Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk.

The Committee received a report of the Town Clerk detailing outstanding actions from their last meeting.

Updates were provided as follows:

Ludgate Circus

It was highlighted that this was the subject of a separate agenda item.

Daylight/Sunlight Training

It was noted that training had been organised to take place from 10-11am on Tuesday 18 June, immediately prior to the next Planning and Transportation Committee taking place that same morning.

A Member commented that he hoped that the training would cover not only theory but how this impacted on planning decisions. He referred to a recent course he had attended externally which had referenced 2 recent cases that had been brought to Judicial Review. The Chief Planning Officer and Development Director assured Members that the City Corporation almost always requested an independent assessment of daylight/sunlight submissions.

A Member questioned whether a one hour session would be sufficient on this subject. The Chief Planning Officer and Development Director stated that the session was intended to provide Members with an overview of and a useful introduction to the matter. If it was subsequently felt that more in-depth training was required this could be arranged.

Daylight/Sunlight- Alternative Guidelines

The Chief Planning Officer and Development Director reported that this would now be the subject of a report to the July 2019 meeting of this Committee, given that training was now scheduled for June 2019.

Illegal Street Traders on the City’s Bridges

It was highlighted that this was the subject of a separate agenda item.

Millennium Inclinator

It was highlighted that this was the subject of a separate agenda item.

Air Quality

The Chairman referred to the all pervading nature of Air Quality across the City Corporation’s work. He assured Members that a formal mechanism whereby he and the Deputy Chairman would meet periodically with the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Port Health and Environmental Services Committee and relevant Officers to discuss the matter had now been established and would help to ensure a more joined up approach at Member level.

The Chairman proposed that the matter therefore be removed from the Outstanding Actions list. 

Cameras on the City Bridges

The Transportation and Public Realm Director reported that he had now ascertained that this matter was being led by the City of London Police and that an update report would now be submitted to the next meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board. With that in mind, he suggested that the matter should now be removed from this Committee’s list of outstanding actions.

The Member who had originally raised this matter stated that, beyond addressing the issue of suicide/attempted suicide on the bridges, the cameras were also required as a wider security measure. She therefore suggested that it remain on the list of outstanding actions for this Committee going forward. The Member went on to remind the Committee that the matter had originally sat with Planning and Transportation Committee before being passed to the City of London Police. She added that, as Chairman of the Health and Wellbeing Board, she was happy to also report back to this Committee on progress following their next meeting. If she felt that, at this stage, there had been insufficient progress, she would move to return the matter to the ownership of this Committee.