Standards Committee
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Cabinet met on 8 September 2022. The minutes record no declarations of interest and no announcements from the Leader. Cabinet agreed to exclude the public from items 6 and 7, which the minutes say involve exempt information such as personal or financial details. The minutes do not record what was said in those replies, and no minute of items 6 and 7 has been published.
On 6 September 2022 the Planning Committee considered a footpath diversion at Higher Lane, Mumbles, and three planning applications. It approved the footpath diversion. It approved a pontoon at the former Hafod Copperworks on the River Tawe and referred it to Cadw, the Welsh Government's historic environment service. It approved a storage building at Swansea Enterprise Park. It deferred a proposal for a 12-bed Residential Women's Centre at Trehafod, Cockett, for a further report.
At its meeting on 1 September 2022, Council received three annual reports and written answers to questions from the previous meeting. It adopted a notice of motion asking the Leader to write to the new Prime Minister and to commission an independent investigation into changes to funding formulas, which the motion says reduced funding for Swansea. The Governance and Audit Committee Annual Report was deferred to the next ordinary meeting.
The Committee questioned the Cabinet Member for Equalities and Culture about the Archive Service and the City Centre Community Hub. It also considered the membership of its panels and working groups, its 2022/23 work programme and its 2021/22 annual report. It agreed the panel and working group membership and resolved to submit the annual report to Council on 1 September 2022.
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It also agreed to update the official Register of Common Land for Llangyfelach Common, to reflect land taken for the M4 motorway in 1969 and new land given in exchange.
At a ceremonial meeting on 22 July 2022, the Council conferred the Honorary Freedom of the City and County of Swansea on the Swansea Branch of the Merchant Navy Association. Honorary Freedom is an honour the Council can give to a group or person, and the minute records that the Council resolved to confer it.
The Scrutiny Programme Committee held the first meeting of the 2022-23 council year on 19 July 2022. Members renewed the co-option of Performance Panel convenors and partner organisations, and agreed the scrutiny work programme for the year, which includes an inquiry into anti-social behaviour, and the Committee's own work plan. The minute of the letters item records no decision.
Swansea Council met on 7 July 2022. It adopted policy commitments for the next five years and a refreshed Corporate Plan for 2022/23.
The committee confirmed a Tree Preservation Order protecting a pine tree at Llwynderw School, and decided seven planning applications. It approved six of them and refused one, at 2 Broadview Lane, Mumbles.