Other Committee

Somerset Standards Committee directs staff to review officer gifts and hospitality policy after members flagged concerns about contractors paying for dinners and conference places.

Somerset harbours panel presses for revenue ring-fencing and updated port legislation.

Somerset's Children and Education Scrutiny Committee challenged a requires-improvement Ofsted rating and reviewed a 14-authority regional care cooperative bid at its July 24 meeting.

Somerset's North Planning Committee unanimously deferred a 750-home hybrid planning application for land east of Bower Lane in Bridgewater, refusing to endorse the officer recommendation to approve the scheme pending a renegotiation of Section 106 obligations.

Somerset planning committee defers Westbury sub-Mendip housing proposal a second time, orders independent road safety audit.