The
following functions are within the remit of Community, Parks and Leisure Policy Committee:
·
Communities
o
Community Development
o
Cohesion and Migration
o
Community Safety
o
Youth Services
·
Parks, Leisure and
Libraries
o
Sport, physical activity
and leisure facilities
o
Parks and Woodlands (including non-highway
trees)
o
Allotments
o
Ecology
o
Bereavement Services
o
Libraries
Attending Meetings
Meetings of the Policy Committee have
to be held as physical meetings and are open to the
public. Meetings are normally held at Sheffield Town
Hall.
If you
would like to attend the meeting, please report to an Attendant in
the Foyer at the Town Hall where you will be directed to the
meeting room. However, it would be appreciated if you
could register to attend, in advance of the meeting, by
emailing committee@sheffield.gov.uk, as
this will assist with the management of attendance at the
meeting.
PLEASE NOTE: The meeting rooms in
the Town Hall have a limited capacity. We are unable to guarantee
entrance to the meeting room for observers, as priority will be
given to registered speakers and those that have registered to
attend.
Alternatively, you can observe the meeting remotely by clicking
on the ‘view the webcast’ link provided on
the meeting
page of the
website.
Public
Questions and Petitions
The arrangements for dealing with questions and
petitions at Policy Committee meetings are as follows:-
If you wish to attend a meeting and ask a
question or present a petition, you must submit the
question/petition in writing by 9.00 a.m. at least 2 clear days in
advance of the date of the meeting, by email to the following
address: committee@sheffield.gov.uk.
E.g. For meetings held on a Wednesday,
questions/petitions will need to be received by 9.00 a.m. on the
Monday of that week. Questions/petitions submitted after the
deadline will be asked at the meeting subject to the discretion of
the Chair. You will also be asked to provide a contact email and/or
telephone number. (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 Chair or Council officer. If you are not able to
attend the meeting, your question/petition may be referred to the
Chair, and a written 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 within ten working days of the
meeting 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:-
- matters not being within the responsibility of
the Local Authority or which affects the City or
its inhabitants;
- judicial or quasi-judicial matters;
- individual planning/licence/grant applications
or appeals;
- named officers or Members of
the Council;
- confidential matters of the type referred to in
Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act, 1972;
or
- matters of an irrelevant, repetitious,
defamatory, frivolous or
offensive nature or a general misuse of the
opportunity.
Recording
of Meetings
Recording is allowed at Policy Committee meetings under the
direction of the Chair of the meeting. The protocol
on audio/visual recording and
photography provides further
information.
Please
note that meetings will be filmed for live or subsequent broadcast
via the Council’s website. See the
Council’s Webcasting
Notice for
more details.
