded or photographed. Anyone who wishes to do so must inform the Chairman and ensure that it is done in a manner clearly visible to anyone present. The wishes of any individual not to be recorded or filmed must be appropriately respected. 1 A g e n d a . Break for Norfolk County Council Act of Remembrance A break will be held at 10:45 to allow Members and attendees of the Committee to attend the Norfolk County Council Act of Remembrance which is taking place at 10.50am in the Marble Map area at County Hall. 1. To receive apologies and details of any substitute members attending 2. Minutes Page 5 To agree the minutes of the meeting of the 12 October 2018 3. Declarations of Interest If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter to be considered at the meeting and that interest is on your Register of Interests you must not speak or vote on the matter. If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter to be considered at the meeting and that interest is not on your Register of Interests you must declare that interest at the meeting and not speak or vote on the matter In either case you may remain in the room where the meeting is taking place. If you consider that it would be inappropriate in the circumstances to remain in the room, you may leave the room while the matter is dealt with. If you do not have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest you may nevertheless have an Other Interest in a matter to be discussed if it affects, to a greater extent than others in your division Your wellbeing or financial position, or that of your family or close friends Any body - o Exercising functions of a public nature. o Directed to charitable purposes; or o One of whose principal purposes includes the influence of public opinion or policy (including any political party or trade union); Of which you are in a position of general control or management. If that is the case then you must declare such an interest but can speak and vote on the matter. 4. Any items of business the Chairman decides should be considered as a matter of urgency 2 5. Public QuestionTime Fifteen minutes for questions from members of the public of which due notice has been given. Please note that all questions must be received by the Committee Team ([email protected]) by 5pm Tuesday 6 November 2018. For guidance on submitting a public question, please visit www.norfolk.gov.uk/what-we-do-and-how-we-work/councillors-meetings- decisions-and-elections/committees-agendas-and-recent-decisions/ask-a- question-to-a-committee 6. Local Member Issues/ Member Questions Fifteen minutes for local member to raise issues of concern of which due notice has been given. Please note that all questions must be received by the Committee Team ([email protected]) by 5pm on Tuesday 6 November 2018. 7. Verbal update/feedback from Members of the Committee regarding Member Working Groups or bodies that they sit on. 8. Norfolk Strategic Infrastructure Plan refreshed for 2018 Page 19 A report by the Executive Director of Community and Environmental Services 9. Update on Recycling Norfolk’s Disused Railways Project Page 22 A report by the Executive Director of Community and Environmental Services 10. Recycling Centre Sites and Service provision Page 34 A report by the Executive Director of Community and Environmental Services 11. Residual Waste Contract arrangements Page 41 A report by the Executive Director of Community and Environmental Services 12. Norwich Western Link - Options proposal Page 47 A report by the Executive Director of Community and Environmental Services 3 13. Finance monitoring Page 58 A report by the Executive Director of Community and Environmental Services 14. Forward Plan and decisions taken under delegated authority Page 63 A report by the Executive Director of Community and Environmental Services 15. Member Working Group Terms of Reference Page 69 A report by the Executive Director of Community and Environmental Services Group Meetings Conservative 9:00am Conservative Group Room, Ground Floor Labour 9:00am Labour Group Room, Ground Floor Liberal Democrats 9:00am Liberal Democrats Group Room, Ground Floor Chris Walton Head of Democratic Services County Hall Martineau Lane Norwich NR1 2DH Date Agenda Published: 05 November 2018 If you need this document in large print, audio, Braille, alternative format or in a different language please contact Customer Services on 0344 800 8020, or Text Relay on 18001 0344 800 8020 (textphone) and we will do our best to help. 4 Environment, Development and Transport Committee Minutes of the Meeting held on Friday, 12 October 2018 at 10am in the Edwards Room, County Hall Present: Mr M Wilby - Chair Mr M Castle Mr B Long M Chenery of Horsbrugh Mr S Morphew Mr S Clancy (Vice-Chairman) Ms J Oliver Mr P Duigan Mr B Spratt Mr T East Mrs C Walker Mr C Foulger Mr A White Also Present: Cllr Alexandra Kemp 1. Chairman’s Announcements 1.1 The Chairman spoke about the passing of Adrian Gunson who was a Councillor on Norfolk County Council for over 40yrs and awarded an MBE for services to Norfolk; he helped start plans for the Norwich Distributor Road and was pleased to see it come to fruition. Mr Gunson was passionate about his job, transportation and planning. The Committee thanked him for what he achieved for Norfolk. 1.2 Mr T East spoke of his relationship with Mr Gunson in his early days on the Council who he recalled as an approachable man, and paid recognition to his supportive wife who helped him attend meetings when he had mobility problems. He recalled memories of Mr Gunson during elections and that he was supportive of all party views. 1.3 Mr B Spratt recalled working with Mr Gunson on the Pulham roundabout and A11 bypass; he paid tribute to Mr Gunson as a lovely man to work with 1.4 Mrs C Walker recalled Mr Gunson as a gentleman, and felt his loss was sad to both the Council and Conservative Party 2. Apologies and Substitutions 2.1 Apologies were received from Mr S Eyre (M Chenery of Horsbrugh substituting), Mr A Grant (Mr B Long) and Mr T Jermy (Mr S Morphew substituting) 3. Minutes 3.1 The minutes of the meeting held on 07 September 2018 were agreed as an accurate record and signed by the Chairman. 5 4. Members to Declare any Interests 4.1 No interests were declared. 5. Urgent Business 5.1 There were no matters of urgent business. 6. Public Questions 6.1 Eight public questions were received and the answers circulated; see Appendix A. 7. Member Questions 7.1 Mr Castle spoke about the issues in his question: in the last 5 years, passenger numbers from Yarmouth had fallen in contrast to increasing numbers across Norfolk impacted by unreliability of trains; he felt it was important for Yarmouth to become a service for long distance trains and press for the Stansted service in the subsequent rail franchise. 7.2 Cllr Kemp asked a supplementary question: King’s Lynn had been identified as having lower than national bus use; she felt the list should address that people couldn’t access work by bus due to running times and some people in villages could not access health appointments. She asked if bus availability could be increased to reduce emissions and how funding would be achieved to do this while maximising use of bus lanes. 7.3 The Chairman replied that Officers would take these comments on board. As Leader of the Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk, Mr B Long knew of the emissions in King’s Lynn. Diesel emission monitoring had designated an air quality management area in West Norfolk; some of the worst areas identified were on London road. 8. Verbal update from Members of the Committee about Member Working Groups or bodies that they sit on. 8.1 No updates were given. 9. Statement of Community Involvement 9.1 The Committee considered the report outlining Norfolk County Council’s Statement of Community Involvement, reviewed in accordance with Norfolk County Council’s adopted Minerals & Waste Development Scheme timetable to keep it up-to-date. 9.2 The Committee RECOMMENDED to Full Council to resolve to formally adopt the 2018 Norfolk Statement of Community Involvement (Appendix 1 to the report) 10. Annual review of enforcement policy 10.1 The Committee received the report outlining changes to the Enforcement Policy which had been reviewed and updated. The only major change was to the blue badge protocol 10.2 During discussion & in response to Member queries the following points were noted: • It would be helpful for a summary of key areas of enforcement and key successes to be available to the public; Officers took this suggestion on board and agreed to 6 circulate information to Members of the Committee • The issue of planning enforcement, raised in the report, had been discussed at a Norfolk Leaders meeting; it has been suggested, as per a similar scheme to that piloted in West Norfolk, a pool of funds could