Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:

(i)       to replace 2.1 with “instruct the Chief Officers – Strategic Place Planning and People and Citizen Services, in consultation with the Chief Officer- Finance, to set up an internal officer working group to review and refresh the Council’s Staff Travel Policy with the emphasis on walking and cycling”;

(ii)       to instruct the Chief  Officer – Strategic Place Planning to update the Council’s Travel  Plan  to  align  with  any proposed changes to the Staff Travel Policy resulting from (i);

(iii)      to  instruct  the  Chief  Officers  –  Strategic Place Planning and People and Citizen  Services to thereafter undertake consultation with Council staff and trade unions on any proposed changes to the Staff Travel Policy and/or the Council Travel Plan; and

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officers – Strategic Place Planning and People and Citizen Services, following analysis of the consultation and finalisation of the documents, to report both the updated Staff Travel Policy and Council Travel Plan back to this Committee and / or other relevant committees by Summer  2025 for approval.

The Committee had before it a report by the Executive Director – City Regeneration and Environment which sought approval to review and refresh the Council’s Staff Travel Policy alongside the Council Travel Plan.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      instruct the Chief Officers – Strategic Place Planning and People and Citizen Services, in consultation with the Chief Officer – Finance, to set up an internal officer working group to review and refresh the Council’s Staff Travel Policy;

(b)      to instruct the Chief  Officer – Strategic Place Planning to update the Council’s Travel  Plan  to  align  with  any proposed changes to the Staff Travel Policy resulting from (a);

(c)      to  instruct  the  Chief  Officers  –  Strategic Place Planning and People and Citizen  Services to thereafter undertake consultation with Council staff and trade unions on any proposed changes to the Staff Travel Policy and/or the Council Travel Plan; and

(d)      to instruct the Chief Officers – Strategic Place Planning and People and Citizen Services, following analysis of the consultation and finalisation of the documents, to report both the updated Staff Travel Policy and Council Travel Plan back to this Committee and / or other relevant Committees by Summer  2025 for approval.

The Committee resolved:

(i)       to replace recommendation (a) with “instruct the Chief Officers – Strategic Place Planning and People and Citizen Services, in consultation with the Chief Officer- Finance, to set up an internal officer working group to review and refresh the Council’s Staff Travel Policy with the emphasis on walking and cycling”; and

(ii)       to otherwise approve the recommendations outlined in the report.