Portfolio Holder Decisions

To support the local retail and business community and town and parish councils during festive celebrations, it is the intention to allow 4 days when charges do not apply in each town and village centre car park.

These days are:

•Small Business Saturday (this year on the 6th of December 2025)
•The last weekend before Christmas (20th/21st December 2025)
•An additional day where Town and Parish Councils may request free parking in support of their respective Christmas events

On 3 October 2025, Cllr Geoffrey Blunden, the Portfolio Holder for Environment and Sustainability made the following decision:

That the Council allocate 4 days of free parking in town centre car parks to support local businesses and communities during December 2025.

Any member of the Council, who is not a Portfolio Holder, who considers that this decision should be reviewed should give notice using the call-in facility at the top of this page on the Council’s intranet / extranet site. Alternatively, notice can be given to the Monitoring Officer (Matt Wisdom) (in writing or by e-mail) to be received ON OR BY 5.15 pm on 10 October 2025.

Details of the document the Portfolio Holder considered are attached below.

This report introduces a suite of updated policies for Housing (Landlord Services) following periodic review, which detail the undertaking and arrangements pertaining to core statutory safety and compliance servicing and maintenance functions of the Council’s social housing stock under Housing Revenue Account activities. The revised Policies are attached at Appendix 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.

On 2 October 2025, Cllr Steve Davies, the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Homelessness made the following decision:

To adopt the revised policies which have been presented to the Tenant Involvement Group (TIG) and Executive Management Team (EMT) on 12th August 2025.

The policies presented reflect minor amendments to existing policies for approval by the Portfolio Holder publishing formally within the Council but as public documents updated on the Councils webpages

Any member of the Council, who is not a Portfolio Holder, who considers that this decision should be reviewed should give notice using the call-in facility at the top of this page on the Council’s intranet / extranet site. Alternatively, notice can be given to the Monitoring Officer (Matt Wisdom) (in writing or by e-mail) to be received ON OR BY 5.15 pm on 9 October 2025.

Details of the document the Portfolio Holder considered are attached below.