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The Committee considered a call-in, a request for scrutiny of a Cabinet decision before it takes effect, on removing the booking system at Pembrokeshire's six Waste and Recycling Centres and replacing it with number plate recognition (ANPR). Councillors raised concerns about cost, traffic surveys, data protection and the information before Cabinet. The Committee voted six to four, with one abstention, to uphold the decision.
Members noted reports on housing building maintenance, service performance data and the Property Service, and agreed that Property Service updates should come every six months. They also agreed changes to the forward work programme for November 2026 and January 2027, and noted an action log update on water quality letters.
The Committee considered a call-in of a Cabinet decision to procure up to £2.4m of passenger carrying vehicles over three years. A call-in means councillors ask a scrutiny committee to review a decision before it takes effect. The Committee voted to uphold the Cabinet decision, so the procurement can go ahead.
The committee discussed river pollution in the Cleddau catchment and the nutrient neutrality rule, which has delayed 102 planning applications, according to the Cabinet Member. It agreed to write to water and environment bodies about pollution and to receive a further update on Save the Cleddau in six months. It also endorsed its 2025-26 annual report before it goes to Council and accepted a referral to review homelessness services in November 2026.
The Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered a call-in of Cabinet's decision of 27 May 2026 on Parc Gwyn Crematorium. A call-in asks scrutiny councillors to look again at a Cabinet decision before it is put into effect. The committee voted 5 to 4 to refer the matter back to Cabinet and asked it to consider the committee's original recommendations in full.
On 19 March 2026 the Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered enviro-crime enforcement, fly-grazing, Parc Gwyn Crematorium and the Strategic Asset Management Group, and changed its forward work programme. Members supported a proposed model for enviro-crime enforcement, asked Cabinet to review Parc Gwyn's direct cremation fees and future operating model, and asked for the fly-grazing Task and Finish Group to be reconvened. The Committee also accepted an offer of a site meeting about beach signage at Amroth.
The Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered the Council's outline draft budget for 2026-27 and a range of service items, including riding establishment licence fees, Gypsy and Traveller sites and waste collection problems. The Committee noted the draft budget and passed its comments to Cabinet, referred the fee question to Cabinet for a review of the Income Generation Strategy, and recommended that Cabinet does not use the break clause in the Long Course Weekend agreement before 2026.
The Committee noted an update on the Havens Head and Lower Priory flood scheme, and agreed a question and answer session with the Head of Housing and Public Protection on housing. It noted the evaluation of the disabled parking bays pilot and supported moving to category-based bays for Blue Badge holders. It noted reports on crematorium services, riding establishment fees, local authority allotments and Haverfordwest regeneration. Crematorium pricing and future service questions will return in March 2026 after a site visit.
The Committee met on 23 September 2025 to consider environmental crime enforcement, the Withyhedge landfill update, a proposed rural working group and a call-in of a housing purchase. It noted most of the reports, asked for a Task and Finish Group on environmental crime to be considered, approved its work programme, and upheld the Cabinet Member's decision to buy 16 Woodland Crescent, Milford Haven.
The Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered a call-in of a retrospective Cabinet Member decision to approve a host agreement for the Long Course Weekend, covering 2025 to 2029, with Activity Wales. Members voted to refer the decision back to Cabinet for reconsideration and to the Governance and Audit Committee for investigation. The Chair said the agreement itself was not at issue; the concern was how the decision was interpreted.
The committee reviewed a Cabinet decision on the grant to Visit Pembrokeshire, the county's tourism body, after Councillor Huw Murphy called it in. A call-in asks a scrutiny committee to look again at a decision made by the executive. The committee voted 7 to 6 to uphold the decision, which keeps a flat grant from April 2026 to March 2029.
The Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee met on 17 June 2025 and noted an update on the Withyhedge landfill site. Members endorsed progress on the Pembrokeshire Housing Strategy and the Overview and Scrutiny Annual Report for 2024-25. They also asked for a further report on vandalism to Council property in six months' time.
The Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee met on 27 March 2025 to look at waste collections, dog restrictions on beaches, fly-grazing horses and the Bridge Innovation Centre. The Committee set up a task and finish group on fly-grazing, approved its work programme, and agreed to write a letter about electric waste vehicles.
The Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee met on 23 January 2025. It asked the Cabinet Member to meet a member of the public about differences between the English and Welsh budget consultation questions, and added a Refuse Collection item to its March agenda. It also noted the outline draft budget, the provisional settlement and reports on risk, leisure, property and planning, and agreed to convene a Task and Finish Group on dog restrictions on beaches.
The Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee, which checks the Council's decisions, considered a Notice of Motion from Councillors Chris Williams and Alec Cormack, a formal proposal asking the Council to withdraw all support for the Long Course Weekend triathlon. The Committee decided that the 2025 event should go ahead as it is this year, and that the Council's events strategy should be reviewed. It also recommended to Cabinet, the councillors who run the Council day to day, that a formal host agreement, a written deal between the Council and the organiser, be in place before the 2025 event.
The committee considered reports and petitions on flood defence funding, speed limits, tourism, homelessness, vandalism, disabled parking, bus services, performance data and Withyhedge landfill.
It noted reports on housing building maintenance, decarbonisation of council housing, regeneration, the Withyhedge landfill site and environmental crime enforcement. It endorsed the annual scrutiny report for Council and approved the forward work programme with three changes.
The committee considered a call-in of Cabinet's decision of 22 April 2024 to award the construction contract for the Haverfordwest Transport Interchange to Kier Construction Western & Wales. Members voted to uphold the Cabinet decision, rejecting a proposal for full scrutiny at Council level.
The Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee met on 26 March 2024 and considered a call-in of Cabinet's decision to award the Haverfordwest footbridge contract. It referred the matter back to Cabinet, asking for clearer evidence of the bridge's maintenance costs and for the budget effects of the project to be discussed. The Committee also agreed to pursue a lease of Haverfordwest Airport and endorsed support for the Pembrokeshire Nature Partnership.
The Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee met on 16 January 2024 and considered reports on leisure and library use, flooding at Havens Head and Lower Priory, the planning service, and the property service's response to an Audit Wales report. The Committee noted the leisure, flooding, planning and property reports, and approved its forward work programme with four changes. It deferred an item on vandalism to the Authority's properties to March 2024.
The Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee met on 20 November 2023 to review a Cabinet decision to charge £5 per tree for collecting real Christmas trees. Councillors had called in the decision, which means asking a scrutiny committee (a group that checks council decisions) to review it before it takes effect. The Committee voted to uphold the Cabinet decision.
The Committee noted reports on Haverfordwest Airport, regeneration and staff use of County Hall, and approved the annual update from Visit Pembrokeshire with feedback. The airport aims to reach a cost neutral position, and a further report on it is due in March.
The committee considered four items: vandalism on council property, the environmental crime enforcement contract, a referral on decarbonising council housing, and its forward work programme. It approved the vandalism and environmental crime update reports and agreed to add the housing decarbonisation referral to its work programme. It also agreed to review the Toilet Strategy and to receive updates in January 2024 on the Northgate system, leisure services and Havens Head flooding.
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The minutes are published. No summary has been written yet.
The minutes are published. No summary has been written yet.