Meeting: Environment and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee Date/Time: Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 2.00 pm Location: Sparkenhoe Committee Room, County Hall, Glenfield Contact: Mr. B. Holihead (Tel. 0116 3056339) Email: [email protected] Membership Mr. I. E. G. Bentley CC Mr. Max Hunt CC Mr. D. C. Bill MBE CC Mr. D. Jennings CC Mr. G. A. Boulter CC Mr. A. E. Pearson CC Mr. J. G. Coxon CC Mr. L. E. Yates CC Mr. S. J. Hampson CC Please note: this meeting will be filmed for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s web site at http://www.leics.gov.uk/webcast – Notices will be on display at the meeting explaining the arrangements. AGENDA Item Report by 1. Appointment of Chairman. To note that Mr. D. Jennings CC was nominated as Chairman elect to the Environment and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee at the Annual Meeting of the County Council held on 18 May 2016. 2. Election of Deputy Chairman. 3. Minutes of the meeting held on 7 April 2016. (Pages 5 - 10) 4. Question Time. 5. Questions asked by members under Standing Order 7(3) and 7(5). 6. To advise of any other items which the Chairman has decided to take as urgent elsewhere on the agenda. Democratic Services ◦ Chief Executive’s Department ◦ Leicestershire County Council ◦ County Hall Glenfield ◦ Leicestershire ◦ LE3 8RA ◦ Tel: 0116 232 3232 ◦ Email: [email protected] www.twitter.com/leicsdemocracy www.facebook.com/leicsdemocracy www.leics.gov.uk/local_democracy 7. Declarations of interest in respect of items on the agenda. 8. Declarations of the Party Whip in accordance with Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rule 16. 9. Presentation of Petitions under Standing Order 36. 10. Recycling and Household Waste Site Director of (Pages 11 - 48) Commissioning Options. Environment and Transport 11. Quarter 4 Performance Report. Chief Executive (Pages 49 - 56) and Director of Environment and Transport 12. Draft Rail Strategy for Leicester and Director of (Pages 57 - 128) Leicestershire. Environment and Transport 13. Leicester to Burton Railway Line. Director of (Pages 129 - 226) Environment and Transport 14. Final Report of the Scrutiny Review Panel on (Pages 227 - 276) the Market Harborough Line Speed Improvements. A copy of the final report is attached for the Committee’s consideration before submission to the Cabinet for approval on the 17th June 2016. 15. Park and Ride Performance. Director of (Pages 277 - 288) Environment and Transport 16. Date of next meeting. The next meeting of the Committee is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 7 September 2016 at 10.00am. 17. Any other items which the Chairman has decided to take as urgent. QUESTIONING BY MEMBERS OF OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY Members serving on Overview and Scrutiny have a key role in providing constructive yet robust challenge to proposals put forward by the Cabinet and Officers. One of the most important skills is the ability to extract information by means of questions so that it can help inform comments and recommendations from Overview and Scrutiny bodies. Members clearly cannot be expected to be experts in every topic under scrutiny and nor is there an expectation that they so be. Asking questions of ‘experts’ can be difficult and intimidating but often posing questions from a lay perspective would allow members to obtain a better perspective and understanding of the issue at hand. Set out below are some key questions members may consider asking when considering reports on particular issues. The list of questions is not intended as a comprehensive list but as a general guide. Depending on the issue under consideration there may be specific questions members may wish to ask. Key Questions: Why are we doing this? Why do we have to offer this service? How does this fit in with the Council’s priorities? Which of our key partners are involved? Do they share the objectives and is the service to be joined up? Who is providing this service and why have we chosen this approach? What other options were considered and why were these discarded? Who has been consulted and what has the response been? How, if at all, have their views been taken into account in this proposal? If it is a new service: Who are the main beneficiaries of the service? (could be a particular group or an area) What difference will providing this service make to them – What will be different and how will we know if we have succeeded? How much will it cost and how is it to be funded? What are the risks to the successful delivery of the service? If it is a reduction in an existing service: Which groups are affected? Is the impact greater on any particular group and, if so, which group and what plans do you have to help mitigate the impact? When are the proposals to be implemented and do you have any transitional arrangements for those who will no longer receive the service? What savings do you expect to generate and what was expected in the budget? Are there any redundancies? What are the risks of not delivering as intended? If this happens, what contingency measures have you in place? This page is intentionally left blank 5 Agenda Item 3 Minutes of a meeting of the Environment and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee held at County Hall, Glenfield on Thursday, 7 April 2016. PRESENT Mr. D. Jennings CC (in the Chair) Mr. I. E. G. Bentley CC Mr. S. J. Hampson CC Mr. D. C. Bill MBE CC Mr. Max Hunt CC Mr. G. A. Boulter CC Mrs. J. Richards CC Mr. J. G. Coxon CC Mr. L. E. Yates CC In attendance. Mr. B. Pain CC, Cabinet Lead Member for Waste Management (minutes 57 - 59). Mrs. P. Posnett CC, Cabinet Lead Member for Environmental Matters (minutes 57 – 60). 50. Minutes of the meeting held on 21 January 2016. The minutes of the meeting held on 21 January 2016 were taken as read, confirmed and signed. 51. Question Time. The Chief Executive reported that no questions had been received under Standing Order 35. 52. Questions asked by members under Standing Order 7(3) and 7(5). Mr. M. Hunt CC asked the following questions under Standing Order 7(3) and 7(5):- i. “Would the Chair welcome the work to produce a Parking Policy currently being conducted by the County Council and outline the key milestones in the project, including the consultation stages? ii. Would he ask the Director to include an appraisal of the use of Public Spaces Protection Orders, under the 2014 Act, to control dangerous parking, including where it relates to routes to schools and areas around school entrances.” The Chairman replied as follows:- i. “I welcome the work that is currently being undertaken by Environment and Transportation officers on the development of a County-Wide Parking Strategy. The first stage of this work includes a review of existing parking related policies as well as undertaking parking studies in the larger towns and urban areas of the county. The parking studies will initially concentrate on central Hinckley, Loughborough, Market Harborough, before moving on to other larger towns and urban areas in late summer. The findings of this study work will feed into the development of the parking strategy and associated schemes and it is currently 6 planned to consult on the new draft strategy and associated schemes starting in the summer of 2017. ii. Public Spaces Protection Orders, under the 2014 Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 are a District Council power and not a power that can be exercised by the County Council. However, as part of this work to develop the County-Wide Parking Strategy officers will be consulting with District Councils and the potential use of Public Spaces Protection Orders in partnership with the Districts will be considered.” 53. To advise of any other items which the Chairman has decided to take as urgent elsewhere on the agenda. There were no urgent items for consideration. 54. Declarations of interest in respect of items on the agenda. The Chairman invited members who wished to do so to declare any interest in respect of items on the agenda for the meeting. No declarations were made. 55. Declarations of the Party Whip in accordance with Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rule 16. There were no declarations of the party whip. 56. Presentation of Petitions under Standing Order 36. The Chief Executive reported that no petitions had been received under Standing Order 36. 57. Environment and Transport Interim Commissioning Strategy. The Committee received a report of the Director of Environment and Transport outlining the Environment and Transport Interim Commissioning Strategy. A copy of the report, marked ‘Agenda Item 8’, is filed with these minutes. In addition to the information contained in the report, the Committee was provided with a more detailed Capital Programme which would be considered by the Cabinet. A copy of the detailed Capital Programme is filed with these minutes. In introducing the report the Director advised that the Interim Commissioning Strategy (herein referred to as 'the Strategy’) formed part of a Council-wide approach to evidence- based commissioning, and as a result all departments were required to produce a Commissioning Strategy. The Strategy consolidated the key priorities of the previous Leicestershire Transport Plan 3 (LTP3) and the Environment Strategy. A final Commissioning Strategy would be produced by 2018 which would be developed following consultation with partners. The Committee was advised that Appendix A to the Strategy contained a mistake on page 7. There would be work to develop an infrastructure package to support the 7 Loughborough Science and Enterprise Park and housing growth west of Loughborough and in Shepshed, and not at Junction 23a as referred to in the action plan.