THE document which is expected to detail how Southampton will beat its pollution problem will be discussed later this month.
Cabinet members at Southampton City Council are set to discuss the future of the Green City Charter on April 16.
Opposition councillors are asking the authority to ensure that the document will be the result of cross-party talks.
This comes after the Green City Charter was ‘called-in’ the day before it was set to be launched in March, after Conservative members blasted their counterparts for not allowing them any official input.
At a meeting held on Thursday the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee asked the cabinet to create a cross-party Green City Charter.
After the meeting councillor Dan Fitzhenry, leader of the Conservative party, said: “We only made a series of recommendation that will go through a cabinet on the 16th of April. We made a recommendation that we create a Green City Charter that is a cross-party Green City Charter and we hope that the cabinet will take on board that.”
As reported, this issue has come about after a heated debate during the last cabinet meeting on March 19.
Conservative members were angered by their lack of input in the document, which aims to tackle all types of pollution in the city, despite assurances by civic chiefs of cross-party working groups.
As a result, the charter was called back in to be debated at the meeting on Thursday.
“We need a common agreement for the long term. We urge the cabinet to agree to creating the charter on cross party terms”, councillor Fitzhenry added.
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