Agenda and minutes

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Contact: Gemma Stokley
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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Henry Colthurst, Oliver Lodge and Sylvia Moys.

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2.

Members' Declarations under the Code of Conduct in respect of items on the agenda

Minutes:

There were no declarations.

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3.

ORDER OF THE COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL pdf icon PDF 120 KB

To receive the Order of the Court of Common Council appointing the Committee dated 16 July 2020.

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Minutes:

The Committee received the Order of the Court of Common Council of 16 July 2020  appointing the Committee and setting out its terms of reference for the ensuing year.

 

The Town Clerk highlighted that there were currently two vacancies on the Committee – one in the room of the Ward of Vintry who had chosen not to appoint this year and one in the room of the Ward of Coleman Street following the resignation of Sophie Fernandes from this Committee shortly after the July Court of Common Council meeting. Members were informed that these vacancies would now be advertised to the full Court until such time as they were filled.

 

RECEIVED.

 

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4.

ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN

To elect a Chairman in accordance with Standing Order No. 29.

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Minutes:

The Committee proceeded to elect a Chairman in accordance with Standing Order No. 29. 

 

A list of Members who had expressed an interest in and were eligible to stand was read by the Town Clerk and Deputy Alastair Moss being the only Member expressing willingness to serve was duly elected Chairman for the ensuing year and took the Chair.

 

Deputy Moss thanked the Committee for their continued support stating that he was very aware that there were now huge challenges ahead and that it was important to continue to work collaboratively both internally and externally in the face of this continuing and unprecedented crisis. He added that the work of this Committee and its responsibility for the                            entirety of the built environment for the City was being closely scrutinised both regionally and nationally in terms of how policies were being applied and how the message that the City was still open for business was being promoted.

 

The Chair went on to offer his thanks to those Members who had recently left the Committee – Rehana Ameer, Adrian Bastow, Sophie Fernandes and Alderman Prem Goyal. He also welcomed a new member – Alderwoman Susan Langley - and congratulated Barbara Newman,  a former Chairman of this Committee, on her reappointment after a short period of absence.

 

Finally, the Chair thanked Sheriff Christopher Hayward for his support as his Deputy Chairman over the past year where he had had major input into the work of the Committee and added that he very much looked forward to working alongside a newly appointed Deputy Chair.

 

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5.

ELECTION OF DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

To elect a Deputy Chairman in accordance with Standing Order No. 30.

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Minutes:

The Committee proceeded to elect a Deputy Chairman in accordance with Standing Order No. 30. 

 

A list of Members who had expressed an interest in and were eligible to stand was read by the Town Clerk.

 

Both Randall Anderson and Oliver Sells, QC declared a willingness to serve and the Town Clerk reported that a ballot was therefore necessary. Members were asked to vote electronically either by following the Microsoft Forms link sent to them via email or by indicting the name of the one candidate they wished to vote for via email to the Town Clerk.

 

Votes were cast as follows:                Randall Anderson                           7 votes

                                                            Oliver Sells, QC                              20 votes

                                                            There was 1 spoilt ballot.                                           

           

Oliver Sells, QC was therefore duly elected Deputy Chairman for the ensuing year.

 

Mr Sells thanked the Committee for their confidence and stressed that this Committee and the City generally were about to embark on a very significant and difficult period. He echoed the words of the Chair in stating that he was of the view that collaboration and co-operation would be key as would the work of this Committee’s two Sub Committees.

 

Finally, Mr Sells also echoed the Chair’s thanks to the outgoing Deputy Chair, Sheriff Christopher Hayward, who had been a very important source of support and advice. He stated that he very much looked forward to working alongside the Chair and the rest of the Committee for the ensuing year.

 

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6.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 350 KB

To agree the public minutes and summary of the meeting held virtually on 14 July 2020.

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the public minutes and non-public summary of the virtual meeting held on 14 July 2020 and approved them as a correct record.

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7.

PUBLIC MINUTES OF THE STREETS AND WALKWAYS SUB-COMMITTEE pdf icon PDF 125 KB

To receive the draft public minutes and summary of the Sub-Committee meeting held virtually on 7 July  2020.

 

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Minutes:

The Committee received the draft public minutes of the Streets and Walkways Sub-Committee meeting held virtually on 7 July 2020.

 

A Member questioned if Frederick’s Place was a public highway or a private road. Officers reported that it was public highway.

 

Another Member commented in relation to the use of mobility scooters and questioned whether, as well as looking at the widening of pavements, the provision of drop kerbs could also be considered as she had received representations from more than one member of the public that this was an issue. Officers responded by stating that they were aware that there some locations in the City where there were not drop kerbs in place where these would be desirable and also that there were some existing drop kerbs that were not functioning as they should do. He asked that Members report issues with any particular locations as they were made aware of them. More strategically, Members were informed that the City’s Streets Accessibility Standard was soon set to be finalised and one of the actions arising from this would be an audit of City Streets so that Officers were able to flag issues such as this and develop a programme to address them. One option would be to consider the raising of the carriageway in certain locations as an alternative to installing drop kerbs. Officers went on to report that they were interacting with the City of London Access Group and Transport for All amongst others on these issues.

 

RECEIVED.

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8.

APPOINTMENT OF SUB COMMITTEES pdf icon PDF 101 KB

Report of the Town Clerk.

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Minutes:

The Committee considered a report of the Town Clerk relative to the appointment of its Sub Committee and Working Party, their constitution and terms of reference.

 

A Member commented that the Chair and Deputy Chairman of the grand Committee and of both Sub Committees last year were all male as were all those appointed to the Streets and Walkways Sub-Committee by this Committee. She asked that Members bear in mind the need for diversity when voting for appointees this year.

 

Streets and Walkways Sub Committee

The Town Clerk announced that, with ten Members expressing an interest in standing for the seven available spaces from the Planning and Transportation Committee, a ballot was required.

 

Following an electronic ballot, the Town Clerk announced that the following Members would be appointed to the Streets and Walkways Sub Committee:

·         Randall Anderson

·         Peter Bennett

·         Deputy Keith Bottomley

·         Marianne Fredericks

·         Sheriff Christopher Hayward

·         Shravan Joshi

·         Graham Packham

 

Local Plans Sub Committee

The Town Clerk announced that, with six Members expressing an interest in standing for the five available spaces from the Planning and Transportation Committee, a ballot was required.

 

Following discussion, the Committee were of the view that the membership of the Sub Committee should be expanded to incorporate six as opposed to five Members from the Planning and Transportation Committee for the ensuing year only.

 

RESOLVED - That the appointment, composition and terms of reference of the sub-committees and working parties for the ensuing year are approved as follows:-

 

a)        Streets and Walkways Sub-Committee

The Chair and Deputy Chairman of the Grand Committee along with seven other Members as follows:

·                     Randall Anderson

·                     Peter Bennett

·                     Deputy Keith Bottomley

·                     Marianne Fredericks

·                     Sheriff Christopher Hayward

·                     Shravan Joshi

·                     Graham Packham

 

·         Together with four ex-officio Members representing the Finance, Police and Open Spaces, City Gardens and West Ham Park and

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9.

OUTSTANDING ACTIONS pdf icon PDF 122 KB

Report of the Town Clerk.

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Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Town Clerk detailing the Committee’s outstanding actions.

 

Member Training

A Member questioned what plans were being put in place for Member training around Planning matters generally and also questioned whether specific training around Climate and how that engaged with Planning matters might be worthwhile. The Town Clerk reported that Member training generally continued to proceed but that a training programme specific to this Committee would be managed and progressed by the Department of Built Environment.

 

Members requested that a paper on this matter be put to the next meeting of this Committee.

 

RECEIVED.

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10.

CLIMATE ACTION STRATEGY pdf icon PDF 183 KB

Report of the Town Clerk & Chief Executive.

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Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Town Clerk and Chief Executive containing a scoped and costed Climate Action Strategy for the City of London Corporation.

 

The Chair commented that this piece of work was of major corporate significance and that he and other Members, particularly the Chairman of Port Health and Environmental Services Committee, had been working closely alongside Officers in recent months to progress this.

 

A Member, also the serving Chairman of the Port Health and Environmental Services Committee, commented that taking action to address climate change was clearly a vitally important issue and that the development of this Strategy put the City Corporation on the front foot. He added that he had been clear from the outset that the Strategy must be impactful, deliverable and, above all, affordable. He highlighted that many Members had already attended various briefings on the Strategy in recent months and had offered their input into it for which he was very grateful. Members were informed that the report before them today was a data driven, evidence-based strategy on Climate Action that tracked all of the existing, relevant City Corporation strategies into it, not least the Transport and Air Quality strategies. At its heart was a set of target based actions that would have a comprehensive performance and reporting freamework wrapped around it. The Member went on to state that, probably for the first time, the City Corporation were looking to approve a Strategy alongside a medium-term funding plan to enable the Corporation to deliver what it set out to. He reported that there were, however, no in-year funding reallocaions and it was proposed that the actions were funded from the next financial year, from April 2021 onwards. Thereafter, funding would continue to be allocated on an annual basis in the round with

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11.

City Streets: Transportation response to support COVID-19 recovery - Gateway 5 report pdf icon PDF 185 KB

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

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Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered a Gateway 5 report of the Director of the Built Environment relative to the City Streets: Transportation response to support COVID-19 recovery.

 

Officers reported that there had been quite a large increase in the number of people returning to work the City in recent weeks and it was expected that this trend would now continue going forward. Members were informed that there had also been an increase in the number of responses to the City’s online consultation on its on-street COVID interventions in recent weeks. The consultation would be further publicised via social media and on-street signage in the coming weeks as well as through the usual communication channels with City businesses and residents in an attempt to ensure that the feedback received was as widespread as possible. In terms of progress, Members were informed that Phases 1 and 2 had now been completed and provided more space for those walking and cycling on the City streets. Officers had also now started to transition some measures from temporary barriers to what were termed as ‘temporary-plus’ barriers, meaning that these were more robust physical interventions. It was hoped that this work would provide further clarity around which users should be in which spaces and which areas were footways/cycle lanes. Bus stop build outs would also be provided to allow street users to get on and off of buses in the City with greater ease.

 

Phase 3 works which were the complimentary measures around seating and planters would begin to be rolled out around Middlesex Street as of next week with works to the other 9 identified locations beginning in the week commencing 21 September 2020. Funding for Phase 3 had only very recently been approved and so these works had moved forward very quickly thereafter.

 

Finally, by

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12.

Transport Strategy: 2019/20 progress update and 2020/21 - 2022/23 Delivery Plan pdf icon PDF 142 KB

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

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Additional documents:

Minutes:

At this point, the Chairman sought approval from the Committee to continue the meeting beyond two hours from the appointed time for the start of the meeting, in accordance with Standing Order 40, and this was agreed.

 

The Committee received a report of the Director of the Built Environment summarising progress with delivering the Transport Strategy in 2019/20 and setting out the Delivery Plan for 2021/22 – 2022/23.

 

A Member noted that the report referred to the fact that data on collisions and casualties was still pending for 2019 due to processing problems and questioned what these problems were. He also commented that, whilst 2020 figures were likely to be skewed due to the ongoing pandemic, it would be important to gain an early view as to the safety of the experimental changes installed as opposed to reflecting on these later in 2021 and questioned how these problems could be overcome. Officers responded by stating that the long-term data had encountered processing problems and that when annual statistics were published these had to be very robust and reflect on the impact of any measures put in place. It was also reported that the City Police had recently switched reporting systems for recording data and that Officers had been working hard alongside them to determine what was happening at specific locations in terms of historic data. For 2020, City of London Police had undertaken to have a very live look at what was happening on the City’s streets around COVID-19 recovery measures and to feed into any recommendations on changes to these. Members were assured that this data would also be looked at in detail for next year.

 

Another Member made the point that per capita measures would be helpful in relation to this and mapping progress noting that City visitor

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13.

Road Danger Reduction & Active Travel Plan 2020/21 - 2022/23 pdf icon PDF 112 KB

Joint report of the Dircetor of the Built Environment and the Commissioner of Police.

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Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee received a joint report of the Director of Built Environment and the Commissioner of Police setting out the Road Danger and Active Travel Plan 2020/21 and 2022/23.

 

RESOLVED – That Members note the report and the draft Road Danger Reduction and Active Travel Plan 2020/21 – 2022/23.

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14.

City of London Housing Delivery Test Action Plan pdf icon PDF 91 KB

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

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Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered a report of the Director of the Built Environment regarding the City of London Housing Delivery Test Action Plan.

 

A Member questioned whether the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government accepted the conclusions of this report. Officers reported that the City Corporation had set out its case in the Action Plan and that the government did not respond directly to such plans. However, in due course, the Local Plan public examination would take into account this Plan as a background document and this would provide the organisation with the opportunity to state its case further before a planning inspector came to a view on it.

 

Another Member spoke to receive clarification. He stated that, as he understood it, the City Corporation had missed targets here for two consecutive years and that certain consequences would flow from this, one of those being that an Action Plan was required, another (applying a 20% buffer) which seemed to be inapplicable to this organisation and a third which involved applying an presumption around sustainable development. He added that, as he understood it, the City Corporation was now governed by this guidance and had to abide by it for a period of time until they were able to meet targets, however, the paper seemed to imply that this was not necessary. Officers responded by stating that the next test results were due to be released in November 2020 and that the consequences would apply until that time. They went on to highlight that, for reasons articulated within the report, the data on which the City Corporation had been judged last year was incorrect and that the belated inclusion of 165 units at Sugar Quay would mean that next year’s result would vastly exceed requirements. The bigger picture was that this was

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15.

Planning Reform: Changes to the Use Classes Order and Permitted Development Rights Announced July 2020 pdf icon PDF 278 KB

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

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Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Director of the Built Environment setting out changes to the Use Classes Order and Permitted Development Rights announced in July 2020.

 

Officers clarified that this report was for information and was intended to update the Committee on changes that had already been implemented. They clarified that the two main areas of change set out were around the Uses Classes Order and how we manage changes of use between different land uses through the planning system and around Permitted Development Rights which involved the ability of developers to bring about certain changes without the need for specific planning permission. It was noted that, from the City Corporation’s perspective, changes to the Uses Classes Order were the most significant of the two as most Permitted Development Rights would be subject to various caveats and requirements around prior approval processes. Members were informed that the key change to Use Classes Order was that a new use class order ‘Class E’ had been introduced which combined office and retail (A1/A2/A3 and some other uses) into one super-use class. The effect of this change was that the City would no longer have planning control over the change of use between these various components within the new E class as this was no longer defined as development. This would affect how changes of use were managed within the City going forward, particularly in retail clusters and would clearly have implications for the City’s Local Plan. The Local Plans Sub-Committee would be asked to consider this in meetings throughout the Autumn and seek to adjust the Local Plan if necessary in order to take account of the changing planning controls arising from these changes in planning law. It was reported that there were also wider implications for other City Departments

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16.

Flood Risk Management Plan 2021-27- Measures pdf icon PDF 90 KB

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

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Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Director of the Built Environment regarding Flood Risk Management Plan 2021-27- Measures.

 

RESOLVED – That Members note the report.

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17.

2020/21 Business Plan Update Q1 pdf icon PDF 177 KB

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

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Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Director of the Built Environment setting out the progress made during Q1 of the 2020/21 Departmental Business Plan.

 

A Member highlighted the refence to another round of consultation on the City Plan 2036 taking place in Autumn 2020 within the report and sought clarity around when this would commence and how long it would run for. Officers reported that matters discussed at today’s meeting such as COVID recovery, changing growth predictions and the Planning Reform meant that some work was needed to refine and revise the document. Officers intended to bring a process report back to this Committee in late October setting out the timetable for revision. A series of Local Plans Sub Committee meetings would then be required to consider any changes ahead of them coming back to this Committee, to the Policy and Resources Committee and, ultimately, the Court of Common Council for approval. Once this cycle had been completed, consultation would then commence on the revised version of the Plan in early 2021.

 

RESOLVED – That Members note the report and appendices.

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18.

Senior Officer Recruitment pdf icon PDF 76 KB

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

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Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Director of the Built Environment relative to Senior Officer Recruitment.

 

A Member questioned whether internal candidates would be considered for the role as this was not necessarily clear from the language used within the report. The Chair confirmed that internal candidates would be welcomed but that the permanent position was also to be advertised externally.

 

RESOLVED – That Members note the report.

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19.

Department of the Built Environment Risk Management - Quarterly Report pdf icon PDF 140 KB

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

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Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Director of the Built Environment providing 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.

 

RESOLVED – That Members note the report and the action taken within the Department of the Built Environment to monitor and manage effectively risks arising from the Department’s operations.

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20.

PUBLIC LIFT REPORT pdf icon PDF 166 KB

Report of the City Surveyor.

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Minutes:

The Committee received a public lift report of the City Surveyor for the period 27/06/2020 – 21/08/2020.

 

RESOLVED – That Members note the report.

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21.

DELEGATED DECISIONS OF THE CHIEF PLANNING OFFICER AND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR pdf icon PDF 220 KB

Report of the Interim Chief Planning Officer and Development Director.

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Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Interim Chief Planning Officer and Development Director providing Members with a list detailing development and advertisement applications determined by the Interim Chief Planning Officer and Development Director or those so authorised under their delegated powers since the report to the last meeting.

 

RESOLVED – That Members note the report.

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22.

VALID PLANNING APPLICATIONS RECEIVED BY DEPARTMENT OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT pdf icon PDF 56 KB

Report of the Interim Chief Planning Officer and Development Director.

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Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Interim Chief Planning Officer and Development Director providing Members with a list detailing development applications received by the Department of the Built Environment since the report to the last meeting.

 

RESOLVED – That Members note the report.

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23.

REPORT OF ACTION TAKEN pdf icon PDF 121 KB

Report of the Town Clerk.

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Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Town Clerk advising Members of action taken by the Town Clerk since their last meeting in consultation with the Chair and Deputy Chairman and in accordance with Standing Order Nos 41(a) and 41(b).

 

RESOLVED – That Members note the report.

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24.

Questions on matters relating to the work of the committee

Minutes:

Thames Riverside Walkway

The Chief Commoner raised a question on the now long overdue completion of the riverside walkway in the Ward of Queenhithe and commented that he understood that there was now an issue regarding funding as TfL had had to curtail capital spending and could therefore no longer contribute in the way originally anticipated. He asked if the City Corporation had any alternative sources of funding to now ensure that this work was completed before the end of the calendar year. The Director of the Built Environment commented that she too had been disappointed to learn of this problem with regard to funding and recognised that the completion of the walkway was now long overdue with the works being entirely consistent with the ambition of the City to create additional pedestrian space. Whilst the Director was not able to make any promises at this stage, she undertook to explore every possible avenue of funding for the completion of this project.

 

Running Track

A Member commented that it had come to her attention that a Member led consultation regarding the installation of a running track on some of the City Corporation’s pavements had led to some confusion among City communities. Some were of the view that this consultation was being carried out by the City Corporation and the Member expressed concern that this was the impression created by the website set up by the Member leading on this exercise. The Member went on to ask if the Chair would therefore make it clear, in this public forum, that the consultation for this project had not been approved or even considered by any City Corporation Committee and that the Member calling for this did so in no official capacity and was merely an individual canvassing for views on his own

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25.

Any other Business that the Chairman considers urgent

Minutes:

Capital Bids

The Chair referred to the annual Capital Bids process and reported that Officers were busy bidding on all of the items considered essential for the Department of the Built Environment. He added that he would be happy to provide further information to those who were interested in this outside of the meeting. The Committee were assured that he and the Deputy Chair had also had the benefit of considering what the current priorities were.

 

The Old Bailey

The Chair reported that he and other Committee Chairmen had been discussing the situation concerning the Old Bailey and recent protests with relevant Officers and assessing the City Corporation’s various powers in relation to these and what response might be

possible.

 

Tulip Inquiry

The Chair reported that some members of this Committee had lodged their own objections and would be appearing at the Inquiry itself. He underlined that it was, of course, their right to do so but commented that the former Deputy Chairman Sheriff Hayward would be appearing as a City of London witness to back up this Committee’s decision. He went on to refer to some of the allegations made by members within their submission suggesting that the Committee never refused planning permissions for major developments however many planning policies they infringed and commenting on a predictable pattern of decision making reflecting the supposed conflicting nature of the Committee as a body which primarily promotes private, commercial interests whilst also exercising Local Authority functions. In response to this, the Chair wished to place on record the fact that he entirely refuted this, believed that the allegations made were a total mischaracterisation, and was very proud of the decision-making process here where decisions were made openly and transparently and often had the vast majority of Members behind them, as was

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26.

Exclusion of the Public

MOTION – That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of the Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act.

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Minutes:

RESOLVED - That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of the Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act.

 

                        Item No(s)                                                      Paragraph No(s)

                              27                                                                          3

                              28                                                                       3 & 7

                          29 - 30                                                                        -

           

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27.

Non-public minutes

To agree the non-public minutes of the meeting held virtually on 14 July 2020.

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the non-public minutes of the virtual meeting held on 14 July 2020 and approved them as a correct record.

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28.

NON PUBLIC REPORT OF ACTION TAKEN

Report of the Town Clerk.

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Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Town Clerk advising Members of non-public action taken by the Town Clerk since their last meeting in consultation with the Chair and Deputy Chairman and in accordance with Standing Order Nos 41(a) and 41(b).

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29.

Non-Public questions on matters relating to the work of the Committee

Minutes:

There were no questions raised in the non-public session.

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30.

Any other business that the Chairman considers urgent and which the committee agrees should be considered whilst the public are excluded

Minutes:

The Committee discussed the prospect of hybrid meetings going forward.

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