25 November 2025 – Agenda
SUMMONS TO ATTEND A MEETING
TO: All Members of the Environment & Assets Committee
Cllrs M Baines, D Bretherton, P Cowell, A Dite, H Dollman, L Emery, C Jones (Chair), H Richards (Deputy Chair), P Swan and A Wainwright
Ex Officio (Voting) Members – A Gilbert (Town Mayor) and D Dawson (Deputy Mayor)
To all other Members for information
You are hereby summoned to attend a meeting of the Environment & Assets Committee on Tuesday 25 November 2025 at 6:30pm (maximum two hours) in the Upper Chamber (Thame Town Hall) for the transaction of business as set out on the attached agenda.
Mandy Sturdy
Clerk of the Council
Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025
AGENDA
1) Apologies for Absence
To receive and agree apologies for absence.
2) Declarations of Interest and Dispensations
To notify of any items that appear in the agenda in which there may be an interest that has not been recorded in the Member’s Register of Interest, and confirmation of any relevant dispensations.
3) Public Participation and Public Questions
To consider applications from members of the public to address the Committee (5 minutes maximum), in respect of any item of business included in the agenda. Applications to speak must have been received by the Town Clerk no later than 5pm on the last working day preceding the meeting.
To consider questions from members of the public (who live, work, or run a business in the Parish). Written questions must have been received by the Town Clerk no later than 4pm on the last working day preceding the meeting.
4) Minutes
To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the Committee Meeting held on Tuesday 15 July 2025.
5) Budget Summary
To monitor actual income and expenditure against estimates.
5. Environment & Assets Budgetary Figures to October 2025 (PDF)
6) Green Living Plan
To receive an update on progress towards the Green Living Plan objectives and receive an update from the Green Living Plan Working Group following the meeting on 12 September 2025.
6. Report – Green Living Plan update – November 2025 (PDF)
7) Public Art Working Group
To receive an update following the meetings on 4 September 2025 and 6 November 2025.
7. Report – Public Art working Group – November 2025 (PDF)
8) Town Hall
To receive a verbal update and consider any relevant actions.
8. Report – Town Hall (PDF)
9) Depot
To receive a report and consider any relevant actions.
9. Report – Maintenance Depot (PDF)
10) Thame Museum
To receive an update on planned decoration to main exhibition hall in January.
10. Report – Thame Museum (PDF)
11) Maintenance Report
To note the Maintenance Report.
11. Maintenance Report (PDF)
12) Green & Open Spaces and Play Areas
To receive a report and consider any relevant actions.
12. Report – Green and Open Spaces – November 2025 (PDF)
13) Cuttle Brook Local Nature Reserve
To receive an update.
14) Land Acquisition Policy
To approve the updated/reviewed Land Acquisition Policy.
14. Land Acquisition and Disposal Policy (PDF)
15) Allotments
a) Stones Close Allotments
b) Hampden Gardens Allotments
To receive a verbal update.
16) Land Acquisition / Disposal
28 Pickenfield
To note the applicant has confirmed his intention not to proceed with the purchase of a small area of public open space adjacent to the property.
17) Exclusion of the Public
To move that under Section 1, Paragraph 2 of The Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business because publicity would be prejudicial to the public interest by reason of the confidential nature of the business to be transacted.
18) Land North of Oxford Road
To receive an update on a proposal from the planning applicant to transfer ownership of some public open space to the Town Council. Including the proposed area set aside for recreation use and land identified for on-site Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) provision.
To agree a recommendation to Full Council.