Issue - meetings

Following the trigger for a full Council debate being reached, this report sets out the details of the Petition and the procedure for its debate.

Council received a petition, entitled “Remove Green Belt from the Epsom and Ewell Borough Council Local Plan” which had met the threshold for Council debate (receiving a total of 1,632 valid signatures) and had been accepted under the requirements of the Council’s Petition Scheme.  Details of the Petition were set out at Appendix 1 to the report.

In advance of the petition organiser being invited to present the petition to the Council, the Mayor informed the Council of the procedure to be followed on this item. As the petition called for a motion that related to a later item on the agenda (Item 13 - Proposed submission Epsom and Ewell Local Plan), the Mayor informed the Council that motions or amendments would not be accepted during the debate on the petition, but that there would be an opportunity for such to be proposed during Item 13 of the agenda.

Accordingly, and in line with the Council’s general rules of debate and the Petition Scheme, the petition organiser was given 5 minutes to present the petition and Chairman of Licensing & Planning Policy Committee responded to the Petition.

The meeting was then opened to debate and concluded with a final reply from the Chairman of Licensing & Planning Policy Committee.