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Councillor Williams

Councillor Michael Leaves

Lewisham Council had put forward a new phone application which allowed people to report graffiti, fly tipping, etc at a touch of the button, taking a photo, giving the GPS location and   cutting down response times.  Would he take this on board?

Councillor Mike Leaves confirmed he was unaware of this scheme and would look into it

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Councillor Rennie

Councillor Jordan

The Local Government Association website had a proposal regarding removing the necessity of enhanced security checks for taxi drivers other than for social services or educational use.  Was this view supported?

He further stated that the Licensing Committee (Hackney Carriage) found the CRB disclosure checks useful when making decisions on licences and asked Councillor Jordan to do everything in his power to instruct officers to make representations that Plymouth would not support the requirement and to confirm that the Council required CRB checks to continue for all drivers and new applications.

Councillor Jordan responded that taxi drivers needed to have the advanced CRB checks to safeguard residents; that he considered most taxi drivers would probably agree with him and that it was important to give confidence to the public.

He further confirmed that he was happy to instruct officers and confirm the Council’s position.

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CouncillorWildy

Councillor Fry

At the vision site at Devonport, there was an area with plans for development. This large site was attracting litter – no-one was taking responsibility as it was not adopted land.  Did he agree that the site should be considered for a primary school at Devonport?

She further asked Councillor Fry to confirm his views on the feasibility of having a new school for Devonport, as promised.

Councillor Fry referred Councillor Wildy to the Devonport Development Plan which would show what was envisaged for that area.

He further responded that educational matters were not his remit and stated that there was a process to be followed if the Council wanted to vary the development plan.

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Councillor Lowry

Councillor Bowyer

Council minute 15 ‘Medium Term Financial Plan’ specified that Members would be kept informed at each full meeting of the Council on progress made in delivering departmental delivery plans – Councillor Bowyer was asked to meet his commitment in future and issue this to all Members, tomorrow, if possible.

Councillor Bowyer responded that he committed to providing an extract from the quarterly monitoring report as a means of providing a report to Council.  As a quarterly monitoring report had not yet been published this information was not provided to Council.  He also confirmed that there would be intermittent intervals where there would be no updated information to report.

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Councillor McDonald

Councillor Michael Leaves

Previously Councillor McDonald had raised that the pier at West Hoe had not been included in the capital programme. She was told that options papers was awaited. How long would the people of West Hoe have to wait for the papers?

She further asked for the timetable.

Councillor Michael Leaves responded that he was committed to West Hoe pier however the Council had not been allocated a grant from Defra and were reviewing the capital programme. 

He further agreed to bring back to the next Council, an update on West Hoe pier.

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Councillor Coker

Councillor Wigens

To confirm whether all routine planned maintenance to drains and gullies has been stopped?

He further referred to a walk around in Devonport, with officers, when he was told about the condition of drains in Devonport because officers had been informed by a watchman from Amey that all routine maintenance had ceased six weeks ago to concentrate on potholes.  Clarification, in a written response, was requested.

CouncillorWigens was unable to confirm this issue.

He welcomed the attention drawn to operation upgrade and confirmed that money had not been diverted from drain maintenance to the pothole budget.  He undertook to provide a written update.