Economy, Place, Access, and Transport Scrutiny Committee Work Plan

Quarterly finance and performance monitoring reports:
To include along with papers for the relevant committee date, but not to be treated as a substantive agenda item.  We can still raise questions/comments about them though by exception if Members wish to; perhaps then following up with specific agenda item in future.

Possible Task and Finish Groups to run in parallel.  Detailed scope needs working out between interested Members prior to committee approval.
- Grass verges, etc?
Interested Members: Cllrs Hook, Steward, and Taylor.
- Broadband installation issues?
Interested Members: Cllrs Hook and Nelson

Role of Executive Members:
- Expected to attend items relevant to their portfolio area
- Committee Members to maintain sight of Executive business and flag up specific issues/reports to bring to committee for scrutiny, pending space on the workplan.

Other notes for info:
To give sufficient notice we should aim to confirm these no later than 2 calendar months prior to each meeting. We should aim to keep to two substantive items per meeting to give the Committee sufficient time to properly consider an item.

Theme	Item	Lead Officer	Scope
25 February 2025
25 March 2025
	(Q3) Finance and Performance Monitoring Report	Patrick Looker
29 April 2025
	Review of bags to bins

Potential Scrutiny agenda items suggested by Committee Members not currently on the work plan:

Economy

· York’s Gender Pay Gap

· Tourism Levy:  what’s being done elsewhere, what is possible here?

· Focus on Council-owned / part-owned companies?

Place

· Planning Enforcement / Member involvement in Planning

· Make It York - normally receive annual update but - what would we specifically want from them?  Possibly something on relationship with market traders and plans for the market.

· York BID - normally receive annual update - as above, and is the scrutiny of their business membership sufficient given our limited meeting time?

· York Central:  once the Master Developers start progressing their plans, could this committee have a role in giving early steer on them for relevant items?

Access

· Age Friendly York:  Can Scrutiny assist their Evolving Action Plan?

Transport

· Buses: network coverage and frequency, BSIP plan implementation and use of funding, improving the Enhanced Bus Partnership, Integration with Railway Station / Park & Ride, Bus Stop improvements, Passenger Information

· Car Parking: provision across the city covering public, private and Park & Ride, income received, use, impact on closing Castle Car Park on the wider estate, wider aims e.g. shifting to less polluting vehicles.

· Bus lane enforcement on Coppergate - drop between July 2023 and October 2023 / ANPR enforcement across the city.

· Review of Council’s pedestrian crossing policy

· Travel to School – plans for each school to make daily journeys safer, increase active travel, reduce congestion and air pollution around school sites