Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee - 8 January 2019

NOTICE AND AGENDA

For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, on Tuesday 8 January 2019 at 7.30pm.

Members of the Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee:-

Councillors:- Stephen Giles-Medhurst (Lead Member for Economic Development), Martin Trevett(Lead Member for Infrastructure and Planning Policy), Andrew Scarth (Lead Member for Housing), Jon Tankard, Margaret Hofman, Peter Getkahn, Joanna Clemens, Paula Hiscocks, Angela Killick, Heather Kenison, Joan King

Steven Halls, Chief Executive

21 December 2018

Lead Member Responsibilities:

Economic Development – Economic Development, Rivertech, Sustainability, Supporting better buses, public transport and cycling; Transport; Car Parking.

Infrastructure and Planning Policy – Infrastructure Schemes; Development Management, Heritage, Listed Buildings, Land Charges, Land Drainage, Conservation Areas, Tree Protection, Community Infrastructure Levy; Local Plan; Neighbourhood Planning, Right to Build Register, Brownfield Register, Building Control

Housing – Residential Environmental Health; Council House Allocations and Lettings; Homelessness and Housing Advice; Housing grants for Improvement and Adaptation; Private Housing Condition and Houses in Multiple Occupation; To purchase any property for use as temporary accommodation, Travellers (incursions and management of traveller sites).

The Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee welcomes contributions from members of the public to its discussion on agenda items. Contributions will be limited to one person speaking for and one against each item for not more than three minutes. Please note that, in the event of registering your interest to speak on an agenda item but not taking up that right because the item is deferred, you will automatically be given the right to speak on that item at the next meeting of the Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee.   Details of the procedure and the list for registering the wish to speak will be available for a short period before the meeting.

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1         APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

2         MINUTES

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee meeting held on 20 November 2018.

3        NOTICE OF OTHER BUSINESS

Items of other business notified under Council Procedure Rule 30 to be announced, together with the special circumstances that justify their consideration as a matter of urgency. The Chairman to rule on the admission of such items.

4.       DECLARATION OF INTERESTS

To receive any declarations of interest.

5.       TO RECEIVE THREE PETITIONS UNDER COUNCIL PROCEDURE RULE 18

1. To receive a petition signed by 71 residents, which states:     “We the undersigned strongly object to the proposed introduction of Parking Permits for the residents of Repton Way as proposed in your parking consultation document 2018.  We believe there is no need for a Residents Permit Zone on Repton Way and would prefer that the existing parking regulations were properly enforced.”
2. To receive a petition signed by 34 residents, against parking restrictions/single yellow lines on Frankland Close: “34 out of 44 houses are against parking restrictions, especially the proposal for yellow lines. One house did not want to sign this petition, and the other nine were not contactable.  I must point out that the opposition is to the yellow lines, and there are mixed views on whether parking permits should be considered if that is what Frankland Road ends up agreeing to. If Frankland Road does have parking permits after this consultation process, then the residents of Frankland Close would wish to be consulted on the possibility of having the same scheme as Frankland Road.”
3. To receive a petition signed by 32 residents, which states:“There is a growing concern and considerable unrest between residents in this road. There are not enough parking spaces, which also includes problems for health attendants and tradesmen unable to start pre-arranged work. It has been said that tradesmen can get dispensation to park on yellow lines but this cannot be done in this road without it being completely blocked. Some time ago, after some two years of complaints, 2 chicanes were removed, there are still four more that could be removed which would be of some help and, if possible, a few spaces in the long term car park at the west end of Talbot Road be allocated to residents. We would like our complaint to be looked at urgently to avoid more unrest in what has always been a very friendly road.”

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

6.       VERGE PARKING MANAGEMENT CRITERIA

To note the proposed amendments to the Parking Bay Prioritisation Procedure that was updated in 2017, from the original procedure agreed by the Sustainable Development, Planning and Transport Committee in November 2014.

HOUSING

7.         REVIEW OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION PLACEMENT POLICY

To agree the updated policy to ensure Council compliance with relevant legislation.

8.        WORK PROGRAMME

To agree the Committee’s work programme.

9.        OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under item 3 above.

10.      EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

If the Committee wishes to consider the remaining item in private, it will be appropriate for a resolution to be passed in the following terms:-

“that under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act. It has been decided by the Council that in all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.”

(Note: If other confidential business is approved under item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional items.)

1          OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under item 3 above.