Meetings
Every meeting of Newport City Council's committees. Meetings of the full Council, the Cabinet, scrutiny and planning committees get a plain-language summary once their minutes are published.
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The Planning Committee met on 7 June 2023 to consider planning applications listed on a schedule and to note recent planning appeal decisions. The minutes record that the committee agreed decisions should be recorded as shown on the schedule, and gave the planning manager authority to draft amendments and conditions. The individual decisions on each application are not in the material provided.
The Performance Scrutiny Committee - People considered the Director of Social Services Annual Report for 2022/23 and agreed its conclusions on it. The committee thanked social services staff, recommended that the term 'coproduction' be clarified and that service user data be added to the report, and noted that past underspends and overspends should inform future budgets. It was content with the report and with its work programme.
The committee considered a draft Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy, the annual Corporate Safeguarding Report and a follow-up on the budget consultation. It was content with the first two and asked for more information, but the minutes record no formal decision on either. On a referral about failed levelling up funding bids, the vote to bring the topic to a scrutiny committee was not carried.
Councillors also confirmed the chairs and members of committees and the councillors serving on outside bodies.
It also adopted the Pillgwenlly (Pill) Master Plan as the main strategic guide for decisions in the ward. Cabinet considered its monthly update on cost-of-living pressures and agreed its work programme.
Cancelled
The Committee considered the council's Planning and Performance Policy 2023-25, which sets out how the council monitors delivery of its Corporate Plan and service performance. Members accepted and noted the policy with no recommendations. An item on the budget consultation was deferred to the next meeting because of a problem opening the report.
The Council met on 25 April 2023. It agreed appointments to school governing bodies and a drainage board, and passed a motion on asylum that asks the Leader to write to the Prime Minister. It also agreed the annual pay policy and extra leave for chief officers, a framework for ward meetings, and the 2021/22 scrutiny annual report.
Officers described the pressures on the workforce, and the Committee asked for more data on staff numbers, turnover, pay and agency use. The minute records requests for information rather than formal decisions.
Cabinet met on 12 April 2023 to consider four reports. It recommended the annual Pay and Reward Policy and an extra day of annual leave for chief officers to full Council, and it approved the Digital Strategy for 2023 to 2027. It also considered an update on cost-of-living pressures and agreed its updated work programme.
The committee considered two items: the first standalone report from Safer Newport, the city's community safety partnership, and the draft Education Achievement Service (EAS) Business Plan for 2023 to 2025, which was out for consultation. The minutes record no formal decisions, only requests and conclusions, including a request to join a working group and a request for a briefing on incident heat maps.
It also considered the quarter three Corporate Risk Register and an update on the cost-of-living crisis and other external pressures, which needed no decision.