The East Local Area Committee consists of all
the Members of the Darnall, Manor Castle, Park & Arbourthorne and Richmond Wards. Local Area Committees engage, enable, and empower
communities across the city with increasing control over decision
making, marking a major shift in power to communities. You can
contact the Local Area Team by emailing EastLAC@sheffield.gov.uk or
telephoning 0114 474 3621. Alternatively,
Click here to find out more about the East Local Area
Committee.
The Committees:
• provide a geographical framework that,
over time, will be used to prioritise and direct the local delivery
of an increasing number of Council services;
• oversee the production of a co-produced
annual Area Committee Plan, with strong commitment to delivery from
Council services and partner organisations, the Community Plans
will reflect resident priorities;
• ensure that plans have ambitious but
achievable improvement targets that have been agreed with the
community, feeding into, and influencing the strategic plans of the
Council;
• work with local partners and
stakeholders to ensure services are joined up and operating
effectively in line with the needs of local communities;
• work with local Voluntary, Community
and Faith Sector organisations to ensure greater efficiency of
resources, improved services, and a stronger local voice;
• monitor and hold to account those who
are responsible for delivering on the Area Committee Plans actions
and performance; and
• are empowered to set priorities and
direct resources.
Attending
Meetings
Meetings of the Local Area
Committee are open to the public.
In order for us to be
able to effectively facilitate attendance at the meeting, we would
encourage all attendees to notify us of your attendance in advance
by registering here or
emailing EastLAC@sheffield.gov.uk
Please do not attend the
meeting if you have COVID-19 symptoms.
There is an opportunity for
members of the public to ask the Local Area Committee Members
questions and to submit petitions under the agenda item
‘Public Questions and Petitions’.
The arrangements for dealing
with questions and petitions at meetings of the Area Committee are
as follows:-
If you wish to ask a question
or present a petition at the meeting, you may either attend the
meeting and ask the question/present the petition on the day or you
may submit the question/petition in writing in advance of the date
of the meeting, by email to the following address: committee@sheffield.gov.uk. The
submission of a written question will enable a more detailed
response to given at the meeting. (Details of how we will use and
keep your information can be found here).
The Chair of the meeting has
discretion as to how questions and petitions are presented at the
meeting and as to whether you are invited to ask your question or
present a petition at the meeting or they are read out at the meeting. A
response to the question or petition will be given by the
appropriate Member or Council officer. If you are not
able to attend the meeting, your question/petition may be referred
to the appropriate Member, and an answer/response will be provided
to you.
Where a submitted question or
petition cannot be answered because time does not allow, or where
a Member undertakes to provide
a written answer/response, the written answer/response will be
provided to you and will be published on the Council
website.
Please note that the Chair of
the meeting may not accept petitions or questions which
relate to:-
(i)
matters not being within the responsibility of the Local Authority
or which affects the City or its inhabitants;
(ii) judicial or
quasi-judicial matters;
(iii) individual
planning/licence/grant applications or appeals;
(iv) named officers or Members
of the Council;
(v) confidential matters of the
type referred to in Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act, 1972;
or
(vi) matters of an irrelevant,
repetitious, defamatory, frivolous or offensive nature or a general
misuse of the opportunity.
Recording is allowed at Local
Area Committee meetings under the direction of the Chair of the
meeting. The protocol
on audio/visual recording and photography provides further
information.