Select Committee for Environment Housing & Transport and Safer a& Stronger Communities Work Programme 2009/2010 Paul Baldasera 24 March 2009

How should we choose scrutiny topics?

Spirit of South Tyneside 3 year LAA 2020 Sustainable Community Strategy 2020 Regeneration Strategy

Our Priorities Safer & Stronger Communities Neighbourhoods, Housing & Transport 6 Community (LSP) themes… Children & Young People Healthier Communities and Older People Economic Development & Enterprise Resources 1 Council theme Culture & Wellbeing

MAKING COMMUNITIES SAFER - Build respect in communities and reduce anti-social behaviour - Reducing the harm caused by illegal drugs and alcohol - Reducing key crimes particularly in crime hotspots - Preventing youth crime - Working with parents to reduce crime - Increasing cultural opportunities / activities - Increasing targeting of action in our worst performing neighbourhoods - Reducing the fear of crime - Reducing domestic violence - Reducing re-offending through the improved management of offenders PRIORITY OBJECTIVES - Build respect in communities and reduce anti-social behaviour - Reducing the harm caused by illegal drugs and alcohol - Reducing key crimes particularly in crime hotspots - Involving people to have a greater voice and influence over the local decision-making and the delivery of local services - Building social capital - Promoting Equality and Diversity and community cohesion - Reducing poverty amongst our most vulnerable groups IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF ALL PEOPLE - Promoting equality and diversity and community cohesion - Reducing poverty amongst our most vulnerable groups - Improving satisfaction with delivery of key services in deprived neighbourhoods EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO HAVE A GREATER VOICE AND INFLUENCE - Involving people to have a greater voice and influence over local decision-making and the delivery of local services - Building social capital - Enabling opportunities for volunteering - Increasing the capacity of the community and voluntary sector Safer and Stronger priorities

Environment Housing & Transport Priorities DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES AND IMPROVING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT - Improving living neighbourhoods and the natural environment - Improving housing conditions across all tenures aiming to meet the decent homes standard - Ensuring neighbourhoods, parks and open spaces are clean and sustainable - Developing the range of housing and related support options available - Maximising opportunity to provide and redevelop Brownfield land PRIORITY OBJECTIVES - Improving living neighbourhoods and the natural environment - Improving housing conditions and quality across all tenures aiming to meet the decent homes standard - Reducing waste to landfill and increasing recycling to help reduce our carbon footprint - Adapting to and managing the effects of climate change - Ensuring good and sustainable transport accessibility for all to jobs, goods and services, leisure and cultural activities - Improving roads and footpaths to help keep people moving safely and easily around the Borough LESS WASTE AND MORE RECYCLING - Reducing waste to landfill and increasing recycling to help reduce our carbon footprint - Minimising waste - Tackling fly tipping of waste PROVIDING A SUSTAINABLE AND ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT SYSTEM - Ensuring good and sustainable transport accessibility for all to jobs, goods and services, leisure and cultural activities - Improving roads and footpaths to help keep people moving safely and easily around the Borough - Improving the transport infrastructure - Minimising congestion and disruption for the benefit of all road-users MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE - Adapting to and managing the effects of climate change - Engaging and Inspiring the Community to meet the challenges of climate change - Improving and promoting energy efficiency - Increasing the amount of energy from sustainable and renewable sources - Promoting sustainable construction

Wider view for scrutiny

Key challenges To build a scrutiny programme based around priorities, not organisations To take LAA priority based performance reports to the relevant scrutiny committees To develop simple and well understood protocols for undertaking scrutiny with partners To continue to develop the effectiveness of scrutiny

Things we are already committed to Moving People – Transport commission Flooding commission

Things we must do Protocols for scrutiny of partners Councillor Call for Action Budget Performance reporting Monitoring commission recommendations

Safer and Stronger key issues for 2009/2010 Responsibilities under section 17 of crime and disorder act Domestic violence Neighbourhood action planning Neighbourhood charters Treatment for Drug users (Health issue?) Out of hours enforcement for ASB

Environment, Housing & Transport key issues for 2009/2010 Improving housing in all sectors to achieve Decent Homes Standard (OSC) Joint Waste Procurement. Reducing waste to landfill and increasing recycling.

Need to decide your priorities for the 2009/work programme In doing this we need to be.. Realistic about how much can be done (2 further areas for commission work?) As specific as we possibly can To prioritise most important things We also need to bear in mind that.. Things change and we need to be flexible Will need to be endorsed by the committee in the next municipal year