Agenda

To receive any apologies for absence.

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of this Committee held on 26 January 2023.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration, and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members’ Interests, the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

To note those agenda items which have received an application for public speaking.

A period of 30 minutes will be allowed for members of the public to ask questions submitted under notice.

The Partnership welcomes questions from members of the public about their work.

Subject to meeting certain timescales, questions can relate to general issues concerned with the work of the Partnership or an item which is on the agenda for this meeting. For full details of the procedure for submitting questions please contact Democratic Services.

To detail future items that the Committee will be considering.

To present the Annual Report to the JPPC detailing the activities of the West Berkshire Water Safety Partnership.

To provide an opportunity for the JPPC to consider and adopt the updated strategy drafted under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 in relation to contaminated land which will allow West Berkshire District Council to discharge the duties placed on it by the Act.

To set out to the Committee emerging priorities and seek approval to update the Strategic Assessment approved by this Committee in June 2021 and extend until 31 March 2024.

To provide the JPPC with an update on the existing Training and Development Plan and to seek approval of the Plan.