Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee
13 Nov 2025 - 14:00 to 16:00
Occurred
Committee Rooms 3 & 4
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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 Air Quality Inquiry - Evidence Gathering
To consider evidence from witnesses to inform future recommendations in the Committee’s Air Quality Inquiry report to Council in January 2026. This final evidence gathering session has a particular focus on Birmingham’s Clean Air Strategy.
5 Minutes
To confirm the minutes from the meeting held on 31 July 2025.
6 Sustainability & Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee Action Tracker
To review and note the actions from previous Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee meetings.
7 Work Programme
To discuss and agree the work programme and any amendments. 
8 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). 
9 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.
10 Date and Time of Next Meeting
To note the date of the next meeting is 22 January 2026 at 2pm in Committee Rooms 3&4.

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Apologies
NameReason for Sending Apology
Councillor Ziaul IslamPrior committment
Councillor Lauren RainbowSickness
Absent
NameReason for Absence
Councillor Ian Ward 
Councillor Waseem ZaffarAttended the meeting in a non-councillor capacity

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
Councillor Timothy Huxtable4Chair of the West Midlands Combined Authority's Transport Delivery Overview & Scrutiny CommitteeNon-PecuniaryNoted.
Councillor Waseem Zaffar3Declared a pecuniary interest in relation to agenda item 4. This interest relates to my paid roles as a Director at Midlands Community Solutions CIC and as an Advisory Board Member, West Midlands Net Zero, University of Birmingham . I have sought advice from the Monitoring Officer. It has been confirmed I can provide evidence to the committee as a witness for the Inquiry as part of agenda item 4. In this agenda item, I will not be speaking to the committee as a member of the Council, and I cannot respond to questions which relate to my role as a member of the Council. Once I have given evidence I will withdraw from the meeting whilst this matter is being discussed.PecuniaryNoted in the minutes of the meeting.

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

Stephen Arnold, Head of Clean Air Zone
Sally James, Air Quality Policy Manager
Brittany Huggins, Air Quality Monitoring (Project Officer) 
Ellie Horwitch-Smith, Assistant Director, Route to Zero Carbon
Jake Thrush, West Midlands Combined Authority
Mark Wolstencroft, Environmental Health, City Operations
 

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

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