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Apologies for Absence Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Councillors M Bailey and R Pritchard |
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Minutes of Previous Meeting Minutes: The minutes of the previous meeting held on 6th April 2023 were approved as a correct record.
(Moved by Councillor T Clements and seconded by Councillor S Doyle)
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Declarations of Interest To receive any declarations of Members’ interests (pecuniary and non-pecuniary) in any matters which are to be considered at this meeting.
When Members are declaring a pecuniary or non-pecuniary interest in respect of which they have dispensation, they should specify the nature of such interest. Members should leave the room if they have a pecuniary or non-pecuniary interest in respect of which they do not have a dispensation. Minutes: There were no Declarations of Interest. |
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To answer questions from members of the public pursuant to Executive Procedure Rule No. 13 Minutes: QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC NO. 1 Under Schedule 4, 13, Martin Hall will ask the Leader of the Council, Jeremy Oates the following question:-
Can the Executive Leadership Team and others at Tamworth Borough Council update me on the progress of the FHSF funded regeneration of Tamworth programme in the town centre that the Borough Council are delivering. I am particularly interested to hear an update on the schedule progress, overview of costs and expenses to date and funds assigned to outside agencies
Councillor Oates gave the following answer:
Its full steam ahead with the Future High Streets Fund Project. A number of key milestone has been hit with the contractors on board who will lead the physical delivery of the programme. We have a contractor on board the multi skilled group of people who are being looked after by Speller Metcalf who have a great reputation within the industry for delivering projects and keeping communities up to date with progress. I am aware that often unless you keep repeating the message it gets lost and people lose track of where we are. The Borough Council is handing over a number of project designs to be delivered by this contractor and also have completed a number of stages of the design work of the project itself. You will be aware that the old Co-operative building that was purchased by the borough council has now been demolished and the start of the new college build is expected in April/May this year in terms of start date. Within that there was design work and planning permissions sort for that. Planning permission and design work has been completed in terms of the flex units which are the shops behind his building here the parade leading from George Street to the entrance of the Middle Entry. There are also designs that have been agreed and handed over to the contractor in relation to the new square that will created by those shops at the back of the Town Hall and also the entrance way to the Castle Grounds. In terms of those milestones, I believe St Editha’s Square as also received a significant amount of design work that as been agreed on in terms of a future plan. So in terms of physical works you will also know that the canopy as been removed in St Editha’s Square and that square has been opened up prior to works that will happen later on in the project but that was part of the phase where we demolish the cooperative building. So in terms of where we are at with the project we are where we should be, we are where we should be in terms of costs. I can’t go into detail into how much has been awarded to each agency because of commercial confidentiality but what I can say is they are within the original spec that we set out when we started this project way back in 2019. In terms of ... view the full minutes text for item 143. |
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(Report of the Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee) Additional documents: Minutes: Report of the Chair of Health & Wellbeing to update Cabinet and to make recommendations to it following consideration of matters by the Health & Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee.
Following a petition received at Full Council meeting in July 2022, the Assistant Director, Assets attended the meeting to update the Committee on the current toilet provision within Tamworth.
Following its consideration of the above item, the Health & Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee agreed to make recommendations to Cabinet as set out below:
RESOLVED that the Committee make the following recommendations:
(Moved by Councillor D Maycock and seconded by Councillor R Claymore)
Councillor Oates asked for more detail on the recommendations and asked for context as to what is a sufficient level of cleaning in comparison to what is already delivered. Also, in terms of the community toilet scheme we have had many conversations with businesses over the years about toilets so it would be interesting to have more information on that scheme. Happy to take those recommendations and have a conversation later on.
Cabinet made the following recommendations.
Following an update from the Chair on possible members’ mental wellbeing support scheme, the Committee:
RESOLVED: to recommend to Cabinet that a member benefit scheme in terms of mental wellbeing support only be considered.
(Moved by Councillor D Maycock and seconded by Councillor J Wadrup)
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Income Management & Recovery Policy - Council Housing (Report of the Portfolio Holder for Homelessness Prevention and Social Housing) Additional documents:
Minutes: Report of the Portfolio Holder for Homelessness Prevention and Social Housing to set out the Council’s approach to its Council Housing income recovery policy in order to maximise income to its Housing Revenue Account, whilst also providing support to its tenants that need it.
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ECO4 Statement of Intent (Report of the Portfolio Holder for Homelessness Prevention and Social Housing) Additional documents: Minutes: Report of the Portfolio Holder for Homelessness Prevention and Social Housing to seek agreement to declare a statement of intent that enables the Council to participate in the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme known as ECO4 and ECO4 Flex.
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Tamworth Community Safety Partnership Plan 2023-2026 (Report of the Portfolio Holder for Voluntary Sector, Town centre, Evening Economy & Community Safety) Additional documents:
Minutes: Report of the Portfolio Holder for Voluntary Sector, Town Centre, Evening Economy and Community Safety to endorse the 2023-26 Tamworth Community Safety Partnership Plan and progress update on the 2020-23 work plans.
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Exclusion of the Press and Public To consider excluding the Press and Public from the meeting by passing the following resolution:-
“That in accordance with the provisions of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meeting and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012, and Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act and the public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information to the public”
At the time this agenda is published no representations have been received that this part of the meeting should be open to the public.
Minutes:
(Moved by Councillor J Oates and seconded by Councillor M Summers) |
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Update on commercial lease
(Report of the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Risk and Customer Services) Minutes: Resolved: that the recommendations in the report be approved and Cabinet to be updated on 8th June 2023
(Moved by Councillor J Oates and seconded by Councillor M Summers) |
