Agenda item

8.1

The Policy and Improvement Officer (Alice Nicholson) submitted a report attaching the Committee’s draft Work Programme for 2016/17.

8.2

Ms Nicholson referred to a number of suggested changes to the Programme, including moving consideration of the item on Sheffield Trees and Woodland Strategy from the meeting in November 2016, to the meeting in January 2017, and having the item on Protecting Sheffield from Flooding as the only main item on the agenda for the meeting in November 2016.

8.3

Members of the Committee also raised suggestions, including the need to receive reports/updates on the Chinese Investment Deal, the New Retail Quarter and the changes to the Business Rate system.

8.4

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

(a)       notes the contents of the report now submitted, together with the comments now made; and

(b)       subject to the amendments and suggestions now reported, which the Policy and Improvement Officer, in consultation with the Chair, would look to incorporate, approves the draft Work Programme for 2016/17 now submitted.