NOTICE OF MEETING Environment, Culture and Communities Overview & Scrutiny Panel Tuesday 24 September 2013, 7.30 pm Council Chamber, Fourth Floor, Easthampstead House, Bracknell To: Environment, Culture and Communities Overview & Scrutiny Panel Councillor Finnie (Chairman), Councillor McLean (Vice-Chairman), Councillors Mrs Barnard, Brossard, Ms Brown, Gbadebo, Harrison, Ms Miller and Porter cc: Substitute Members of the Panel Councillors Allen, Angell, Finch, Mrs McCracken and Mrs Temperton ALISON SANDERS Director of Corporate Services EMERGENCY EVACUATION INSTRUCTIONS 1 If you hear the alarm, leave the building immediately. 2 Follow the green signs. 3 Use the stairs not the lifts. 4 Do not re-enter the building until told to do so. If you require further information, please contact: Amanda Roden Telephone: 01344 352253 Email: [email protected] Published: 16 September 2013 Environment, Culture and Communities Overview & Scrutiny Panel Tuesday 24 September 2013, 7.30 pm Council Chamber, Fourth Floor, Easthampstead House, Bracknell AGENDA Page No 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE/SUBSTITUTE MEMBERS To receive apologies for absence and to note the attendance of any substitute members. 2. MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the 1 - 6 Environment, Culture and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Panel held on 25 June 2013. 3. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST AND PARTY WHIP Members are requested to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interest, including the existence and nature of the Party Whip, in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting. Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest or an Affected Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days. 4. URGENT ITEMS OF BUSINESS Any other items which, pursuant to Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, the Chairman decides are urgent. 5. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION To receive submissions from members of the public which have been submitted in advance in accordance with the Council’s Public Participation Scheme for Overview and Scrutiny. 6. FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT To discuss flood risk management with representatives of Thames 7 - 80 Water and the Environment Agency BUDGET MONITORING 7. DEPARTMENTAL BUDGETARY POSITION To discuss the evolving budgetary position, in preparation for scrutiny 81 - 86 of the 2014/15 budget proposals PERFORMANCE MONITORING 8. QUARTERLY SERVICE REPORT (QSR) To consider the latest trends, priorities and pressures in terms of 87 - 122 departmental performance as reported in the QSR for the first quarter of 2013/14 (April to June) relating to Environment, Culture and Communities. An overview of the second quarter of 2013/14 will also be provided. Please bring the previously circulated Quarterly Service Report to the meeting. The QSR is attached to this agenda if viewed online. OVERVIEW AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT 9. SUSTAINABLE MODES OF TRANSPORT To receive a presentation and update report concerning the 123 - 242 implementation of sustainable modes of transport 10. MAINTENANCE OF THE PUBLIC REALM To receive a presentation in respect of measures to maintain the public realm during the regeneration of Bracknell town centre 11. RESIDENTS' PARKING SCHEME To receive feedback from the initial consultation and in put views into the following formal public consultation exercise 12. LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK - UPDATE REPORT To receive a progress update in respect of the Local Development 243 - 248 Framework and Local Development Scheme 13. REVISED STATEMENT OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT To respond to the public consultation in respect of the Revised 249 - 306 Statement of Community Involvement prior to its subsequent approval by the Executive 14. WORKING GROUPS To receive an update in respect of the Panel’s Working Group 307 - 310 reviewing the Borough’s Bus Strategy and to establish a new working group to undertake the next piece of review work HOLDING THE EXECUTIVE TO ACCOUNT 15. EXECUTIVE KEY AND NON-KEY DECISIONS To consider scheduled Executive Key and Non-Key Decisions relating 311 - 318 to Environment, Culture and Communities. 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As such it must seek to manage present and future flood risk in a holistic manner. We have defined our needs and approach to flood risk management within the Local Flood Risk Management Strategy (LFRMS). (Annex 1) 1.2 This paper seeks to