Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Environment and Sustainability Panel
21 Mar 2024 - 18:00 to 20:00
Occurred
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda

Part A
Live Broadcast

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(107) ColchesterCBC - YouTube

1 Welcome and Announcements
The Chairman will welcome members of the public and Councillors and remind everyone to use microphones at all times when they are speaking. The Chairman will also explain action in the event of an emergency, mobile phones switched to silent, audio-recording of the meeting. Councillors who are members of the committee will introduce themselves.
2 Substitutions
Councillors will be asked to say if they are attending on behalf of a Committee member who is absent.
3 Urgent Items
The Chairman will announce if there is any item not on the published agenda which will be considered because it is urgent and will explain the reason for the urgency.
4 Declarations of Interest

Councillors will be asked to say if there are any items on the agenda about which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest which would prevent them from participating in any discussion of the item or participating in any vote upon the item, or any other registerable interest or non-registerable interest.

 

5 Minutes of Previous Meeting
The Councillors will be invited to confirm that the minutes of the meeting held on 8 February 2024 are a correct record.
6 Have Your Say! (Hybrid Council Meetings)

Members of the public may make representations to Council meetings on any item on the agenda or any other matter relating to the business of Council. This can be made either in person at the meeting or by joining the meeting remotely and addressing the Council via Zoom.  Each representation may be no more than three minutes. Members of the public wishing to address Council remotely may register their wish to address the meeting by e-mailing democratic.services@colchester.gov.uk by 12.00 noon on the working day before the meeting. In addition, a written copy of the representation should be supplied for use in the event of technical difficulties preventing participation at the meeting itself.

There is no requirement to pre-register for those attending in person.

 

The Committee are invited to review the report and recommend to Cabinet that it approve the changes to Ferry Marsh Nature Reserve as set out in the report.
The Committee are invited to note and support the the work being undertaken to improve air quality in Colchester, and to support staff in their negotiations with Essex County Council to obtain necessary permissions to take projects forward. 
The Committee are invited to support the work of the Sustainable Travel Team in working with the County Council and partners to deliver infrastructure and projects to enable travel behaviour change. Further to this the Committee are invited to support the progress being made by the City Council in delivering the key goals and outcomes for sustainable travel in Colchester.
The Committee are invited to review the report and recommend to Cabinet the strategy with any additional comments and changes as agreed by the panel.
The Committee are invited to note the contents of the work programme for 2023-2024.
Part B

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
Apologies
NameReason for Sending ApologySubstituted By
Councillor Tracy Arnold Councillor Mark Cory
Absent
NameReason for AbsenceSubstituted By
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Visitors

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