Burnham & Highbridge Town Council votes to go paperless to save money
Burnham and Highbridge Town Council is set to go paperless after councillors last night (Monday) voted in favour of moving into the digital age.
During a virtual meeting of the full council, they voted to buy new tablet PCs for each councillor and use a ‘paperless meetings management system’ to replace paper copies of agendas, minutes and reports.
Town Council Clerk Sam Winter told the meeting: “Electronic systems save many staff hours and many thousands of pounds and it must be the way forward. If we issue devices, everything is readily accessible, it puts everyone on a level playing field. You would all receive the same information at the same time on Town Council managed devices.”
Burnham and Highbridge town councillors have this week supported plans to build new drive-thrus for Costa Coffee and Subway on land next to Highbridge’s Aldi store.
At a virtual meeting of the Town Council’s planning committee this week, members backed the proposals for the site next to Bennett Road within the Isleport Business Park, first reported here by Burnham-On-Sea.com.
The ‘reserved matters application’ covers the proposed access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for the fast food take away and coffee shop at the site south of the Aldi supermarket and south-west of the Travelodge hotel.
At this week’s meeting
Chairman of Pembrokeshire County Council\ s services overview and scrutiny committee Cllr Rob Summons A DECISION to buy a Haverfordwest shopping centre has been called in by councillors for further scrutiny. At November s meeting of cabinet it was unanimously approved the acquisition of the Riverside Shopping Centre “following an offer accepted by the vendors and completion of a due diligence process to determine a final purchase price for the property as a going concern.” An extraordinary meeting of the services overview and scrutiny committee was held on Monday (December 14) after Cllr Di Clements requested the cabinet decision of November 30 be called in on the grounds of budgetary position, further scrutiny and “to ensure the proposal is best use of tax payers’ money.