Meetings
Every meeting of Swansea 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 4 June 2024 to consider planning applications. It approved a scheme for 31 affordable homes at Clordir Road, Pontlliw, subject to a Section 106 agreement, which is a legal agreement with the developer.
The Scrutiny Inquiry Panel on Community Assets, a group of councillors that examines council work, met on 20 May 2024 to look at how Swansea Council transfers its buildings and land to community groups. It considered desk research on how other councils handle these transfers and noted its project plan. The minutes record no decisions, and the report on the nine submissions it received is dated after the meeting.
The minutes record no declarations of interest.
Cabinet met on 16 May 2024. It also received two information reports, on the Corporate Transformation Plan and the Local Area Energy Plan, and the minutes record no decision on either.
No interests were declared.
No councillor declared an interest.
It also considered the Council's Welsh Language Standards Annual Report 2023-24 and a review of its 2017-22 Welsh Language Strategy, and reviewed the Committee's own work for the year. The minutes record resolutions for the Chair to write letters giving the Committee's views on the first three items; no other formal decisions are recorded.
The Panel met on 14 May 2024 to review the council's work on climate change and nature. It discussed a Net Zero climate update and a nature and biodiversity update, and reviewed its own year. The Panel agreed to recommend that schools be encouraged to have a 'green' governor, and Cabinet Members supported this.
It deferred a decision on 31 affordable homes at Pontlliw for a site visit, resolved to make a legal order to correct the route of bridleway 12 at Llanmadoc, and refused an application to add a footpath at Killay because that route was already recorded.
Cancelled
The Scrutiny Performance Panel for Education met on 9 May 2024 to hear updates on the Sustainable Communities for Learning school building programme and the Swansea Skills Partnership. The minutes record questions and views from councillors but no formal decisions, and the Panel's views went to the Cabinet Member in a letter dated 23 May 2024. The Panel also reviewed its year's work and recorded that meetings will start at 4.30pm from June 2024, or at 4.00pm when they include a school visit.
The Adult Services Scrutiny Performance Panel met on 7 May 2024. Members heard from Llais, the independent body that gives the public a voice on health and social care, and from Cabinet Members on how the Council's policy commitments apply to Adult Services. The Panel also reviewed its work for 2023-24 and recorded actions to add items to its future work plan.
On 7 May 2024 the Panel considered an Audit Wales report on the Council's workforce, the annual planning performance report, its own annual review, and letters on regeneration and City Deal funding. It also held pre-decision scrutiny of an updated financial rule for the Palace Theatre refurbishment, but the minute records no outcome. The minutes record two requests: that a regular development and regeneration report be added to the agenda once or twice a year, and that more information on City Deal funding be provided. No decision is recorded on the other items, which were for information or consideration.
The Scrutiny Inquiry Panel on Community Assets met on 22 April 2024 to hear evidence on community asset transfer in cultural services, where the council hands buildings or land to community groups. A written report answered the Panel's questions, and the minute records no decisions. The Panel will hold its next meeting on 20 May 2024.
The Education Scrutiny Performance Panel met on 18 April 2024 to discuss Religion, Values and Ethics (RVE) education, how children and young people's voices are heard, and a new model for Education Other Than at School (EOTAS) services. The minutes record no decision on the last two subjects, which the Panel will raise with the Cabinet Member in a letter. The minutes record that the Panel wants to revisit RVE in a year's time, and that meetings will start at 4.30pm from the new municipal year, except for those involving school visits.
Cabinet had considered 267 consultation responses, most of them objections. Cabinet also approved merging two special schools into one new school, and agreed its response to a scrutiny inquiry into anti-social behaviour.