COUNCIL leaders are being accused of pushing through an updated plan for the city’s economy without proper scrutiny.

Opposition councillors have called-in a decision to pass Glasgow’s updated economic strategy for 2016 to 2023, claiming members should have had an opportunity to probe the policy before a decision was required at a meeting last month.

They feel the document was ­being rushed through ahead of a major economic event in the city – and without adequately addressing the climate emergency.

The strategy will now be discussed at a meeting of the city’s operational performance and delivery scrutiny committee on Wednesday.

In a letter to council chief executive Annemarie O’Donnell, three Labour councillors – group leader Frank McAveety, Cecilia O’Lone and Soryia Siddique – and two Green representatives, Jon Molyneux and Kim Long, stated it was “vital” a “strategy of such importance” was fully considered.

It adds the document was published before last month’s city administration committee meeting with “relatively little notice”.

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“The leader of the council, during the course of the meeting, intimated that the reason for the short notice and lack of committee consideration, was so the document could appear at the State of the City Conference,” the letter continued.

“We do not believe this is an appropriate basis on which to effectively bypass the full consideration of elected members.”

The councillors say the strategy needs to reflect decisions of the council on certain policies, including the climate emergency.

At the October meeting, Green councillor Allan Young said: “Climate change is the overriding concern of our generation, yet there’s no mention in the report of a Green New Deal or a carbon neutral city by 2030. We are where we are with climate change because of the relentless pursuit of economic growth.”

However, council leader Susan Aitken said the authority has a number of strategic documents, working in tandem, and a climate emergency strategy is being ­prepared.

“This is not the climate emergency strategy, we have one of those on its way,” she said. “This is an economic strategy, it focuses on the city economy. The climate emergency is woven throughout it.”

SNP and Tory councillors then voted in ­favour of approving the ­refreshed policy, rejecting an amendment from Mr Young to revise the document.

The letter to the chief executive said: “Given the scale of the challenge facing Glasgow, the wide-ranging impact of the strategy and the role of consensus and political leadership in the successful implementation of this strategy, we believe that more time is needed to fully consider this draft.”