Agenda

Council - Wednesday 8th October 2025 6.00 p.m.

Venue: Parkside Suite - Parkside

Contact: Jess Bayley-Hill 

Media

Items
No. Item

Welcome

1.

To receive apologies for absence

2.

Declarations of Interest

To invite Councillors to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Disclosable Interests they may have in items on the agenda, and to confirm the nature of those interests.

3.

To confirm the accuracy of the minutes of the meetings of the Council held on 16th July and 3rd September 2025 pdf icon PDF 205 KB

Additional documents:

4.

To receive any announcements from the Chairman and/or Head of Paid Service

5.

To receive any announcements from the Leader

6.

To receive comments, questions or petitions from members of the public pdf icon PDF 89 KB

A period of up to 15 minutes is allowed for members of the public to make a comment, ask questions or present petitions.  Each member of the public has up to 3 minutes to do this.  A councillor may also present a petition on behalf of a member of the public.

 

7.

Urgent Decisions pdf icon PDF 192 KB

There have been two Urgent Decisions taken since the last ordinary meeting of the Council.

 

Additional documents:

8.

Changes to Committee Membership

To receive a verbal update from relevant Group Leaders on changes to the following:

 

·       Substitutes of the Licensing Committee.

·       Membership of Overview and Scrutiny Board.

·       Any other Committees (as relevant).

 

9.

To receive and consider a report from the Portfolio Holder for Environmental Services and Community Safety pdf icon PDF 1 MB

Up to 30 minutes is allowed for this item; no longer than 10 minutes for  presentation of the report and then up to 3 minutes for each question to be put and answered.

 

 

10.

Recommendations from the Cabinet pdf icon PDF 198 KB

To consider the recommendations from the meetings of the Cabinet held on 23rd July 2025 and 10th September 2025.

 

Members are asked to note that there was one further recommendation made at the Cabinet meeting held on 10th September 2025 in respect of Urgent Business. This recommendation has already been agreed as an urgent decision on 16th September 2025. A copy of the urgent decision can be viewed at item 7 on this agenda.

 

11.

Background Information on the recommendations from the Cabinet

11a

Revocation of the Bromsgrove Road and Lickey End Air Quality Management Area pdf icon PDF 294 KB

Additional documents:

11b

Treasury Management Outturn Report 2024/2025 pdf icon PDF 616 KB

11c

Adoption of Fixed Penalty Charge for Breach of Community Protection Notice pdf icon PDF 210 KB

11d

Quarter 1 2025/26 Finance and Performance Monitoring Report pdf icon PDF 1 MB

Additional documents:

11e

Expansion of Commercial Waste Collection Service pdf icon PDF 479 KB

12.

To note the minutes of the meetings of the Cabinet held on 23rd July and 10th September 2025 pdf icon PDF 231 KB

Additional documents:

13.

Questions on Notice pdf icon PDF 191 KB

To deal with any questions on notice from Members of the Council, in the order in which they have been received. Each Member asking a question may ask up to one supplementary question which must be based on the original question or based on the answer to that question.

 

A period of up to 15 minutes is allocated for the asking and answering of questions.  This may be extended at the discretion of the Chairman with the agreement of the majority of those present.

 

14.

Motions on Notice pdf icon PDF 275 KB

A period of up to one hour is allocated to consider the motions on notice.  This may only be extended with the agreement of the Council.

 

15.

To consider any urgent business, details of which have been notified to the Assistant Director of Legal, Democratic and Procurement Services prior to the commencement of the meeting and which the Chairman, by reason of special circumstances, considers to be of so urgent a nature that it cannot wait until the next meeting

16.

To consider, and if considered appropriate, to pass the following resolution to exclude the public from the meeting during the consideration of item(s) of business containing exempt information:-

"RESOLVED: that under Section 100 I of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, the public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it/they involve(s) the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act, as amended, the relevant paragraph of that part, in each case, being as set out below, and that it is in the public interest to do so:-

 

Item No.

Paragraph(s)

17 (including 17a)

3

 

17.

Background Information on the recommendations from the Cabinet

17a

Expansion of Commercial Waste Collection Service