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Please ask for: Fiona Harbord Telephone: 01482 613154 Fax: 01482 614804 Email: [email protected] Text phone: 01482 300349 Date: Wednesday, 04 January 2017 Dear Councillor, Energy and Infrastructure Overview and Scrutiny Commission The next meeting of the Energy and Infrastructure Overview and Scrutiny Commission will be held at 10:00 on Wednesday, 11 January 2017 in Room 77 . The Agenda for the meeting is attached and reports are enclosed where relevant. Please Note: It is likely that the public, (including the Press) will be excluded from the meeting during discussions of exempt items since they involve the possible disclosure of exempt information as describe in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. Yours faithfully, Scrutiny Officer for the Town Clerk Town Clerk Services, Hull City Council, The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA www.hullcc.gov.uk Page 1 of 26 Tel: 01482 300300 Energy and Infrastructure OSC To: Membership: Councillors Allen, Craker, Dad, Fareham, Gardiner, Herrera-Richmond, Hewitt, Langley, Petrini (C), Quinn (DC) and Thompson D Portfolio Holders: Councillor Mancey, Portfolio Holder for Energy City Councillor A Clark, Portfolio Holder for Neighbourhoods and Communities Officers: Trish Dalby, Deputy Chief Executive Mark Jones, Director of Regeneration Andy Burton, City Streetscene Manager Malcolm Relph, City Economy Manager Graham Hall, Assistant City Manager Fiona Harbord, Scrutiny Officer (x6) For Information: Councillor Sumpton, Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee Councillor J Korczak Fields, Deputy Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee Reference Library (Public Set) Page 2 of 26 Energy and Infrastructure Overview and Scrutiny Commission 10:00 on Wednesday, 11 January 2017 Room 77 A G E N D A PROCEDURAL ITEMS 1 Apologies To receive apologies for those Members who are unable to attend the meeting. 2 Declarations of Interest To remind Members of the need to record the existence and nature of any Personal and Discloseable Pecuniary interest in items on the agenda, in accordance with the Member Code of Conduct. (Members Code of Conduct - Part D1 of the Constitution) 3 Minutes of the Meeting held 14 December 2016 5 - 14 To approve the minutes as a true and correct record. NON-EXEMPT ITEMS 4 Green Deal, ECO and Energy Efficiency Partner Procurement 15 - 20 Update To update on the streets in the city where houses have benefitted under the Energy Efficiency programme, including the cost of those improvements on a street and house unit basis. 5 City Streetscene Manager Presentation 21 - 22 To update the Commission on the cleansing of the Public Realm and the Public Realm impacts on traffic management, road closures and diversions. Page 3 of 26 6 Bus Themed Discussion 23 - 24 To discuss, with representatives from the two major local bus companies, bus services and issues affecting them. 7 Energy and Infrastructure OSC Action List 2016/17 25 - 26 To ensure that the Commission’s actions are resolved in a timely manner. EXEMPT ITEMS Page 4 of 26 Energy and Infrastructure Overview and Scrutiny Commission 10:00 a.m. – 11.35 a.m. Wednesday 14 th December 2016, Room 77, The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA Present: Councillors P. Allen, D. Craker, J. Dad, J. Fareham, A. Gardiner, D. Hatcher (substituting for C. Quinn), H. Herrera-Richmond, J. Hewitt, L. Petrini (Chair), and D. Thompson. In attendance: M. Relph (Assistant City Manager - City Economy) Minute 38 R. Glossop (Flood Risk Planning Manager) Minute 39 &40 A. Barron (Environment Agency) Minute 39 P. Stockhill (Environment Agency) Minute 39 F. Harbord (Scrutiny Officer) Minute 41 Apologies: Cllr C. Quinn, who was substituted by Cllr D. Hatcher, and Cllr R. Langley, Minute Number Action to be Taken by Page 5 of 26 36 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST Ray Teal Cllr J. Hewitt and Cllr D. Thompson declared a personal interest in agenda items 6 & 7 insofar as they sit on the Board of Directors of KWL. Recommendations: Reasons for Recommendations: N/A N/A 37 MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD 16 NOVEMBER 2016 a) N/A The Scrutiny Officer submitted the draft minutes from the meeting held on Wednesday, 16 November, 2016. Recommendations: Reasons for Recommendations: a) That, the minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday, 16 a) N/A November 2016, having been printed and circulated, be taken as read and correctly recorded and be signed by the Chair. NON EXEMPT ITEMS 38 a) N/A DIRECTOR OF REGENERATION PRESENTATION b) Fiona Harbord/ Di Taylor/ Malcolm Relph c) Alex Codd d) Malcolm Relph e) Fiona Harbord Malcolm Relph, Assistant City Manager - City Economy, attended the Commission to deliver a presentation which covered the Yorkshire Page 6 of 26 P a g e 2 Energy Park, Energy Works – Spencer Group, and Greenport. The Commission was informed that: i. The projects were an illustration of the importance of green energy to the regeneration and economy of the regions ii. Not all of the projects were Council owned or led. iii. That the Greenport project had involved a lot of time spent on jobs and apprenticeships and ensuring that there was an appropriate skills base to support the project. The Commission discussed: i. In light of the Spencer Group development being almost complete, when the Yorkshire Energy Park would be completed; that the Park was still subject to planning approval from East Riding Council; that the project had been on-going for years and was within the City Plan in its first form, and whether delivery would quicken up; that the project had been through three different designs; and, that Hull City Council was doing all it could to support it. ii. What plan B was for if the planning application was turned down, and whether HCC could appeal the decision; and, that the full planning procedure would be followed if it were needed. iii. Whether, as the only transport option for travel to and from the Yorkshire Energy Park seemed to be via the A63, consideration had been given to any other travel options; that a travel plan had been drawn up; whether there were options within it, such as trams, that there was a school or college to be based on the site, so options other than cars needed to be included; and, that rail lines to Withernsea still existed. iv. Whether any organisations had signed up to locate there; and, that there were companies committed to the Park. v. How many local jobs were to be created at the Park, that it was difficult to quantify, but it was around the 750 to 1,000 mark; that around 60 jobs had been created by the Spencer Group; and, that the Spencer Group collected waste from further afield than hull, with around 200k tonnes collected from outside the City. Recommendations: Reasons for Recommendations: a) That the Director of Regeneration’s Presentation is noted. a) N/A Page 7 of 26 P a g e 3 b) That a visit to the Greenport Library facility be organised b) As per the action for members of the Commission to enable them to see how the Greenport programme works in practice and how people are trained and supported to get where they need to be to be employed under the programme. c) So that, should the application be turned down, the decision is c) That it be recommended that, should it be necessary, the appealed. full Planning process be followed with regard to the Yorkshire Energy Park application. d) To ensure that the members of the relevant Commission are d) That the Assistant City Manager - City Economy will provided with the facts about the planned travel to and from the provide, for off-agenda circulation to the Commission, the Energy Park. travel plan relating to the Yorkshire Energy Park. e) Concerns were raised that the Energy Park would house many e) That the transport options for the site be discussed within businesses with many employees, and that the travel arrangements a meeting of the Commission at the earliest opportunity. for those people would only be intended to be by road. The Commission wished to discuss the travel plan for the Park and alternative forms of transport. a) N/A 39 UPDATE ON FLOOD DEFENCE SCHEMES IN KINGSTON b) Rachel Glossop UPON HULL Rachel Glossop, Flood Risk Planning Manager, and Andrew Barron and Paul Stockhill, of the Environment Agency, attended the Commission to update on the flood defences schemes ongoing within Kingston upon Hull by all Risk Management Authorities. The Commission received a presentation from the Environment Agency on the Holderness Drain Flood Alleviation Scheme. The Commission was provided with details of the Castle Hill Farm project, which would alleviate the flooding of Holderness Drain. The Council had been awarded £2.14m of LEP funding, which a project team consisting of Hull City Council, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council and the Environment Agency would use, once various options for delivery had been considered. These included doing nothing, in which case the area would continue to Page 8 of 26 P a g e 4 flood, banking properties, but the banks would need to be many metres high and the water would still have to go somewhere. The Commission discussed: i. The life expectancy of the 1949 pumping station, and whether it would support the planned flood defence scheme; that the costing of the scheme included improvements to the pumping station to ensure a 100 year lifespan; whether the 26m capacity of the pumping station was now or following improvements; that theoretically that was the current capacity, but in practice it never reached that capacity; the cost of a new pumping station; and, that this would involve capital costs as well as maintenance costs.

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