Environment and planning

Brighton & Hove: Street Access Issues

This scrutiny review was established following concern over how accessible
public highways within Brighton & Hove are. A boards, tables and chairs and displays of goods are all placed upon the pavement by businesses and depending on your point of view are either an important part of our city’s culture and vital to business success or a menace to residents and visitors trying to live their lives and move around the city.
 

Environmental Industries-Capturing the potential and economic benefits

The development of environmental industries is seen as one of the key drivers
for ending the world recession. In the UK, all the main political parties
recognise the economic potential of developing, designing and manufacturing
the wind turbines, solar panels, insulation material and other hardware
needed to tackle climate change, support waste management and recycling,
reclaim contaminated land, deal with all forms of pollution and help Brighton &
Hove become a low carbon city. At the same time, they argue, thousands of
‘green collar’ jobs could be created.
Brighton & Hove is already home to a growing number of companies involved
in this second industrial revolution. However, believing there is huge potential
for growth in environmental industries in the city, the council voted
unanimously to set up an all-party Inquiry into their future development. This
report is the fruit of its labours.

Street Access Issues

This scrutiny review was established following concern over how accessible
public highways within Brighton & Hove are. A boards, tables and chairs and displays of goods are all placed upon the pavement by businesses and depending on your point of view are either an important part of our city’s culture and vital to business success or a menace to residents and visitors trying to live their lives and move around the city.

Winter Service Plan Review

Following the extensive disruption caused  in Brighton & Hove by the severe snow and ice over the Christmas and New Year period, a cross-party scrutiny panel of councillors have reviewed how the council and other partners responded using the Winter Service Plan as a starting point.

We have made a number of recommendations as to how working practices can be improved, often building-upon and formalising changes that were implemented between the two snow events. We have also made recommendations on how the council might better prepare and equip itself in terms of resources, finances permitting. It will be up to the Administration to judge what further expenditure is essential, affordable or proportionate to the risk of further significant winter weather events occurring