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Minute's Silence
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Apologies for Absence
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Exclusion of the Press and Public
To identify items where resolutions may be
moved to exclude the press and public.
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Declarations of Interest PDF 86 KB
Members to declare any
interests they have in the business to be considered at the
meeting.
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Public Questions and Petitions and Other Communications PDF 208 KB
To receive any questions or
petitions from the public, or communications submitted by the Lord
Mayor or the Chief Executive and to pass such resolutions thereon
as the Council Procedure Rules permit and as may be deemed
expedient.
(NOTE: There is a time limit of one hour for
the above item of business. In accordance with the
arrangements published on the Council’s website,
questions/petitions are required to be submitted in writing, to
committee@sheffield.gov.uk, by 9.00
a.m. on Monday 3rd July. Questions/petitions submitted after the
deadline will be asked at the meeting subject to the discretion of
the Chair.)
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Members' Questions PDF 1 MB
6.1 Questions relating to
urgent business – Council Procedure Rule 16.6(ii).
6.2 Questions relating to the
discharge of the functions of the South Yorkshire Joint Authorities
(under the provisions of Section 41 of the Local Government Act
1985) and of the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined
Authority – Council Procedure Rule 16.6(i).
6.3 Supplementary questions on
written questions submitted at this meeting – Council
Procedure Rule 16.4.
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Notice of Motion Regarding "A Better, Brighter Future for Sheffield" - Given By Councillor Tom Hunt And To Be Seconded By Councillor Fran Belbin
That this Council:-
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(a) notes the hugely positive
recent developments in our city, including:-
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(i)
the exciting proposals for the Cole Brothers
building;
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(ii)
the ongoing progress with the Heart of the City
developments; improvements to Fargate;
pedestrianisation of Division Street and the planning permission to
transform Castlegate;
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(iii)
over £100m to be invested in Sheffield’s
leisure and entertainment venues;
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(iv)
the development agreement for Attercliffe Waterside
which will see the creation of a new low-carbon neighbourhood with
1000 homes;
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(v)
the creation of the Sheffield Policy Campus which
will further develop Sheffield as a leading centre for policy
making in Britain; and
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(vi)
the two fantastic promotions for Sheffield United
and Sheffield Wednesday;
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(b) notes
new developments that will help to improve the lives of people in
Sheffield:-
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(i)
the launch of Family Hubs, one-stop shops supporting
families, children and young
people to have the best start
in life; and
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(ii)
Sheffield being chosen to be part of a new five-year
project which will support early intervention work to prevent
homelessness;
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(c) believes that:-
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(i)
Sheffield is changing for the better and will
continue getting better still; and
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(ii)
it is time to talk Sheffield up – not talk it
down;
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(d) further believes
that:-
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(i)
the Council’s Future Sheffield programme will
deliver a modern council with a culture founded on trust and
openness, with greater connection to our communities, where staff
are engaged and where equality and diversity are celebrated;
and
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(ii)
the City Goals is a great initiative that will provide a set of
goals, shaped by residents, and shared with our partners, that will
guide the future of Sheffield; and
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(e) resolves to:-
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(i)
serve the people of Sheffield;
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(ii)
work collaboratively through our committees and with
our partners to continue to:-
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(A)
help people with the cost-of-living
crisis;
(B) fix our public transport and make it
easier to get around our city;
(C)
secure new investment in the city;
(D)
ensure that public money is always spent wisely;
(E)
invest in our neighbourhoods and devolve
power to communities;
(F)
tackle the climate emergency; and
(G)
ensure that politics in Sheffield is
conducted in a competent, open and
inclusive way; and
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(iii)
always be guided by our values: people are at the
heart of what we do; openness and honesty are important to us, and
together we get things done serve the people of
Sheffield.
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Notice of Motion Regarding "Responding to the Changing Shape of the Cost of Living Crisis Locally" - Given By Councillor Shaffaq Mohammed And To Be Seconded By Councillor Sophie Thornton
That this Council:-
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(a) praises
the cross party response to the Cost of
Living crisis, which has delivered 173 welcome places, £15m
in hardship payments to residents, and support for affected
businesses;
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(b) notes
with concern that despite the Council’s interventions, the
Cost of Living crisis is now impacting a much larger group of
people, as:-
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(i) Council Homeless
Services received 500 more presentations in 2022/23 than in
2021/22;
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(ii)
the Trussell Trust delivered 28% more food parcels across Yorkshire
in 2022/23 than in 2021/22, with 27 Trussell Trust and Independent
food banks in Sheffield;
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(iii)
nationally, food prices have risen by 18.4% since January;
and
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(iv) the
recent rise in the Bank Base Rate to 5% will seriously impact many
of Sheffield’s low income mortgage
holders;
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(c) notes that:-
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(i)
research has found that an estimated £18.7bn
in benefits and social tariffs go unclaimed across the UK every
year;
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(ii)
similarly, an estimated £17m of Pension Credit
goes unclaimed in Sheffield every year;
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(iii)
take-up is lower for locally administered benefits
such as Council Tax Support than DWP administered benefits;
and
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(iv)
Sheffield Citizens Advice Bureau (which provides
support to maximise household income) has provided primarily online
support since the pandemic, which can be challenging to access for
residents who are elderly or facing digital exclusion;
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(d) believes
that accessing locally administered benefits in Sheffield is made
more difficult due to the many barriers residents face in
contacting the Council, and reaffirms that the Council has an
utmost responsibility to assist residents to access all the
benefits and support they are entitled to;
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(e) notes
that the Local Area Committees have been a vital part of the
Cost of Living response in their
localities, including working closely with Welcome Places,
providing grants to Voluntary, Community and Faith organisations,
and producing locally tailored communications; and
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(f)
therefore, requests that the Strategy and Resources Policy
Committee considers allocating from unallocated resources from the
2023/24 budget setting process:-
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(i)
£200k in additional grant funding to Citizens
Advice Services, to expand their employment of Volunteer Trainers
and provide increased face to face support;
and
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(ii)
£400k in additional citywide LAC funding, to
be allocated by Indices of Multiple Deprivation and spent on the
response to the Cost of Living
crisis.
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Notice of Motion Regarding "Reaffirming Sheffield as a City of Sanctuary" - Given By Councillor Alexi Dimond And To Be Seconded By Councillor Maleiki Haybe
That this Council:-
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(a)
notes that:-
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(i) Sheffield, the
UK’s first City of Sanctuary, has a proud history of
welcoming people seeking safety;
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(ii)
the climate crisis increases the risk of displacing
people;
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(iii) the
Illegal Migration Bill in Parliament has already been voted through
by the majority of the House of
Commons;
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(iv) people
seeking safety, including children, will be effectively detained in
camps, barges, large-scale institutional accommodation, containment
sites; segregated from communities, and denied support and
threatened with removal to Rwanda; and
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(v) over 500
charities and faith groups have signed a pledge to ‘Fight the
Anti-Refugee Laws’, including at least 7 local groups such as
City of Sanctuary Sheffield, ASSIST Sheffield, DEWA, South Yorkshire Migration
and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) and Sheffield Association for the
Voluntary Teaching of English (SAVTE);
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(b)
believes that:-
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(i) everyone’s
claim for asylum should be treated equally and fairly;
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(ii)
the Government’s anti-refugee laws deny internationally
recognised rights and will create ever-longer delays in the asylum
process;
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(iii)
the UK needs an asylum system that
empowers people seeking safety to rebuild their
lives, not segregated
but housed as our neighbours, enabling
communities to welcome them; and
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(iv) the
Illegal Migration Bill punishes people and will effectively destroy
the right to seek safety in the UK;
and
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(c)
resolves to:-
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(i) sign the
‘Fight the Anti-Refugee Laws’ pledge and join the
“Lift the Ban” coalition;
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(ii)
use our powers to ensure migrants do not suffer lengthy stays in
temporary, sub-standard or far-distant
accommodation;
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(iii) ask
the Chief Executive to make representations to HM Government
expressing this Council’s deep concern about the impact of
the new housing regulations1;
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(iv) call on
the Government to withdraw the UK-Rwanda agreement, repeal the
Nationality and Borders Act and Illegal Migration Bill;
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(v) call on
the Government to recognise the impact of climate change as a
legitimate reason to seek safety;
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(vi)
reaffirm our status as a City of Sanctuary, and work with the Local
Authorities of Sanctuary network to ensure we are meeting the
accreditation criteria;
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(vii) investigate
ways to fund advice to asylum seekers which was previously
delivered by the Sheffield Law Centre;
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(viii) work in
partnership with organisations and people with lived experience of
the asylum system to identify
strategies for mitigating the adverse effects of government
policies within Sheffield; and
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(ix)
introduce a Councillor ‘Migrant Champion’ who
would:-
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(A) be a
point of contact for migrants, community groups and organisations
to raise concerns;
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(B) seek to
ensure council services are open and available to migrants who need
them;
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(C) seek to
ensure that the Council is not sharing information about individual
migrants in the area with the Government unless there is a lawful
basis for doing so; and
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(D) seek to
make sure the needs of vulnerable migrants are met.
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1
Homelessness (Suitability of
Accommodation) (Amendment) (England) Order 2022, (SI 521/2022), as
amended by the 2023 order which extends the effect of the
Regulations until ...
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Notice of Motion Regarding "Mitigating The Impact Of Housing Growth" - Given By Councillor Lewis Chinchen And To Be Seconded By The Lord Mayor (Councillor Colin Ross)
That this Council:-
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(a)
recognises that housing growth must be supported by sufficient
investment in infrastructure and services, including transport,
education, active travel improvements and public spaces;
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(b) believes
the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a crucial tool that the
Council has at its disposal to achieve this objective;
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(c) believes
that the Neighbourhood Portion of CIL, allocated to wards using the
Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), is not meeting its intended
objective as there is little connection between where it is spent
and the number of houses built in these areas (except for
localities that have a Town/Parish Council or Neighbourhood
Plan);
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(d) believes
the CIL funding formula for the Neighbourhood Portion must be more
closely linked to housing growth, given that the purpose of CIL is
to support new development;
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(e) believes
that a bespoke formula can be created that ensures zero-rate
charging areas still receive a fair allocation, whilst ensuring
sufficient funds go to the areas experiencing the greatest pressure
from new development;
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(f)
notes that Cornwall County Council ensures that zero-rate charging
areas still receive an allocation of CIL funds, whilst awarding
parishes an amount proportionate to the scale of development in
their area;
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(g) also,
notes that a large proportion of Neighbourhood CIL that is
allocated to wards is not spent, with some wards not spending any
of their allocated funds within a financial year;
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(h)
therefore, invites:-
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(i)
the Transport, Regeneration and Climate Policy
Committee to commission an investigation into the feasibility of a
new formula for Neighbourhood CIL that more closely links
Neighbourhood CIL allocations to housing growth, whilst ensuring
that zero/low-rate charging areas receive their fair
share;
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(ii)
Local Area Committees (LACs) to feature an item on
every meeting agenda on the spending of Neighbourhood CIL monies so
that we have proper political accountability;
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(iii)
LACs to seek the co-operation of Town and Parish
Councils to enable LACs to understand and review their spending of
Neighbourhood CIL monies;
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(iv)
officers to create working groups with ward members
and the relevant council officers (for example, Highways or Parks
& Countryside) to identify suitable schemes to fund using
Neighbourhood CIL monies and create action plans to take those
schemes forward;
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(v)
LACs to oversee the establishment of inter-ward
collaboration between wards; and
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(vi)
the Governance Committee to satisfy itself that
Members receive sufficient training regarding CIL so they
understand how to make best use of the funding
available.
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Audit and Standards Committee - Standards Report 2022 PDF 50 KB
To receive the Annual Standards Report for 2022 which was approved for
submission to full Council by the Audit and Standards Committee at
its meeting held on 16th February 2023.
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Changes To The Constitution PDF 3 MB
To approve, with or without amendment, the
recommendations in the report of the Interim General Counsel (and
Monitoring Officer), published with this agenda, regarding changes
proposed to be made to the Council’s Constitution.
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Minutes Of Previous Council Meetings PDF 755 KB
To receive the record of the
proceedings of (a) the ordinary meeting of the Council held on 20th
February, (b) the special meeting of the Council held on 1st March,
(c) the extraordinary meeting of the Council held on 10th May and
(d) the annual meeting of the Council held on 17th May 2023, and to
approve the accuracy thereof.
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Memberships of Council Bodies, Representatives to Serve on Other Bodies and Related Issues
To consider any changes to the
memberships and arrangements for meetings of Committees etc.,
delegated authority, and the appointment of representatives to
serve on other bodies.
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