I had a conversation recently with some one who assumed that Brent's Scrutiny Committee was going to examine the case around South Kilburn and whether regeneration should continue there. I believe it is more complicated.
I understand that the old Scrutiny Committee had agreed to examine the issues. However, a recent Council meeting decided to split the Scrutiny Committee into two (incidentally, effectively admitting that Cllr Butt's abolition of the scrutiny committees in 2014 was a mistake).
The decision doubles the number of committee members, and at least one of the committees will have a different chair. There is no guarantee that the items they choose to scrutinise will remain the same. As a substantially different committee, they might well decide they want to look at different things. As I have said before, I think there is a strong case for the issues around South Kilburn to be publicly debated.
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