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Items
No. Item

292.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Councillors Doolan. and Gantly for lateness

293.

Declaration of Substitute Members

Minutes:

None

294.

Declarations of Interest

Declarations of interest

 If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest* in an item of business:

§  if it is not yet on the council’s register, you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent;

§  you may choose to declare a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest that is already in the register in the interests of openness and transparency. 

In both the above cases, you must leave the room without participating in discussion of the item.

 

If you have a personal interest in an item of business and you intend to speak or vote on the item you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent but you may participate in the discussion and vote on the item.

 

*(a) Employment, etc - Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

(b)  Sponsorship - Any payment or other financial benefit in respect of your expenses in carrying out duties as a member, or of your election; including from a trade union.

(c) Contracts - Any current contract for goods, services or works, between you or your partner (or a body in which one of you has a beneficial interest) and the council.

(d) Land - Any beneficial interest in land which is within the council’s area.

(e) Licences- Any licence to occupy land in the council’s area for a month or longer.

(f)   Corporate tenancies - Any tenancy between the council and a body in which you or your partner have a beneficial interest.

 (g) Securities - Any beneficial interest in securities of a body which has a place of business or land in the council’s area, if the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body or of any one class of its issued share capital. 

 

This applies to all members present at the meeting.

 

 

Minutes:

None

295.

To approve minutes of previous meeting pdf icon PDF 195 KB

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 20 December 2016 be confirmed as a correct record of the proceedings and the Chair be authorised to sign them

296.

Matters Arising from the minutes

Minutes:

None

297.

PUBLIC QUESTIONS

Minutes:

The Chair outlined the procedure for Public questions and filming and recording of meetings

298.

Chair's Report

Minutes:

The Chair stated that the following meetings had provisionally been arranged in connection with the Flooding scrutiny and a copy of these had been circulated for Members;

 

The Chair welcomed Members and officers from L.B.Hackney and representatives of Thames Water and TfL who were also present that evening. In addition he welcomed Jennette Arnold the GLA Member representing the area.

 

Members and officers introduced themselves to the residents and businesses present.

 

The Chair informed the meeting that Thames Water had organised a meeting for residents and businesses ay the Business Design Centre on 1st.February at 6.30p.m.at which Councillors would be present.

 

The Chair added that the meeting that evening would therefore concentrate on the asset management strategy of Thames and their emergency response procedure and look ínto the circumstances of the floods in Stoke Newington and Upper Street and other issues such as compensation could be dealt with in detail at the 1 February meeting

299.

Flooding incidents in Upper Street and Stoke Newington - Scrutiny Review - witness evidence Thames Water and TfL pdf icon PDF 118 KB

Minutes:

Chris Davis, Simon Hughes and Rob Hales of Thames Water were present for discussion of this item. A statement from TfL was circulated and Mufu Durowoju and Andrew Sherry were in attendance from TfL.

 

During consideration of the matter the following main points were made –

 

·         TfL stated that the incident on Upper Street occurred on 5 December and had resulted in a 36” trunk main burst which resulted in the full closure of Upper Street and numerous business and residents were flooded

·         TfL asked Thames to work round the clock to complete the repair works and although the northbound carriageway was reopened in a short space of time the southbound carriageway remained closed until 16 December

·         This closure resulted in serious disruption, on the first morning in particular with southbound traffic slow moving beyond Highbury Corner at considerable inconvenience to bus users. One lane southbound reopened on 16 December and the site completely cleared on 17 December

·         During the course of the works TfL acted to prevent other works taking place on TfL roads that would have conflicted with the closure and kept the Council’s streetworks team informed of the works and used roadside Variable message signs (VMS), to inform road users about the closure

·         In Stoke Newington Thames attended a leak on 6 December and was unsuccessful in identifying the source of the leak and on 9 December Thames communicated that the leak may be on the trunk main. The main burst on 11 December and resulted in the full closure of the A10 Stoke Newington High Street at the junction with Northwood Road . Numerous properties and residents were flooded

·         TfL asked Thames to complete the works as quickly as possible and although the northbound carriageway was reopened within a short space of time, the southbound carriageway remained closed until 23 December. This resulted in serious traffic disruption and all southbound traffic slow moving beyond Tottenham Hale gyratory. All buses had to be diverted and this resulted in inconvenience to bus passengers

·         Thames reopened the road and completely cleared the site on 23 December. TfL during the works kept L.B.Hackney streetworks informed of he works and used mobile VMS at strategic locations to inform road users about the closure. In both the above cases TfL had to make emergency/urgent traffic regulations order following discussions with the boroughs involved

·         TfL engage with Thames on a regular basis at senior management level with respect to their performance, response to incidents and future maintenance of these assets, however due to the recent state of bursts the Chief Executive of TfL and Thames are conducting high level discussions

·         It was stated that a current investigation between Thames and TfL on maintenance and replacement of Thames assets was being conducted and it was agreed that this report be submitted back to the Committee in 3 months time

·         Discussion took place as to the impact on passengers of the road closures and it was stated that this had resulted in inconvenience and longer  ...  view the full minutes text for item 299.