Forward Plan: Executive Meeting: 1 March 2022

 

Table 1: Items scheduled on the Forward Plan for the Executive Meeting on 21 April 2022

Title and Description

Author

Portfolio Holder

Enhanced Partnership for Buses

Purpose of Report

To request approval for the York Enhanced Partnership Plan and Scheme, a binding statutory partnership agreement between the council and bus operators which will:
- replace the existing voluntary York Quality Bus Partnership;
- act as the delivery scheme for the council’s Bus Service Improvement Plan; and
- enable the council and York’s local bus operators to continue to receive central government grant funding for bus services beyond March 2022.

Executive will be asked to: approve the final text of the York Enhanced Partnership Plan and Scheme, enabling it to take legal effect from 31 March 2022.

Sam Fryers

Executive Member for Transport

Review of the “Controlling the Concentration of Houses in Multiple Occupation” Supplementary Planning Document 2012 (revised 2014) in response to the Council Motion of December 2021

Purpose of Report

To respond to the Motion from full Council in December 2021 to review the Controlling the Concentration of Houses in Multiple Occupation” Draft Supplementary Planning Document 2012 (revised 2014) which is used to determine planning permissions for HMOs through the Article 4 Direction which came into force on 20 April 2012. The Council Motion asked Executive to consider halving the acceptable percentage thresholds to 10% at ‘Neighbourhood level’ and 5% at ‘Street Level’.

Executive will be asked to: determine the council’s policy framework on controlling Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) for consideration as part of the Council’s Local Plan.

Sara Dilmamode / Tracey Carter

Executive Member for Economy and Strategic Planning

Acomb Front Street

Purpose of Report

To set out the work undertaken to date to consider improvement opportunities for Acomb Front Street, including the public engagement outcomes, the investment committed to date, and the proposed ideas and next steps in delivery.
Executive will be asked to:-
- Consider the outcomes of the public engagement and emerging ideas on how to improve the public realm.
- Review the short and long term proposals for improvements to Front Street and the funding available to deliver these.

Andy Kerr / Penny Nicholson

Executive Member for  Economy and Strategic Planning / Executive Member for Finance and Performance

York as a World Heritage Site

Purpose of Report

To consider potential application for York to become designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Executive will be asked to:
• Accept the recommendation of the York World Heritage Steering Group (YWHSG) report that York should make a bid for World Heritage status;
• Commit City of York Council, together with YWHSG, to ask the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to consider an application from York for admittance to the UK Tentative List of World Heritage Sites;
• Work with YWHSG to take the bid project forward to Stage 2, including forming a broad-based public and private partnership to take forward the required work.

Charlie Croft

Executive Member for Culture, Leisure and Communities

 

 

 

 

Table 2: Items scheduled on the Forward Plan for the Executive Meeting on 19 May 2022

Title and Description

Author

Portfolio Holder

Results of the consultation on additional licensing for Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO)

Purpose of Report

To provide an update on the city-wide, statutory consultation undertaken in 2021 on the potential designation of targeted Additional Licensing Scheme for HMOs with 3 or 4 occupants within the wards of Hull Road, Guildhall, Clifton, Fishergate, Heworth, Micklegate, Osbaldwick & Derwent, and Fulford & Heslington and set forward options to determine whether to designate an additional licensing scheme.

Executive will be asked to: determine whether to designate an additional HMO licensing scheme.

Ruth Abbott / Michael Jones

Executive Member for Housing & Safer Neighbourhoods

 

Table 3: Items Slipped on the Forward Plan - none