Council Meeting- 20/10/2022

Motion

Resolutions

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

 

Equality for Disabled People

This Council resolves:

·         to adopt the Social Model of Disability and embed it into every area of its working, operation, policy and practice, including in how it communicates;

Pauline Stuchfield / Laura Williams

Work to commence on actions when Access Officer is in post working on an integrated action plan.  Integrated Action Plan is in development. Work has started with comms on updating accessible information guidelines in line with commitments in response to Health Watch Report.   Social Model of Disability Adopted.

A report titled ‘Implementing the Social Model of Disability’ was approved at a Decision Session of the Executive Member for Finance, Performance, Major Projects, Human Rights and Equalities on 24 January 2024. The recommendations were:

1)         approve the policy statement on implementing the Social Model of Disability at City of York Council,

2)         commit to the council providing elected Members and officers with appropriate Disability Equality Training; and

3)         note the York Access Forum update, Terms of Reference, and the next steps in appointing a new forum Chair

Completed

·         to review the extent to which disability awareness training, inclusive and universal design training and disability equality is embedded across the organisation in how the council delivers services, making recommendations as appropriate;

Pauline Stuchfield / Laura Williams

As above, the paper approved on 24 January included a recommendation to provide training. It stated that ‘To further embed the Social Model of Disability it is essential that Disability Equality Training is made a mandatory part of the council’s training and induction package, for both officers and elected Members.’ It also stated ‘There are already resources within the Customer and Communities Directorate working on Access. However, work is ongoing to address meeting the council’s statutory equalities and human rights responsibilities, and it is recognised there is the need for additional training resources to support the delivery of these responsibilities, including training on disability.’

 

The lack of funding for this work as a result of the council’s ongoing challenges has meant implementation of this training has been delayed. In the proposed Financial Strategy 2025/26 there is £50k budget growth for disability equality training. We also have a new role of Head of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion who will take up post on 5 March 2025.

Completed

·         to prepare and adopt a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) on building design, post Local Plan adoption, in order to deliver accessible and inclusive new developments in the future;

Pauline Stuchfield / Laura Williams

As above. To follow formulation of Independent Advisory Group (IAG below) and local plan adoption.

 

An Executive Report in January 2023 resolved that accessibility should be included as a cross-cutting theme in all SPDs.   A further report in September 2024 focussing on Prioritising Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) further confirmed that the Social Model of Disability is to be acknowledged in every SPD. Whilst no specific accessibility SPD was agreed to be prioritised, it was confirmed that the provision of and design of accessible housing in the Housing SPD is “particularly important in this context. Embedding these considerations into an SPD that holistically covers housing matters will support the Council’s commitment to the Social Model of Disability and the Public Sector Equality Duty”.  This paper also confirmed that further guidance regarding ‘Accessibility in design’, was underway working with the York Access Forum to develop a design checklist for design considerations. This guidance will complement the accessibility content in the Housing SPD, with a greater focus on the design of public realm and non-residential developments.

Completed

·         to commit to genuine co-production on all council developments, where disabled people’s views are incorporated alongside those of appropriate professionals when considering inclusion and accessibility;

Pauline Stuchfield / Laura Williams

City of York Council committed to employ an Access Officer as part of the motion and they have been in post since November 2022. One of the Access Officer’s first acts was to convene a disability advisory group in March 2023. This became known as ‘York Access Forum’. As above the Terms of Reference for this group were approved in January 2024 (Annex A York Access Forum Terms of Reference Final Draft.pdf) and it was also agreed CYC would appoint an Independent Chair, who is now in place. The group are working with council officers on various consultations and council developments, however both the forum and CMT recognise that there is still significant work to be done to ensure there is genuine co-production on appropriate projects, and the roll out of Disability Equalities Training will help with both this, and a wider understanding of the barriers facing disabled people in the city.

Completed

·         upon the appointment of an Access Officer, to convene a quarterly Access Forum, resourced so that it will work in an entirely inclusive and accessible way, supporting a genuine commitment to co-production.

Pauline Stuchfield / Laura Williams

As above. 

Complete

 

 

Council Meeting- 20/07/23

Motion

Resolutions

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

A city response to Food Insecurity

This council resolves to ask the Executive to:

·         write a letter to the Prime Minister and relevant ministers

about the importance of introducing auto-enrolment for those entitled to free school meals;

Executive Members /

Martin Kelly / Maxine Squire / Pauline Stuchfield

See below – auto-enrolment introduced.

Completed

 

·         promote enrolment for free school meals to support children, young people and their families to help combat food

insecurity and shortage in York;

Martin Kelly / Maxine Squire / Pauline Stuchfield

 

The CYC admissions team promote FSM support for children as do schools.  The scale up of auto enrolment is designed to ensure all those eligible receive the entitlement.

 

Completed

 

·         encourage larger food providers in and around York to sign

up to York’s Good Business Charter, including paying the

Real Living Wage;

Ben Murphy / Garry Taylor

 

Working with the Mayoral Combined Authority and Good Business Charter, a workstream is underway to explore and facilitate uptake of the charter across key sector including food providers.

Ongoing

 

·         work more closely with Parish Councils and groups like

Edible York and YACIO (York Allotments Charitable

Incorporated Organisation) to develop ideas for increasing

the number of public green spaces available for food

production by communities across York;

Pauline Stuchfield / James Gilchrist

 

 

See below but can also tie into the York Neighbourhood model

Ongoing

 

·         request that the council’s scrutiny function undertakes a

review of community food growing opportunities and makes

recommendations to Executive to expand these

opportunities, including considering the prospects for

expanding an Edible York project in Tang Hall to other parts

of the city to bring more underused gardens into use for food

growing.

 

Food Scrutiny review in progress, task and finish group set up in CCC. now reporting to People Scrutiny Committee – draft report for December 2025 (TBC).

Ongoing

 

 

Council Meeting- 21/09/23

Motion

Resolutions

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Supporting people living with epilepsy

 

·         Request that the Executive Members in whose portfolios Economy and Inclusion sit to use all available opportunities to engage with groups such as the Federation of Small Businesses, Chambers of Commerce, York BID, Hospitality Association York and the York High Street Forum to raise awareness with employers about what more they can do to support people living with epilepsy in work

Nick Wharton

Cllr Kilbane

 

Ongoing

 

·         Request that the Executive Member for Finance, Performance, Major Projects, Human Rights, Equality and Inclusion ensures that City of York Council is doing all that it can to be an employer that supports current and potential future staff who live with epilepsy.

 

Helen Whiting Cllr Lomas

HR Support any employee as part of reasonable adjustments to work, this is identified both at the start of employment and during, which will include epilepsy.

 

The nature and impact of epilepsy on every individual is very different therefore, support is unique, and so is awareness.  Officers with epilepsy would be strongly encouraged to discuss type of epilepsy and how this impacts them with manager and colleagues to ensure that support can be provided as needed as part of their work activities.  This may include a Personal Evaluation Plan in a building should there be an emergency situation and the individual is triggered by stress, uncertainty or changing physical environments.

 

 

Completed

 

 

Council Meeting – 21/03/24

 

Motion

Resolutions

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

 

Making York a Trauma Informed City

Council resolves:

·          To take steps to become a Trauma-Informed City and commits to working in partnership to embed Trauma-Informed frameworks across services and partner agencies, working in co-production with trauma survivors;

Martin Kelly

 

Cllr Steels-Walshaw

Trauma informed training has been provided through the Integrated Care Board (ICB) to a range of practitioners in the council. We are completing a skills audit to understand the extent of this. Further training has been arranged to upskill Executive and CMT in February 2025. Following this training we will discuss the opportunities to upskill different aspects of the workforce and develop a wider city strategy. Such an ambitious strategy is likely to take several years and funding would need to be considered. Furthermore, a trauma informed subgroup has been developed to help inform a future strategy.

Completed

 

·         To ask the Executive Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care and Executive colleagues to explore the introduction of a Trauma-Informed framework across Council services;

 

In progress as per above.

Completed

 

·         To request the Executive Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care explore the introduction of training for staff and councillors, including e-learning modules, that enables City of York Council to become a Trauma-Informed organisation;

 

Pilot of in house training being held in June 2024 with cohort of customer and housing officers and CMT

Completed

 

·         To work with partner organisations to implement a city-wide approach to raising awareness of the impact of trauma and how becoming Trauma-Informed can help to support trauma survivors;

 

The Council is adopting the Poverty Truth Commission’s Charter and Organisational Standards – see March 2025 Executive – across all council services.

Completed

 

·         To consider the implications of making it a requirement in commissioned contracts and services that partner organisations can demonstrate they have, or are implementing, a Trauma-Informed framework;

Chloe Wilcox / Zoe Metcalfe

 

Ongoing

 

·         To recommend the Health, Housing and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee request a report from TEWV NHS Trust on its prior application and progress in moving beyond the use of the BPD+ protocol, an assessment of current staff understanding and the outlining of any trauma-informed approaches it is implementing.

Peter Roderick

Trauma Informed City Report from TEWV NHS Trust considered by HHASC Scrutiny Committee on 21 May 2025. TEWV to be invited to People Scrutiny Committee for a further update in summer 2026.

Completed

 

Motion

Resolutions

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

 

Safeguarding future library provision

Council resolves:

·         To ask the relevant Executive Member and council officers to continue engaging proactively in the next three months with York Explore, service users and, through Scrutiny, elected members of all parties in order to ensure that future library provision in York continues to meet residents’ needs and expectations, including reforming the mobile library service and retaining the number of staffed libraries and library services, including to outlying areas not covered by Gateway or Explore libraries across the city;

 

Pauline Stuchfield

Any changes to library services need to eminate from an updated library needs assessment which includes the current early engagement process.  This will inform confidential commercial negotiations ahead of proposals for further consultation prior going back to Executive for approval.

 

Scrutiny will be part of the ongoing engagement process including on the assessment of need and any resulting proposals around changes in service delivery.

 

Scrutiny briefing on Assessment of Need scheduled in October 2025

In Progress

 

 

·         To request the Executive Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care and the Leader of the Council write to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Arts Council, to clarify the council’s financial position and to reassure them of the council’s commitment to York’s libraries and archives.

 

 

Letters issued 30 May 2024

Completed

 


Motion

Resolutions

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Affordable Housing Motion

Council resolves:

• That following adoption of York’s Local Plan, the relevant officers, scrutiny and executive should examine examples elsewhere in the country that seek to make housing more affordable for their residents, including through any powers available at Mayoral Combined Authority level;

Michael Jones / Garry Taylor

 

Cllr Pavlovic

The Local Plan was adopted by full council 27/02/25.

 

A meeting will be scheduled between the Place Scrutiny Chair, the Executive Member and relevant officers to agree how to deliver this resolution.

 

Ongoing

 

·     This should include consideration of broadening the affordable housing criteria to include residents paying no more than a set percentage of their incomes in mortgages. It should also compare such an approach with existing council policy of homes for sale valued at a more traditional reduced level of market value, arising from s106 developer contributions;

 

 

Ongoing

 

·     Further, to request Executive reviews the council’s policy on developer social housing contributions, with an assessment of whether adding new council homes through this mechanism would improve the supply and quality of nationally-defined affordable homes to York residents.

 

 

Ongoing

 

Council Meeting- 19/09/24

Motion

Resolutions

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Reforming Residents' Priority Parking in York

Council resolved to request Executive:

·         Simplifies the process for implementing and modifying ResPark schemes by:

 

▫   Developing a set of standardised criteria for ResPark eligibility;

▫   Developing a streamlined consultation and implementation process for ResPark schemes, in accordance with current legislation;

▫   Conducting a city-wide review of the Respark process;

▫   Working to reform the turnout guideline in Residents’ Parking consultations to reflect area-specific issues for some streets, including consistently unoccupied properties, short-term and part time occupancy properties, and HMOs;

▫   Reviewing the pricing structure for ResPark permits to ensure fair pricing for residents.

Garry Taylor/Cllr Ravilious

Discussions are ongoing with the Executive Member of how best to approach this.

 

 

This was taken to Exec Member and approved on 21 October 2025 - see item 6 here: https://democracy.york.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=1061&MId=14981

The pricing wasn't considered as it is a budget item

 

Ongoing

·         Asks the Executive Member for Transport to work with council officers to present a detailed plan and timeline for expanding and reforming ResPark, in accordance with existing legislation, to the Executive, when capacity exists;

Garry Taylor/Cllr Ravilious

 

Discussions are ongoing with the Executive Member of how best to approach this.

Ongoing

·         Commits to implementing a reformed ResPark system, having considered the measures proposed in this motion and in accordance with existing legislation.

 

Garry Taylor/Cllr Ravilious

 

Discussions are ongoing with the Executive Member of how best to approach this.

Ongoing

Motions

Resolutions

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Dignity in retirement

Council resolved

 

·         To ask the Leader of the Council, Leader of the Council’s opposition groups and York’s two MPs to write to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ask them to review the Winter Fuel Allowance eligibility threshold.

 

Cllrs Douglas/Ayre Steward

 

Nick Wharton

Letters in progress

Ongoing

·         To request that the Executive Members for Finance, Major Projects and Equalities work with officers to create a plan for consideration by the relevant Scrutiny Committee(s) which sets out a range of measures that could be taken to mitigate the impact of the above decisions on York’s pensioners, including maintaining financial support for warm spaces in York through allocation of Household Support Fund grants.

 

Debbie Mitchell/David Walker

Councillor Katie Lomas

A range of support provided in 2024/25 through Household Support Fund for e.g. warm spaces.

 

Added to draft People Scrutiny Work Plan.

 

Further support is being provided during 2025/26 through HSF7 this includes:

 

·         Food and Fuel Vouchers

·         York Energy Advice Grants

·         Warm Places

·         Talk Money Signposting

 

Ongoing

·         To request that officers continue writing to all 470 pensioners who are currently entitled to Pension Credit and do not claim it, informing them of the Winter Fuel Payment changes and encouraging them to claim for the benefits they are entitled to.

 

Pauline Stuchfield

Councillor Katie Lomas

Extensive work completed and ongoing in this field. 168 pensioners have now claimed Pension Credit, putting over £1,338,597.84 into the pockets of residents in first year of claiming.  Work is ongoing to support people in claiming.

 

Current position is £1,790,736.  There is an ongoing campaign in partnership with Citizen’s Advice York, Older Citizens Advocacy York (OCAY), Age UK York and the Carers’ Centre. 

 

Completed

 

Council Meeting – 21/11/24

Motions

Resolutions

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Protecting more of York’s Community Assets

Council resolved:

·         To support individuals and community groups interested in protecting or acquiring an asset by sharing information with them on local and national funders. This includes making links with and working with organisations such as Plunkett UK, Music Venue Trust and Power to Change.

Debbie Mitchell

 

Cllr Lomas

 

Ongoing

·         To commit to supporting further work to ensure processes for protecting and acquiring community assets are as accessible as possible.

 

 

Ongoing

·         To request its scrutiny function considers how best the council can:

 

1.   Promote adding to the local register of Assets of Community Value;

 

2.   Make it easier for residents and community groups to nominate an ACV;

 

3.   Celebrate the success stories of ACVs in our community to encourage new nominations;

 

4. Prepare for law changes on the Community Right to Buy in securing a wider range of ACVs.”

 

 

Added to draft Place Scrutiny Work Plan

Ongoing

 

Motion

Resolutions

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Protecting York’s Primary and Social Care providers

Council resolved:

• To ask the Group Leaders to write to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to request that charitable social care providers, hospices and primary care providers including GPs, Dental practices and pharmacies are carefully considered for exclusion from her increase to Employers National Insurance contributions.

 

Political assistants

 

Cllr Steels-Walshaw

 

Ongoing

Motion

Resolutions

 

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Renewing York’s commitment to Fairtrade

 

Council resolved:

• To renew its commitment to Fairtrade and to York’s status as a Fairtrade City, continuing to raise awareness and supporting actions that make global trade fairer.

Claire Foale / Debbie Mitchell

 

Cllr Lomas

 

Ongoing

• To continue to appoint a named councillor to York Fair Trade Forum, to provide a strong link with the council and to support its work.

 

Cllr Tony Clarke has been appointed

Completed

• To work with York Fair Trade Forum to ensure York continues to meet and exceed the requirements necessary to maintain its status as a Fairtrade City.

 

 

Ongoing

• To consider offering Fairtrade goods wherever possible and available, for example in any catering and in-house café provision.

 

 

Ongoing

• To ensure Fairtrade remains a feature following the current update of the council’s Social Value Strategy, so it is considered through its procurement processes, and those of its suppliers, where applicable.

 

Fairtrade goods and services is a key aspect of the social value outcome framework

Completed

• To promote Fairtrade issues and practices among local businesses, commercial and other organisations.

 

 

Ongoing

• To share best practice about Fairtrade and sustainable development with other public bodies, stakeholders and partners.

 

 

Ongoing

• To request the Executive Leader writes to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade to request their support for the Fairtrade Foundation’s ‘three asks’ of the new Government:

 

1.    Develop trade policy that works for people and planet. Policies that must improve resilience for the smallholder farmers and workers producing food overseas, and support innovative business approaches to enhance environmental and social sustainability;

2.    Legislate to ensure responsible business. The legislation must ensure that businesses address human rights and environmental violations in supply chains, including deforestation, while taking full account of the needs of farmers and workers;

3.    Strengthen UK aid by responding to the needs and priorities of farmers and workers who make a crucial contribution to the global food system.

 

 

Letter sent

Completed

 

Council Meeting – 27/03/25

Motion

 

Resolutions

 

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Introduction of a Visitor Levy

Executive to:

 

·         explore the feasibility and practical mechanisms for introducing a visitor levy for overnight stays, including for short-term holidays lets, in consultation with local businesses, residents, and hospitality industry stakeholders;

·         research visitor levy models from other cities to determine the best approach for York, including an Accommodation Business Improvement District (ABID) option;

·         lobby central government to grant local authorities the necessary legal powers to implement a compulsory visitor levy;

Claire Foale / Nick Wharton / Cllr Lomas / Cllr Kilbane

Policy development will only begin after discussion with hospitality sector

 

Research of national and international cities collated.

 

MCA working with YSJ’s Policy Lab, to conduct independent research with hospitality sector, corporate visitors, and visitors to inform recommendations about a potential model that could be implemented in York.

 

Letter sent (action completed)

Ongoing

Motion

 

Resolutions

 

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Changes to disability and long-term sickness benefits

·         To ask the Leader of the Council to write to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister to express;

o   this Council’s strong belief that welfare reform must not be predicated on financial savings and in particular, cuts to PIP;

o   that as a Council we recognise the difficult financial situation the country faces and believe the correct way to address this is by tackling the enormous wealth inequalities that exist in our society, not by removing desperately needed support from those least able to bear the cost;

o   the severe impact of austerity on support services and the soaring levels of need;

o   that following the social model of disability necessitates that National and Local Government work tirelessly to remove barriers – whether physical or financial – to ensure disabled people are able to live socially, emotionally and financially secure and fulfilling lives which puts them on an equal footing with non-disabled people;

 

·         To request the relevant Scrutiny Committee to undertake a review via a Task and Finish Group, when detailed Government proposals on disability and long-term sickness benefits are known in order to identify likely impacts on the demand for support from the council and its local partners.

Nick Wharton / Cllr Douglas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sara Storey / Pauline Stuchfield / Scrutiny Officer / Cllr Steels-Walshaw

Policies being reviewed and impacts being analysed for York through available data.

 

3 x letters prepared, approved and sent mid April.

 

Task and Finish Group established (to report to People Scrutiny Committee); draft report for early 2026 (TBC)

Completed

Motion

 

Resolutions

 

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Working to tackle the growing epidemic of violence against

women and girls (VAWG)

·         that City of York Council’s (CYC) Domestic Abuse Awareness Day, which took place last December during 16 days of action to tackle VAWG, be repeated each year, with learning shared with CYC Human Resources and partner organisations encouraged to run similar events;

·         to ask the Council Leader to write to other council leaders in our region to encourage them adopt a similar approach around awareness raising across services and about VAWG being everyone’s responsibility;

·         to work closely with survivors and local specialist and ‘by and for’ services to understand the impact of VAWG in York;

·         building on existing good work at Vale of York Academy, to work through both the council and local Multi Academy Trust chains to ensure comprehensive education on healthy relationships and respect for women and girls is available in all schools across York;

·         that the Executive Member for Housing, Planning and Safer Communities uses the new council reporting format to frequently update the public on steps being taken to reduce VAWG, and to hold the council and partners to account on these commitments.

Helen Whiting/Peter Roderick/Nick Wharton/Maxine Squire

Cllr Steels-Walshaw / Cllr Douglas/Cllr Pavlovic

Public Health to take the lead and will be promoted across CYC workforce accordingly.  Implemented as business as usual.

 

Letters to regional leaders drafted, approved and will be issued before committee meets.

 

York is well engaged with both the VAWG Partnership led by OPFCC and the Serious Violence Duty Working Group to ensure that cross cutting themes are picked up within the remit of these groups.  There are action plans aligned to both groups and reports on progress in delivery are provided to Safer York Partnership.

 

Two domestic abuse awareness days took place within CYC in September focusing on the link between domestic abuse and suicide.

 

A domestic abuse guide for businesses is under development and work is being piloted with Portakabin.

 

The domestic abuse team has been working with partners supporting LGBTQ+ communities to raise awareness of domestic abuse support services.

 

Work is underway within the Public Health Directorate to understand how secondary schools can be better supported around PSHE.

 

Ongoing

 

 

Council Meeting – 17/07/25

Motion

Resolutions

 

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Improving equality of access to elections

 

 

·         to request the Council Leader writes to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Deputy Prime Minister, making the case that local election franchising be applied equally to all residents in England, in line with Scotland and Wales;

·         to request the Council Leader writes to letting

agencies and landlords with significant numbers of properties in York, the University of York and York St John University, seeking greater support in registering more residents to vote, including consideration of automatic registration;

·         to request the Council, through the appropriate

committee, considers those recommendations of the IPPR in which there is local discretion, and any other viable opportunities to increase voter

participation, before making recommendations to the Returning Officer for their consideration, prior to the Local Elections in 2027.

Bryn Roberts / Nick Wharton

Cllr Douglas / Cllr Fenton

 

 

Letters are currently in draft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work on the third bullet point will commence with the involvement of the new Chief Executive/Returning Officer, to ensure their direction on the running the election is followed.

 

 

Ongoing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supporting York’s small businesses

 

 

·       To request the Executive to instruct officers to estimate the cost of restoring a lower cost 30-minute stay option at on-street parking sites where this had been available prior to April 2025, and to assess whether this supports the objectives of the council’s approved Local Transport and Climate Strategies;

·      To request that Executive considers setting out options for the reinstatement of a lower cost 30-minute stay at these locations, following the conclusion and findings from its trader-instigated Review of Parking Charges (under Traffic Management Act 2004 powers);

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·      to ask that the Executive works with local business groups and representative organisations, such as the York Business Improvement District and the Federation of Small Businesses, to understand the impact of recent National Insurance changes in order to be able to lobby Government for mitigation measures.

 

Michael Howard/ Garry Taylor

Cllr Ravilious

Cllr Kilbane

The council has worked with the three Right to Challenge areas, business representatives and traders to set out a consultation and engagement plan to gather feedback about the cost of car-parking and the impact this is having on small businesses. 

 

At their request, the council has commissioned an independent transport consultant to run the consultation, and will invite Scrutiny to review feedback.

 

The collates and publishes economic and footfall data quarterly, (with unfunded plans to collate transport data) to understand the impact on revenues and footfall and the impact on transport and climate change strategic objectives.  This qualitative feedback and quantitive data will be used by the independent transport consultants to develop recommendations for Executive to review the charges, following Scrutiny review.

 

The council is reaching out to partners and collating business intelligence on this matter, including through its monthly meetings with business representatives at the York and North Yorkshire Business Intelligence meeting. It will use this to inform a proposal to lobby government to consider mitigation measures as a result of the NI changes.

Ongoing

Non-proliferation of Fossil Fuels

 

 

·         to request that the Council Leader gives York’s written support to the Non-Proliferation Treaty on Fossil Fuels campaign, confirming York’s position to the Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero; and

·         writes to the Mayor of York and North Yorkshire and the city’s two MPs confirming the council’s position on non-proliferation of fossil fuels, and seeking their support in achieving this goal, through both regional decision-making, national energy policy and support for the MP for York Central’s Early Day Motion 111 in support of the above Treaty.

Shaun Gibbons / Nick Wharton

Cllr Douglas

City of York Council are now signatories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty on Fossil Fuels

 

 

Letters to Secretary of State, Mayor and two York MPs are in draft.

 

Council Meeting – 18/09//25

Motion

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Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Planning Process Improvements

 

 

Council calls for a cross-party group to be set up to look at improvements to the planning and specifically the S106 process including the following:

·     Share details and discuss the existing review of outstanding S106 money and the plans to spend it (and absolutely ensure any risk of it needing to return it to developers is minimised)

·     Improving the process of ensuring all consultees respond to S106 enquiries (noting for example a notable number of large applications which have received no NHS response)

·     Creating a system for ward members to identify their ward priorities in the different categories of s106 contributions (in which there is discretion i.e. not education, early years places etc) to inform officers when drafting s106 agreements;

·        Ensuring the monitoring of S106 agreements is rigorous and breaches are swiftly acted upon.

·        Ensuring that the monies received are spent as promptly as possible to deliver the mitigations / benefits they are for, and that there is a clear monitoring system for this.

 

Becky Eades / Cllr Pavlovic

 

 

 

To do.

 

 

 

All consultees have been contacted to remind them of the timescales for responding to enquiries.

 

 

Ward members have been asked to identify priorities in their Ward.

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring system in place with specific officers tasked with the responsibility.

Open

 

Motion

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Lead Officer / Executive Member

Actions taken

Status

Fair Funding for York

 

 

Council resolves to call on the Council Leader to:

·    outline any formal representation she or other political leaders have made to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Chancellor of the Exchequer demanding that York is not left with a £15m shortfall under the new model

·    rule out seeking powers to impose a Council Tax rise above the current 4.99% ceiling in any event

·    engage with other local authorities with large student populations to make the case for funding allocations to fully take into account the impact of the Class N exemption

·    re-engage with the F20 group of the least well-funded Councils to lobby the Government to introduce a truly fair funding system.

 

Debbie Mitchell / Cllr Lomas
  1. The Council responded to the FFR consultation, and the full response is published on the open data platform here

https://data.yorkopendata.org/dataset/fair-funding-review-consultation-2025

  1. There is no intention to propose a council tax rise above the current 4.99% ceiling

 

  1. As part of the Society of Unitary Treasurers and other regional groups, officers have engaged with other councils in a similar position.

 

  1. As above.

 

Completed

Tackling Pavement Parking to Promote safe, Accessible Streets for All

 

 

Council resolves:

•    to request the Executive Member for Transport writes to the Government, seeking publication of the long-overdue response to the 2020 pavement-parking consultation, undertaken by the previous Government, without delay and rapid subsequent action and/or legislation to include:

o national prohibition on pavement parking with sensible local exemptions only where genuinely necessary; and

o streamlining Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) procedures, making it easier, quicker, and less costly for local authorities to impose pavement parking restrictions where necessary; and

o sufficient funding and resources for local authorities to implement and enforce the changes, given the significant initial resource burden;

•    to empower council officers to explore the use of TROs on key streets suffering from excessive pavement parking, while noting the TRO process is currently lengthy and expensive;

•    to support Living Streets’ recommendation to accompany any new pavement parking law with a targeted national awareness campaign explaining the dangers and legal changes to the public;

•    to work collaboratively with local organisations such as Living Streets, Walk York, York Civic Trust and other walking and disability advocacy groups to co-produce accessible guidance and communications on pavement parking rights and responsibilities, to raise greater awareness of the challenges pavement parking can cause;

Garry Taylor / Cllr Ravilious

Work is underway in preparing a written submission to government in this respect

 

Work will be undertaken as part of the movement and place strategy to work collaboratively with local organisations such as Living Streets, Walk York, York Civic Trust and other walking and disability advocacy groups to co-produce accessible guidance and communications on pavement parking rights and responsibilities.