The North East
Local Area Committee consists of all the Members of the
Burngreave, Firth Park, Shiregreen & Brightside and Southey
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
NortheastLAC@sheffield.gov.uk
or telephoning 0114 474 3610. Alternatively,
Click here to find out more about the North 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 NortheastLAC@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.