The Lessons Learned Report was created by the William Hunter Way Lessons Learned Task and Finish Group of Councillors Clark, Kerslake and Mynott.  The report recorded and shared lessons learned from the William Hunter Way Project 2005-2014. The purpose of the report was to:-

·         Describe the areas where issues arose;

·         Propose mitigation against those issues arising again;

·         Improve on project delivery standards by adopting proven good practice; and

·         Contribute to organisational growth and maturity by effecting long-term improvements in the way the organisation embeds and shares project management best practice.

The themes considered by the group included:

·         Project management processes;

·         Risk Management;

·         Resource issues;

·         Strategic issues that could be of use to the next William Hunter Way project.

The Chair thanked Cllr Mynott, Cllr Kerslake, Ben Bix and Sam Broughton for their work on this report.

A motion was MOVED by Cllr Clark and SECONDED by Cllr Kerslake to receive the recommendations in that report.

After a full discussion Cllr Quirk MOVED an amendment to the motion. Cllr Chilvers SECONDED the motion.

The meeting was suspended for 5 minutes to discuss this amendment. 

Cllr Quirk then withdrew that motion and an amendment to recommendation 2.1 was MOVED by Cllr Clark and SECONDED by Cllr Kerslake.

2.1       The report be received and the actions contained within are acknowledged by the Audit and Scrutiny Committee.

A vote was taken by a show of hands and it was RESOLVED UNANMIOUSLY that:

2.1       The report be received and the  actions contained are acknowledged by the Audit and Scrutiny Committee.

2.2       The report be presented by the Acting Chief Executive to the William Hunter Way Delivery Group; and

2.3       A report detailing the implementation of the future actions identified be added to the work programme of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee in October 2015 or at the next meeting thereafter.