Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

The Committee discussed a report of the Director of the Built Environment which provided Members with assurance that risk management procedures in place within the Department of the Built Environment are satisfactory and that they meet the requirements of the corporate Risk Management Framework.

Officers presented the report by drawing Members attention to significant risk changes, detailed within paragraph 12 of the report, of which there were two. One was an actual change to the risk score in relation to major projects and key programmes which had increased for the second time and the other (not being alive to the needs/requirements of the world business centre and the political environment) had not increased sufficiently to change the risk score but had, nonetheless, increased in terms of likelihood as a result of the current pandemic.

Officers also referred to the identification of new risks, particularly those related to COVID-19. Members were informed that three Bronze groups had been established – two reporting to this Committee and one reporting to Port Health and Environmental Services Committee. Each Bronze Group has a risk and two higher, departmental level risks had been identified. These were, unusually, being reported to both Committees because it was not felt that it was possible to sufficiently separate out the issues between the two. The two bronze risks relating to this Committee – Highways and Parking Enforcement and Development and Construction were detailed further in Appendix 3.

Finally, Officers reported that the highest level risk – Road Safety – had been reviewed.

The Chair asked that Members try to focus questions around how the risks were controlled and managed as opposed to the subject matter of individual risks given that these were so far ranging.

A Member remarked that Officers had commented on the way that some of the