Issue - meetings

Report of the Monitoring Officer

The Monitoring Officer presented the Changes to the Constitution – Creation of a Member Working Group report and explained that this followed on from discussions at the last Governance Scrutiny Group meeting. She said that as the Group had not reached a consensus on some of the proposed changes relating to planning matters, a Working Group had been set up to review those outstanding changes.

The Monitoring Officer said that it was suggested that membership of the Working Group consist of the Portfolio Holder, the Chair and Vice Chair of Planning Committee and two members of Governance Scrutiny Group. She referred to proportionality of group membership and said that the two outstanding places could be a Labour Councillor and another.

The Chair suggested that Councillors closer to Planning Committee would best fit to sit on the Working Group and Members of the Group agreed for their representatives to be Councillor Calvert and Councillor Thomas.

The Monitoring Officer clarified that the Working Group would report back to the Governance Scrutiny Group and then report to Full Council.

It was RESOLVED that Governance Scrutiny Group:

a)    Notes the decision to create a Member Working Group to finalise the proposed changes to the Constitution in relation to Planning

b)    Nominates two members of the group to sit on the Member Working Group.