A meeting of the Knutsford Town Council Environment and General Purposes Committee will be held on 20th September 2021 at 7:00pm .

The meeting will be conducted via Zoom and members of the public can join on the following link: . The meeting will also be livestreamed to our Facebook page.

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 CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES

To receive and confirm the minutes of the committee meeting held on 22nd March 2021

Attachment – Minutes of the meeting held 22nd March 2021

 

4 REVIEW OF YEAR TO DATE INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

To consider the committee income and expenditure to date.

Attachment – Income and Expenditure Committee Report 13/09/2021

 

5 NATURE ACTION PLAN

To review progress on the Nature Action Plan and provide guidance with respect to proposed amendments to the plan

Attachment – Report EN-21-12 Nature Action Plan Update September

 

6 CLIMATE EMERGENCY

To determine what action to take to further the council’s commitment to addressing the climate emergency.

Attachment – Report EN-21-13 Climate Emergency

 

7 PURCHASE OF SECOND SPEED INDICATOR DEVICE

To review progress on the Nature Action Plan and provide guidance with respect to proposed amendments to the plan

Attachment – Report EN-21-14 Purchase of second SID

 

8 MINSHULL STREET BIN

To consider installing a bin near Minshull Street

Attachment – Report EN-21-15 Minshull Street Bin

 

9 CONVERSION OF OUT OF USE BUS STOPS TO PARKING SPACES

To consider lobbying Cheshire East Council to convert town centre bus stops which are no longer in use into on street parking spaces.

 

10 CHESHIRE EAST COUNCIL WEEDSPRAYING POLICY

To consider matters related to the use of herbicide in Knutsford to control weed and grass growth.

Attachment – Report EN-21-16 Cheshire East Council Weed Spraying

 

11 COMMITTEE BUDGET 2022/23

To consider the draft committee budget 2022/23.

Attachments (2) – Report E-21-16 Environment Committee Budget and Draft Environment Committee Budget

 

12 RATIFICATION OF DECISIONS TAKEN UNDER DELEGATED AUTHORITY

To ratify decisions taken by the Town Clerk during the suspension of formal meetings pursuant to the resolution of Council 21/011.

Attachment – Report EN-21-09 Environment Committee Delegated Decisions

 

13 MAINTENANCE LOG

To review the town maintenance log.

Attachment – Town Maintenance Log July 2021

 

14 ACTIONS LOG

To review the actions log.

Attachment – Environment and General Purposes Committee Actions Log September 2021

 

15 QUESTIONS TO THE TOWN CLERK

An opportunity for members to raise questions relevant to the work of the committee to the Town Clerk

 

16 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING

To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 15th November 2021 at 7pm.

 

Date of Notice – 15/09/2021