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WYRE FOREST DISTRICT COUNCIL
Annual report and review 2024/2025
Section 1: Attendance at Council, Committee and Sub-Committee meetings
Name of Committee
Audit 2 held 2 attended
Council 5 held 5 attended
Licensing & Environmental 6 held 6 attended
Overview & Scrutiny 9 held 8 attended
Planning 10 held 10 attended
This represents an overall attendance of 97%
Other attendance
Period of Extended Absence, (e.g. Maternity leave/Sick leave): 0
Number of meetings attended as a substitute: 2
Section 2: Mandatory Training Completed
Training Activity Date attended
Refresher Training Licensing 29/04/24
Planning Training 14/05/24
How to be an Effective Audit Committee 14/07/24
Finance and Budgetary Control 27/11/24
Interactive Session on the Scrutiny Review 05/12/24
Corporate Parenting 11/12/24
Other training Number of modules completed
Core e-learning
0
Additional e-learning
0
Cyber security training
0
Section 3: Community Involvement
I attend meetings of Bewdley Town Council, part of which is in my Ward and of which I am a member. I also attend as many meetings of Kidderminster Foreign Parish Council and Upper Arley Parish Council as I can to keep up to date with current concerns in their areas of my Ward. Issues raised by the Parish Councils may be pursued with District Council officers.
Part of the Ward, in Wribbenhall and Kidderminster Foreign, is subject to flooding by the River Severn in the winter. The flood defences at Wribbenhall are now under construction by the Environment Agency and being funded by the Government and Worcestershire County Council.
Completion of the work is now expected to be this summer, hopefully in July.
Bewdley Town Council has allowed the use of part of Riverside North Park for the parking of the Environment Agency's plant and equipment during the construction of the flood defences. The Environment Agency will restore the Park to its former condition at the conclusion of the work.
Several editions of our ‘Wribbenhall and Arley Matters' leaflet have been distributed this year, keeping the Ward residents informed of the activities of myself and my Ward colleague Cllr John Byng.
Section 4: Assisting Constituents
As a Ward Councillor, my main activities have been aimed at providing a service to the residents of my Ward by keeping them informed about local issues and responding to their complaints and enquiries, which involves telephoned and e-mailed enquiries and visits to resident's homes.
All four sites in Wribbenhall and Arley Ward, identified in the Local Plan, for housing development are under construction. The three sites in Wribbenhall, at Kidderminster Road, Habberley Road, and Stourport Road will total some 199 houses.
Construction at the Low Habberley site, in Kidderminster Foreign Parish, continues and will yield 124 houses. At the request of the Parish Council, the District Council is undertaking a Community Governance Review with the aim of moving this site into the Parish of Kidderminster. The site is effectively an extension of Kidderminster and incongruous in an otherwise rural parish.
Parishioners will be balloted on May 1 in addition to the County Council election.
Section 5: Supplementary Information
I have represented the interests of Wyre Forest residents at the Heath Overview and Scrutiny Committee. This is a County Council Committee which includes representatives of the six District Councils. I attended all seven of the meetings.
As Vice-Chairman of the Council I have represented Wyre Forest District Council at events when the Chairman was already committed. I have also supported the charity fundraising efforts of the Chairman of the District Council, and those undertaken by the Chairman of Worcestershire County Council and the Mayors of Bewdley, Stourport-on-Severn, and Kidderminster during the year.
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