Agenda

Contact: Candida Mckelvey, Democratic Services Officer

Telephone 07895 213820

Email: candida.mckelvey@southandvale.gov.uk

Date: 6 September 2021

www.southoxon.gov.uk

www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk

 

A meeting of the

Joint Scrutiny Committee

will be held on Tuesday, 14 September 2021 at 6.00 pm

at 135 Eastern Avenue, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4SB

 

The meeting will also be broadcasted live:

https://www.youtube.com/c/southandvalecommitteemeetings/

 

Members of the Committee:

Councillors

 

South

Vale

Ian White (co chair)

Nathan Boyd (co chair)

Sam Casey-Rerhaye

Andy Cooke

Stefan Gawrysiak

Kate Gregory

Amos Duveen

Hayleigh Gascoigne

David Turner

David Grant

 

 

Preferred Substitutes

 

South

Ken Arlett

Anna Badcock

David Bretherton

Peter Dragonetti

Alexandrine Kantor

Victoria Haval

Kellie Hinton

Caroline Newton

Jo Robb

Alan Thompson

 

Vale

Eric Batts

Samantha Bowring

Andy Foulsham

Alison Jenner

Janet Shelley

Max Thompson

Elaine Ware

 

 

 

 

Alternative formats of this publication are available on request.  These include large print, Braille, audio, email and easy read. For this or any other special requirements (such as access facilities) please contact the officer named on this agenda.  Please give as much notice as possible before the meeting.

 

Patrick Arran

Head of Legal and Democratic


 

Agenda

 

Open to the Public including the Press

 

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1.   Urgent business and chairman's announcements

 

 

To receive notification of any matters which the chair determines should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances which have made the matters urgent, and to receive any announcements from the chair. 

 

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2.   Apologies for absence

 

 

To record apologies for absence and the attendance of substitute members. 

 

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3.   Declarations of interest

 

 

To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting.  

 

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4.   Minutes

(Pages 4 - 10)

 

To adopt and sign as a correct record the Joint Scrutiny Committee minutes of the meeting held on 16 November 2020.

 

The informal notes of the meeting on 13 July 2021 are for committee members to note.

 

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5.   Work schedule and dates for all South and Vale scrutiny meetings

 

 

To review the attached scrutiny work schedule. Please note, although the dates are confirmed, the items under consideration are subject to being withdrawn, added to or rearranged without further notice.

 

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6.   Public participation

 

 

To receive any questions or statements from members of the public that have registered to speak. 

 

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Reports and other items brought before the scrutiny committee for its consideration

 

 

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7.   Retrofitting Homes Task and Finish Group

(Pages 11 - 40)

 

Joint South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils Retrofitting Homes Task and Finish Group produced a report on recommended ways forward, for the consideration of the Joint Scrutiny Committee.

 

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8.   Strategic property review

(Pages 41 - 164)

 

Joint Scrutiny Committee are presented with the two Cabinet papers and appendices for South and Vale. Committee are asked to consider the reports, recommendations and attachments and provide comments to both Cabinets. 

 

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9.   Saba car park contract - performance review

(Pages 165 - 180)

 

That scrutiny committee considers Saba’s performance in delivering the car park operations contract for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 and makes any comments before a final assessment on performance is made.

 

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10.       Biffa annual report 2020

(Pages 181 - 201)

 

Joint scrutiny committee are to consider Biffa Municipal Ltd (Biffa) performance in delivering the household waste collection, street cleansing and ancillary services contract for the period 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 (2020 calendar year) and makes any comments before a final assessment on performance is made.

 

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11.       Exclusion of the public

 

 

To consider whether to exclude members of the press and public from the meeting for the following item of business under Part 1 of Schedule 12A Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 and as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006 on the grounds that:

(i)        it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1-7 Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, and

(ii)       the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. 

 

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12.       Review of current garden waste provision

 

 The committee is invited to consider the current garden waste provision and make any recommendations.

 

 

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