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To facilitate the securing of a building which
is a disused and a vacant hotel. This decision was made as
intelligence received states that young people had been gaining
access and have been at considerable risk. The owner is not in the
locality so the decision was made to use Section 29 of the Local
Government Miscellaneous Provision Act subsection 6 to take the
action and then recover funds.
Decision Maker: Environmental Protection Manager
Decision published: 31/07/2020
Effective from: 21/07/2020
Lead officer: David Eaton
Decision Maker: Standards Committee
Made at meeting: 15/07/2020 - Standards Committee
Decision published: 15/07/2020
Effective from: 15/07/2020
Decision:
There were no declarations of interest.
Decision Maker: Standards Committee
Made at meeting: 15/07/2020 - Standards Committee
Decision published: 15/07/2020
Effective from: 15/07/2020
Decision:
RESOLVED:-
The decision notice be published, thereby publicly censuring Cllr Daws’s conduct.
It be noted that if the Committee had the power to suspend Cllr Daws from being a councillor (a power which was previously available to councils and may be reintroduced in the future), the Committee would have suspended Cllr Daws.
Cllr Daws is requested to write within 10 working days of this decision being notified to him, an unequivocal letter of apology (the content of such to be approved in advance by the Monitoring Officer and Chairman of Standards Committee) to those officers to whom the Committee has found he was disrespectful.
The Committee sends a letter to all staff within the Council making it clear that the Council will not tolerate disrespectful conduct by councillors towards staff.
AND
RECOMMENDATION to Full Council:-
The requirement that a failure to comply with relevant protocols including the Members’ Code of Conduct and security requirements be formally confirmed with reference to new provisions in the Code.
Decision Notice Attached.