Rother District Council

BYELAWS WORKING GROUP

23 October 2009

Minutes of the Byelaws Working Group held at the Town Hall, Bexhill-on-Sea on Friday 23 October 2009 at 3.00pm.

Present:

Members of the Working Group: Councillors P.R. Douart, M.J. Kenward, P.G. Lendon and C.F. Starnes.

Madeleine Gorman - Head of Amenities

Sam Parker - Student

Carolyn Turner - Democratic Services Officer

BWG09/1. ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN

Councillor P.R. Douart was appointed as Chairman of the Byelaws Working Group.

BWG09/2. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

An apology had been received from Councillor M.D. Ensor.

BWG09/3. DISCLOSURE OF INTERESTS

Councillor M.J. Kenward declared a personal Interest as a Member of East Sussex County Council.

BWG09/4. REVIEW STRATEGY DOCUMENTS, EXISTING TEXTS, MODEL FORMS, PLANS AND INFORMAL CONSULTATION RESPONSES AND IDENTIFY FURTHER RESEARCH

It had been envisaged that the first meeting would be a scoping meeting to decide on a strategy to approach the task of reviewing the byelaws.

However, in view of the short time available for discussion, the Working Group agreed that Members should study the files they had been given containing strategy documents and plans with a view to full consideration being made at the next meeting.

One approach proposed by Councillor Starnes was to consider separate geographical areas, for example, Camber, Fairlight to Icklesham, Bexhill Promenade (especially cycling) and Bexhill seashore.

BWG09/5. TIMETABLE OF FUTURE MEETINGS

Members did not deem it appropriate to consider future dates of meetings at this time as this would be dependent upon how the Working Group would structure their work.

It was agreed that in the first instance the Chairman should meet with the Solicitor to the Council and the Head of Amenities to discuss the way forward and bring back their findings to the Working Group at its next meeting.

BWG09/6. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

Terms of Reference

It was agreed the Quorum for this Working Group be increased from 2 to 4 members.

BWG09/7. DATE OF NEXT MEETING

The date of the next meeting was arranged for Friday 20 November 2009 at 2pm.

The meeting closed at 3.36pm BWG091023 cmt

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