Issue - meetings

Report of the Place Overview & Scrutiny Committee: Scrutiny of Water Resources and the South East Regional Plan

Cabinet received the report and will respond in due course.

Councillor Kieron Mallon, Chair of the Place Overview & Scrutiny Committee, introduced the report “Water Resources and the South East Regional Plan” which summarised the Committee’s consideration of the Council’s consultation response to the draft Water Resources South East regional plan at its meeting on 25 January 2023.

The Committee heard from Thames Water, the Group Against Reservoir Development (GARD), the Cabinet Member for Climate Change Delivery & Environment as well as officers of the Council and presented three recommendations which Councillor Mallon outlined.

Councillor Pete Sudbury, Cabinet Member for Climate Change Delivery & Environment, thanked the Committee for the report.  He noted that Recommendation 2 had been taken on board in the final version of the Council’s response to the plan.  Cabinet will formally respond to the scrutiny committee in due course.