The Hadleigh Swimming Pool is nearing the end of its operational life, so the Council has launched a Feasibility Study to determine if a new pool is affordable. This is about to commission a team of architects to produce costings for 2 alternative sites - the existing one at Stonehouse Road and the other on the Hadleigh High School site.  A report back is due in Spring 2007.


Last year, a decision by the Strategy Committee relating to expenditure on a project office for a major IT project appeared to some members of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, myself included, to preempt decisions on the 2006-7 budget.  We asked for a Call-In to review that decision but to our surprise were told this was not constitutional.  A small task group has been studying this situation and is making proposals for changes to the rules at the meeting of Strategy Committe on 16/11/06.  This is very important as without an effective Call-In process a possible future ruling political group could be unchallengable as to the decisions it took.  Watch this page!