Committee Meetings

Item

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Notes

16 June 2026 (additional meeting)

Recycling Review

Dave Atkinson, Ian Hoult / Cllr Kent

Pre-decision scrutiny; Move from boxes to bins: public engagement and business case.

Car Parking Charges Review

Garry Taylor, Claire Foale, Helene Vergereau / Cllr Ravilious

Pre-decision scrutiny

21 July 2026

Water Quality

Dave Atkinson, Mark Henderson / Cllr Kent

Following aims of Motion on Water Quality passed at Full Council November 2025, to explore and consider all the ways CYC and partners can improve water quality in York. Yorkshire Water and campaign group representatives to be in attendance.

Mayoral Development Zone (MDZ) at York Central

Garry Taylor, Ben Murphy / Cllrs Kilbane, Lomas

York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority (YNYCA) colleagues to be in attendance.

22 September 2026

YNYCA Mayor’s Local Transport Plan

Gary Taylor, Tom Horner, Josh Singer / Cllr Ravilious

YNYCA colleagues; part of consultation on the LTP.

24 November 2026

Affordable Housing TBC

Garry Taylor, Andrew Bebbington / Cllrs Merrett, Perrett

Follows Chair’s discussion with officers in fulfilment of March 2024 Council Motion.

Section 106 Process Improvements TFG Report? TBC

Cllr Steward (Chair of TFG)

Task and Finish Report

12 January 2027

TBC

 

 

 

 

 

16 March 2027

TBC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Potential or unallocated topics

Item

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Notes

Finance and Performance Quarterly Reports

Debbie Mitchell, Ian Cunningham / Cllr Lomas

Regular quarterly briefing to be shared with members via e-mail.

Library Needs Assessment Report (containing data from the Early Engagement Consultation)

Pauline Stuchfield / Cllr Kilbane

Briefing provided in October 2025 on feedback from consultation on library usage that fed into the Assessment of Need document. This information will then feed into a library strategy and associated budget savings (target £600k) proposals which will be then consulted on. Further opportunity further Scrutiny including either be a part of the consultation or pre scrutiny (or both) before recommended proposals for Executive likely in the first quarter of 2026.

Assets of Community Value (ACVs)

Nick Collins / Cllr Lomas

How can CYC: 

·     Promote adding to the local register of ACVs;

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

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

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

Car Parking provision across the city

Garry Taylor / Cllr Ravilious

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

Garry Taylor / Cllr Ravilious

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

Claire Foale? Garry Taylor? Cllr Lomas? Cllr Kilbane?

Stock-take of performance against current strategy and its relevance next to the Combined Authority’s economic development role, as well as key personnel changes within CYC; Pros and cons of combining economic development services with the Combined Authority

Planning and Development Services - enforcement

Dave Atkinson / Cllr Pavlovic

Operational challenges / opportunities, performance over the last 5-10 years relative to staffing numbers, numbers of (known) breaches by developers. Non-parking enforcement generally; including A-Board ban.

Make It York

Andy Laslett, Ben Murphy

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

Garry Taylor / Cllr Ravilious

Opportunity to feed into full tender, following likely short-term tender discussed at March 2025 Scrutiny.

Review of the original Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) and other Bus-related matters

Garry Taylor / Cllr Ravilious

- Review of how the first BSIP has gone, achievements, next steps, future asks of the Combined Authority

- Enhanced Bus Partnership; how effective is it, is this the best model for delivering service improvements for residents?

- Bus stop improvements

York’s Pay Gap

Claire Foale / Cllr Lomas

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?

Highway Maintenance

Dave Atkinson / Cllr Ravilious

Adoption of the Highway Infrastructure Asset Management Plan will go through public decision making.

 

Agreed Task and Finish Groups (TFGs)

Topic

Membership

Notes

Section 106 Agreements Process Improvements

 

Date for consideration of draft report: Autumn/Winter 2026 (TBC).

 

Cllrs Steward, Merrett, Pavlovic, Orrell, Taylor, Vassie

Originated with agreed Council Motion, September 2025; remit agreed by Place Scrutiny Committee, 19 May 2026; full details at: https://democracy.york.gov.uk/documents/s189235/Task%20and%20Finish%20Proposal%20s106.pdf

 

Meetings held 3 July and 3 August 2026, next meeting TBC.

 

 

Possible Task and Finish Groups (TFGs)

Topic

Origin

Notes

Holiday Lets

May 2025 Committee meeting.

Discussed at May 2025 EPAT meeting; no further action taken.

On-Street EV Charging

November 2025 Committee meeting.

Discussed at November 2025 Place Scrutiny meeting arising from item on Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy.

 

Scrutiny Member Briefings

Topic

Committee

Lead Officer / Executive Member

Notes

30 June 2026

Integrated Care Board (ICB) Changes

People Scrutiny Committee

Peter Roderick / Cllr Steels-Walshaw

Postponed until autumn 2026.

12 October 2026

Integrated Commissioning Strategy

People Scrutiny Committee

Sara Storey, James Wanstall, Sam Blyth / Cllr Steels-Walshaw

 

Independent Reviewing Service Annual Report 2025/2026

People Scrutiny Committee

Martin Kelly, Danielle Johnston, Sophie Keeble / Cllr Webb

Annual update

22 October 2026

Integrated Care Board (ICB) Changes

People Scrutiny Committee

Peter Roderick / Cllr Steels-Walshaw

Initial briefing on structural changes; to be followed by briefing on implementation phase at an appropriate point.

10 Year Anti-Poverty Strategy

Corporate Scrutiny Committee

Pauline Stuchfield, Sam Blyth / Cllr Lomas

Annual update

3 December 2026

TBC

 

 

 

3 February 2027

TBC