Agenda

To receive any announcements from the Mayor and Chief Executive.

Group Business Managers to submit any apologies for absence.

To agree and authorise the Mayor to sign the Minutes of Council held on 12 February 2020

The Councillors will be asked to advise if there are any items listed on the Agenda in which they have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest, which would prevent them from participating in any discussion or vote on the item, or any other interest.

To receive any Petitions from Members of the Council in accordance

with Council Procedure Rule 9.

The Committee will receive any petitions and hear any deputations from members of the public. A deputation is where up to five people can attend the meeting and make a presentation on some particular issue of concern. A member of the public can also hand in a petition at the meeting but that petition should relate to something on which the body has powers and responsibilities.

In accordance with Council Procedure Rule 10 (2), Members of the Public should provide at least 24 hours’ notice of presenting a deputation.

(Any person wishing to make a deputation is requested to contact andrea.woodside@kirklees.gov.uk / leigh.webb@kirklees.gov.uk (tel 01484 221000) and will be required to complete a form at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting).

The Committee will hear any questions from the general public.

To receive the Minutes of the Meeting of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority held on 1 August 2019, 10 October 2019 and 9 January 2020.

To consider the report.

Contact: Carl Whistlecraft – Head of Democracy and Place Based Working.

To consider the report.

Contact: Deborah Lucas – Head of Peoples Services

To consider the report.

Contact: Richard Parry - Strategic Director for Adults and Health

To receive written questions to the Leader, Cabinet Members, Chairs of Committees and Nominated Spokespersons in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 12.

The schedule of written questions will be tabled at the meeting.

To receive for information; the Minutes of Cabinet held on 8 October 2019, 12 November 2019, 3 December 2019, 14 January 2020, 20 January 2020, 28 January 2020 and Cabinet Committee – Local Issues held on 25 September 2019 and 29 January 2020

(a)   To receive a Portfolio Update from the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Democracy, Councillor Scott

(b)   Oral Questions/Comments to Cabinet Members on their Portfolios and relevant Cabinet Minutes;

(i)         Housing and Democracy (Councillor Scott)

(ii)        Children’s Portfolio (Councillor Kendrick)

(iii)        Corporate Portfolio (Councillor Turner)

(iv)       Culture and Environment (Councillor Walker)

(v)        Greener Kirklees (Councillor Mather)

(vi)       Health and Social Care Portfolio (Councillor Khan)

(vii)      Learning, Aspiration and Communities Portfolio (Councillor Pattison)

(viii)    The Leader of the Council

(ix)      The Deputy Leader of the Council / Regeneration (Councillor McBride)

To receive for information the minutes of the following Committees;

(i)           Appeals Panel

(ii)          Corporate Governance and Audit Committee

(iii)         Corporate Parenting Board

(iv)         Health and Wellbeing Board

(v)          Licensing and Safety Committee

(vi)         Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee

(vii)        Personnel Committee

(viii)       Standards Committee

(ix)         Strategic Planning Committee

(a)  Appeals Panel (Councillor Dad)

(b)  Corporate Governance and Audit Committee (Councillor Simpson)

(c)  Corporate Parenting Board (Councillor Kendrick)

(d)  Health and Wellbeing Board (Councillor Kendrick)

(e)  Licensing and Safety Committee – including Licensing Panel and Regulatory Panel (Councillor A U Pinnock)

(f)   Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee (Councillor Smaje)

(g)  Personnel Committee (Councillor Pandor)

(h)  Planning Sub Committee - Heavy Woollen Area (Councillor S Hall)

(i)    Planning Sub Committee – Huddersfield Area (Councillor Lyons)

(j)    Scrutiny Panel – Children’s (Councillor Marchington)

(k)  Scrutiny Panel – Corporate (Councillor Cooper)

(l)    Scrutiny Panel – Economy and Neighbourhoods (Councillor Uppal)

(m)  Scrutiny Panel – Health and Adult Social Care (Councillor Zaman)

(n)  Standards Committee (Councillor P Davies)

(o)  Strategic Planning Committee (Councillor S Hall)

(p)  Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing (Councillor Mather)

(q)  Kirklees Active Leisure (Councillor Sokhal)

(r)   West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Councillor Pandor)

(s)  West Yorkshire Combined Authority Transport Committee (Councillor Homewood)

(t)    West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority (Councillor O’Donovan)

(u)  West Yorkshire Joint Services Committee (Councillor Zaman)

(v)  West Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel (Councillor Ahmed)

To consider the following Motion in the names of Councillors Martyn Bolt and David Hall;

“This Council recognises that:

·         planning decisions are often the most controversial decisions which councillors have a duty to take;

·         the determination of planning matters is a non-political, fact- and policy-based judgement, in which all elected members have an annual opportunity for training and all committee members should receive basic and update training;

·         Kirklees residents should have confidence that elected members on planning committees will not vote along political lines.

This Council therefore resolves:

·         that to maintain public confidence and to abide by the spirit of non-politically based decision making, no one party group should have 50% or more of the members on a planning committee or sub-committee;

·         to direct that officers bring forward a report to the Corporate Governance and Audit Committee to effect that change, with a recommendation to the annual meeting as to the political composition of planning committees and sub-committees.”

To consider the following Motion in the names of Councillors David Hall, John Lawson, Andrew Cooper, Charles Greaves,  Shabir Pandor and Peter McBride;

“This Council notes that:

·         There was a recent announcement by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, who cautioned that building new homes on floodplains should be resisted and that building on flood-prone land is worsening the damage to surrounding areas. Homes should only be built on floodplains where there are no alternatives and on condition that the homes are designed to be resilient to flooding.

This Council, therefore, resolves that:

·         The Leader of the Council writes to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs expressing the Council’s concern about the impact of flooding on communities across the borough and requesting additional support and investment for local flooding mitigation measures.

·         The Leader of the Council writes to the Environment Agency, urging them to expedite a review of the Kirklees flood zones, to ensure that all future planning applications have full regard to flooding implications and are based on the latest information.”

To receive the response of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to the Motion of Council, approved on 15 January 2020, as to Pension Credit.