Issue - meetings

To consider the recommendations made by the Executive Committee at its meetings held on 11^th March 2025 and 13^th May 2025.

Executive Committee Minutes – 11^th March 2025

The Mayor explained that there was a typographical error at Minute Item No. 97 – Members’ Ward Budget Scheme - in the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 11^th March 2025.  The decision for this minute had been incorrectly recorded as a recommendation when in fact the decision had been resolved by the Executive Committee, in accordance with the proposals detailed in the report for the item that had been considered by the Committee.  This decision could be taken by the Executive Committee because the funding for the Members’ Ward Budget Scheme had been incorporated into the budget in February 2025 and therefore no change was required to be made to the Budget Framework by the Council.  For this reason, the subject was not due to be debated at the Council meeting.

Future Cemetery Provision

The report in respect of future cemetery provision in the Borough was presented for Council’s consideration.  Members were asked to note that the report proposed that the incorporation of burial plots should be taken on board as part of work on the new Local Plan, which was in the process of being developed. 

The report had been pre-scrutinised by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee prior to discussion at the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 11^th March 2025.  The Overview and Scrutiny Committee was thanked for their hard work in reviewing the matter.

Consideration was given to the content of the report and reference was made to the proposed location of burial spaces and the exploratory work that would be undertaken in respect of this matter.  Members were advised that the recommendation to Council was solely in respect of the incorporation of burial site provision into the Local Plan process as all other items had been previously resolved by the Executive.  Questions were subsequently raised about how Members could influence discussions regarding the potential location of burial sites through the Local Plan process and the suggestion was made that this could be raised by Members at meetings of the Planning Advisory Panel (PAP).  Council was also asked to note that the sites that had been addressed in the report to the Executive Committee were at an early exploratory stage and there would be a need for further reports to the Executive Committee, which could be pre-scrutinised by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee where required by Members.

The recommendation was proposed by Councillor Sharon Harvey and seconded by Councillor Jane Spilsbury.

Redditch Council Plan

The Leader presented the Redditch Council Plan for Members’ consideration and in doing so highlighted that the content of the plan, including identification of Council priorities, had been considered over a number of months.  Included within the Redditch Council Plan was an overview of the Council’s priorities which included:

·             Economy, Regeneration and Prosperity

·             Green, Clean and Safe Redditch

·             Community and Housing

In considering the report, Members were asked to note that the Council Plan was designed to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 14