Only the Council will exercise the following
functions:
(a)
adopting and changing the
Constitution
(b)
approving or adopting the policy
framework, the budget and any application to the Secretary of State
in respect of any Housing Land Transfer;
(c)
the giving of instructions requiring the
Cabinet to reconsider any draft plan or strategy submitted by the
Cabinet for the consideration of the Council;
(d)
the amendment of any draft plan or
strategy submitted by the Cabinet for the consideration of the
Council;
(e)
the approval, for the purposes of public consultation in accordance
with Regulation 10 or 22 of the Town and Country Planning
(Development Plans) (England) Regulations 1999, of draft proposals
associated with the preparation of alterations to, or the
replacement of, a local plan;
(f)
the approval, for the purpose of its submission to the Secretary of
State or any Minister of the Crown for his approval, of any plan or
strategy (whether or not in the form of a draft) of which any part
is required to be so submitted except for certain planning matters
such as planning applications;
(g)
subject to the urgency procedure contained in the Access to
Information Procedure Rules in Part 4 of this Constitution, making
decisions about any matter in the discharge of a function of the
Cabinet which is covered by the policy framework or the budget
where the decision maker is minded to make it in a manner which
would be contrary to the policy framework or contrary to/or not
wholly in accordance with the budget;
(h)
appointing the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and
the Leader of the Council;
(i)
agreeing and/or amending the terms of
reference for Committees, deciding on their composition and making
appointments to them;
(j)
appointing representatives to outside
bodies unless the appointment has been delegated by the
Council;
(k)
adopting an allowances scheme under
Article 2.5;
(l)
changing the name of the area,
conferring the title of honorary alderman or freedom of the
Borough
(m)
confirming the appointment of the Head
of Paid Service;
(n)
making, amending, revoking, re-enacting
or adopting bylaws and promoting or opposing the making of local
legislation or personal Bills;
(o)
all local choice functions set out in Part 3 of this Constitution
which the Council decided should be undertaken by itself rather
than the Cabinet; and
(p)
all other matters which, by law, must be
reserved to Council