Agenda

Delegated planning decisions for the week beginning 27 January 2025 are attached.  Contact for enquiries: Hamish Walke, Acting Group Manager (Development Management) on hamish.walke@crawley.gov.uk.

A Temporary Traffic Regulation Order document is attached for Crawley Avenue, Southgate.

Consideration report FIN/690, of the Chief Executive and Head of Corporate Finance (s151 Officer), is attached.

On 29 January 2025 Councillor Jones, Leader of the Council, exercised his delegated authority to approve that Bidder 3 be appointed as the preferred bidder, as set out in consideration report DAT/007 which was published for Councillors’ only on 21 January 2025 in Councillors’ Information Bulletin IB/1268.

Following a review of the Anti-Social Behaviour Policy, on 6 January 2025 the Head of Crawley Homes (following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing) updated the Policy to align with the Council’s current approach to responding to Anti-social Behaviour.   The changes to the Policy were also shared with the Cabinet Member for Public Protection. 

Below is a summary of key changes to the policy and the sections in the policy that cover this point.

We felt that the previous policy was not clear enough about:

• What is considered Anti-social Behaviour and what is not? (Paragraphs 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and Appendix A).
• What you can expect when contacting the service? (Sections 8 and 10).
• What is expected of users of the service in relation to the information we need so that we can investigate ASB reports (Section 7, and Paragraphs 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1 & 11.2)
• Partners we may work with to remedy the ASB. (Section 12).
• Remedies & enforcement we may use to resolve ASB. (Paragraph 2.5, Section 9 and Appendix C).
• Details on ASB Case review & complaints (Sections 13,14 and 18).

We have amended our policy to make these points clearer.

We have also updated the Policy to take into account recommendations from the Housing Ombudsman to landlords about responding to anti-social behaviour (Paragraphs 2.2, 2.4, and Sections 5, 6 and 7).

The revised Policy is attached.

The Grants Appeal Panel which is provisionally scheduled for 25 March 2025 has been re-scheduled.  This will now take place on Tuesday 1 April 2025, subject to any appeals being submitted.

Following discussion and agreement with the relevant Committee Chairs:

·        The provisional Cabinet Briefing on Wednesday 2 April 2025 and provisional Cabinet Wednesday 23 April 2025 are now scheduled to take place and confirmed.

·        As a result, a meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Commission will take place on Tuesday 22 April 2025 (subject to any referrals).

·        The Planning Committee originally scheduled for Tuesday 22 April 2025 will now take place on Monday 28 April 2025.

In accordance with Paragraph 2.1(p) of the Full Council Procedure Rules contained within the Constitution, and in concurrence with the wishes of the political group, the Head of Governance, People & Performance has made the following change to the membership of the Planning Committee:

Councillor Ashraf to be replaced with Councillor Yianni.

This change takes immediate effect.

The presentation slides from the recent Councillors’ Briefing and Q&A session on the Statement of Accounts are attached for Councillors only.

Press releases are available at www.crawley.gov.uk/news.