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Rooms have been made available for Political Group meetings from 0900 hours onwards, and tea/coffee will be available in the Canteen from 0845 hours.
Reform UK – Pendle Room
Labour Group – Lancaster House 4
Conservative Group – Lancaster House 5
Progressive Lancashire – Lancaster House 6
Part 1 (open to press and public)
Chair's Announcement – Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014
Any persons present at the meeting may photograph, film or record the proceedings, during the public part of the agenda. Any member of the press and public who objects to being photographed, filmed or recorded should let it be known to the Chair who will then instruct that those persons are not photographed, filmed or recorded.
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Chair's Welcome and Introduction
Standing item.
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Apologies for Absence
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Disclosure of Pecuniary and non-Pecuniary Interests
Members are asked to consider any pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests they may have to disclose to the meeting in relation to matters under consideration on the Agenda.
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Minutes of Previous Meeting (Pages 1 - 12)
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Minutes of meeting Wednesday 3 September 2025 of Performance Committee (Pages 13 - 44)
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Minutes of meeting Wednesday 24 September 2025 of Resources Committee (Pages 45 - 56)
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Minutes of meeting Thursday 23 October 2025 of Member Training and Development Working Group (Pages 57 - 66)
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Minutes of meeting Monday 17 November 2025 of Planning Committee (Pages 67 - 80)
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Minutes of meeting Wednesday 26 November 2025 of Resources Committee (Pages 81 - 92)
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Proposed amendments to Strategy Group Terms of Reference (Pages 93 - 96)
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Community Risk Management Plan pre-consultation (Pages 97 - 106)
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Governance Review (Pages 107 - 110)
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Member Champion Activity Report (Pages 111 - 116)
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Fire Protection Reports (Pages 117 - 120)
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Operational Incidents of Interest (Pages 121 - 124)
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Celebrating our people (Pages 125 - 128)
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Member Complaints
Standing item.
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Date of Next Meeting
The next meeting of the Authority will be held on Monday 23 February 2026 at 1030 hours at Washington Hall, Leadership and Development Centre, Euxton.
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Urgent Business
An item of business may only be considered under this heading where, by reason of special circumstances to be recorded in the Minutes, the Chair of the meeting is of the opinion that the item should be considered as a matter of urgency. Wherever possible, the Clerk should be given advance warning of any Member’s intention to raise a matter under this heading.
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Exclusion of Press and Public
The Authority is asked to consider whether, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, they consider that the public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that there would be a likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the appropriate paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, indicated under the heading to the item.
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Notes of Strategy Meeting held 3 November 2025 (Pages 129 - 140)
(Paragraph 3)
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