Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee
17 Apr 2025 - 14:00
Occurred
Committee Room 6
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  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests
  • Webcast

Documents

Agenda

Public Agenda
1 Notice of Recording/Webcast

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Public-I microsite (please click this link) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

 

 

2 Apologies
To receive any apologies.
3 Declarations of Interests

Members are reminded they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and other registerable interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting.

 

If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.

 

If other registerable interests are declared a Member may speak on the matter only if members of the public are allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.    

 

If it is a ‘sensitive interest’, Members do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that they have an interest.

 

Information on the Local Government Association's Model Councillor Code of Conduct is set out via http://bit.ly/3WtGQnN. This includes, at Appendix 1, an interests flowchart which provides a simple guide to declaring interests at meetings.

 

 

 

4 Minutes
To confirm the minutes from the meeting held on 6 March 2025.
5 Action Tracker
To review and note the actions from previous Sustainability & Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting(s).
6 IRP and Savings Progress Report January Data
This report provides the committee with an update on progress to date with delivering savings agreed for 2024/25 and Improvement & Recovery Plan
(IRP) Priority Programmes.
In attendance: Mark Shelswell, Assistant Director, Highways & Infrastructure; Phil Edwards, Assistant
Director, Transport & Connectivity and Rita Bacheta, Finance Business Partner (Operations) 
7 Transport Delivery Programme - HS2

This report provides the Committee with an update on the progress of HS2’s development and delivery in Birmingham. 

In attendance: Phil Edwards, Assistant Director, Transport & Connectivity and Hannah Willets, Head of HS2 Delivery

8 Transport Delivery Programme - Transport for West Midlands Schemes
This report provides background information for the  Sustainability & Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the following Transport for West Midlands’ (TfWM) projects:
• Camp Hill Line Stations in South Birmingham. 
• Metro In Birmingham
• Sprint and Cross City Bus Programme
 
In attendance: James Callingham, Programme Sponsor, West Midlands Rail Executive; Liam Brooker, Head of Sponsorship, West Midlands Rail Executive; Das Mootanah, Metro Director, TfWM; Thomas Skidmore, Head of Integration, TfWM; 
9 Work Programme
That the Committee considers its 2024/25 work programme, and attached appendices, and agrees any updates/amendments required.
10 Date and Time of Next Meeting
The date of the next meeting is 15 May, 2025 at 2pm.  
11 Request(s) for Call In/Councillor Call for Action/Petitions Received (if any)
To consider any request for call in/councillor call for action/petitions (if received). 
12 Other Urgent Business
To consider any items of business by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) that in the opinion of the Chair are matters of urgency.

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Apologies
Absent
NameReason for Absence
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
Councillor Timothy Huxtable Membership of West Midlands Combined Authority's Transport Delivery Overview & Scrutiny Committee West Midlands Bus Alliance West Midlands Rail Executive (Observer)Non-PecuniaryNoted.

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

Cllr Majid Mahmood, Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport 
Rita Bacheta, Finance Business Partner – Operations (Online)
James Callingham, Programme Sponsor, West Midlands Rail Executive
Phil Edwards, Assistant Director, Transport & Connectivity
Danny Gouveia, Delivery Director – Rail, Transport for West Midlands
James Hughes, Member Relationship Manager, West Midlands Combined Authority (Online)
Das Mootanah - Metro Director, Transport for West Midlands
Mark Shelswell, Assistant Director, Highways & Infrastructure (Online)
Thomas Skidmore, Head of Integration - Transport Lead Officer, Transport for West Midlands
Hannah Willets, Head of Delivery – HS2

 
 



___ Members of public expressed a desire to address the meeting.

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