Issue - meetings

Public Question Time (15 minutes)

 

 

Meeting: 27/11/2017 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 65)

Public Question Time (15 minutes)

To receive any questions from members of the public provided that a question does not relate to:

 

·         Matters which are the subject of current or pending legal proceedings, or

·         Matters relating to employees or former employees of the Council or comments in respect of individual Council Officers

Minutes:

64.1    Mark Wallace, a Gloucester resident, in relation to agenda item 10 asked:

 

-       Whether the Council had considered a number of missing behaviours from the draft Order. He highlighted his knowledge of other Councils including such matters as spitting and urinating;

-       If there would consideration of pavement parking;

-       Why the area to be covered by the Public Spaces Protection Order did not include Kingsholm; and

-       Whether the ‘Direction to leave’ element of the draft Order would be reconsidered given the inability to delegate to civilians.

 

64.2    Councillor Jennie Watkins (Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods) highlighted that it was a consultation and it was possible other elements could be agreed. She further advised that the question on pavement parking could be looked at as part of the consultation.

 

64.3    Councillor Watkins acknowledged that displacement could present a challenge with regard to the non-inclusion of Kingsholm in the draft Order although did advise that an element of the area was included. She stated that she would be happy to discuss this with Members. She further advised, in response to Mr Wallace’s final question, that the Council did have the ability to delegate powers to City Officers.