To advise members of requests from local parish councils for governance reviews in their areas and agree commencement of reviews.

Council considered a report to provide approval to eight Community Governance Reviews (CGRs). The Chairman informed Council that the correct version of appendix (a), containing the terms of reference for the individual CGRs had been circulated as part of the correction supplement and that the recommendation had been corrected to seek approval for eight CGRs. Councillor PD Newman OBE, Chairman of the Audit and Governance Committee moved the report and advised Council that such reviews should be conducted every 10–15 years. The Audit and Governance Committee agreed an information gathering exercise in 2015, involving a county-wide assessment of the potential for CGRs. Following this exercise the eight CGRs contained in the report were proposed for approval.

The recommendation in the correction supplement to approve the terms of reference from appendix (a), also in the correction supplement, and commence eight CGRs was agreed by a majority of the Council.

Resolved – that the terms of reference for eight community governance reviews in the version of appendix (a) contained in the correction supplement is approved.