Agenda

Democracy and Standards Committee - Monday 11th March 2024 6.00 pm

Venue: The Guildhall, St Giles Street, Northampton, NN1 1DE

Contact: Tracy Tiff / Marina Watkins, Democratic Services 

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for Absence and Notification of Substitute Members

2.

Declarations of Interest

Members are asked to declare any interest and the nature of that interest which they may have in any of the items under consideration at this meeting.

3.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 84 KB

To confirm the Minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 25 January 2024.

4.

Chair's Announcements

To receive communications from the Chair.

5a

Proposed amendments to the Constitution pdf icon PDF 93 KB

-        Proposed updates to the Contract Procedural Rules

Additional documents:

5b

Proposed amendments to the Constitution pdf icon PDF 132 KB

-        Amendments to the Terms of Reference of the Health and Wellbeing Board

 

6.

Review of Planning Committee arrangements pdf icon PDF 190 KB

To consider an update of the review of the Planning Committee arrangements

7.

West Northamptonshire Community Governance Review: Update pdf icon PDF 9 MB

To provide an update on the consultation regarding the  West Northamptonshire Community Governance Review

Additional documents:

8.

Review of the Work Programme 2024/2025 pdf icon PDF 73 KB

To review and note the Committee’s Work Programme 2024/2025.

9.

Urgent Business

The Chairman to advise whether they have agreed to any items of urgent business being admitted to the agenda.

10.

Exclusion of Press and Public

In respect of the following items the Chairman may move the resolution set out below, on the grounds that if the public were present it would be likely that exempt information (information regarded as private for the purposes of the Local Government Act 1972) would be disclosed to them: The Committee is requested to resolve: “That under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that if the public were present it would be likely that exempt information under Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act of the descriptions against each item would be disclosed to them”