Regeneration, Employment and Skills Committee

Chair: Councillor David Pickersgill

This committee is specifically involved in scrutinising, monitoring and reviewing:

Economic Growth

• all matters relating to the economic and urban regeneration of the District
• the Economic Strategy for Wakefield;
• the effectiveness and performance of the Wakefield Enterprise Partnership
• commercialisation and the local economy;
• work undertaken to support and drive regeneration including:
  • planning
  • investment
  • economic and business sector development
  • business support
  • enterprise and employment (including barriers to employment in the District);
• sustainable development and planning policy;
• consultation and liaison with all organisations involved in the regeneration of the District;
• attracting business investment in Wakefield;
• measures being undertaken to reduce the number of people who are on out of work benefits and help people to overcome barriers to work;
• improving town centres

Housing

• the delivery of targets within the Wakefield Housing Plan in relation to:
  
  • building new houses to meet Local Development Framework targets;
  • the demand for affordable homes;
  • ensure new housing meets specialist needs;
  • planning housing with the infrastructure needed to create 'good places';
  • ensuring housing supports work to tackle homelessness;
  • improving housing conditions and tackling fuel poverty;
  • ensuring the private rented sector is safe, secure and managed well
• the provision of homelessness and housing advice services, including rough sleepers
• regulation and enforcement of statutory provisions relating to private sector housing
• housing matters relating to the accreditation and licensing of private landlords
• the promotion and monitoring of partnerships to achieve wider strategic housing objectives;
• efforts to provide more sustainable and affordable housing, both for rent and for students, in both the public and private sectors

Skills

• response to the skills challenge in the District
  • this includes measures being undertaken to ensure that the training needs of employers, employees and prospective employees are met;
• apprenticeships and the impact of the apprenticeship levy in the District

Culture, Sport and Tourism

• markets;
• leisure, sport and physical activity within the District;
• libraries and cultural services;
• major Events and Tourism

Committee Membership

Councillors

• Councillor Pete Girt
• Councillor Katrina Law
• Councillor Raymond Massey
• Councillor Gwen Page
• Councillor David Pickersgill (Chair)
• Councillor Clive Tennant
• Councillor Steve Tulley
• Councillor Jakob Williamson
• Vacancy - to be determined

Co-opted Members (recruited from the general public)

• Scott Haslam
• Vacancy x 3

Minutes, agendas and future meetings

You can find the minutes, agendas, and future meeting dates of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board and Committees in Our Meetings Database.