Social Value Ideas for Derry City and Strabane District Council
We have identified 50 evidence-based social value themes for Derry City and Strabane District Council in Northern Ireland across 45 service areas. These insights are derived from the latest council meeting transcripts and can inform your social value strategy for bids and tenders.
Ulster University redundancy threat
Ulster University is facing a major staffing pressure, with management proposing 450 redundancies across its campuses, including a significant share at Magee. The unions argued that the scale of the c…
“So as you know um in April um Olster University um announced plans to make 450 staff redundant which is going to be about one in every seven jobs. And…”
Low-paid staff top-up removed
Ulster University has withdrawn the additional 50p-per-hour top-up previously paid alongside the real living wage. Unison and Unite said this hits the lowest-paid staff hardest and asked the council t…
“Going forward once the situ once the situation is stabilized um Unite in particular are quite concerned that another move that the university has has …”
Funding gap and reserves debate
The university said it faces a roughly £25 million annual deficit and has around £70 million of reserves. Unions argued the university should use reserves to protect jobs rather than fund redundancies…
“The um the figures that the university have given us um um have them running an annual deficit of about 25 million pounds um um a year. Um and there a…”
Delays in called-in planning cases
The council highlighted significant delays in called-in planning applications and judicial reviews affecting major schemes, with officers stressing the need for better communication and possibly time-…
“Members, this is a paper and a response that we have issued, to the committee for infrastructure. They we received a call for evidence from them initi…”
SPG documents deferred to special meeting
Members considered the first tranche of SPG documents and agreed they required more attention than could be given in the current busy planning committee. The chair confirmed that the SPG documents cou…
“Um, and there's [snorts] apologies, there's There's There's There's There's substantial amount of applications. There's There's been quite a lot of la…”
HMO policy revision to consultation
The committee approved the draft plan strategy revision and preferred options paper for HMO policy HOU13 to proceed to public consultation. The preferred approach retains a 10% HMO cap, identifies HMO…
“Thank you chair. Um so our first paper today um concerns itself with the draft of the LDPR plan strategy revision, the associated preferred options pa…”
Child minding threshold increased to eight
The SPG on childcare and day nurseries was amended so that the indicative threshold for requiring planning permission for child minding in the home was raised from three to eight, in line with ministe…
“So our representation centered on as I say the indicative threshold for when you might need to consider applying for planning permission for child min…”
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