Bracknell

Bracknell Forest Borough Council’s Environment and Leisure overview and scrutiny panel is taking to the road, to be closer to customers and the services it represents.

Their next meeting, on Monday, December 18, will be held in the Forest Suite at Bracknell Leisure Centre, rather than the Council Chamber at Easthampstead House. The councillors will be taken on a tour of the centre before the meeting.

The agenda includes a review of the department’s work - which includes the leisure centres, planning applications and refuse and recycling collections. Panel members will also discuss the department's draft budget proposals.

Overview and scrutiny panels are designed to hold the Council leadership to account, on behalf of members of the public. Its members do not sit on the Council’s executive.

Cllr John Harrison, chairman of the Bracknell Environment and Leisure overview and scrutiny panel, said: "I am looking forward to taking the panel to the heart of one of our leisure centres.

"Some of the items on the agenda include the operation of leisure services, so I hope some of our customers will come along and see local democracy in action.”

The meeting starts at 7.45pm, members of the public are invited to attend. Copies of the agenda can be found at the leisure centre’s reception and from www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk

Bracknell Forest Borough Council