The South East Local Area Committee consists
of all the Members of the Woodhouse, Birley, Beighton and
Mosborough 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 SoutheastLAC@sheffield.gov.uk
or telephoning 0114 474 3646. Alternatively,
Click here to find out more about the South 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 SoutheastLAC@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.