Economy, Place, Access, and Transport Scrutiny Committee Work Plan
Living-document, subject to change

Item		Lead Officer	Scope
29 April 2025
	Review of bags to bins	James Gilchrist, Cllr Jenny Kent
	Trees	Harvey Lowson, Cllr Jenny Kent	- Performance / challenges relating to CYC’s management - Changes in legislation? - How many are we planting vs losing - Engagement with third party owners of trees
20 May 2025
	Planning and Development Services - enforcement.	Becky Eades?, Cllr Michael Pavlovic	- Operational challenges / opportunities - Performance over the last 5-10 years relative to staffing numbers - Numbers of (known) breaches by developers
	Section 106	Becky Eades?, Cllr Michael Pavlovic	CYC’s approach to creating S106 documents before they are signed off Implementation of new tracking system, cooperation between Finance and Planning
24 June 2025
	Dial & Ride	Julian Ridge, Cllr Kate Ravilious	- Update on administration’s work one year on since Task & Finish Group recommendations
	Parking Enforcement	Michael Howard / Jav Safder?, Cllr Kate Ravilious	- Costs of service / Income generated - scope to improve?  - 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
29 July 2025
	Emergency Planning	James Gilchrist, Steve Wragg, Cllr Jenny Kent	- Less common / rare: Food insecurity / novel disease outbreaks / major heatwaves, droughts, wildfires. - More common: Floods - reviewing city’s flood resilience, public information and guidance, impact of major schemes?
23 September 2025
21 October 2025
25 November 2025
9 December 2025

List for future potential topics

Economy

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

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

· Local Growth Plan - implementation / progress

Place

· A-Boards - How effective has the A-Board ban been?  Cycles chain to fences covering paths. 

· 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?

· Yorkshire Water

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
Review implementation plan - think about timing

· Bus lane enforcement on Coppergate - drop between July 2023 and October 2023 / ANPR enforcement across the city.  What are the non-revenue generating benefits of wider implementation?

· Transport Strategy: Local Transport Plan, who will do what between CYC / NYCC / YNYCA, forward plan of decisions and upcoming consultations.

· Review of Council’s pedestrian crossing policy

· Input into next EV Charging Strategy