Last Full Council (before local elections May 2nd 2024)

Ian & Simon take a look at the 7 hour, full council meeting Tuesday March 19th - the last before the 2024 local elections in May.

We take a look at the last PCC Full Council Meeting ahead of May's local elections with a packed agenda of no less than eleven notices of motion, five deputations & two questions from the public.

Was Lord Mayor Tom Coles' last time Chairing a Full Council seven hours of delightful & harmonious agreement or were Councillors unable to resist kicking off their leaflet campaigns for May 2nd in the chamber?

Agenda details in full on PCC website. Link in comments.

13a Fairtrade city

13b Council of Sanctuary

13c Urgent need for improved NHS Dentistry provision

13d Pride in the streets of Pompey

13e International Women's day - Tackling Gender inequality in Portsmouth

13f An end to pointless paper usage

13g Guildhall trust theatre operations outside of Portsmouth

13h Addressing failures in Portsmouth major project delivery

13i Crisis in local authority funding

13j Hampshire & IOW integrated care board

13k Safer recruiting council

Questions to Cabinet:

Q1 Crisis re EV charging points

Q2 Accessibility taxis

Q3 Road safety around Cosham schools

Q4 Consider reducing cabinet positions*

Q5 Building work standards checks

Q6 Monitoring of Southern Water discharge levels

Q7 Funding for Bransbury park*

*Q4 & Q7 will receive written answers

Full Council agenda available https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=4980&x=1

Recorded stream from Portsmouth City Council Democratic Services https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px3w2COTufA