Minutes:
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Councillor Eade to the Cabinet Member for Environmental Services and Sustainability
Please can the Cabinet Member update members as to how successful the council scheme for solar panels has been? How many Crawley households have purchased them? |
Councillor Jhans, Cabinet Member for Environmental Services and Sustainability
Thank you for your question, I believe this is the Solar Together scheme. I am afraid I do not have the figures at the moment but I can obtain them and email them through to you.
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Councillor Tina Belben to the Leader of the Council
At the OSC meeting of 31 January, I queried how much of the forecasted overspend on responsive repairs contracts of £1.37m caused by higher levels of sickness and increased cost of materials had been as a result of now paying our sub-contractors full pay whilst on sick leave. I believe you said you would come back to me.
Can you also then confirm that the forecasted budgeted sickness payments for 2022/23 and 2023/24 are in line with the likely cost of this policy change as reported to Full Council when you recommended this policy change?
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Councillor Lamb, Leader of the Council
Apologies, I thought you received a response and I’ll follow this up.
I’ll need to come back to you. |
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Councillor McCarthy to the Cabinet Member for Environmental Services and Sustainability
We’ve talking in the past about what the council can do to reduce its energy consumption and one of the suggestions previously is to share the ideas with home owners who may benefit from any guidance. Has anything been done around those lines please?
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Councillor Jhans, Cabinet Member for Environmental Services and Sustainability
The Sustainability Team are actually in the process of working on an engagement plan where some of the ideas are being formed and distributed. If there are any ideas that councillors have please kindly contact me and I’ll forward them to the team. |
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Councillor T Belben to the Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development
Does the Cabinet Member feel that a publicly accessible database for trees that have protected orders on them would be beneficial for both our residents and the environment? People wanting to prune neighbours trees could easily see if they were protected or not. Also it would make it harder for people to trim or fell these trees under a protected order.
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Councillor P Smith, Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development
I’m not sure it is under my portfolio but we can certainly take it away and look further. |
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Councillor Pendlington to the Cabinet Member for Wellbeing
Restrictions are easing now but we’ve had limited use of our community centres over the course of the pandemic. Will we be changing our policy particularly around evening bookings? |
Councillor Mullins, Cabinet Member for Wellbeing
It is one of the revenue streams that my portfolio has lost, but it had been necessary to close them in the circumstances we were facing. We have allowed come activities to continue such as children’s centres and some events which don’t involve alcohol. We would like to get back to normal as soon as possible but we need to review it.
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