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Programme of Meetings 2026/27

 

 

Meeting: 03/12/2025 - Council (Item 61)

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Purpose

To invite Council to set a programme of Council and Committee meetings for the civic year 2026–2027.

 

Recommendation

That Council Resolves to:

  1. Approve the Programme of Meetings for 2026/27, as detailed at Annex A and Annex B;
  2. Delegate authority to the Director of Governance and Regulatory Services, in consultation with Group Leaders, to make changes to the programme of meetings, in the event that there is any future decision of the Council to change the committee structure, frequencies of committees or sub-committees, or committee remits that impacts the programme of meetings;
  3. Delegate authority to the Democratic Services Business Manager to set meeting dates for committees and sub-committees that meet on an ad-hoc basis (Performance and Appointments Committee, Development Control Committee, Licensing Committee, Licensing Panel, Miscellaneous Licensing Sub-Committee, Standards Sub-Committee), member training, member briefing sessions, and any further working groups established by the Council.
  4. Note that rule 6 of the Council Procedure Rules (Part 5A of the Constitution) allows each committee to set its own start time.

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Minutes:

The purpose of the report was to invite Council to set a programme of Council and Committee meetings for the civic year 2026–2027.Councillor Andy Graham introduced the report and stated that the same pattern was followed as previous years but delegations were included to make subsequent changes or schedule additional meetings.

 

Members discussed the report, raising the following points;

·         The Chair of Overview and Scrutiny stated that on page 103 stated that reports would sometimes need to be to follow for Overview and Scrutiny, and asked that this be avoided wherever possible.

·         Why there were n meetings in May. The Head of Democratic and Electoral Services explained that this was due to elections taking place then.

 

The report was seconded by Councillor Alaric Smith and put to a vote.

 

Resolved: That Council

1.    Approved the Programme of Meetings for 2026/27, as detailed at Annex A and Annex B;

2.    Delegated authority to the Director of Governance and Regulatory Services, in consultation with Group Leaders, to make changes to the programme of meetings, in the event that there is any future decision of the Council to change the committee structure, frequencies of committees or sub-committees, or committee remits that impacts the programme of meetings;

3.    Delegated authority to the Democratic Services Business Manager to set meeting dates for committees and sub-committees that meet on an ad-hoc basis (Performance and Appointments Committee, Development Control Committee, Licensing Committee, Licensing Panel, Miscellaneous Licensing Sub-Committee, Standards Sub-Committee), member training, member briefing sessions, and any further working groups established by the Council.

  1. Noted that the Council Procedure Rules (Part 5A of the Constitution) allows each committee to set its own start time.

 

For 39, Against 0, Abstentions 1

 

Council took a 12 minute break at this point.

 

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