Purpose

For Cabinet to discuss the recommendations
within the Transport, Environment & Climate Change Select
Committee's review report into Streetworks

Content

The Transport,
Environment and Climate Change Select Committee agreed to set up a
rapid review into Streetworks and
Statutory Undertakers at its meeting on 30 March 2023.  It was agreed that the review would not commence
until May 2023 to allow the service to settle following the change
in Highways contract to Balfour Beaty. 
The review was chaired by the Chairman of the Transport,
Environment and Climate Change Select Committee, Councillor B
Chapple OBE, and also comprised
Councillors Brazier, Caffrey, Carington, Cornell and A
Wood.
 
In
June and July 2023, the review group collected evidence through
meetings both in person and on Teams. The review group then met to
discuss and agree its key findings and recommendations which were
detailed at Appendix 1 to the Cabinet report.  A series of questions on Streetworks and Statutory Undertakers had also been
included as part of a Town and Parish Council survey on
Buckinghamshire Council services which ran from 22 May to 13 August
2023, results detailed at Appendix 2 to the Cabinet
report.
 
Cabinet was asked to consider the
recommendations of the Select Committee Review.
 
RESOLVED –
 

(1)              
That the
Transport, Environment and Climate Change Select Committee
Review Group, as well as the supporting officers, be
thanked for their work and subsequent
recommendations.

(2)              
That Cabinet’s
responses to the Review report and recommendations, as
set out and circulated to Members, be AGREED.

 
Note: a complete breakdown of the scrutiny
recommendations and Cabinet’s responses can be found
here.