Notices of motion
A notice of motion is a request, that must be signed at least one council member, for a specific issue to de discussed at a council meeting. We record details of the motion including when it was made, who made it, the details of the motion and what action was taken, or is to proposed to be taken.
Except for motions which can be moved without notice under Rule 12, and notice of a motion to remove the Leader, written notice of every motion, signed by at least one member, must be delivered to the Director of Policy and Resources (Monitoring Officer) not later than 10 days before the date of the meeting. These will be entered in a book open to public inspection.
Register of written notices of motion
Set out below is a register of all written notices delivered to council to date:
| Date received | Signed by | Motion | Committee/Date | Action taken |
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7 May 2019 |
Councillor Giles Archibald |
This council notes in the recent report from the UN intergovernmental panel on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The report outlines the deterioration in biodiversity globally and the serious consequences of a further decline in biodiversity. This council further notes the UK government’s failure to achieve agreed targets on biodiversity (the Aichi targets). Council therefore: 1. Calls on the government to urgently take action to achieve the Aichi targets; 2. Commits to a review of how this council’s activities can ensure biodiversity protection while at the same time delivering services, housing and climate change protection to the residents of the district; and 3. Calls on our local authorities in the county to jointly address the highly serious issue of the future deterioration in biodiversity. |
Council 23 July 2019 |
To be determined at the meeting 23 July 2019. |
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14 March 2019 |
Councillor Roger Bingham |
(1) The Council notes reported concerns that the K Shoes heritage artefacts may be taken away from Kendal; and (2) The Council should consider ways to preserve this important Local History collection in Kendal or the immediate district. |
Council 28 March 2019 |
The motion was carried at the meeting of Council on 28 March 2019. |
| 13 February 2019 | Councillor Dyan Jones |
Climate Emergency 2019 Council confirms that it is committed to reducing its carbon emissions and continues to look at all areas of policy and delivery. The Climate Change Policy and the work of the Green Team demonstrates and clarifies our position and ambitions. Council recognises that many organisations have been working hard locally and nationally to identify and address climate change in their own communities and with partners. However, council believes action needs to happen faster. Business as usual is not enough and there is a growing urgency to implement these actions more rapidly. Council notes: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 1.5˚C special report which provides, with sobering clarity, the evidence of the impact of climate change. The wider acknowledgement from some bodies that there is a 50% chance of a 2˚C rise by the end of this century. The World Meteorological Organisation in their annual bulletin (November 2018) state that carbon dioxide levels hit new highs of 405.5 parts per million (ppm) in 2017, up from 403.3 ppm in 2016 and 400.1 ppm in 2015. The UN Gap Report published before the COP24 in Poland this year, reminding us that the Paris Agreement targets are off track. UK Met Office’s 2018 Prediction offering an assessment of what we can expect to experience - higher sea levels, rise in temperatures, disrupted rainfall patterns, and as we have seen recently, flooding, over heating and torrential unpredicted rain. Council confirms that we are facing a climate emergency Council now urges government to recognise this urgency and to work with local authorities, health services, businesses, consumers, farmers, educational institutions and all other interested bodies to reduce to zero as quickly as possible our carbon emissions and their equivalents. |
Council 26 February 2019 |
After an amendment to the original motion, the following motion was carried at the meeting of Council on 26 February 2019:- Climate Emergency 2019 Council confirms that it is committed to reducing its carbon emissions and continues to look at all areas of policy and delivery. The Climate Change Policy and the work of the Green Team demonstrates and clarifies our position and ambitions. Council recognises that many organisations have been working hard locally and nationally to identify and address climate change in their own communities and with partners. However, council believes action needs to happen faster. Business as usual is not enough and there is a growing urgency to implement these actions more rapidly. Council notes: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 1.5˚C special report which provides, with sobering clarity, the evidence of the impact of climate change. The wider acknowledgement from some bodies that there is a 50% chance of a 2˚C rise by the end of this century. The World Meteorological Organisation in their annual bulletin (November 2018) state that carbon dioxide levels hit new highs of 405.5 parts per million (ppm) in 2017, up from 403.3 ppm in 2016 and 400.1 ppm in 2015. The UN Gap Report published before the COP24 in Poland this year, reminding us that the Paris Agreement targets are off track. UK Met Office’s 2018 Prediction offering an assessment of what we can expect to experience - higher sea levels, rise in temperatures, disrupted rainfall patterns, and as we have seen recently, flooding, over heating and torrential unpredicted rain. Council confirms that we are facing a climate emergency Council now urges government to recognise this urgency and to work with local authorities, health services, businesses, consumers, farmers, educational institutions and all other interested bodies to reduce to net zero as quickly as possible our carbon emissions and their equivalents. |
| 10 February 2019 | Councillor Giles Archibald |
Adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of Antisemitism Council expresses alarm at the rise in antisemitism in recent years across the UK. This includes incidents when criticism of Israel has been expressed using antisemitic tropes. Criticism of Israel can be legitimate, but not if it employs the tropes and imagery of antisemitism. We therefore welcome the UK Government’s support of the internationally recognised International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) guidelines on antisemitism which define antisemitism thus: ‘Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.’ The guidelines highlight manifestations of antisemitism as including:
Council welcomes the cross-party support within the Council for combating antisemitism in all its manifestations. Council hereby adopts the above definition of antisemitism as set out by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and pledges to combat this pernicious form of racism. |
Council 26 February 2019 |
The motion was carried at the meeting of Council on 26 February 2019. |
| 4 December 2018 | Councillor Phillip Dixon |
The Council notes: The increase in child poverty in this District over the past four years, from 14% to 15.9% (measured after housing costs). The increasing use of food banks in the country, as evidenced by the Trussel Trust figures, showing an annual 13% increase in usage, and Kendal’s Kings Food Bank showing a 16% increase. The current freeze on Benefits and the rollout of Universal Credit are partly to blame for these increases. Council calls on the government: To review its welfare strategy with a view to providing more support for the most vulnerable in our society. To take urgent steps to address this appalling trend and to reinstate ambitious targets for lowering child poverty. To take urgent action to help those who are most affected by poverty. In addition, Council asks: That the Chair of the Council write to the Local Government Minister expressing our dismay at these trends and seeking his support in requesting additional funds be provided to Local Authorities by Central Government to help those most disadvantaged. |
Council 18 December 2018 |
The motion was carried at the meeting of Council on 18 December 2018 |
| 10 July 2018 | Councillor Matt Severn |
“That this Council notes with concern that the failing local rail service is having a serious detrimental impact on the area’s visitor economy; notes the use of the line by commuters and school children and recognises the safe guarding issue created by the timetabled services not being available in the past; registers disappointment at the Department of Transport’s decision in 2016 to remove the franchise from TransPennine and grant it to Northern despite the Lakes line being separated from all the rest of Northern’s services; regrets the government’s cancellation of the planned electrification of the line between Oxenholme and Windermere; urges Government to investigate the feasibility of a micro franchise in Cumbria for the Lakes, Furness and Cumbria Coast lines run by an operator that is capable of running a reliable train service which cannot be Northern; and recognises and is grateful for the intervention of the local MP, the Lakes Line User Group and the West Coast Railways, that enabled a shuttle service to be run on the Lakes Line in June.” |
Council 24 July 2018 |
After an amendment to the original motion, the following motion was carried at the meeting of Council on 24 July 2018: "This Council notes with concern that the failing local rail service is having a serious detrimental impact on the area’s visitor economy; notes the use of the line by commuters and school children and recognises the safe guarding issue created by the timetabled services not being available in the past; registers disappointment at the Department of Transport’s decision in 2016 to remove the franchise from TransPennine and grant it to Northern despite the Lakes line being separated from all the rest of Northern’s services; regrets the government’s cancellation of the planned electrification of the line between Oxenholme and Windermere; urges Government to investigate the feasibility of a micro franchise in Cumbria for the Lakes, Furness and Cumbria Coast lines run by an operator that is capable of running a reliable train service which cannot be Northern; recognises and is grateful for the intervention of the local MPs, the Lakes Line User Group, Furness Line Action Group, Councillors and wider community; and thanks West Coast Railways for the interim service run on the Lakes Line in June." |
| 14 March 2018 | Councillor Andrew Jarvis |
This council is deeply concerned about the number of second homes in our district. This is having a devastating impact on some of our communities and restricts the opportunity of young people in our community to get on the housing ladder. We note:
Therefore, this Council calls for changes to legislation to:
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Council 28 March 2018 |
This motion was carried at the meeting of Council on 28 March 2018. |
| 9 February 2018 | Councillor Matt Severn |
This Council:
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Council 27 February 2018 |
After an amendment to the original motion, the following motion was carried at the meeting of Council on 27 February 2018: "This Council:
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| 6 February 2018 | Councillors Giles Archibald and David Fletcher |
This council will become a single use plastic free council by phasing out the use of single use plastic products such as bottles, cups, cutlery and drinking straws in council activities, where it is reasonable to do so, by the end of 2018 and to encourage our facilities’ users, local businesses and other local public agencies to do the same by championing alternatives, such as reusable water bottles. |
Council 27 February 2018 |
This motion was carried at the meeting of Council on 27 February 2018. |
| 22 September 2017 | Councillors James Airey and David Williams |
That this Council actively explores the possibility of de-registering that portion of New Road hitherto used as a car park and if proved feasible forthwith proceeds with the same and if successful converts it into a proper car park free for use by the public. |
Council 12 October 2017 |
The motion was lost at the meeting of Council on 12 October 2017. |
| 12 July 2016 | Councillors Giles Archibald, Ben Berry and Mark Wilson |
This Council wishes to assert that it is proud to live in a diverse and tolerant society. Council believes that everyone should be free to live their lives without fear of abuse or attack on the basis of who they are. Racism, xenophobia, sexism, ageism and homophobia have no place in South Lakeland or elsewhere. We condemn these attitudes and the hate crimes that result from them unequivocally. Council believes that hate crimes are particularly corrosive as they strike at the heart of our communities, breaking them down, by making people look at one another with suspicion and mistrust. This council will continue to ensure local bodies and programmes have the support needed to fight and prevent all forms of racism, xenophobia, sexism, ageism and homophobia. We wish to reassure all residents that they are valued members of our community. This Council therefore instructs the Chief Executive to write to the Police and Crime Commissioner, the Chief Superintendent and the leader of Cumbria County Council giving them our support in tackling such behaviour, and requesting that they work with Council and its local partners to create an atmosphere of welcome and inclusion by:
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Council 26 July 2016 |
The motion was carried at the meeting on 26 July 2016. |
| 15 July 2015 | Councillor Matt Severn |
This Council:
Council resolves:
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Council 28 July 2015 |
The motion was carried at the meeting of 28 July 2015. |
| 13 March 2014 | Councillor Rob Boden |
That this Council regrets the pernicious effect on vulnerable and in many cases disabled people of deductions being made from Housing Benefit paid to working age tenants in the social housing sector deemed to have an excess number of bedrooms in their homes; and calls on the Government to end these deductions with immediate effect. |
Council 27 March 2014 |
Following suggested amendments having been agreed to, it was resolved that the following motion be supported: This Council regrets the effect on vulnerable and in many cases disabled people of deductions being made from Housing Benefit paid to working age tenants in the social housing sector deemed to have an excess number of bedrooms in their homes; and calls on the Government to end these deductions as soon as possible. |
| 13 February 2014 | Councillor James Airey |
This Council registers its disgust at Cumbria County Council's disastrous cuts of rural bus services and the removal of support for 16 to 19 year old school transport. This Council strongly condemns this proposed action and the effect it will have on hard working South Lakeland residents. |
Council 25 February 2014 |
The motion was lost at the meeting on 25 February 2014. |
| 10 September 2013 | Councillor David Evans |
The Council calls on the Secretary of State for Health, Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt MP, to reconsider proposals to phase out Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) funding for GP surgeries because of the grave threat this poses to the future viability of some GP practices in sparsely populated areas, and instructs the Council's Chief Executive to write to the Secretary of State expressing the views of this Council and to report back as soon as a governmental response is received. |
Council 26 September 2013 |
It was resolved at the meeting that: 1. the motion, as presented, be adopted 2. the Chief Executive be asked to: a) write to the Secretary of State expressing the views of this Council b) report back as soon as a governmental response is received |
| 25 January 2013 | Councillor David Williams | That This Committee humbly requests of the Director of Policy and Resources (Monitoring Officer) that in future all meetings of This Committee be held alternatively in Windermere and Kendal. |
Lake Administration Committee 8 February 2013 |
Councillor Williams agreed to an amendment at the meeting, and the following motion was carried: "That this Committee humble requests that in future all meetings of this Committee be held in either Windermere or Kendal at the discretion of the Director or Policy and Resources (Monitoring Officer)." |
| 22 January 2013 | Councillor David Williams | That in future all meetings of This Committee be held alternatively in Windermere and Kendal. |
Lake Administration Committee 8 February 2013 |
Withdrawn on 25 July 2013. |
| 7 December 2012 | Councillor Ben Berry | We recognise that as Principal Authorities abandon public conveniences, those lower tiers of Local Government that take them on should be exempted from the presently applied business rates or given an equivalent grant to compensate them for these sites. This Council wishes to lobby Government on this point. |
Council 27 September 2012 |
It was resolved at the meeting of 18 December 2012 that the motion be not carried. |
| 7 December 2012 | Councillor John Holmes |
Will this Council support the motion that whilst it accepts in principle the proposal to create three centres of excellence for Vascular Surgery to serve the whole of Cumbria and Lancashire it requires Lancaster Royal Infirmary to become one of the three rather than Preston. This is to ensure a reasonable location of these centres throughout the area to ensure in turn that the residents of South Lakeland and parts of Lancashire are not disadvantaged in terms of travel time and distances. Further, that if it is claimed that Lancaster Royal Infirmary does not meet the criteria at the moment (which is arguable) then resources should be put into RLI to ensure that it does. |
Council 18 December 2012 |
After an amendment to the original motion, the following motion was carried at the meeting of 18 December 2012: That this Council support the motion that whilst it accepts in principle the proposal to create three centres of excellence for vascular surgery to serve the whole of Cumbria and Lancashire, it requires Lancaster Royal Infirmary to become one of the three. This is to ensure a reasonable location of these centres throughout the area to ensure in turn that the residents of South Lakeland and parts of Lancashire are not disadvantaged in terms of travel times and distances. Further that if is claimed that Lancaster Royal Infirmary does not meet the criteria at the moment (which is arguable) then resources should be put into LRI to ensure that it does. This to be in support of South Lakes Health Action, Tim Farron MP, Kendal Town Council and all other parish councils for their continued efforts to achieve this. |
| 17 September 2012 | Councillor Sylvia Emmott |
That Council continues to register its concern with regard to the draft First Trans-Pennine Express May 2014 timetable proposals and that it supports South Cumbrian MPs Tim Farron and John Woodcock, the Furness Line Action Group, the Lakes Lines Rail User Group together with the community partnerships of both organisations and the local members of TravelWatch NorthWest in their efforts to ensure that there are regular through train services between the district, Manchester and Manchester Airport as they are key to the wellbeing of our communities and to economic growth in South Lakeland. |
Council 27 September 2012 |
The motion was carried at the meeting of 27 September 2012. |
| 17 September 2012 | Councillor Peter Thornton |
That Council resolves:
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Council 27 September 2012 |
After an amendment to the original motion, the following motion was carried on 27 September 2012:
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| 14 September 2012 | Councillor Ben Berry |
That this Council acknowledges that boosting small businesses and encouraging start-ups is the best option for leading our economy into a period of sustainable growth. As such, this Council joins Rory Stewart MP, Jamie Reed MP, Tim Farron MP and John Woodcock MP in formally supporting the Federation of Small Business' campaign 'Real-Life Entrepreneurs'. Specifically noting that; we call on Government to simplify the tax system and look at the feasibility of introducing targeted VAT cuts in key sectors such as tourism to kick start the economy and stimulate growth. |
Council 27 September 2012 |
The following substantive motion was carried at the meeting of 27 September 2012: That this Council acknowledges that boosting small business and encouraging start-ups is the best option for leading our economy into a period of sustainable growth. As such, this Council joins Rory Stewart MP, Jamie Reed MP, Tim Farron MP and John Woodcock MP in supporting the Federation of Small Business' campaign 'Real Life Entrepreneurs'. Specifically noting that: we call on Government to simplify the tax system and look at the feasibility of introducing targeted VAT cuts in key sectors to kick start the economy and stimulate growth. We further call for the income tax threshold to be raised further so that no one pays income tax on less than £12,500 ie the full time minimum wage, in order to help low and minimum wage earners in the South Lakes and to boost demand in our local economy, to be paid for by higher taxes on the wealthy. |
| 3 July 2012 | Councillor Ben Berry |
That council continues to register its concern with regard to the draft First TransPennine May 2014 timetable proposals, and that it supports efforts to ensure there are regular through train services between the district, Manchester and Manchester Airport as they are key to the wellbeing of our communities and our prospects for economic growth. |
Council 28 July 2012 |
This motion was withdrawn at the meeting on 26 July 2012. |
