SITE
VISIT UPDATES
In
addition to formal reviews and information items carried out by the
Committee, Councillors on this committee also participate in visits
to frontline services. These visits provide
an opportunity to meet with residents, staff, contractors and
partners and gain a better understanding of the work they
do thereby enabling the Committee to add
real value to its important scrutiny work. You can see pictures of
them below:
To view recent site visits by the Select Committee click
here
Remit
Portfolio(s)
Directorate
Service Areas
Cabinet Member for Community &
Environment
Residents Services
Green Spaces (incl. Woodlands, Colne
Valley)
Crematorium Services
Waste Services
Flooding & watercourses
Environmental Projects (incl. Chrysalis, Street
Champions, Alleygating & Ward Budgets)
Climate Change (incl. air quality) –
cross-cutting brief
Library Services
Theatres, Museums & Cultural
Services
Leisure Services and Centres
Community Safety & Community Cohesion (incl.
CCTV)
Trading Standards, Environmental Health &
Licensing (incl. Safety of Sports Grounds)
Imported Food Office
Anti-Social Behaviour and Localities
Street Scene Enforcement
Parking & Parking Enforcement
Emergency Response
Adult Services & Health
Mortuary
Cabinet Member for Planning, Housing &
Growth
Residents Services
Planning Services (incl. planning policy, building
control, planning enforcement, specialist planning &
conservation areas)
Regeneration (incl. town centres, master
planning)
Economic Development (incl. growth strategy, business
engagement, inward investment & worklessness)
Local Impacts of Heathrow Expansion (cross cutting
brief)
Local Impacts of High Speed 2 (cross-cutting
brief)
Housing Strategy & Commissioning (incl. housing
policies & standards, assessment of housing stock size &
condition and the commissioning of housing stock repairs and
housing stock acquisitions)
HRA Strategy and delivery plan (operational delivery
by Cabinet Member for Corporate Services &
Property)
Housing Management (incl. tenancy
management)
Housing Options and Homeless
Prevention
Private Sector Housing
STATUTORY
COMMITTEE
Statutory Crime and
Disorder Scrutiny
This Committee will
act as a Crime and Disorder Committee as defined in the Crime and
Disorder (Overview and Scrutiny) Regulations 2009 and carry out the
bi-annual scrutiny of decisions made, or other action taken, in
connection with the discharge by the responsible authorities of
their crime and disorder functions.
Duty of partners to
attend and provide information
The Crime and
Disorder (Overview and Scrutiny) Regulations?2009 permits this
Select Committee to make a request in writing for information to
bodies who form the local Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership
(Safer Hillingdon Partnership), which includes the Police. The
Committee should scrutinise the work of the partnership at least
once a year and may also require the attendance before it of an
officer or employee of a responsible authority or of a co-operating
person or body in order to answer questions. The Committee may not
require a person to attend unless reasonable notice of the intended
date of attendance has been given to that person.