Councillor Mark Shayer (Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Economy and Finance) gave an update and highlighted –

a)    Welcomed David Northey (S151 Officer) to his new post;

b)    There are a number of positive SWOT analysis’ taking place, with businesses from outside of Plymouth getting in touch with regards to what it means and how they can get involved;

Councillor Bill Wakeham (Cabinet Member for Environment and Street Scene) gave an update and highlighted –

c)    Some machinery had arrived which was making some tasks a little easier, but the Environment and Street Scene team were still working very hard, and thanked them;

Councillor Jonathan Drean (Cabinet Member for Transport) provided an update and highlighted -

d)    The MMA lining work was continuing with a prioritisation on pedestrian crossings and safety areas;

e)    Lining on North Cross Roundabout has been completed, with works halfway through on Manadon, and Marsh Mills scheduled to follow;

f)     The help points across the city are in operation and use of one by a local resident in distress and the situation had gone well;

g)    A meeting had taken place with the Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Secretary of State for Transport) at an Aviation Forum and extended an invitation to visit the Forder Valley link road in the future;

h)    Rail at Dawlish, South West connections and the Tavistock to Plymouth line were discussed with Kevin Foster MP (Minister of State for Rail, Department for Transport) and a business case for the Tavistock to Plymouth railway line had been submitted;

i)     A conversation had also taken place with John Holland-Kaye (CEO, Heathrow Airport) where he confirmed they had recognised the importance of regional connectivity and that there is now a process for lower domestic flight landing fees.

Councillor James Stoneman (Cabinet Member for Climate Change) provided an update and highlighted –

j)     A conversation had with Lee Rowley MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Housing)) about how investment zones could work alongside the climate change work being undertaken in the city;

Councillor Dr John Mahony (Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care) gave an update and highlighted –

k)    The new Mount Gould Health Hub had opened in Mount Gould in conjunction with Age Concern at the William and Patricia Venton Centre which was important to enable residents to access service, reducing the pressure on the health service, be signposted to welfare services, and reduce isolation and loneliness;

l)     There was a Health and Social Care recruitment event on 14 October 2022 at Future Inns, Plymouth from 10am-17pm with interviews and training opportunities available on the day;

m)  A care hotel would be opened at the end of October 2022 following the success in 2021, easing some of the winter pressure on UHP Derriford;

Councillor Charlotte Carlyle (Cabinet Member for Education, Skills and Children and Young People) provided an update and highlighted –

n)    The work of Tina Brinkworth and her team on the Launch Pad Live, which was Plymouth’s largest ever future careers event with 60 businesses and organisations and over 3000 students from Year 7 up;

Councillor Rebecca Smith (Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning, Homes and Communities) provided an update and highlighted –

o)    There was ambition to digitise the planning system to make it more open, transparent and accessible to all communities and local people and a joint bid was put in with South Hams and West Devon, and was 1 of only 28 projects across the country to get funded by the Proptech engagement fund, receiving the highest amount in the country of £285,000 with an offer to bid for a further £235,000;

p)    A new digital engagement platform would be developed with innovative approaches to better understand the way neighbourhoods work and improve public reporting as well as expanding consultation agreements making them more efficient for residents and businesses;

q)    My Place My Views had been launched in July 2022 to engage with residents to ask what they think of their neighbourhoods, facilities and services, and it would end on 17 October 2022, and had received over 1300 responses and was one of the most successful pilots in the country;

Councillor Pat Patel (Cabinet Member for Customer Services, Culture, Leisure & Sport) gave an update and highlighted –

r)    The Box had just celebrated its second anniversary and has had 350,000 visitors, despite being closed for 6 months due to the COVID19 pandemic and has had improvements to archives and work to get more schools to visit and the British Art Show launch on 7 October 2022;

s)     Community Economic Development was in progress, with conversations having taken place with 3-4 community organisations around how the Council can support them to become more sustainable and deliver to communities;

t)     The Night Bus would be launching in October 2022 to help get clubbers get some safely with three routes across different parts of the city which had been made possible with funding from the Home Office and is a joint venture with the University of Plymouth.