Agenda and minutes
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Declarations of Interest Cabinet Members will be asked to make any declarations of interest in respect of items on this agenda. Additional documents: Minutes: There were no declarations of interest made by Members in accordance with the code of conduct. |
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To sign and confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 18 August 2020. Additional documents: Minutes: Members agreed the minutes of 18 August 2020 as an accurate record of the meeting. |
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Questions from the Public To receive questions from the public in accordance with the Constitution.
Questions, of no longer than 50 words, can be submitted to the Democratic Support Unit, Plymouth City Council, Ballard House, Plymouth, PL1 3BJ, or email to democraticsupport@plymouth.gov.uk. Any questions must be received at least five clear working days before the date of the meeting.
Additional documents: Minutes: There were no questions received from members of the public. |
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Chair's Urgent Business To receive reports on business which, in the opinion of the Chair, should be brought forward for urgent consideration.
Additional documents: Minutes: Under this item Councillor Chris Penberthy (Cabinet Member for Housing and Co-operative Development) was invited by the Leader to provide an update on a recently published consultation document by Government titled ‘Changes to the Current Planning System’. Responses were required to be submitted by the end of the month with the aim for Cabinet to endorse the actions proposed. It was advised that the consultation document contained four proposals which had a significant impact on the Council’s ability to deliver affordable homes and a mix of homes in the right locations.
Cabinet were encouraged the resist the proposals contained with the consultation document.
Cabinet agreed that Councillor Penberthy respond to the consultation document ‘Changes to the Current Planning System’ as indicated in his address to Cabinet.
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Update from the Director of Public Health on COVID-19 Additional documents: Minutes: Ruth Harrell (Director of Public Health) gave an update on Covid 19 –
Cabinet noted the update.
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Update from the Chief Executive on Reset Additional documents: Minutes: Tracey Lee (Chief Executive) gave an update on the Reset programme and invited Alison Botham (Director of Children’s Services) and Craig McArdle (Strategic Director for People) to give a brief overview of key developments within their directorate:
Alison Botham (Director for Children’s Services) highlighted the following key points:
Craig McArdle (Strategic Director for People) highlighted the following key points:
Cabinet noted the update.
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Leader's Announcements Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor Evans OBE (Leader) highlighted the following in his announcements:
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Cabinet Member Updates Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor Pete Smith (Deputy Leader) made announcements including:
Councillor Kate Taylor (Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care) made announcements including:
Councillor Chris Penberthy (Cabinet Member for Housing and C-operative Development) made announcements including:
Councillor Sue Dann (Cabinet Member for Environment and Streetscene) made announcements including:
Councillor Jon Taylor (Cabinet Member for Education, Skills and Transformation) made announcements including:
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Completed Pledge Report Additional documents:
Minutes: Councillor Mark Lowry (Cabinet Member for Finance) presented the Completed Pledge Report –
Following the completion of pledges 14, 68 and 70 in August, the total number of pledges completed was 78 of the 100. A “pledge on a page” overview had been prepared for each of the following pledges listed below:
Pledge 14: Working with Network Rail, Plymouth University, Great Western Railway and Government partners, we will support the development of the new gateway project at Plymouth Train Station. This will include plans for a grand new entrance overlooking the city, a new car park and more spaces for business and retail.
Pledge 68: We will work with Mayflower 400 to ensure that Plymouth is not only at the heart of national and international commemorations, but that the benefits from this year of events last long into the future, creating a legacy for the whole city, not just those communities along the waterfront.
Pledge 70: We will use phone apps and digital technology to enrich the tourism experience. This will also mean that local residents can hold the keys to our city’s past in their hands.
Cabinet noted the completion of pledges 14, 68 and 70 in August 2020, bringing the total number of completed pledges to 78.
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Planning For The Future: The Governments White Paper Additional documents:
Minutes: Councillor Mark Coker (Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and Infrastructure), Councillor Evans OBE (Leader of the Council) and Paul Barnard (Service Director for Strategic Planning and Infrastructure) introduced the Planning for the Future: The Governments White Paper report –
The report summarised the Government’s proposals set out in the “Planning for the Future” White Paper published on 06 August 2020 which, if carried forward into the necessary primary and secondary legislation, alongside the required changes to accompanying national planning guidance, represented the most radical changes to the planning system since its creation in the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act. The report summarised the implications of the 24 proposals set out in the White Paper for the future planning of Plymouth.
The report concludes that the proposed changes are, from a local authority perspective, profoundly undemocratic; seek to centralise more planning decisions, thereby severely limiting the ability of local people to effectively influence the planning of their city and neighbourhoods, and inappropriately continued to deregulate aspects of planning control which deliver important planning outcomes for the city.
The report found that the Planning White Paper misses a once-in-a-generation opportunity to place the climate emergency at the heart of the English planning system and was likely to lead to increased inequalities across the country through an unfair distribution of resources that favours London, the South East and other higher value areas. Furthermore, although the White Paper included some interesting ideas, there was a dearth of information on key proposals and so it is unclear whether or not they were even achievable and at what cost.
The report provided the framework for the City Council’s detailed response to the consultation on the Planning White Paper, the deadline for which is 29 October 2020.
Cabinet agreed to –
1. Instruct the Service Director for Strategic Planning & Infrastructure to incorporate the concerns and objections to the Government’s “Planning for the Future” White Paper as set out in the report, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and Infrastructure.
2. Instruct the Leader to raise the concerns and objections to the “Planning for the Future” White Paper set out in the report with local Members of Parliament.
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Financial Monitoring Report Month 4 Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor Mark Lowry (Cabinet Member for Finance) presented Financial Monitoring Report Month 4 –
Outlined the capital and revenue finance monitoring position of the Council as at the end of July 2020;
Updates the report presented to Cabinet on 18 August 2020 which set out a revenue position statement for 2020/21 and the impact upon 2021/22 financial planning arising from the COVID-19 pandemic;
Set out the capital budget 2020-25, taking into account changes to the capital programme and adjustments to income assumptions as a result of the pandemic.
Cabinet agreed to –
1. Notes the current capital and revenue monitoring position.
2. Endorse the mitigating actions set out at paragraphs 1.7-1.10 below to offset the impact of the projected overspend.
3. Approve the creation of a Covid Reserve to fund the additional costs and lost income arising from the Pandemic as set out in paragraph 1.10.
4. Continue to work with Strategic and Service Directors to explore further options to reduce the projected overspend and minimise any further call on the Council’s reserves to balance the 2020/21 budget.
5. Recommend that the Council approves the Capital Budget 2020-2025 as revised to £593.638m (as shown in Table 5). |
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Joint Trading Standards Services Additional documents:
Minutes: Councillor Sally Haydon (Cabinet Member for Customer focus and Community Safety) and Ruth Harrell (Director of Public Health) presented the Joint Trading Standards Services report –
The report outlined the proposal to create a joint Trading Standards Service for the Heart of the South West area by Plymouth joining with the existing Devon, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service. It provided background information on the role of Trading Standards and outlined the advantages of creating the joint service. It introduced a joint Full Business Case which provided detailed information to assist members in deciding whether or not to proceed.
Cabinet agreed to –
1. Give approval for Plymouth to enter into a joint Trading Standards Service with Devon, Somerset and Torbay subject to;
(i) the satisfactory conclusion of negotiations in relation to the legal agreement on the principles contained in the business case/cabinet report.
(ii) a report authorising the detailed governance arrangements and any necessary proposed amendments to the constitution.
2. Authorise the Director for Public Health to conclude the terms of the legal agreement. |
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Additional documents: Minutes: Councillor Jemima Laing (Cabinet Member for Children and Young People) and Alison Botham (Director for Children’s Services) presented the New Multi-Agency Safeguarding Arrangements Working Together to Safeguard Children: Plymouth Strategic Safeguarding Children's Partnership report –
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 was the statutory guidance that transferred strategic local safeguarding arrangements from Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) to three new statutory safeguarding partners, namely the Local Authority, Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Chief Officer of Police to a local area.
In June 2019 Cabinet approved and adopted a proposal for new strategic multi-agency safeguarding arrangements across Plymouth and Torbay. These proposals came into effect on 29 September 2019. Since that date Torbay Local Authority had evaluated the sustainability of the arrangement and concluded that in order to achieve the required improvements in safeguarding arrangements for Children and Young People in Torbay they need to establish single Torbay strategic safeguarding arrangements.
This report proposed a revised approach to comply with the Working Together guidance with new multi-agency strategic safeguarding arrangements for Plymouth delivered via the statutory safeguarding partners, Plymouth City Council, NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group and Devon & Cornwall Police.
Cabinet agreed to approve and adopt the revised proposal for the new multi-agency strategic safeguarding arrangements set out at section 3 of this report. |