Minutes of meeting
Renfrewshire Council · 16 June 2026
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Minute of Meeting Cross Party Sounding Board Date Time Venue Tuesday, 16 June 2026 09:30 Corporate Meeting Room 1, Council Headquarters, Renfrewshire House, Cotton Street, Paisley, PA1 1AN Present: Councillor Eddie Devine, Councillor Anne Hannigan, Councillor James MacLaren, Councillor Iain McMillan, Councillor Iain Nicolson Chair Councillor Nicolson, Convener, presided. In Attendance G Hannah, Head of Climate, Public Protection & Roads and J Wallace, Senior Manager - Infrastructure & Transportation (both Environment, Housing & Infrastructure); and D Low, Democratic Services Manager (Finance & Resources). Apologies Councillors J Cameron and Andy Doig. Declarations of Interest and Transparency Statements There were no declarations of interest or transparency statements intimated prior to the commencement of the meeting.
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1 Lighting and CCTV in Council Parks Under reference to item 10 of page 2454 of the Minute of the meeting of Council held on 11 December 2025, there was submitted a report by the Director of Environment, Housing & Infrastructure relative to an assessment of the arrangements for CCTV and lighting provision across Renfrewshire's parks and open spaces. The report provided a range of statistical information on the use of public parks; set out the spread of Police Scotland reported incidents across the 36 public parks in Renfrewshire; detailed the issues and policies for public space CCTV installation in Renfrewshire and the issues related to the installation of streetlighting in public parks; and highlighted the cost implications and potential future actions. Members noted that the report was a discussion document and that a further report would be submitted top a future meeting of the Board capturing the key points arising from the Board's discussion at this meeting. DECIDED: That a further report be submitted to a future meeting of this Board and that this report should include details of the definition of a park as opposed to an area of open space; the footfall through Renfrewshire parks in the evening; the types of park used; lighting options for parks, including motion triggered lighting and timed lighting; the potential impact on biodiversity in parks; capacity issues relating to the community safety hub; and the deployment and promotion of mobile CCTV equipment.