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17/01/2018 - St James Mill Link Road ref: 1488    For Determination

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 17/01/2018 - Cabinet

Decision published: 18/01/2018

Effective from: 24/01/2018

Decision:

2.1       Cabinet authorised the appointment of KierWSP (the County Council’s approved highways contractor) to prepare and finalise the scheme design, inclusive of site clearance, intrusive site investigations, production of estimated costs, and to submit a planning application when appropriate.

 

2.2       Cabinet noted the informal consultation that has taken place with those business that may be directly affected by the proposed new link road and noted that further consultation would be undertaken as a part of the proposed planning application process.

 

2.3       Cabinet noted and welcomed the award of Local Growth Fund II and Growing Places Funding from SEMLEP, and the agreement to further support the scheme through the use of Enterprise Zone Business Rates Uplift.

 

2.4       Cabinet authorised the expenditure of up to £600,000 for site clearance, site investigations, design work and the purchase of a small parcel of land from Network Rail that the route of the proposed link road would traverse.                                                         

 

2.5       Cabinet approved appropriate provision for this scheme in the capital programme over the period 2017/18 – 2019/20 inclusive, and the allocation of £600,000 into the Capital Programme from the Development Pool.

 

2.6       Cabinet authorised the Chief Executive, acting in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Regeneration Enterprise & Planning, the Borough Secretary & Monitoring Officer and the Chief Finance Officer, to purchase, on terms to be agreed, a small parcel of land required for this scheme from Network Rail.

 

2.7       Cabinet authorised the Borough Secretary & Monitoring Officer to arrange the preparation and execution of such contractual and other legal documents as are necessary to give effect to the above recommendations.

 

2.8       Cabinet authorised the Chief Executive to submit a further progress report to Cabinet when appropriate.

 


17/01/2018 - Finance Monitoring - Period 8 2017/18 ref: 1489    Recommendations Approved

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 17/01/2018 - Cabinet

Decision published: 18/01/2018

Effective from: 24/01/2018

Decision:

2.1            Cabinet reviewed the contents of the report.

2.2            Cabinet approved the release of HRA capital reserves to cover the committed final expenditure for 6 dwellings at Upton Place (at paragraph 3.6.2.2 of the report)

 


17/01/2018 - Environmental Services Re-provision ref: 1487    Recommendations Approved

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 17/01/2018 - Cabinet

Decision published: 18/01/2018

Effective from: 24/01/2018

Decision:

2.1       Cabinet, subject to confirmation of commitments after the Alcatel standstill period, appointed Bidder B as the Preferred Bidder and agreed to award the Environmental Services Contract for a period of 10 years, at a price of £97,697,867 (not including indexation /inflation), with an option to extend by mutual agreement for up to a further 10 years, subject to satisfactory performance of the contract and Cabinet approval nearer that time.

 

2.2       Cabinet delegated to the Director of Customers and Communities, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment, authority to do all that would be reasonably required, necessary and appropriate to implement Cabinet’s decision to award the contract to the Preferred Bidder and to achieve successful completion of the environmental services procurement process, including:

·         Agreeing terms and entering into leases, in line with the Preferred Bidder’s property, vehicle, equipment and container proposals

·         Providing final approval and execution of the contract following confirmation of commitments.

 

2.3       Cabinet approved, in accordance with the advice of the Council’s Chief Finance Officer, expenditure of £11.938m into the capital programme, funded by borrowing with up to £10m of the Minimum Revenue and interest charges being offset by the use of existing reserves for the vehicles, equipment and containers that would be used to provide the new environmental services contract.

 

2.4       Cabinet agreed, in accordance with the advice of the Council’s advisors that the Council would pay for the cost of bringing the facilities up to standard at the Council owned Westbridge Depot, at the price provided for this work by the Preferred Bidder of £450,038, the sum to be included for in the Capital programme for 2018-19.

 

2.5       Cabinet noted the impact on the revenue budget of the contract was £11.128m for 2018/19 which had been factored into the budget to be approved by Council in February 2018.

 


17/01/2018 - Non-Immediate Article 4 Directions - Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) in Far Cotton/ Delapre and Cliftonville ref: 1486    For Determination

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 17/01/2018 - Cabinet

Decision published: 18/01/2018

Effective from: 24/01/2018

Decision:

Cabinet resolved to confirm the Non-Immediate Article 4 Directions for Far Cotton/Delapre and Cliftonville (as shown on Map 1 and 2 of the report) made on 29th June 2017, to withdraw permitted development rights for the change of use from buildings used as Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) to Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) (Use Class C4) with effect from 29th September 2018.

 


17/01/2018 - Use of Civil Penalties to fund the expansion of the Housing Enforcement Team ref: 1485    For Determination

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Made at meeting: 17/01/2018 - Cabinet

Decision published: 18/01/2018

Effective from: 24/01/2018

Decision:

 

1.    Cabinet approved the Business Case for using the income received from civil penalties to fund the expansion of the Housing Enforcement Team (attached to this report as Appendix A);

 

2.    Cabinet approved the expansion of the Housing Enforcement Team to include an additional 8 Officers (a Housing Enforcement Manager, a Tenancy Relations Officer, 4 Environmental Health Officers and 2 Intelligence Officers) as described in Option 2 of the report

 

3.    Cabinet delegated to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Chief Finance Officer and the Cabinet Members for Finance and Housing & Wellbeing, the authority to expand the Housing Enforcement Team by an additional 5 Officers (4 Environmental Health Officers and an Intelligence Officer), described in Option 4 of the report, subject to due diligence and the production of an updated Business Case.