Agenda

Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday, 26 February 2025 6.00pm, NEW

Venue: St George's Centre, Pembroke Road, Chatham Maritime, Chatham ME4 4UH. View directions

Contact: Nicola Couchman, Democratic Services Officer 

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for absence

2.

Record of Meeting pdf icon PDF 321 KB

To approve the Record of the Meeting held on 21 January 2025.

3.

Urgent matters by reason of special circumstances

The Chairperson will announce any late items which do not appear on the main agenda but which he/she has agreed should be considered by reason of special circumstances to be specified in the report.

4.

Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Significant Interests and Whipping pdf icon PDF 471 KB

Members are invited to disclose any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Significant Interests in accordance with the Member Code of Conduct. Guidance on this is set out in agenda item 4.

5.

Waste Contracts Annual Review - October 2023 to September 2024 pdf icon PDF 365 KB

This report provides a summary of performance on the Medway waste contracts and performance for the contract year October 2023 to September 2024:

 

Veolia Environmental Services – providing waste disposal services for residual and recycling waste.

 

Medway Norse – providing waste collection, street cleaning services and management of Medway's Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC).

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6.

Attendance of Portfolio Holder for Heritage, Culture and Leisure pdf icon PDF 213 KB

This annual report provides an account of the role of the Portfolio Holder for Heritage, Culture & Leisure. It details their ambitions for their areas of responsibility, how they have and will undertake political challenge and leadership and what their priorities and ambitions are for the year ahead.

7.

Property Review: Operational Properties pdf icon PDF 178 KB

This report presents phase 2 of the property review in relation to those operational property assets which have been identified as either:

 

• Suitable for being declared surplus, so that they can potentially be disposed of or in the case of Upper Mount Car park disposed or appropriated for other Council uses, all following appropriate consultation with stakeholders, including the Council’s Corporate Landlord Board (CLB.)

• Requiring consultation concerning their future, with the results of this consultation being brought to a future Cabinet meeting, so that Cabinet can then decide the way forward.

 

This report is being presented to this Committee for pre-decision scrutiny prior to consideration by the Cabinet on 11 March 2025.

 

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8.

Attendance of Portfolio Holder for Business Management pdf icon PDF 125 KB

This annual report provides an account of the role of the Portfolio Holder for Business Management. It details their ambitions for their areas of responsibility, how they have and will undertake political challenge and leadership and what their priorities and ambitions are for the year ahead.

9.

Work programme pdf icon PDF 119 KB

This item advises Members of the current work programme and allows the Committee to adjust it in the light of latest priorities, issues and circumstances. It gives Members the opportunity to shape and direct the Committee’s activities over the year. 

 

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10.

Exclusion of the press and public pdf icon PDF 128 KB

This report summarises the content of the exempt appendices to agenda item 9, which, in the opinion of the proper officer, contain exempt information within one of the categories in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. It is a matter for the Committee to determine whether the press and public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of document.

 

 

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