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 minute records decisions on the applications as shown in Appendix A, which was not in the material provided, so the individual decisions cannot be reported here. The committee also authorised the Development Services Manager to draft changes to conditions, or extra conditions or reasons for refusal.
Cabinet met on 13 July 2022. It approved how to use most of Newport's £18.4m underspend for 2021/22, approved £13.9m of unspent capital budget carried into future years, and approved the annual Welsh language monitoring report for publication. It also backed Rhondda Cynon Taf as lead council for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, agreed a loan extension for the Newport Indoor Market, and noted the council's draft response to a Welsh Government consultation on bus services.
The Committee reviewed the 2021/22 year-end reviews of two service areas: Regeneration, Investment and Housing, and City Services. The reviews measure performance against each service plan, with Covid-19 and a recent restructure taken into account. The Committee noted the reports and asked officers for two action plans, on temporary accommodation and on electric vehicle charging points.
The Planning Committee met to consider planning applications listed on a schedule and to note a report on recent appeal decisions. The minute records a resolution that decisions be recorded as shown on the planning schedule, but the schedule and the individual decisions are not in the material available.
Cabinet met on 15 June 2022 to consider eight reports. It approved a draft city-wide Local Area Energy Plan, agreed to meet a £140,000 cost increase for the Information Station project, and approved a bid to the second round of the Levelling Up Fund for a National Technology Institute in the city centre. It also noted the quarter four risk register, the treasury management outturn, the Covid update and the post-EU transition update, and agreed the work programme.
The Planning Committee met on 1 June 2022 to decide planning applications and to note recent planning appeal decisions. The minutes record a resolution that decisions be recorded as shown on the planning applications schedule, but the individual decisions are not in the material provided. Councillor Mark Spencer declared an interest in application 22/0052 and said he would leave the meeting so the Vice-Chair, Councillor Linton, could take over for that application.
The Council also adopted members' allowances for 2022/23, a revised officer scheme of delegation, amended standing orders for hybrid meetings, a public participation strategy and petition scheme, and the pay and reward policy for 2022/23.