A meeting of the Knutsford Town Council Environment and General Purposes Committee to be held at 19:30 on Monday 6th June 2022
Limited public seating will be available at the Council Offices. The meeting will also be broadcast via Zoom to enable remote public viewing and participation and livestreamed to Facebook. To join the meeting via Zoom, visit or use meeting ID 821 0560 5574 and password KTC-456189.
AGENDA
1 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
To receive apologies for absence.
2 DECLARATIONS OF MEMBERS’ INTERESTS
To receive declarations of personal, prejudicial and pecuniary interests from members relevant to items under discussion at the meeting.
3 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
A period of up to 5 minutes for members of the public to ask questions or submit comments.
4 COMMITTEE TERMS OF REFERENCE
To note the committee’s terms of reference.
Attachment – Environment Committee Terms of Reference
5 CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES
To receive and confirm the minutes of the committee meeting held on 7th February 2022
Attachment – Minutes of the meeting held 7th February 2022
6 REVIEW OF YEAR TO DATE INCOME AND EXPENDITURE
To consider the committee income and expenditure to date.
Attachment – Income and Expenditure Committee Report 27/05/2022
7 COMMITTEE WORKING GROUPS
To appoint members to committee working groups.
Attachment – Report EN-22-01 Environment Committee Working Groups
8 NATURE ACTION PLAN
To review progress on the Nature Action Plan.
Attachment – Report EN-22-02 Nature Action Plan Update April
9 PROTECTION OF TREES
To consider lobbying Cheshire East Council and the government to increase the protection of trees within Knutsford.
Attachment – Report EN-22-03 Lobbying for the Protection of Trees
10 PLANTING OF TREES IN HIGHWAYS
To consider lobbying Cheshire East Council to direct Cheshire East Highways to permit planting within highway verges and to consider the replacement of fallen trees along King Edward Road.
Attachment – Report EN-22-04 Highway Tree Planting
11 BENCH FOR COMMUNITY GARDEN
To consider providing a bench for the rejuvenated community garden on Longridge.
Attachment – Report EN-22-05 Lobbying for the Protection of Trees
12 INSTALLATION OF PLAQUE AT OBELISK
To consider installing a small plaque on the history of the obelisk.
Attachment – Report EN-22-06 Obelisk Plaque
13 OUTSTANDING MATTERS LOG
To review the committee’s outstanding matters log.
Attachment – Environment and General Purposes Committee Outstanding Matters Log May 2022
14 QUESTIONS TO THE TOWN CLERK
An opportunity for members to raise questions relevant to the work of the committee to the Town Clerk
15 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING
To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 25th July 2022 at 7:30pm.