1.    On behalf of Councillor Tanner, Board member for a Clean and Green Oxford, the Environmental Sustainability Manager has submitted a report on the Oxfordshire Environment Partnership.

Councillor Tanner will present the report.

Council is invited to comment on and note the submitted report.

2.    Each ordinary meeting of Council shall normally receive a written report concerning the work of one of the partnerships on which the Council is represented.

The programme of reporting at future meetings will be:

3.    As set out in procedure rule 11.15, Members who are Council representatives on external bodies or Chairs of Council Committees who consider that a significant decision or event has taken place, may give notice to the Head of Law and Governance by 1.00 pm on Thursday 28 September that they will present a written or oral report on the event or the significant decision and how it may influence future events. Written reports will be circulated with the briefing note.

Council had before it a report from the Environmental Sustainability Manager setting out the work of the Oxfordshire Environment Partnership, submitted on behalf of the Board Member for a Clean and Green Oxford.

Councillor Price moved the report in Councillor Tanner’s absence.

Council noted the report without comment.

On behalf of Councillor Tanner, Board member for Clean and Green Oxford,the Environmental Sustainability Manager has submitted a report on the work of the Oxford Environment Partnership.

Recommendation

Council to note the content of the report

Each ordinary meeting of Council shall normally receive a written report concerning the work of one of the partnerships on which the Council is represented.

The programme of reporting at future meetings will be:

·         December 2016: Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership

·         February 2017: Oxfordshire Partnerships report (covering all partnerships)

·         April 2017: Oxfordshire Strategic Partnership

Members who are Council representatives on external bodies or Chairs of Council Committees who consider that a significant decision or event has taken place, will give notice to the Acting Head of Law and Governance by 1.00 pm on Monday 26 September that they wish present a written or oral report on the event or the significant decision and how it may influence future events.

Council had before it a report of the Board member for Clean and Green Oxford on the work of the Oxford Environment Partnership.

Councillor Tanner introduced the report.

In response to questions he said:

·         he proposed that the council look at significantly improving standards in new buildings to reduce carbon emissions;

·         all councils have and were continuing to make representations about the lack of electricity grid capacity in the county.

Council noted the report.