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Agenda and minutes

Venue: Virtual Meeting

Contact: Connor Hall  Scrutiny Adviser

Items
No. Item

1.

Declarations of Interest

Minutes:

None.

2.

Minutes of the Previous Meeting pdf icon PDF 495 KB

Minutes:

Note: The minutes were read out and agreed upon after discussion of the City centre PSPO.

 

A committee member requested that on page 18, that regarding the inclusion of communities in bullet point 3 it be specified that white communities be included in any roundtable meetings and the roundtable be called a community cohesion group.



The minutes of the meeting held on 10 September 2021 were accepted as a true and accurate record.

3.

City Centre PSPO pdf icon PDF 1 MB

Minutes:

The Regulatory Services Manager began by explaining the chronology of the PSPO’s democratic process thus far. The Regulatory Services Manager informed committee that there had been 108 anonymous responses to the public consultation. The Regulatory Services Manager assured committee they had identified and taken forward the principles that the committee had asked them to consider in this consultation for the comparative work between this and the Pillgwenlly PSPO consultation. The Regulatory Services Manager highlighted that they had retained the style and question and format using the Pillgwenlly PSPO for this consultation process, including some of the questions and observations that were made by this committee for the previous PSPO; these included being more specific on residents and businesses respondents, and questions were added regarding the experience of anti-social behaviour as recommended by the committee in July. The Regulatory Services Manager informed committee that the previous format was then followed, wherein it went through restrictions with an agree/disagree option for respondents. The Regulatory Services Manager informed committee that the top line brief was that there was wide-spread support for this PSPO; there was agreement that the area covered should stay the same, though a notable number of responses thought the area should be expanded. The Regulatory Services Manager noted that there were some specific requests for the committee to consult more on constraints around aggressive begging around cash points, and the questionnaire process was amended for that consideration.

The Regulatory Services Manager reminded committee that the report outlined the nature of responses, though some specific text from responses were included.

The Regulatory Services Manager highlighted the recommendations that the report made: for committee to recommend to Council that the new PSPO be implemented with the additional control around the unsafe or dangerous use of e-scooters and bikes, as well as not to include a urination or defecation control, though the Regulatory Services Manager reminded committee that this wasn’t ruled out wholly and could be added if necessary.

A committee member expressed disappointment in the number of responses received and reminded invitees and committee that it had been requested by committee that frequent advertisement of the consultation was done, which was seen weekly, though the lack of response was still a shame. The committee member felt that the responses received were polarised. The committee member expressed approval in seeing that e-bikes had been included in the survey as requested.

A committee member noted that question 5C of the survey could easily be misinterpreted as instead of being seen as asking whether the link between the banning begging 10 metres from cash points should be removed, he’d interpreted it as asking whether a more expansive ban on begging was appropriate. The committee member felt that this question was too ambiguous.

·         The Regulatory Services Manager noted the difficulty in articulating this question and reiterated the question asked whether the link between begging bans and cash points were still relevant to the public. The Regulatory Services Manager reminded committee that begging was not illegal  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.

4.

Scrutiny Adviser Reports pdf icon PDF 521 KB

a)      Forward Work Programme Update (Appendix 1)

b)      Actions Arising (Appendix 2)

c)      Information Reports (Appendix 3)

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Minutes:

Forward Work Programme:

A committee member noted that Scrutiny was still waiting for information regarding the climate change report. The Scrutiny Advisor noted that this was the next priority and assured committee they’d be informed of any changes.

The Scrutiny Advisor noted that a meeting had been added for 10th December 2021 to look at the Welsh Language 5 Year Strategy, and that he had just received further information regarding that.

 

This meeting was terminated at: 17:05pm