Meeting Details

Motion Four

The motion has been withdrawn by the Mover and Seconder.

This Council notes Nottinghamshire County Council's Highways capital and revenue programme that is to be delivered during 2018/19.

This Council further notes the £20m to be invested in highways over the next 4 years and the continued consultations with Councillors about their divisional priorities.

This Council notes however that with such a huge investment in our Highways, the quality of any work is critical.  This Council notes complaints from hundreds of residents across Nottinghamshire about the quality of pot-hole repairs with this Council having to repeatedly re-revisit and improve patching on our Highways.

This Council therefore instructs the Communities and Place Committee or the Communities and Place Review and Development Committee to undertake regular reviews of any highway’s improvements undertaken by this Council to ensure best practice so that any investment in our Highways benefits Nottinghamshire for the long term future.

Councillor David Martin                Councillor Tom Hollis

This Council notes the ongoing problems caused by synthetic cannaboid substances like Black Mamba and Spice.  Black Mamba, Spice and similar drugs are currently Class B drugs and are illegal to produce, supply or import in Britain. 

This Council further notes that drugs like these do not just have a devastating impact on users but also cause huge demand on public services and our Police and other Emergency Services.

This Council calls for the substances and similar substances to be reclassified as Class A drugs to give our Police more powers to deal with the issues created by their misuse.  These are substances that belong in the highest category of narcotics, alongside heroin and cocaine.

This Council believes that the illegal use of drugs like Spice and Black Mamba are the biggest threat to public health for a generation and congratulates Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones and 19 other PCCs for writing to the Home Secretary calling for the drugs to be reclassified.

This Council regrets that Nottinghamshire’s current Police and Crime Commissioner has not counter-signed the letter.

This Council therefore resolves to:

1. Ask the Leaders of the Ashfield Independents, Conservatives, Labour and the Mansfield Independent Forum to write a joint letter to the Home Secretary Rt. Hon. Sajid Javid MP to outline Nottinghamshire County Council’s support to reclassify drugs like Black Mamba and Spice to Class A Drugs. 

    

2. This Council further calls for Paddy Tipping, Nottinghamshire’s current Police and Crime Commissioner to join his PCC colleagues and write to the Home Secretary calling for a reclassification of these drugs and for extra resources to deal with it.

1. To request that the Adult Social Care and Public Health Committee receives regular reports on the problems that the misuse of these drugs are causing across our County for users, residents and traders.

Councillor Jason Zadrozny         Councillor Helen-Ann Smith

This council congratulates its Planning Officers for the comprehensive written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee on guidance for local authorities taking planning decisions on fracking applications.

In summarising this written evidence, the authority highlighted the need for involvement in such applications throughout the various stages of the decision making process. This authority’s response also emphasised:

‘The need to include both local professional and specialist input, as well as opportunities for elected members to represent their communities. The views of local people must be given the same level of consideration as is currently the case. It must remain a fair and transparent process and one with which local people feel able to engage’.

This council further commends the work of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in their Consultation document ‘Permitted development for shale gas exploration’, which summarised the findings of a National Consultation on this issue, and noted:

1. No justification or evidence had been provided for why fracking has been singled out to be included in a national planning regime.

2. Mineral Planning Authorities should be free to adapt their Local Plans as they see fit as long as they do not arbitrarily restrict fracking developments. It is essential that Mineral Planning Authorities have the right to put conditions in their Local Plans which can be justified having proper regard to local circumstances.  

3. It is essential that Mineral Planning Authorities are sufficiently resourced to deal with fracking planning applications.

This council is in full support of the guidance issued by the House of Commons Select Committee, published July 5^th 2018. Furthermore, this council resolves to respond to the current consultation on permitted development for fracking, reiterating that the right to determine shale gas applications for Nottinghamshire remains within our jurisdiction, and does not support any proposal to grant the status of ‘Permitted Development’ for shale gas applications.

Councillor Jim Creamer               Council Sybil Fielding

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37 – Supplementary Questions must be on the same matter

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78 – Disorderly conduct

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Motions

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Constituency Issues

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25 – up to 30 minutes for this item allowed

Petitions

28 – up to one minute per petition allowed

Questions to Committee Chairmen

33 – up to 60 minutes for this item allowed

Adjournment Debates

73– Mover has up to 5 minutes

74 – any other Councillor has up to 3 minutes

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