Issue - meetings

To consider a report proposing structures for the discussion of service delivery issues in unparished areas, where devolution to a local council is not possible.

The Committee considered a report proposing the appointment of two local service delivery committees for the unparished parts of Crewe and Macclesfield respectively.

It was proposed that the Council create the Local Service Delivery (Crewe) Committee and the Local Service Delivery (Macclesfield) Committee, whose membership in each case would be those members who represented wards in the respective unparished areas. The powers of each committee would be:

“To make representations to Cabinet and Council about the delivery of local services in the area and to monitor local services where a town or parish council acting under local devolution arrangements would have been expected to do so (but not otherwise).”

In considering the matter, Members felt that in due course the proposed committees, which were currently intended as advisory bodies, could be given delegated powers. Given that possibility, it was felt that it would be appropriate for the membership of the committees to reflect the political proportionality of the Council as a whole.

RESOLVED

That it be recommended to Council that

(1)   a Local Service Delivery (Crewe) Committee be constituted on a politically proportionate basis, the size and membership of the committee to be determined by Council;

(2)   a Local Service Delivery (Macclesfield) Committee be similarly constituted;

(3)   the powers of each committee be:

“To make representations to Cabinet and Council about the delivery of local services in the area and to monitor local services where a town or parish council acting under local devolution arrangements would have been expected to do so (but not otherwise).”