Agenda item

The Commissioning Director for Environment introduced the report. 

Councillor Brian Salinger MOVED the following amendment to Recommendation 3 as set out in the report:

That the Environment Committee approve that authority be delegated to the Street Scene Director in consultation with the Chairman of the Environment Committee Commissioning Director for Environment to review and amendment of the Events in Parks Policy and that power to vary to policy on an experimental basis is granted six months to include providing for events in the park that might need more than 12  hours than is stipulated in the current policy, and to bring a report back to committee in six months. 

That the Environment Committee approve that authority be delegated to the Commissioning Director for Environment to review and vary the Events in Parks Policy on an experimental basis for six months for events in the parks that might need more than the 12 hours than is stipulated in the current policy, and to bring a report back to the committee in six months.

Votes were recorded as follows:

The motion was CARRIED.

RESOLVED that:-

1.    The Environment Committee note the draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy.

2.    That the Environment Committee approve and instruct that the Commissioning Director for Environment to release the draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy for public consultation.

3.    That the Environment Committee approve that authority be delegated to the Commissioning Director for Environment to review and vary the Events in Parks Policy on an experimental basis for six months to include providing for events in the parks that might need more than the 12 hours than is stipulated in the current policy, and to bring a report back to the committee in six months.