To consider any other unrestricted business that the Chair considers to be urgent.

The Committee noted that:

v  With no other business to discuss, the Chair called the meeting to a close; and

v  The next meeting will be on Monday 7^th March 2022.

Finally, the Chair thanked scrutiny members, for their attendance and participation tonight.

To consider any other unrestricted business that the Chair considers to be urgent.

The Committee noted that:

v  With no other business to discuss, the Chair called the meeting to a close; and

v  The next meeting will be on Tuesday, 11^th January 2022 on scrutinising the budget.

Finally, the Chair thanked scrutiny members, for their attendance and participation tonight and wished everybody a good festive break.

To consider any other unrestricted business that the Chair considers to be urgent.

Councillor Francis raised the following:

Victoria Park

Further to minute No. 13 (25^th October 2021 refers) regarding the commercial contracts for events in Victoria Park Councillor Francis indicated that this decision has had a significant impact on communities living or working in that area and therefore should have been a key decision and not made under delegated authority. Therefore, it would be helpful if the Committee could have a note explaining why this was not deemed to be a key decision.

With no other business to discuss the Chair called this meeting to a close; thanked all those attending for their contributions and informed the Committee that the next meeting would be on Monday, 13^th of December 2021.

To consider any other unrestricted business that the Chair considers to be urgent.

Councillor Francis raised the following:

New Homes Bonus

Councillor Francis place on record his thanks for officers who had provided information about the New Homes Bonus benchmarking and whilst he indicated that he would like to know which local authorities were included in the benchmarking process it was appreciated that this information would not necessarily within the public domain.  However, it would be of use to have that information when the Committee next scrutinises the Budget.

Victoria Park

The Committee noted an issue about commercial contracts for events in Victoria Park which went to the Cabinet in January 2017 after a long history of problems with “Live Nations” events and the new contract was awarded to AEG and under that contract events had been much better managed than by their predecessors.

However, it was noted that this year AEG came back with a variation of the contract to hold an event in August and that was supposed to be a one off but it was noted that AEG want to hold the event in August at least next year if not the year after as well and so there's a lot of issues about the way that these decisions are being made or delegated to officers to drawn up that contract.

It was noted that if this had been considered as a key decision this would then be subject to some kind of public information and scrutiny. In addition, the committee needs to have an explanation about how LBTH came to be in a position where LBTH is not perhaps as well placed to negotiate any changing variation in that contract.

In conclusion, the Chair called this meeting to a close; thanked all those attending for their contributions and informed the Committee that the next meeting would be on Monday, 22^nd of November 2021.