Economy, Place, Access, and
Transport Scrutiny Committee
Work Plan - April 2025
onwards
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Item |
Lead Officer / Exec Member |
Scope |
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29 April 2025 |
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Review of bags to bins
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James Gilchrist, Cllr Jenny Kent |
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Emergency
Planning |
James Gilchrist, Steve Wragg, Cllr Jenny Kent |
- Less common / rare: Food
insecurity / novel disease outbreaks / major heatwaves, droughts,
wildfires. |
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20 May 2025 |
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Trees |
Harvey Lowson, Cllr Jenny Kent |
- Performance / challenges relating
to CYC’s management |
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Assets of Community Value |
Tim Bradley?, Cllr Pete Kilbane / Katie Lomas? |
How can CYC: Promote adding to the local register of Assets of Community Value;
Make it easier for residents and
community groups to nominate an ACV; Prepare for law changes on the Community Right to Buy in securing a wider range of ACVs. |
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Section 106 |
Becky Eades?, Cllr Michael Pavlovic |
CYC’s approach to
creating S106 documents before they are signed off (including scope
for Member input) |
List
for items for new Scrutiny Committee(s) to pick
up
Dial & Ride
- Update on administration’s work on this, since Task &
Finish Group recommendations passed in June 2024. A
“one year on” meaningful update would be appreciated by
all concerned here, as that’s plenty of time.
Review of CYC’s Property
Asset Portfolio
- Covering how each of CYC’s property assets are performing
in terms of income generation/returns on investment, their
long-term security / financial prospects, possible disposals,
use-class mix, vacancy rates, any scope for meanwhile use for
communities, opportunity to feed into next Asset Management
Strategy (as now expired), and anything else of
value.
Input into formulation of next Electric Vehicle Charging
Strategy
- Including an eye to
progressing the on-street parking question which has not been
prioritised to date.
Car Parking
provision across the city
The report we did not get in March 2025 - Covering public,
private and Park & Ride provision, Blue Badge parking, income
received, usage, impact on closing Castle Car Park on the wider
estate, wider aims e.g. shifting to less polluting vehicles,
approach taken for busy shopping areas outside of the city-centre
(e.g. Haxby, Acomb Front St), future of Res Park.
Parking
Enforcement
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Costs of service / Income generated - scope to improve? Can
we offer services to private land owners?
- Activity across entire local authority area - How many
enforcement officers do we have, how many fines issued, which areas
of their city are they issued in, how often are Res Park zones
visited. A view of this over the last 5 - 10 years would
be helpful for identifying trends.
- Position on pavement parking
- Consistency of enforcement (seen officers apply different limits
to Double Yellow Lines)
- Hotline performance - how many reports logged, how many of these
received visits in a timely manner (or at all)
Out-of-hours drop in provision due to over-stretched Police unable
to prioritise parking
Review of
York’s economy / economic development
strategy
Stock-take of performance against current strategy and its
relevance next to the Combined Authority’s economic
development role, as well as key personell changes within CYC
Pros and cons of combining economic development services with the
Combined Authority
Planning and Development Services -
enforcement
Operational
challenges / opportunities, performance over the last 5-10 years
relative to staffing numbers, numbers of (known) breaches by
developers
Tourism Levy
What’s being done elsewhere, what work is happening in York
to explore this, updates following motion passed at Full Council in
March 2025 on this
A-Boards
How effective has the A-Board “ban” been?
Make It York
General update on their work, successes,
challenges, relationship with all of the market traders, plans for
Christmas Market (with reference to Committee’s previous
recommendation to look at ways to “spread” it out to
reduce crowding and make it more accessible).
Park &
Ride
Opportunity to feed into full tender, following likely short-term
tender discussed at March 2025 Scrutiny
Age Friendly York
What is being done to help make the city a better place for older
people to live in?
Review of Council’s pedestrian crossing policy
Reviewing city’s Economic Strategy
Review of the original Bus Service Improvement Plan
(BSIP)
Review of how the first BSIP has gone, achievements, next steps,
future asks of the Mayoral Combined Authority
Other Bus-related matters
- Enhanced Bus Partnership; how effective is it, is this the best
model for delivering service improvements for residents?
- Bus stop improvements
Council-run businesses
How are CYC generating income commercially? Are we using
everything we can to the best of our ability to generate new or
more income streams?
York’s Pay Gap
For 2026 as already had an initial report on the Gender Pay Gap
– what is the city’s pay gap like in relation to
ethnicity and disability? What is the Council doing to
support local businesses – especially smaller ones – to
improve on their gender pay gap performance?