Councillor Graham Neale

Audit, Governance and Standards (Civic Awards) Sub-Committee - Monday 3 March 2025 6.00 pm

This meeting was scheduled to discuss the short-listed nominations for the Southwark Civic Awards 2025 and to grant awards to the nominees.

Environment Scrutiny Commission - Thursday 27 February 2025 7.00 pm

The agenda for this meeting included an interview with a Cabinet Member, presentations and discussions about encouraging community gardening, active travel, biodiversity corridors, provision of cycle parking and commissioning for behaviour change, a briefing and update on estate waste, a response to two draft Supplementary Planning Documents, and a discussion of the work programme.

Budget and council tax setting meeting, Council Assembly - Wednesday 26 February 2025 7.00 pm

The Council Assembly approved the proposed budget for 2025-26 as amended by the Liberal Democrat group. It also approved the associated council tax increase of 4.99% and agreed to continue existing local schemes for war disability and war widow/widower housing benefit. In addition, the Capital Strategy and the Treasury Management Strategy were approved without amendment.

Extraordinary meeting, Council Assembly - Wednesday 26 February 2025 9.00 pm

Southwark Council held an extraordinary meeting to discuss a motion of no confidence in the leader of the council and the cabinet member for finance in relation to the performance of the Housing Department. An amendment to the motion, proposed by the Labour Group, was passed and the substantive motion, as amended, was also passed.

Audit, Governance and Standards Committee - Monday 3 February 2025 6.30 pm

The meeting was largely focused on the financial performance of the council, the state of the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) and the council's plans to increase the amount of information that it publishes about its activities. The committee agreed to the proposed Internal Audit programme for 2025/26, subject to the inclusion of a review of the lighting on the council's housing estates. The Statement of Accounts 2023/24 for the council and the Southwark Pension Fund was approved.