Agenda item
TO CONSIDER MOTIONS SUBMITTED BY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL
The motions submitted by Councillors for debate at this meeting are set out in the attached report.
Minutes:
12.2 Motion regarding Docklands Sailing Centre
Prior to the debate on this motion, the Interim Monitoring Officer advised the Council. He stated that members of the Strategic Development Committee would be aware that they had a duty to consider any planning application that came before the Committee on its merits and on the basis of all the information presented to the Committee. Those Members should therefore not make any contribution to the current debate that could indicate that they were predetermined in relation to any potential planning application. The Interim Monitoring Officer also advised the meeting that the Council could not bind the Strategic Development Committee in its consideration of a planning matter and therefore in the event that the second proposed resolution was agreed, this would not have effect.
Councillor Dave Chesterton moved, and Councillor Andrew Wood seconded, the motion as set out in the agenda.
Following debate the motion was put to the vote and was agreed.
RESOLVED
This Council Notes:
1. The developers of the Westferry Printers site are currently going through pre-application public consultations.
2. The Sailing Centre is concerned about the potential effect development alongside the Millwall Dock may have on the wind and the detrimental impact this may have on sailing and other watersports.
3. The Sailing Centre has made a number of representations to the developers; so far the Sailing Centre’s concerns have been largely ignored.
4. The Sailing Centre is the borough’s premier watersports centre and among the largest public open space in Tower Hamlets. Pressures on public infrastructure as a result of population increases arising from new developments are well understood. The Council must protect its public open spaces for use by current and future generations.
This Council Believes:
1. Pressures on public infrastructure as a result of population increases arising from new developments are well understood.
2. The Council must protect its public open spaces for use by current and future generations.
3. Council should continue to recognise the importance of the Docklands Sailing Centre in enabling use of one of the largest areas of open space in Tower Hamlets by the whole community for sport and recreation, with unique opportunities for education and employment.
This Council resolves:
1. To protect the Docklands Sailing Centre from the consequences of property development which may prevent the continued use of the Millwall Docks for those uses and the charitable purposes of the Docklands Sailing Centre Trust.
2. To exercise its powers as local planning authority, to ensure any development on the West Ferry Printers site does not cause any detriment to sailing and use of the Millwall Docks from Docklands Sailing Centre.
[Note: Members of the Strategic Development Committee wished it recorded that they abstained from voting on the above motion.]
12.3 Motion regarding solidarity with French citizens
Councillor Chris Chapman moved, and CouncillorJulia Dockerill seconded, the motion as set out in the agenda.
Councillor Shiria Khatun moved, and Councillor Rachael Saunders seconded, an amendment to insert ‘and citizens at the Jewish supermarket’ under the third paragraph.
Following debate the amendment was put to the vote and was agreed.
The motion as amended was then put to the vote and was agreed unanimously.
RESOLVED
This Council Notes:
- In this year of Magna Carta, original copies of which were circulated throughout the Country in Anglo Norman French, The Council of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets reaffirms the principles of freedom of speech, which have been hard won over successive centuries and condemns the atrocities in France this month.
- That London is the sixth largest French City in the world and that we support the loss shared by our French neighbours in this Borough, City and those just twenty one miles across the Channel.
- The wickedness of those who brutally murdered journalists, police officers and citizens at the Jewish supermarket will not divide the people of Europe, who have fought for the basic freedoms of speech and assembly, regardless of our different nationalities.
This Council resolves that the Speaker of Tower Hamlets writes to Her Excellency Madame Sylvie Bermann, Ambassador of the Republic of France to show our solidarity with our French fellow citizens over this tragedy.
Motions 12.1, 12.4–12.13 were not debated due to lack of time.
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