Decision details

Cabinet received a report from the Overview and Scrutiny Committee together with the final report and recommendations of the Resilience Commission Informal Task Group.  Councillor Caroline Jackson, the Chairman of the task group presented the report.

The options were set out in the report as follows:

1.         To accept the recommendations of Overview and Scrutiny. 

2.         Not to accept the recommendations of Overview and Scrutiny. 

3.         To make alternative proposals to those recommended by Overview and Scrutiny. 

Councillor Hanson proposed, seconded by Councillor Whitehead:-

“That Cabinet notes the recommendations of the Resilience Commission Informal Task Group and requests that the Flooding Cabinet Liaison Group consider the recommendations in more detail when convened.”

Councillors then voted:-

Resolved unanimously:

That Cabinet notes the recommendations of the Resilience Commission Informal Task Group and requests that the Flooding Cabinet Liaison Group consider the recommendations in more detail when convened.

Officer responsible for effecting the decision:

Director for Communities and the Environment

Reasons for making the decision:

The decision is consistent with the Council Plan Principles regarding Community Leadership and Our Ambitions for Clean, Green and Safe Neighbourhoods.  A  Flooding Cabinet Liaison Group will provide a strategic oversight of flooding issues in the district including hearing the action plans and timescales from all the agencies with a responsibility for flooding and hearing from residents about what would help them best prepare and deal with flooding.   It will also provide an appropriate forum to consider the recommendations of the task group in more detail.