Agenda item
Notices of Motion
To consider the following Notices of Motion under Standing Order 12:
A – Motions referred from the Executive in accordance with Standing Order 12.1(a)
None
B – Motions submitted for consideration directly by Council, in accordance with Standing Order 12.1(b)
(i) From Cllr Morley
“Council supports the principle of helping more people with care needs to stay in their own homes and the measures in the Personal Care at Home Bill to achieve that aim.
However, Council is concerned that local authorities will be asked to fund a substantial part of the new entitlements included in the bill from their own resources, assuming additional savings, and that the proposed Government funding is inadequate, even if its estimates of the cost of the entitlements are correct.
Council also shares the LGA’s concern that the Government has underestimated the number of people likely to be covered by the provisions of the bill and calls on the Government to commit to fully funding any shortfall in budgets that results should these estimates prove to be incorrect.
Council therefore instructs the Director of Housing and Adult Social Services to respond to the consultation on the proposals, setting out the Council’s concerns about the impact the additional cost will have on social care budgets.”
(ii) From Cllr Simpson-Laing
“Council calls upon the Chief Executive to instruct Officers to draw up a ‘Lifetime Homes Supplementary Planning Document’ to ensure all York’s future homes are built to the Lifetime Homes Standards from 2011 and that this document is completed by May 2010.”
(iii) From Cllr D’Agorne
“This Council notes:
1. The clear evidence that slower speeds on our roads save lives: government figures indicate 20% of pedestrians hit at 30mph die, while for those hit at 20mph mortality is cut to 3%. A London Assembly report showed a 42% reduction in accident rates in 20mph zones within the capital.
2. The successful introduction of a 20mph limit on all residential streets in the City of Portsmouth, (a Liberal Democrat-controlled authority), with initial results indicating a 13% cut in accidents and a 15% cut in casualties.
3. The proposed new guidance from the Department for Transport (16/12/09), which encourages highway authorities to adopt a 20mph limit for streets which are primarily residential in nature and for town and city streets where pedestrian and cyclist movements are high.
This Council therefore requests the Executive to:
a) Ensure that the 'total 20' approach adopted in Portsmouth forms a key part of the consultation on the third Local Transport Plan for the City of York
b) Extend the 'made you look' public road safety education programme to include greater emphasis on casualty reduction benefits of lower speeds in built up and rural areas.
c) Report back to full council within 6 months, outlining implementation plans for this programme in the light of public consultation on LTP3.”
(iv) From Cllr Horton
“This City of York Council, given the anticipated expenditure of £285k of Government - funded monies for alleged cycle improvements to the south end of Beckfield Lane, is appalled that the Executive Member for City Strategy appears to be intent on progressing this joint-user footpath scheme in spite of the overwhelming opposition of local residents, the Blind and Partially Sighted Society and the outright objections of York Cycle Campaign.
Council, therefore, calls on the Executive Member for City Strategy to give serious consideration to abandoning the scheme forthwithrather than using further valuable resources to develop this scheme, and to agree to concentrate efforts on much more advantageous cycling safety schemes in the City.”
(v) From Cllr Kirk
”Council notes that:
· Cold Weather Payments of £25 per week are paid to people on low incomes who receive a qualifying benefit, such as Pension Credit.
· The form to apply for Pension Credit is 18 pages long. The advisory notes on how to fill it in are 19 pages long.
· Last year 1.7million pensioners missed out on an average of over £1700 each of pension credit
· The Government has saved £17.5billion in 11 years that has not gone to struggling pensioners in pension credit payments.
Council is concerned that the complexity of the system to claim Pension Credit has put so many people off claiming the credit and that consequently they also do not receive the additional cold weather payments.
Council therefore instructs the Chief Executive to write to the Secretary of State expressing Council’s wish to see the system for claiming pension credit simplified.”
Minutes:
(i) Personal Care Home Bill
It was moved by Cllr Morley and seconded by Cllr Sue Galloway that:
“Council supports the principle of helping more people with care needs to stay in their own homes and the measures in the Personal Care at Home Bill to achieve that aim.
However, Council is concerned that local authorities will be asked to fund a substantial part of the new entitlements included in the bill from their own resources, assuming additional savings, and that the proposed Government funding is inadequate, even if its estimates of the cost of the entitlements are correct.
Council also shares the LGA’s concern that the Government has underestimated the number of people likely to be covered by the provisions of the bill and calls on the Government to commit to fully funding any shortfall in budgets that results should these estimates prove to be incorrect.
Council therefore instructs the Director of Housing and Adult Social Services to respond to the consultation on the proposals, setting out the Council’s concerns about the impact the additional cost will have on social care budgets.”
On being put to the vote, the motion was declared CARRIED and it was
RESOLVED: That the above notice of motion be approved.
(ii) Lifetime Homes Standard
It was moved by Cllr Simpson-Laing and seconded by Cllr Funnell that:
“Council calls upon the Chief Executive to instruct Officers to draw up a ‘Lifetime Homes Supplementary Planning Document’ to ensure all York’s future homes are built to the Lifetime Homes Standards from 2011 and that this document is completed by May 2010.”
Cllr S F Galloway then moved, and Cllr Reid seconded, an amendment to the above motion as follows:
- Delete ‘calls upon the Chief Executive to instruct Officers to draw up’ and insert ‘requests the Director of City Strategy to ensure that consideration is given, as part of the LDF build process, to the advantages and any disadvantages of drawing up’.
- Delete ‘from 2011 and that this document is completed by May 2010’.”
On being put to the vote, the amendment was declared carried.
The motion, as amended, now read as follows:
“Council ‘requests the Director of City Strategy to ensure that consideration is given, as part of the LDF build process, to the advantages and any disadvantages of drawing up a ‘Lifetime Homes Supplementary Planning Document to ensure all York’s future homes are built to the Lifetime Homes Standards.”
The amended motion was then put to the vote and declared CARRIED, and it was
RESOLVED: That the above notice of motion, as amended, be approved.
(iii) Road Safety measures
A notice of motion had been submitted by Cllr D’Agorne in the following terms:
“This Council notes:
1. The clear evidence that slower speeds on our roads save lives: government figures indicate 20% of pedestrians hit at 30mph die, while for those hit at 20mph mortality is cut to 3%. A London Assembly report showed a 42% reduction in accident rates in 20mph zones within the capital.
2. The successful introduction of a 20mph limit on all residential streets in the City of Portsmouth, (a Liberal Democrat-controlled authority), with initial results indicating a 13% cut in accidents and a 15% cut in casualties.
3. The proposed new guidance from the Department for Transport (16/12/09), which encourages highway authorities to adopt a 20mph limit for streets which are primarily residential in nature and for town and city streets where pedestrian and cyclist movements are high.
This Council therefore requests the Executive to:
a) Ensure that the 'total 20' approach adopted in Portsmouth forms a key part of the consultation on the third Local Transport Plan for the City of York
b) Extend the 'made you look' public road safety education programme to include greater emphasis on casualty reduction benefits of lower speeds in built up and rural areas.
c) Report back to full council within 6 months, outlining implementation plans for this programme in the light of public consultation on LTP3.”
Cllr D’Agorne now sought leave to alter the above motion by deleting the word “proposed”in point 3 above in order that the motion read as follows:
“This Council notes:
1. The clear evidence that slower speeds on our roads save lives: government figures indicate 20% of pedestrians hit at 30mph die, while for those hit at 20mph mortality is cut to 3%. A London Assembly report showed a 42% reduction in accident rates in 20mph zones within the capital.
2. The successful introduction of a 20mph limit on all residential streets in the City of Portsmouth, (a Liberal Democrat-controlled authority), with initial results indicating a 13% cut in accidents and a 15% cut in casualties.
3. The new guidance from the Department for Transport (16/12/09), which encourages highway authorities to adopt a 20mph limit for streets which are primarily residential in nature and for town and city streets where pedestrian and cyclist movements are high.
This Council therefore requests the Executive to:
a. Ensure that the 'total 20' approach adopted in Portsmouth forms a key part of the consultation on the third Local Transport Plan for the City of York
b. Extend the 'made you look' public road safety education programme to include greater emphasis on casualty reduction benefits of lower speeds in built up and rural areas.
c. Report back to full council within 6 months, outlining implementation plans for this programme in the light of public consultation on LTP3.”
Council having agreed to that alteration, Cllr D’Agorne moved, and Cllr Taylor seconded, the motion as altered.
Cllr Potter then moved, and Cllr Horton seconded, an amendment to the altered motion as follows:
Under the paragraph commencing ‘This Council therefore requests……’ replace existing bullet point c) with
‘c) Commence a new initiative to paint a blue heart on the road at accident hotspots and where peoplehave died to remind drivers of the potentially fatal consequences of high speeds and dangerous driving’
and make existing bullet point c) into bullet point d)
On being put to the vote, the amendment was declared LOST
Cllr S F Galloway moved and Cllr Reid seconded an amendment to the altered motion as follows:
“In the first paragraph, delete all from ‘government’ in point 1 to ‘high’ in point 3.
In the second paragraph:
- delete ‘forms a key’ in point a) and insert ‘is one of the options considered as’
- delete the existing point c) and insert ‘c) ensure that speed limits across the City are reviewed and optimised with the aim of minimising the number of accidents’.”
The motion, as amended, now read as follows:
“This Council notes the clear evidence that slower speeds on our roads save lives.
This Council therefore requests the Executive to:
a) Ensure that the 'total 20' approach adopted in Portsmouth is one of the options considered as part of the consultation on the third Local Transport Plan for the City of York.
b) Extend the 'made you look' public road safety education programme to include greater emphasis on casualty reduction benefits of lower speeds in built up and rural areas.
c) Ensure that speed limits across the City are reviewed and optimised with the aim of minimising the number of accidents.”]
The motion, as amended, was then put to the vote and declared CARRIED, and it was
RESOLVED: That the above notice of motion, as amended, be approved.
(iv) Beckfield Lane cycle scheme
It was moved by Cllr Horton and seconded by Cllr Potter that:
“This City of York Council, given the anticipated expenditure of £285k of Government - funded monies for alleged cycle improvements to the south end of Beckfield Lane, is appalled that the Executive Member for City Strategy appears to be intent on progressing this joint-user footpath scheme in spite of the overwhelming opposition of local residents, the Blind and Partially Sighted Society and the outright objections of York Cycle Campaign.
Council, therefore, calls on the Executive Member for City Strategy to give serious consideration to abandoning the scheme forthwithrather than using further valuable resources to develop this scheme, and to agree to concentrate efforts on much more advantageous cycling safety schemes in the City.”
On being put to the vote, the motion was declared CARRIED and it was
RESOLVED: That the above notice of motion be approved.
At this point in the meeting, the guillotine fell and the following motion and amendment were deemed to have been moved and seconded and were voted upon without debate.
(v) Pension Credit
Motion submitted by Cllr Kirk:
”Council notes that:
· Cold Weather Payments of £25 per week are paid to people on low incomes who receive a qualifying benefit, such as Pension Credit.
· The form to apply for Pension Credit is 18 pages long. The advisory notes on how to fill it in are 19 pages long.
· Last year 1.7million pensioners missed out on an average of over £1700 each of pension credit
· The Government has saved £17.5billion in 11 years that has not gone to struggling pensioners in pension credit payments.
Council is concerned that the complexity of the system to claim Pension Credit has put so many people off claiming the credit and that consequently they also do not receive the additional cold weather payments.
Council therefore instructs the Chief Executive to write to the Secretary of State expressing Council’s wish to see the system for claiming pension credit simplified.”
The Lord Mayor ruled out of order an amendment to the above motion submitted by Cllr Healey, on the grounds that it was not relevant to the original motion.
The motion was then put to the vote and declared CARRIED and it was
RESOLVED: That the above notice of motion be approved.