Public Document Pack Agenda for a meeting of the Environment and Waste Management Overview & Scrutiny Committee to be held on Tuesday, 18 April 2017 at 5.30 pm in Committee Room 1 - City Hall, Bradford Members of the Committee – Councillors CONSERVATIVE LABOUR LIBERAL GREEN DEMOCRAT Gibbons A Ahmed Stubbs Love Riaz Berry Warnes Thornton Watson Alternates: CONSERVATIVE LABOUR LIBERAL GREEN DEMOCRAT Ellis Duffy R Sunderland H Hussain Rickard Iqbal H Khan Nazir NON VOTING CO-OPTED MEMBERS Nicola Hoggart Environment Agency Julia Pearson Bradford Environmental Forum Notes: This agenda can be made available in Braille, large print or tape format on request by contacting the Agenda contact shown below. The taking of photographs, filming and sound recording of the meeting is allowed except if Councillors vote to exclude the public to discuss confidential matters covered by Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. Recording activity should be respectful to the conduct of the meeting and behaviour that disrupts the meeting (such as oral commentary) will not be permitted. Anyone attending the meeting who wishes to record or film the meeting's proceedings is advised to liaise with the Agenda Contact who will provide guidance and ensure that any necessary arrangements are in place. Those present who are invited to make spoken contributions to the meeting should be aware that they may be filmed or sound recorded. If any further information is required about any item on this agenda, please contact the officer named at the foot of that agenda item. There will be a briefing for Mmebers of the Committee at 5.00pm in Committee Room 2 From: To: Parveen Akhtar City Solicitor Agenda Contact: Tracey Sugden Phone: 01274 434287 E-Mail: [email protected] A. PROCEDURAL ITEMS 1. ALTERNATE MEMBERS (Standing Order 34) The City Solicitor will report the names of alternate Members who are attending the meeting in place of appointed Members. 2. DISCLOSURES OF INTEREST (Members Code of Conduct - Part 4A of the Constitution) To receive disclosures of interests from members and co-opted members on matters to be considered at the meeting. The disclosure must include the nature of the interest. An interest must also be disclosed in the meeting when it becomes apparent to the member during the meeting. Notes: (1) Members may remain in the meeting and take part fully in discussion and voting unless the interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or an interest which the Member feels would call into question their compliance with the wider principles set out in the Code of Conduct. Disclosable pecuniary interests relate to the Member concerned or their spouse/partner. (2) Members in arrears of Council Tax by more than two months must not vote in decisions on, or which might affect, budget calculations, and must disclose at the meeting that this restriction applies to them. A failure to comply with these requirements is a criminal offence under section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. (3) Members are also welcome to disclose interests which are not disclosable pecuniary interests but which they consider should be made in the interest of clarity. (4) Officers must disclose interests in accordance with Council Standing Order 44. 3. MINUTES Recommended – That the minutes of the meeting held on 28 February 2017 be signed as a correct record (previously circulated). (Jane Lythgow/Tracey Sugden – 01274 432270/434287) 4. INSPECTION OF REPORTS AND BACKGROUND PAPERS (Access to Information Procedure Rules – Part 3B of the Constitution) Reports and background papers for agenda items may be inspected by contacting the person shown after each agenda item. Certain reports and background papers may be restricted. Any request to remove the restriction on a report or background paper should be made to the relevant Strategic Director or Assistant Director whose name is shown on the front page of the report. If that request is refused, there is a right of appeal to this meeting. Please contact the officer shown below in advance of the meeting if you wish to appeal. (Jane Lythgow/Tracey Sugden – 01274 432270/434287) 5. REFERRALS TO THE OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE None B. OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY ACTIVITIES 6. BRADFORD BECK PILOT STUDY 1 - 16 Previous Reference: Minute 69 (2015/16) The Strategic Director, Place will present a report (Document “AH”) which outlines progress made in respect of Bradford Beck in the current financial year (2016-17). Recommended – 1. That Yorkshire Water and the Environment Agency be recommended to undertake a full investigation of sewage related pollution sources in the Bradford Beck catchment in the next investment cycle. 2. That the Friends of Bradford’s Becks and the Strategic Director, Place be requested to work jointly on studies and proposals for the Canal Road Area. 3. That the Friends of Bradford’s Becks be invited to report back in a year’s time. 4. That Document AH be noted and that the ongoing collaboration between officers and the Friends of Bradford’s Becks be supported. (Edward Norfolk – 01274 433905) 7. UPDATE ON THE PRIVATE RENTED SECTOR IN THE BRADFORD 17 - 26 DISTRICT Previous Reference: Minute 28 (2016/17) The report of the Strategic Director, Place (Document “AI”) provides an update for Members on conditions in the Private Rented Sector in the Bradford District and the impact of legislative changes on the sector, including those in relation to energy performance certification. Recommended – That the report be noted and a further update on energy efficiency in the private rented sector be requested in twelve months. (Julie Rhodes/Pete Betts – 01274 431163/432497) 8. BRADFORD DISTRICT CYCLE STRATEGY 27 - 62 Previous Reference: Minute 35 (2015/16) The Strategic Director, Place will present a report (Document “AJ”) which includes the proposed final draft Cycle Strategy and presents the key content of the associated action plan with the top ten issues highlighted for Members’ attention along with this report are the Key Performance Indicators of the strategy. Recommended – (1) That the report, Cycle Strategy and Action Plan be noted. (2) That a progress report on the key performance indicators and Action Plan be presented in twelve months. (Tom Jones – 01274 434983) . 9. WORK PROGRAMME 2016-17 63 - 78 The report of the Chair of the Committee (Document “AK”) presents the Committee’s Work Programme for 2016-17. Recommended – (1) That Members consider and comment on the areas of work included in the 2016-17 Work Programme for the Committee. (2) That Members consider any detailed scrutiny reviews that they may wish to conduct. (3) That the Work Programme 2016-17 continues to be reviewed regularly during the year. (Mustansir Butt – 01274 432574) THIS AGENDA AND ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN PRODUCED, WHEREVER POSSIBLE, ON RECYCLED PAPER This page is intentionally left blank Agenda Item 6/ Report of the Strategic Director of Place to the meeting of Environment and Waste Management Overview and Scrutiny Committee to be held on 18 April 2017. AH Subject: Bradford Beck Pilot Study Summary statement: The Bradford Beck Pilot Study was first discussed by members in April 2013 and again in subsequent committees. it was resolved that the ongoing collaboration between officers and Friends of Bradford Beck be supported; also that the Friends of Bradford Beck be congratulated for the work they have undertaken throughout the years. This report outlines progress made in the current financial year 2017- 2017. Strategic Director: Portfolio: Steve Hartley Regeneration, Planning & Transport Strategic Director of Place Report Contact: Overview & Scrutiny Area: Edward Norfolk Environment & Waste Management. Senior Drainage Engineer Phone: (01274) 433905 E-mail: [email protected] Page 1 1. SUMMARY Since the Committee meeting of 5th April 2016 there have been a number of meetings and developments between Council Officers in various sections and Friends of Bradford’s Becks (FOBB). This report outlines the work carried out over the last year in collaboration to the catchment plan produced by FOBB that was supported by the Environment and Waste O&S Committee in 2013. 2. BACKGROUND During the course of the year there have been numerous meetings and developments involving FOBB and Council Officers in relation to Bradford Beck. These are listed below: I. Following the devestating floods of Decemeber 2015 it was recognised that there was a need need for a long term strategic approach to managing flood risk and associated envionmental impacts across the Bradford district. In idenitifeyng this need the Council have worked with the Environment Agency to scope and develop a Bradford Flood Programme Board. The board agreed that, alongside ongoing scheme development, it is a priority to focus on identifying and delivering cost- beneficial solutions to areas within the district that are at risk of flooding. The Programme Board were able to secure local levy funding to help deliver aspirations and the following work has been funded through this govenernece structure. In collabaoration with FOBB and the Aires River Turst, funding was secrued to carry out River Stewardhip works such as litter picking, vegetation removal and bank maintainence within the River Aire and is tributaries. The first clean up day took place on the 25th March 2017 and consentrated on the reach of Bradford Beck between Poplars Road and Briggate. Working towards a beck naturalisation project, funding has been secured to prepare a flood risk alleviation strategy along the Bradford Beck catchment. The purpose of the study is to investigate the multiple benefits that flood risk schemes could deliver in improving flood risk, providing environmental benefits, assisting in maintaining and achieving Water Framework Directive objectives, enhancing the transport links to and from the city centre, provide biological enhancements and creating open space to encourage social community benefits within the Shipley and Canal Road Corridor alongside Bradford Beck.