The following Notices of Motion have been received:-
(i) Smoking
This Council recognises that tobacco related disease remains the single greatest cause of preventable deaths in England, killing 80,000 people every year, more people each year than obesity, alcohol, road accidents and illegal drug use put together. It is also the single biggest preventable cause of cancer. Tackling tobacco would play a significant part in reducing health inequalities. Thousands of children also suffer harm as a result of smoking.
In the borough of Bury, 19.5 per cent of people smoke. Each year, in Bury, smoking costs an estimated £54.5M. Rates of smoking related deaths and lung cancer in Bury are worse than the UK average.
This Council resolves to commit to signing the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control. This is a declaration which commits Bury Council to tackle the harm smoking causes our communities by committing the Council to:
- Reduce smoking prevalence and health inequalities
- Develop tobacco control plans with partners and local communities
- Participate in local and regional networks
- Support Government action at national level
- Protect tobacco control work from the commercial and vested interests of the tobacco industry
- Monitor progress of our plans
- Join the Smokefree Action Coalition
Signing the declaration will send out a clear signal to the people of Bury that we remain ambitious in our efforts to reduce the harm caused by tobacco. We have been working with partners at Cancer Research UK and the Bury Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to boost local action on the issue; later this month the CCG are looking to support us by signing the sister pledge, the NHS Statement of Support for Tobacco Control. These commitments underpin the work already underway to tackle smoking within the borough, including:
- Multi-agency work to continue to reduce smoking in pregnancy
- Utilizing the Healthy Workplace Charter & Working Well Bury scheme to address smoking in targeted populations e.g. Routine & Manual Workers
- Joint work with Bury CCG to systematically target populations, using GP registers
- Link with the Healthy Schools program to deliver focused educational work to break the intergenerational cycle of tobacco use and stop young people from starting a tobacco habit.
- Amplify national campaigns locally e.g. National No Smoking Day & Stoptober
- Continue to undertake work with the Trading Standards team to tackle the accessibility of tobacco products for young people, particularly in relation to illegal and illicit tobacco and underage sales.
This council therefore agrees to commit to the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control in order to protect successive generations of young people from the harm done by tobacco, save lives and reduce health inequalities.
In the names of Councillors P Adams, N Bayley, J Black, S Briggs, R Cathcart, M Connolly, A Cummings, E FitzGerald, J Grimshaw, S Haroon T Holt, M James, D Jones, J Kelly, S Kerrison, J Lewis, A Mckay, J Mallon, A Matthews, E O’Brien, N Parnell, C Preston, A Quinn, R Shori, R Skillen, S Smith, Sarah Southworth, Susan Southworth, T Tariq, J Walker, S Walmsley and M Whitby.
(ii) Green Belt
Council notes:
1 The Green Belt process, introduced from 1955, as a planning policy to protect countryside around the countries largest urban areas.
2 The aims of Green Belt (as stated in the 2012 National Policy Planning Framework) are:
· To check the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas
· To prevent neighbouring towns from merging into one another
· To assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment
· To preserve the setting and special character of historic towns
· To assist in urban regeneration, by encouraging the recycling of derelict and other urban land
3 And the stated opportunities and benefits being:
· Providing opportunities for access to the open countryside for the urban population
· Providing opportunities for outdoor sport and outdoor recreation near urban areas
· The retention of attractive landscapes and the enhancement of landscapes, near to where people live
· Improvement of damaged and derelict land around towns
· The securing of nature conservation interests
· The retention of land in agricultural, forestry and related uses.
4 That significant parts of Bury (60%) have been designated as Green Belt land which makes a very significant positive contribution to the character of the area, as well as providing opportunities for leisure and recreation.
5 That Green Belt also plays an important part in providing a rural barrier between the different towns and village communities that make up Bury.
6 The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework is currently being developed by Greater Manchester Councils to identify land for homes and jobs to 2035, including a stated aim to enhance and protect the quality of the natural environment, conserve wildlife and tackle low carbon and flood risk issues, so that we can accommodate growth sustainably.
7 That the GMSF process includes a strategic review of Green Belt land, the first strategic review for over 30 years.
8 The significant amount of ‘brownfield land’ available in Greater Manchester (2721 hectares in the most recent National Land Use Database), the highest amount in the North West.
This Council supports
1 Green Belt as an important Planning Policy which should be retained around our major urban areas going forwards
2 The aims, opportunities and benefits of Green Belt as stated in the National Policy Planning Framework remain valid and valid for Bury.
3 The stated aims of the GMSF to ensure that both appropriate and affordable housing, and provision for jobs and job creation are provided going forwards, and the aims for this growth to be sustainable.
4 The use of brownfield land for housing and jobs as a first
priority.
This Council therefore resolves
1 To take what steps we can as an Authority, without prejudicing or pre-determining any future planning application or consultation, to encourage developers to use existing sites and extant planning applications
2 To ask our representatives to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to continue to make a strong case for retaining a strong green belt across Greater Manchester.
In the names of Councillors M D’Albert, T Pickstone and S Wright.
(iii) Pay Increases
"This Council thoroughly deplores the recent excessive pay increases, proposed by a recent Personnel Committee report by the Labour controlled Manchester City Council to some of their already highly paid senior Council officials.
We also note that this is in stark contrast to majority of the hard working staff at Manchester City Council who have received the LGA nationally agreed 1% pay increase.
This Council resolves not to follow the example set by the Manchester City Council in giving such an excessive pay increases to our Bury Council senior managerial staff, some of whom are on six figure salaries”
In the names of Councillors I Bevan, R Caserta, J Daly, I Gartside, D Gunther, M Hankey, J Harris, R Hodkinson, K Hussain, G Keeley, O Kersh, S Nuttall, I Schofield, D Silbiger, R Walker, and Y Wright
Minutes:
Walk in Centres
An Urgent Motion was submitted in the names of:
Councillors P Adams, N Bayley, J Black, S Briggs, R Cathcart, A Cummings, E FitzGerald, J Grimshaw, S Haroon, T Holt, M James, D Jones, J Kelly, S Kerrison, J Lewis, A Mckay, J Mallon, A Matthews, E O’Brien, N Parnell, C Preston, A Quinn, R Shori, R Skillen, S Smith, Sarah Southworth, Susan Southworth, T Tariq, J Walker, S Walmsley and M Whitby.
It was moved by Councillor Shori and seconded by Councillor Holt that:-
This Council notes the engagement process currently
being undertaken by Bury CCG with regard to the proposed closure of
Walk In Centres in Prestwich and
Bury.
This Council acknowledges the valuable role that Walk In Centres play as part of the local health care
system in providing much needed and additional access to
healthcare, and diverting pressures away from already overburdened
A&E units and GPs practices. In the last year, 67,000
people utilised the Walk In Centres in
Bury and Prestwich.
This Council welcomes the fact that over 5000 people have already signed a petition instigated by Bury Labour Group, thereby demonstrating their opposition to the closures.
Whilst this Council recognises the current funding crisis being
experienced by the NHS in England and Wales where £22 billion
of efficiencies are required by 2021, we also note with grave
concern that Bury's own Clinical
Commissioning Group is currently the sixth most underfunded in the
North of England, being underfunded by £11.3 million per
annum by reference to NHS England's target formula. Coupled
with the continuing under funding of Bury Council, the residents of
Bury are subject to a significantly disproportionate funding gap
for local services.
This Council resolves to:
a) Call for an immediate withdrawal of the proposal by Bury CCG to
cease the provision of Walk In Centres,
in their current format, in Bury and Prestwich.
b) Write to the Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt
requesting an urgent meeting to discuss the under funding issues relating to Bury CCG and Bury
Council - whose role in the provision of social care services is
vital in ensuring the sustainability of health and social care
system.
On being put, with 32 voting for, 14 against and the Mayor abstaining the Motion was declared carried.
(Note- the above Motion, which was not included in the Council Summons was allowed by the Mayor to be considered as a matter of urgency by virtue of the need to allow the Council to consider the matter within the consultation timescale).
Three further Notices of Motion had been received and set out in the Summons:-
1. Smoking
A motion had been received and set out in the summons in the names of:
Councillors P Adams, N Bayley, J Black, S Briggs, R Cathcart, A Cummings, M Connolly, E FitzGerald, J Grimshaw, S Haroon, T Holt, M James, D Jones, J Kelly, S Kerrison, J Lewis, A Mckay, J Mallon, A Matthews, E O’Brien, N Parnell, C Preston, A Quinn, R Shori, R Skillen, S Smith, Sarah Southworth, Susan Southworth, T Tariq, J Walker, S Walmsley and M Whitby.
It was moved by Councillor Sarah Southworth and seconded by Councillor Holt that :-
This Council recognises that tobacco related disease remains the single greatest cause of preventable deaths in England, killing 80,000 people every year, more people each year than obesity, alcohol, road accidents and illegal drug use put together. It is also the single biggest preventable cause of cancer. Tackling tobacco would play a significant part in reducing health inequalities. Thousands of children also suffer harm as a result of smoking.
In the borough of Bury, 19.5 per cent of people smoke. Each year, in Bury, smoking costs an estimated £54.5M. Rates of smoking related deaths and lung cancer in Bury are worse than the UK average.
This Council resolves to commit to signing the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control. This is a declaration which commits Bury Council to tackle the harm smoking causes our communities by committing the Council to:
- Reduce smoking prevalence and health inequalities
- Develop tobacco control plans with partners and local communities
- Participate in local and regional networks
- Support Government action at national level
- Protect tobacco control work from the commercial and vested interests of the tobacco industry
- Monitor progress of our plans
- Join the Smokefree Action Coalition
Signing the declaration will send out a clear signal to the people of Bury that we remain ambitious in our efforts to reduce the harm caused by tobacco. We have been working with partners at Cancer Research UK and the Bury Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to boost local action on the issue; later this month the CCG are looking to support us by signing the sister pledge, the NHS Statement of Support for Tobacco Control. These commitments underpin the work already underway to tackle smoking within the borough, including:
- Multi-agency work to continue to reduce smoking in pregnancy
- Utilizing the Healthy Workplace Charter & Working Well Bury scheme to address smoking in targeted populations e.g. Routine & Manual Workers
- Joint work with Bury CCG to systematically target populations, using GP registers
- Link with the Healthy Schools program to deliver focused educational work to break the intergenerational cycle of tobacco use and stop young people from starting a tobacco habit.
- Amplify national campaigns locally e.g. National No Smoking Day & Stoptober
- Continue to undertake work with the Trading Standards team to tackle the accessibility of tobacco products for young people, particularly in relation to illegal and illicit tobacco and underage sales.
This council therefore agrees to commit to the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control in order to protect successive generations of young people from the harm done by tobacco, save lives and reduce health inequalities.
On being put, with no-one voting against the Mayor declared the motion carried
2. Green Belt
A motion had been received and set out in the summons in the names of:
Councillors T Pickstone, M D’Albert and S Wright
Council notes:
1 The Green Belt process, introduced from 1955, as a planning policy to protect countryside around the countries largest urban areas.
2 The aims of Green Belt (as stated in the 2012 National Policy Planning Framework) are:
· To check the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas
· To prevent neighbouring towns from merging into one another
· To assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment
· To preserve the setting and special character of historic towns
· To assist in urban regeneration, by encouraging the recycling of derelict and other urban land
3 And the stated opportunities and benefits being:
· Providing opportunities for access to the open countryside for the urban population
· Providing opportunities for outdoor sport and outdoor recreation near urban areas
· The retention of attractive landscapes and the enhancement of landscapes, near to where people live
· Improvement of damaged and derelict land around towns
· The securing of nature conservation interests
· The retention of land in agricultural, forestry and related uses.
4 That significant parts of Bury (60%) have been designated as Green Belt land which makes a very significant positive contribution to the character of the area, as well as providing opportunities for leisure and recreation.
5 That Green Belt also plays an important part in providing a rural barrier between the different towns and village communities that make up Bury.
6 The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework is currently being developed by Greater Manchester Councils to identify land for homes and jobs to 2035, including a stated aim to enhance and protect the quality of the natural environment, conserve wildlife and tackle low carbon and flood risk issues, so that we can accommodate growth sustainably.
7 That the GMSF process includes a strategic review of Green Belt land, the first strategic review for over 30 years.
8 The significant amount of ‘brownfield land’ available in Greater Manchester (2721 hectares in the most recent National Land Use Database), the highest amount in the North West.
This Council supports
1 Green Belt as an important Planning Policy which should be retained around our major urban areas going forwards
2 The aims, opportunities and benefits of Green Belt as stated in the National Policy Planning Framework remain valid and valid for Bury.
3 The stated aims of the GMSF to ensure that both appropriate and affordable housing, and provision for jobs and job creation are provided going forwards, and the aims for this growth to be sustainable.
4 The use of brownfield land for housing and jobs as a first priority.
This Council therefore resolves
1 To take what steps we can as an Authority, without prejudicing or pre-determining any future planning application or consultation, to encourage developers to use existing sites and extant planning applications
2 To ask our representatives to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to continue to make a strong case for retaining a strong green belt across Greater Manchester.
It was moved by Councillor Walmsley and seconded by Councillor Shori as an amendment to:-
Delete (Council notes): 7. That the GMSF process includes a strategic review of Green Belt land, the first strategic review for over 30 years.
Add (Council notes): The Council has to take account of national planning guidance in determining the level of house building required. The methodology and baseline figures for this have to be set by the Government.
Add (Council resolves): 3. Lobby Minister of State for Housing and Planning, Gavin Barwell MP, to review the planning regulations so local authorities like Bury have the power to take action against the land owners and/or developers who fail to develop land within a reasonable time-frame.
On being put, with no one voting against, the Mayor declared the amendment carried.
On being put, with no one voting against, the Mayor declared the substantive motion carried.
3. Pay Increases
A motion had been received and set out in the Summons in the names of:
Councillors I Bevan, R Caserta, J Daly, I Gartside, D Gunther, M Hankey, J Harris, R Hodkinson, K Hussain, G Keeley, O Kersh, I Schofield, D Silbiger, S Nuttall, R Walker, and Y Wright
It was moved by Councillor Gartside and seconded by Councillor Kersh that:-
This Council thoroughly deplores the recent excessive pay increases, proposed by a recent Personnel Committee report by the Labour controlled Manchester City Council to some of their already highly paid senior Council officials.
We also note that this is in stark contrast to majority of the hard working staff at Manchester City Council who have received the LGA nationally agreed 1% pay increase.
This Council resolves not to follow the example set by the Manchester City Council in giving such an excessive pay increases to our Bury Council senior managerial staff, some of whom are on six figure salaries.
On being put, with 15 voting for, 31 against and the Mayor abstaining the Mayor declared the motion lost.