Overview & Scrutiny Committee 2003/4

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Date	Agendas	Minutes
May 20 2004	Agenda	Minutes
	Supplemental Agenda 1
	Supplemental Agenda 2
May 13 2004	Agenda	Minutes
May 6 2004	Agenda	Minutes
	Supplemental Agenda 1
April 29 2004	Agenda	Minutes
April 26 2004 [Call-in]	Agenda	Minutes
April 13 2004 [Call-in]	Agenda	Minutes
April 5 2004	Agenda	Minutes
	Supplemental Agenda 1
	Supplemental Agenda 2
March 1 2004	Agenda	Minutes
February 10 2004	Agenda	Minutes
February 2 2004	Agenda	Minutes
	Supplemental Agenda 1
January 28 2004 [Call-in]	Agenda	Minutes
January 12 2004	Agenda	Minutes
	Supplemental Agenda 1
December 15 2003	Agenda	Minutes
	Supplemental Agenda 1
December 4 2003 [Call-in]	Agenda	Minutes
November 17 2003 [Call-in]	Agenda	Minutes
November 10 2003	Agenda	Minutes
October 22 2003 [Call-in]	Agenda	Minutes
October 13 2003	Agenda Supplemental Agenda 1	Minutes
September 25 2003 [Call-in]	Agenda	Minutes
September 15 2003	Agenda Supplemental Agenda 1	Minutes
July 7 2003	Agenda	Minutes
June 9 2003	Agenda	Minutes
May 21 2003	Agenda	Minutes

May 20 2004 [Special meeting to consider award of planning permission at 295-298 Camberwell New Road and 299 Camberwell New Road]
Item 1: Scrutiny: Award of Planning Permission at 295-297 Camberwell New Road and 299 Camberwell New Road
- Report back from independent planning consultant
- Development Control Service Procedure Manual
- Training on planning for Councillors [Notes]
- Statutory obligations for planning applications
- Planning applications which took more than 3 years to determine
- Southwark's human resources procedures pre-2003
- Discipline
- Individual employee complaints
- Recruitment
- Complaint statistics: Southwark Planning Department
- Report from Chief Executive (Borough Solicitor): recommended legal mechanism for compensation
- Information report: the committee members who considered the Imperial Gardens and Fairview New Homes planning applications
- Information on planning consultation on railway arches in Camberwell
- Letter from Webster Dixon Solicitors - Page 1 and Page 2
- Summary of proposed responses to Audit Commission report on award of planning permission
- Race complaint statistics
- Submission from Councillor Hunt

May 13 2004 [Special meeting to consider award of planning permission at 295-298 Camberwell New Road and 299 Camberwell New Road]
Item 1: Documents submitted by Ms. Lucia Hinton and Mr. Raymond Stevenson  This document is saved as a "zipped" file which contains image files (".tif"). If you do not have a software product that is able to unzip this file once it has been downloaded you should be able to download an appropriate product from the web as freeware.
- Submission from Ms. Hinton and Mr. Raymond Stevenson  [page 1]
- Audit Commission Public Interest Report  [pages 2-22]
- Local ombudsmen report  [pages 23-35]
- Media clippings  [pages 36-59]
- Submission: Planning Aid for London  [pages 60-68]
- Submission: Mr. Martin Huckerby  [pages 69-71]
- Submission: Black Planners Network  [pages 72-79]
- Other businesses affected  [pages 80-121]
- Fairview Homes plan  [pages 122-123]
- Camberwell train station  [pages 124-145]
- Legal correspondence and letter from the chief executive  [pages 146-151]
- Letters of support  [pages 152-163]
- Documents relied on [pages 164-166]
Southwark Council implementation of Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2002  [pages 167-177]

May 6 2004
Item 1: Draft corporate plan
Item 1, Appendix 2: Scrutiny Sub-Committee Comments on 3rd Quarter Performance Report
Item 2: Post Office closures
Item 2, Appendix 2: Post Office closures - report by the London Assembly's Public Services Committee [April 2004]
Item 3: no written report available
Item 4: Reference from Executive: Consultation processes and factors surrounding Executive reports
Item 5: Reference from Finance & Economic Development Scrutiny Sub-Committee: Audit Commission Annual Letter
Item 6: Reference from Finance & Economic Development Scrutiny Sub-Committee: budget & policy framework procedure rules
Item 7: Reference from Finance & Economic Development Scrutiny Sub-Committee: Communications
Item 8: Reference from Housing Scrutiny Sub-Committee: Emergency Procedures [Fire at East Dulwich Estate]
Item 8, Appendix 1 - Report from Chair of East Dulwich T&RA on fire at Riseholme House
Item 8, Appendix 2 - Report to Housing Scrutiny Sub-Committee [March 8 2004]
Item 8, Appendix 3 - Briefing note from Councillor Veronica Ward
Item 9: Scrutiny Sub-Committee Business Updates [listed below]:
Education, Youth & Leisure Scrutiny Sub-Committee [May 2004]
Environment & Community Support Scrutiny Sub-Committee [May 2004]
Finance & Economic Development Scrutiny Sub-Committee [May 2004]
Health & Social Care Scrutiny Sub-Committee [May 2004]
Housing Scrutiny Sub-Committee [May 2004]
Regeneration & Transport Scrutiny Sub-Committee [May 2004]

April 29 2004 [Special meeting to consider award of planning permission at 295-298 Camberwell New Road and 299 Camberwell New Road]
Item 1: Report of action planned following District Audit and Ombudsman reports on award of planning permission at 295-297 Camberwell New Road and 299 Camberwell New Road.
Appendix 1: Presentation to OSC by assistant borough solicitor

April 26 2004 [Call-in meeting]
Item 1: Call-in of Executive Decision [Item 13, April 13 2004 "Area Housing Forum Consultation and Changes to Tenant & Leaseholder Council Constitutions"]
Item 1, Appendix A: Executive Report [13 April 2004] - available from the Executive pages
Item 1, Appendix B: Minutes of Executive Meeting [April 13 2004]

April 13 2004 [Call-in meeting]
Item 1: Call-In: Community Council Capital Programme

April 5 2004
Item 1: Executive Interview with Councillors Stanton and Pidgeon
Item 2: Alleged Fraud on Major Voids Contracts: final report from Finance & Regeneration Scrutiny Sub-Committee
Item 3: Scrutiny awayday January 28 2004: report back
Item 4: Constitutional issues: (a) Health scrutiny - consideration of arrangements for establishing joint scrutiny committees; (b) Miscellaneous amendments
Item 5: Consultation processes and factors surrounding Executive reports - reference from Executive
Item 6: Post Office closures
Item 7: Report From Housing Scrutiny Sub-Committee - Canada Estate
Item 8: Scrutiny sub-committees: business updates
Item 9: Reference from Council Assembly [March 31 2004]: Deputation by Black Awareness Group in respect of Imperial Gardens

March 1 2004
Item 1: Executive Member interviews: Councillor James Gurling
Appendix A - Risk register information
Item 2: Disability Discrimination Act presentation
Item 3: Review scoping - Award of planning permissions at 295-297 Camberwell New Road and 299 Camberwell New Road and Local Government Ombudsman Report Complaint No 02/b/08100
Item 4: Early Years best value implementation progress report
Item 5: Post Office closures
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Item 6: Scrutiny awayday report
Item 7: Scrutiny sub-committee updates
Item 8: Canada Estate - Report from Housing Scrutiny Sub-Committee
Appendix 1

February 10 2004
Item 1: Budget scrutiny - report from Finance & Economic Development Scrutiny Sub-Committee in respect of scrutiny of the budget-making process for 2004/05
Item 1, Appendix 1

February 2 2004
Item 1: Scrutiny sub-committee progress reports
Education, Youth & Leisure Scrutiny Sub-Committee update
Environment & Community Support Scrutiny Sub-Committee update
Finance & Economic Development Scrutiny Sub-Committee update
Health & Social Care Scrutiny Sub-Committee update
Housing Scrutiny Sub-Committee update
Regeneration & Transport Scrutiny Sub-Committee update
Item 2: Preparing for Executive Member interviews
Item 3: Scrutiny comments on progress on the implementation of the review of day care services for people with community care needs - reference from Health & Social Care Scrutiny Sub-Committee [21 January 2004]
Item 4: Budget - report from Finance & Economic Development Scrutiny Sub-Committee
Item 5: Final scrutiny report on "Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy" - reference from Health & Social Care Scrutiny Sub-Committee [21 January 2004] - covering report
Final report "Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy"
Item 6: Canada Estate - report from Housing Scrutiny Sub-Committee
Item 7: Thames Water's response to recent supply failure in Southwark - consideration of officer notes arising from review

January 28 2004 [Call-in meeting]
Item 1: Call-in - Review of the Secure Tenancy Agreement [covering report]
Item 1: Appendix A - Executive report of January 13 2004 "Review of the Secure Tenancy Agreement"
Item 1: Appendix B - Executive January 13 2004, Supplemental Information "Feedback from Tenants Council 12 January 2004" [Not available electronically]
Item 1: Appendix C - Executive Committee January 13 2004, Minutes
Item 1: Appendix D - Scrutiny Call-in request pro-forma [Not available electronically]
Item 1: Appendix E - Deputation request from Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations [SGTO]
Item 1: Appendix F - Report to OSC from Housing Department in respect of call-in
Item 1: Appendix G - Submission from Library Street Neighbourhood Forum

January 12 2004
Item 1 - Deputation Request: Scrutiny of Chumleigh Gardens [Mr Horsley]
Appendix A
Appendix D
Item 2 - Scrutiny: Civic Awards
Item 3 - Scrutiny: Thames Water's response to recent failure of supply in Southwark
Item 4 - Scrutiny: Community Councils
Inlogov report
Addendum to Inlogov report
Item 5 - Executive interview round-up: Responses from the Executive to OSC in respect of:
Charter School
Face-to-face services
Item 6 - Southwark Alliance

December 15 2003
Item 1 - Deputation Request: Canada Water Estate Works [Canada Estate TRA]
Item 2 - Reference from Finance & Economic Development Scrutiny Sub-Committee and Regeneration & Transport Scrutiny Sub-Committee "Request for Scrutiny from Janet Yatak"
Report 2
Item 3 - Reference from Regeneration & Transport Scrutiny Sub-Committee " Request for Scrutiny of Chumleigh Gardens"
Addendum to Item 3
Item 4 - Reference from Council Assembly "Communications Strategy"
Item 5 - Deputation Request: Early Years Best Value Review [Southwark Community Care Forum]
Item 6 - Scrutiny: Southwark Complaints Handling
Item 7 - Developing Scrutiny - Communication
Item 8 - Scrutiny Development Update
Item 9 - Scrutiny: Thames Water's response to the recent failure in supply in Southwark - summary
Appendix 1 - non-supply
Appendix 2 - low water pressure
Item 10 - Reference from Council Assembly: School Organisation Plan
Item 11 - Reference from Health & Social Care Scrutiny Sub-Committee: Green Paper "Every Child Matters"
Item 12 - Reference from Council Assembly: District Audit Interim Annual Audit Letter and New Statutory Report dealing with issues arising during audit of accounts

December 4 2003
Item 1 - Call-in: Modernising face-to-face services for customers
Appendix A: Executive Report, November 25 2003
Appendix B: Executive Minutes, November 25 2003 [available from the Executive pages]
Appendix C: Call-in request form [not available electronically]

November 17 2003
Item 1 - Call-in: Building Better Communications - A Communications Strategy for Southwark
Appendix A: Executive Report, November 4 2003
Appendix B: Southwark Council Communications Strategy 2002/04 and Improvement Plan
Appendix C: Executive Minutes, November 4 2003 [available from Executive pages]
Appendix D: Call-in request form [not available electronically]

10 November 2003
Item 1: Early Years Best Value Review: Implementation Progress Report
Appendix part A - Executive report
Appendix part B
Appendix part C
Submission from Southwark Community Care Forum
Item 2: Scrutiny: Review of Thames Water's response to failure of water supply in Southwark
Item 2, Project brief
Item 2, Question at Council Assembly
Item 3: Appointment of Housing Scrutiny Sub-Committee Chair

22 October 2003 [Call-in]
Item 1 - Call-in: Funding for Southwark Groups of Tenants Organisations (SGTO)
Appendix A: Executive Report "Funding for SGTO"
Appendix B: Executive Minutes, September 9 2003 meeting [available from the Executive pages]
Appendix C: Call-in request form [not available electronically]
Appendix D: SGTO deputation request

October 13 2003
Item 1 - Review of Thames Water's response to failure of water supply in Southwark
Item 1, Appendix 1
Item 2 - Developing scrutiny: Communication
Item 2, Appendix 1
Item 3 - Scrutiny: Complaints
Item 3, Appendix 1
Item 4 - Civic Awards project brief
Item 5 - Scrutiny: Charter School - consideration of draft scrutiny report

September 25 2003 [Call-in]
Item 1 - Call-in: Appropriation for planning purposes of council owned section of Potters Fields Former Coach Site [covering report]
Appendix A - Executive report 9/09/03 [see Executive pages]
Appendix B - Executive report 9/09/03 supplemental [see Executive pages]
Appendix C - Masons solicitors letter to Paul Evans [not available electronically]
Appendix D - Executive Minutes 9/09/03 [see Executive pages]
Appendix E - completed Call-in proforma [not available electronically]
Appendix F - Masons solicitors letter to Councillor Humphreys 24/09/03
Additional information in relation to Item 1
Item 2 - Thames Water: consideration of draft scrutiny project brief

September 15 2003
Item 1 - Developing scrutiny
Appendix A
Appendix B
Item 2 - Reference from Council Assembly: Statement of Accounts 2002/03, report recommending this item be referred to Finance & Economic Development Scrutiny Sub-Committee for consideration
Item 3 - Scrutiny: Charter School Overspend - Draft Audit Commission Report "Overview of Capital Project at the Charter School" [covering report]
Appendix A - Draft Audit Commission report "Overview of Capital Project at the Charter School" [not available electronically]

July 7 2003
Item 6 - Scrutiny - Charter School overspend
Item 7 - Individual decision-making
Item 8 - Scrutiny - Complaints handling
Item 9 - Scrutiny annual report

June 9 2003
Item 2: Final report: Draft Enterprise Strategy and Employment Strategy (Housing & Regeneration Scrutiny Sub Committee 2002-03)
Appendix A
Item 3 - Scrutiny business for forthcoming municipal year 2003/04
Project timetable
Item 4 - Early Years best value review : implementation progress
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Addendum
Item 4 - Written submission by Southwark Community Care Forum
Item 5 - Draft scrutiny annual report 2002-03
Addendum
Member briefings - Individual decision making
Member briefings - Contract standing orders

May 21 2003
Item 1 - Establishment of themed scrutiny sub-committees for 2003/04