Agenda and minutes

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Contact: Steve Culliford, Democratic Services Officer. Tel. 01235 422522 Email:  steve.culliford@southandvale.gov.uk 

Items
No. Item

29.

Apologies for absence

To record apologies for absence. 

Minutes:

Councillors Charlotte Dickson and Mike Murray had sent their apologies for absence. 

30.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 202 KB

To adopt and sign as a correct record the minutes of the Cabinet meeting held on 4 August 2017. 

Minutes:

RESOLVED: to adopt as a correct record the minutes of the Cabinet meeting held on 4 August 2017 and agree that the chairman signs them as such. 

31.

Declarations of interest

To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting.  

Minutes:

None

32.

Urgent business and chairman's announcements

To receive notification of any matters which the chairman determines should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances which have made the matters urgent, and to receive any announcements from the chairman.

Minutes:

None

33.

Public participation

To receive any questions or statements from members of the public that have registered to speak. 

Minutes:

None

34.

Didcot Garden Town delivery plan pdf icon PDF 3 MB

To consider the report of the interim head of development, regeneration and housing. 

 

Following the public consultation on the proposed delivery plan, the document has been updated to take into account feedback received.  The updated documents can be found here. 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the head of development, regeneration and housing.  The report set out the consultation response to the Didcot Garden Town draft delivery plan and set out proposed changes.  Cabinet was asked to approve the delivery plan. 

 

Cabinet recalled that Didcot had been granted garden town status by the government, following a joint bid by the council, South Oxfordshire District Council, Oxfordshire County Council, and the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership.  The delivery plan document had been produced to set out actions to transform Didcot into a garden town, to detail the funding required for key projects, and to act as a prospectus to government to justify the need for funding to establish a delivery team, provide support for the governance arrangements, and initiate and deliver key projects.  The options before Cabinet were to approve the delivery plan as amended or to require further changes.  Scrutiny Committee had commended the report and supported the delivery plan. 

 

Cabinet considered that the approval of the delivery plan would be positive for Didcot and was pleased that it had received support from all parties.  Cabinet thanked the officer team for their work on the garden town and welcomed the appointment of Elizabeth Paris as chair of the Didcot Garden Town Board. 

 

RESOLVED: to 

 

(a)      approve the contents of the Didcot Garden Town Delivery Plan, as set out in appendix 1 to the head of development, regeneration and housing’s report, and adopt it as a corporate policy document that sets out the council’s aspirations for managing Didcot’s future economic, housing and population growth;  

 

(b)      require officers to incorporate the delivery plan into the council’s planning policy framework, through the production of a Didcot Garden Town development plan document and/or appropriate supplementary planning documents;

 

(c)       agree to appoint Elizabeth Paris, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, as the Chair of Didcot Garden Town Board for a period of up to four years;

 

(d)      agree that sub-groups operating under the auspices of the Didcot Garden Town Board are governed by an agreed set of operating guidelines, similar to those set out in appendix 2 to the report, and that determining the final nature of these be delegated to the Didcot Garden Town Board, in consultation with the council’s head of legal and democratic services and lead Cabinet members;

 

(e)      agree that the Places for People “Placemaking Hub Framework Contract” (appendix 3 to the report) will be used to appoint future technical advisers to the Garden Town Board, in all areas apart from Lot 4 (Engineering Consultancy) where a wider competition should be run to appoint a suitable consultancy adviser in this service area;

 

(f)        authorise the chief executive, in consultation with both council leaders, to address the Didcot Garden Town staffing matters within the forthcoming restructuring proposals; and

 

(g)      agree that previously received Department for Communities and Local Government’s capacity grant funding relating to Didcot Garden Town, which has still to be committed, will be made available to the Didcot Garden Town Delivery  ...  view the full minutes text for item 34.

35.

Treasury outturn 2016/17 pdf icon PDF 252 KB

To consider the head of finance’s report. 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the head of finance’s report, which monitored the outturn of the council’s treasury management function in 2016/17.  This showed that the council had achieved a higher rate of return than the target income for the year.  The returns had also exceeded the market benchmarks. 

 

The Joint Audit and Governance Committee had welcomed the report and was satisfied that the treasury activities had been carried out in accordance with the treasury management strategy and policy; Cabinet concurred. 

 

RECOMMENDED: to 

 

(a)      approve the head of finance’s treasury management outturn report for 2016/17; and

 

(b)      approve the actual 2016/17 prudential indicators within the head of finance’s report.

 

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