Agenda for Community Select Committee on Monday, 9 January 2023, 6.00pm

Agenda

Venue: Council Chamber, Daneshill House, Danestrete

Contact: Lisa Jerome 01438 242203  Email: committees@stevenage.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

1.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE AND DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

2.

MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING pdf icon PDF 223 KB

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the Community Select Committee held on Wednesday 2 November 2022.

3.

UPDATE ON DAMP AND MOULD

To receive a presentation from the Housing Investment Programme Manager, Keith Pierson, regarding the latest position with damp and mould cases in the Council’s housing stock, including the statutory response to the Secretary of State following the tragic death of Awaab Ishak, who died of a respiratory condition caused by mould in his housing association home in Rochdale.

4.

UPDATE ON VOIDS SCRUTINY REVIEW pdf icon PDF 357 KB

To receive an update on the scrutiny review of Housing Voids, including an updated scrutiny review mapping document and a simple process map for voids, highlighting the areas for improvement based on the issues the CSC have raised.

 

CSC Voids review mapping document attached. Process map for voids to follow.

Additional documents:

5.

URGENT PART 1 BUSINESS

To consider any Part I business accepted by the Chair as urgent

6.

EXCLUSION OF PUBLIC AND PRESS

To consider the following motions:

 

1. That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the ground that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as described in paragraphs 1 – 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended by Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.

 

2. That Members consider the reasons for the following reports being in Part II and determine whether or not maintaining the exemption from disclosure of the information contained therein outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

 

 

7.

URGENT PART II BUSINESS

To consider any Part II business accepted by the Chair as urgent