Issue - meetings

Update from Principal Officer – Scrutiny and Democratic Lead.

Recommendation

1.1     To consider and comment on the work programme

Resolved 

(1)   That having given due consideration, the Work Programme 2025 – 2026 be noted.

The Principal Officer - Scrutiny and Democratic Lead provided an update on the Committee’s Work Programme 2025 – 2026.

Due to the impact of external factors, items due for the October meeting had had to be rescheduled, and other items from the work programme were unable to be brought forward. Therefore, the Chairman and Monitoring Officer had discussed and agreed to cancel the meeting of the committee due to be held on the 14 October 2025.

Members were advised that due to the Executive considering Simpler Recycling at their October meeting, that item and the linked Flytipping item had been moved from the October meeting to the November meeting of the committee.

Members were informed that the Transformation programme had been renamed the Cherwell Futures Programme and would be brought to the December meeting of the committee.

Members were also advised that the Chief Constable and Police and Crime Commissioner for the Thames Valley will join our December meeting to give their annual updates. As usual, all Members would be invited to attend this meeting.

Members sought assurance and it was agreed by the Chair that the

scheduled item on the performance of Section 106 (S106) delivery would be expanded to include an analysis of S106 payments for the expansion and delivery of primary care, and that officers would endeavour to ensure the report be brought to Committee during this 2025-26 municipal year.

In response to a question regarding the status of the update to the Community Safety Partnership Plan, the Corporate Director Communities advised that the action plan was produced and owned by the Community Safety Partnership, to which the Council was a member. He confirmed that an updated plan was in existence and officers were working on bringing an update to the committee as soon as practicable.

Members thanked the Corporate Director Communities for the update, and the Chair highlighted that as the CSCP action plan tied in with the police, it would be useful if the update to Committee could be scheduled to coincide with the attendance of the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police in December.

Resolved 

(1)   That having given due consideration, the Work Programme 2025 – 2026 be noted.