Residents' Services Select Committee
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*SITE VISIT UPDATES* In addition to formal reviews and information items carried out by the Committee, Councillors on this committee also participate in visits to frontline services. These visits provide an opportunity to meet with residents, staff, contractors and partners and gain a better understanding of the work they do thereby enabling the Committee to add real value to its important scrutiny work. You can see pictures of them below:
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Portfolio(s)
Directorate
Service Areas
Cabinet Member for Community & Environment
Residents Services
Green Spaces (incl. Woodlands, Colne Valley)
Crematorium Services
Waste Services
Flooding & watercourses
Environmental Projects (incl. Chrysalis, Street Champions, Alleygating & Ward Budgets)
Climate Change (incl. air quality) – cross-cutting brief
Library Services
Theatres, Museums & Cultural Services
Leisure Services and Centres
Community Safety & Community Cohesion (incl. CCTV)
Trading Standards, Environmental Health & Licensing (incl. Safety of Sports Grounds)
Imported Food Office
Anti-Social Behaviour and Localities
Street Scene Enforcement
Parking & Parking Enforcement
Emergency Response
Adult Services & Health
Mortuary
Cabinet Member for Planning, Housing & Growth
Residents Services
Planning Services (incl. planning policy, building control, planning enforcement, specialist planning & conservation areas)
Regeneration (incl. town centres, master planning)
Economic Development (incl. growth strategy, business engagement, inward investment & worklessness)
Local Impacts of Heathrow Expansion (cross cutting brief)
Local Impacts of High Speed 2 (cross-cutting brief)
Housing Strategy & Commissioning (incl. housing policies & standards, assessment of housing stock size & condition and the commissioning of housing stock repairs and housing stock acquisitions)
HRA Strategy and delivery plan (operational delivery by Cabinet Member for Corporate Services & Property)
Housing Management (incl. tenancy management)
Housing Options and Homeless Prevention
Private Sector Housing
STATUTORY COMMITTEE
Statutory Crime and Disorder Scrutiny This Committee will act as a Crime and Disorder Committee as defined in the Crime and Disorder (Overview and Scrutiny) Regulations 2009 and carry out the bi-annual scrutiny of decisions made, or other action taken, in connection with the discharge by the responsible authorities of their crime and disorder functions. Duty of partners to attend and provide information The Crime and Disorder (Overview and Scrutiny) Regulations?2009 permits this Select Committee to make a request in writing for information to bodies who form the local Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (Safer Hillingdon Partnership), which includes the Police. The Committee should scrutinise the work of the partnership at least once a year and may also require the attendance before it of an officer or employee of a responsible authority or of a co-operating person or body in order to answer questions. The Committee may not require a person to attend unless reasonable notice of the intended date of attendance has been given to that person.