Agenda

If a Councillor has a disclosable pecuniary interest in a particular item, whether or not it is entered in the Authority’s register of interests, or any other significant interest which they consider should be declared in the public interest, they should declare the existence and, unless it is a sensitive interest as defined in the Member Code of Conduct, the nature of the interest at the commencement of the consideration of that item or as soon as it becomes apparent.

Where Members of the public are not allowed to be in attendance and speak, then the Councillor with a disclosable pecuniary interest should withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is under consideration. Councillors who have declared other significant interests should also withdraw from the meeting if they consider their continued participation in the matter would not be reasonable in the circumstances and may give rise to a perception of a conflict of interest.

Councillors are not obliged to withdraw from the meeting where a dispensation to that effect has been obtained from the Standards Committee.

To approve the minutes of the previous meeting.

The report provides an update on rough sleeping in the borough and the services that are in place to house and support rough sleepers. A rough sleeper in the context of this report is someone who has been verified as rough sleeping by the Council’s outreach service and registered on the rough sleeper database, known as CHAIN.

This report provides an update on the status of empty properties also known as voids in the housing service. This includes information on the current number of voids, improvements made over the past two years and an outline of the ongoing plan to reduce the number of vacant properties.

To note the dates of future meetings:

·       27 January 2025

·       23 April 2025