Agenda

To approve as a correct record and sign the minutes of the previous Council meeting.

Announcements only from the Chair of Council, Leader, Members of the Executive or the Managing Director.

Advised changes to Committee Members

·       Cllr Swain had replaced Cllr Foden on Overview and Scrutiny Committee

·       Cllr Rollason had replaced Cllr Henderson on Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

Members of the public may ask questions. A maximum period of 15 minutes will be allowed with a maximum period of three minutes per questioner.

To consider the recommendation from Procedures Committee on Wednesday, 17th July, 2024,

RECOMMENDED to Full Council that:-

(1)  No change be made to the Special Responsibility Allowance for the Chair and Vice Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee;

(2)  The Council notes the intention of the Panel to hold a full review meeting on this matter in the light of 6 months’ operation of the new arrangement;

(3)  The Council takes steps to provide the Panel with the evidence it requires in order to consider this matter further; and

(4)  The special responsibility allowances for the Chair and Vice Chair of the Council be £3,000 and £1,000 respectively for 2023/24; and

(5)  The balance of the current allowances (£3,223 and £1,489) be transferred to the Democratic Services budget as support for the office of the Chair of the Council.

To consider the recommendation from Procedures Committee on Wednesday, 17th July, 2024,

RECOMMENDED to Council that the proposed Protocol be approved and incorporated into the Constitution.

RESOLVED that under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the Press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act.

To consider the recommendation of Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 18th June, 2024 on the Notice of Motion presented by Cllr J Taylor to Full Council on 17th October, 2023 with regards to S106 monies.

Overview & Scrutiny Committee RECOMMENDED to Full Council that:

1)    The current planning systems and procedures for dealing with both minor amendments to planning applications, and Section 106 agreements continue.

2)    A recap on the above be provided in the next all Councillors planning training.

To consider the recommendation of Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 18th June, 2024 on the Notice of Motions regarding webcasting presented by Cllr Daws to Full Council on 17th October, 2023 and Cllr J Taylor to  Full Council on 27th February, 2024,

Overview & Scrutiny Committee RECOMMENDED to Full Council that:

The current situation with webcasting of meetings continue and the position be reconsidered when the current webcasting contract is due for renewal.

Notice of Motion’s shall be referred to the appropriate Committee meeting. The mover of the motion can outline the proposal and then it will stand adjourned. The motion may be debated to assist debate later if agreed by two-thirds of Council Members.

Motion 1

The following motion on South West Water discharges has been presented by Cllr Clarance and supported by Lake, Radford, Steemson, Nutley, P Parker, Sanders, Parrott, Daws

It was back in 1991/93 that South West Water (SWW)spent in the region of £54 million, embarking on a scheme of taking raw sewage to a full treatment works at Buckland on the upper reaches of the River Teign Estuary.This treatment works was to serve the immmediate catchment area of the towns and villages in fairly close proximity to the Estuary, namely towns like Newton Abbot, Kingsteignton and Teignmouth and villages like Kingskerswell, Combeinteignhead, Stokeinteignhead, Shaldon, Bishopsteignton and what I would  best describe as the hinterland that surroundings Buckland where SWW find it easy enough to connect properties to Buckland rather than other full treatment works elsewhere. This scheme was principally about ending the practice of releasing sewage at discharging points within the Estuary on the ebb tide, noting that most of these discharging points are still used as emergency discharing points in times of stress when the system cant cope in times of heavy rainfall. Unfortunately we now know, owing to better monitoring in recent times that far too many of the discharges occur currently and the need for betterment of the system needs vast improvement.

SWW and the Environment Agency are due to appear before our own Overview and Scrutiny Committee(O/S) on the 16^th July and I have tabled a number of questions in advance of that meeting to try and obtain a better understanding of what I can only describe as the current failings of SWW in allowing so many emergency discharges to occur. I recognise that such a Notice of Motion (NOM) as I am putting forward we will find out more as to why these emergency discharges occur and what remedies SWW have in mind for betterment ,but the fact remains this Council I believe owes its residents to press SWW for answers and solutions to the current appalling situation that is all too often occuring.

So my NOM is as follows.

Whatever the outcome of the O/S meeting on the 16^th July, Teignbridge District Council writes to SWW copying in the E/A asking SWW to set out precisely what measures are due to be put in place to cut down the amount of emergency discharges into the River Teign Estuary including the time scale and approximate likely costs for such improvements.Teignbridge District Council also asks SWW, will such improvement costs fall on the public or will SWW be able to fund such improvements out of their own capital spending which we hope will be the case?

Members of the Council may ask questions of the Council subject to procedural rules.

Decision - Updated Matford Community Building and GP Surgery Land Nominations

Decision - Urgent Decision Funding for the A382 Phase 3 improvement scheme

To RESOLVED  that the press and public be allowed into the meeting.