Matters raised by Members of the Committee:-

Officer’s response thereto:-

In terms of Wards, what number of enforcement cases are in the Frinton Ward?

22, it is on page 87 of the Agenda.

That number is for the Frinton and Walton Town Council area, what are Officers going to do to fix this data?

On examination of the data, it is noted that the Parish data for Frinton and Ward that includes Frinton are the same and that could be misleading. Officers can only produce Parish information currently and it is grouped later to form Wards. The easiest solution would be to remove the Ward information and keep Parish only information in order to be clear. If Officers had to go into Wards, then they would need to remap the software.

Could the Council commission anyone to do it?

In Tendring, Parishes can be split by the Ward, so unfortunately because the information is recorded by Parish – the software doesn’t take into account that split when it then translates into what Ward to allocate to. Ward only would be a manual exercise of going through all of the cases Planning have currently got and having to find a place to put that information into the software which is not controlled by this Council as it is fixed and a national software. Therefore, Officers would have to work out how to manually drive this particular point. Officers will try and provide more accurate Ward information on the next report.

Is there a specific site in St Osyth for this high figure?

In St Osyth, the main driver for the majority of those cases is occupation of particular units whether they should be occupied all year round or not and those are historical cases. The Council have been concentrating on Bel-Air and issues around that area. Officers have put a recommendation to Management Team on Bel-Air that Officers are now taking a little bit further time to look at.

Officers can move onto reviewing Point Clear in the new year which is a separate matter. Officers suspect by April 2024 that figure will drop dramatically as we review those cases in the next 3-4 months.

When are we going to see some action for Bel-Air?

There is a report that recommending action, there are at least 2 options that have been presented to Management Team. They have not been agreed currently as further information for one recommendation is needed, Officers shouldn’t discuss this matter further in this forum at this stage. However, it is being actively pursued. It had taken time as there are over 300 plots, each one has a planning history that has to be understood and correct information obtained to avoid risk to the Council for any action intended.