This item has a time limit of 60 minutes.

Motions received by the Head of Law and Governance in accordance with the rules in Section 11 of the Constitution by the deadline of 1.00pm on Wednesday 5 July 2023are listed below.

Cross party motions are taken first. Motions will then be taken in turn from the Labour Group, Liberal Democrat Group, Green Group, in that order.

Substantive amendments to these motions must be sent by councillors to the Head of Law and Governance by no later than 10.00am on Friday 14 July 2023 so that they may be circulated with the briefing note.

Minor technical or limited wording amendments may be submitted during the meeting but must be written down and circulated.

Council is asked to consider the following motions:

a)     Support Oxford’s Sudanese community – create safe pathways for Sudanese families with ties to Britain and Oxford to be granted the right to join their loves ones here. (proposed by Cllr Shaista Aziz, seconded by Councillor Hosnieh Djafari Marbini)

b)     Use car parking sites for Solar Farms(proposed by Cllr Laurence Fouweather, seconded by Cllr Katherine Miles)

c)     Extending the Smoke Control Area(proposed by Cllr Emily Kerr, seconded by Cllr Lucy Pegg)

d)     Supporting a Community Right to Grow (proposed by Cllr Alex Hollingsworth, seconded by Councillor Mark Lygo)

e)     Housing Management System problems and resultant accounts issues at Oxford City Council and ODS (proposed by Cllr Christopher Smowton, seconded by Cllr Laurence Fouweather)

Council had before it five motions on notice submitted in accordance with Council procedure rules and reached decisions as set out below.

Motions agreed as set out below:

a)    Support Oxford’s Sudanese community – create safe pathways for Sudanese families with ties to Britain and Oxford to be granted the right to join their love ones here (proposer Cllr Aziz, seconder Cllr Djfari-Marbini)

b)    Use car parking sites for Solar Farms (proposer Cllr Fouweather, seconder Cllr Miles, amendment proposer Cllr Railton, amendment seconder Cllr Hollingsworth)

c)    Extending the Smoke Control Area (proposer Cllr Kerr, seconder Cllr Pegg, amendment proposer Cllr Railton, amendment seconder Cllr Upton)

d)    Supporting a Community Right to Grow (proposer Cllr Hollingsworth, seconder Cllr Lygo)

Motions not taken as the time allocated for debate had finished:

e)    Housing Management System problems and resultant account issues at Oxford City Council and ODS (proposer Cllr Smowton, seconder Cllr Fouweather, amendment proposer Cllr Chapman, amendment seconder Cllr Brown)