Cabinet Members will be asked to make any declarations of interest in respect of items on this agenda.

There were no declarations of interest in accordance with the code of conduct from councillors in relation to the item under consideration at this meeting.

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, Corporate Support Department, Plymouth City Council, Civic Centre, Plymouth, PL1 2AA, or email to democraticsupport@plymouth.gov.uk. Any questions must be received at least five clear working days before the date of the meeting.

There were no questions submitted by the public, for this meeting, in accordance with the Constitution.  The questions received were out of time and would be responded to by the officers, in writing.

CMT Lead Officer: Director for Development and Regeneration

In accordance with the Constitution (Cabinet Procedure Rules Para. 2.2 refers), non Cabinet members may only address the Cabinet with the permission of the Leader or the person presiding.

The Director for Development and Regeneration submitted a report on the background to and on the Final Business Case (redacted version) for the procurement of waste treatment services.  A similar report had also been considered by Devon County Council which had agreed to delegate approval of the Final Business Case to Plymouth City Council’s Cabinet. A similar report and recommendation was being made to Torbay Council which would be considering the report later in the day.   

The Chair advised Cabinet Members that thereport represented a key milestone in a project involving three Councils who had joined forces to make sure that a collective solution was found to deal with the residual waste.

The partnership had asked the sector to put forward solutions and the proposal submitted was an excellent solution for waste from both a monetary and a technical perspective.

She commended the presentation to the public and hoped that over the coming months, more people would have an opportunity to see the proposals and how the solution would benefit local council tax payers, Plymouth and the dockyard.

The first stage of the process was approval of the Final Business Case.  The next stage would be the submission of an application for planning permission and alongside this, MVV Umwelt would be submitting an application to the Environment Agency for an environmental permit.

MVVUmwelt had already been selected as the preferred bidder through the procurement process.  The Cabinet was considering today whether the case being put forward was affordable and if it was, the partnership could proceed with the Final Business Case to secure Defra PFI credit support as well as move the project forward.

Mark Turner (Partnership Programme Director) gave a presentation –

Mark Turner also indicated that the presentation slides would be placed on the partnership’s website.  He also drew Members’ attention to the report of the meeting of the Joint Scrutiny Panel which had met on 31 January (which had been published) and to the proposed response, which had been circulated at the meeting. 

The Chair reported that in accordance with Procedure Rule 2.2 of the Constitution, Non Cabinet Members had sought permission to address Cabinet. 

The Chair proposed, Councillor Monahan seconded,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 102.