Decision details

The Transport, Environment and Climate Change Select Committee agreed to set up a rapid review into Streetworks and Statutory Undertakers at its meeting on 30 March 2023.  It was agreed that the review would not commence until May 2023 to allow the service to settle following the change in Highways contract to Balfour Beaty.  The review was chaired by the Chairman of the Transport, Environment and Climate Change Select Committee, Councillor B Chapple OBE, and also comprised Councillors Brazier, Caffrey, Carington, Cornell and A Wood.

In June and July 2023, the review group collected evidence through meetings both in person and on Teams. The review group then met to discuss and agree its key findings and recommendations which were detailed at Appendix 1 to the Cabinet report.  A series of questions on Streetworks and Statutory Undertakers had also been included as part of a Town and Parish Council survey on Buckinghamshire Council services which ran from 22 May to 13 August 2023, results detailed at Appendix 2 to the Cabinet report.

Cabinet was asked to consider the recommendations of the Select Committee Review.

RESOLVED –

(1)               That the Transport, Environment and Climate Change Select Committee Review Group, as well as the supporting officers, be thanked for their work and subsequent recommendations.

(2)               That Cabinet’s responses to the Review report and recommendations, as set out and circulated to Members, be AGREED.

Note: a complete breakdown of the scrutiny recommendations and Cabinet’s responses can be found here.