Agenda and minutes

Record of the decision making held on 11^th and 18^th September 2012 attached.

The record of the Executive decision making held on 18^th September 2012 were received and noted as a correct record.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services seeking approval to proceed with a formal change of use application to the Department for Education, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9091)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To delegate authority to the Director of Children’s Services and Learning to apply to the Department for Education for consent to dispose of the Oaklands site as no longer required for Educational purposes. Such an application would apply to all areas within the red line boundary, as marked on Appendix 1.

(ii)  To delegate authority to the Director of Children’s Services and Learning to notify the Department for Education of the disposal of the hard play and outdoor social areas at the Oaklands site, under a General Consent granted to the Council in accordance with Section 77 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. Such an application would apply to the following areas marked on Appendix 2:

·  Play Ground 1 – 2,281m²

·  Play Ground 2 – 2,870m²

·  Social Area – 2,647m²

(iii)  Subject to obtaining consent from the Department for Education, to approve the transfer of 33,680m² of land at the Oaklands site from the Children’s Services portfolio to the Resources portfolio, the land to be transferred is shown in Appendix 3.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services seeking approval to implement the proposal to expand the school, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 8851)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To note the outcome of statutory consultation as set out in this report.

(ii)  To authorise the expansion of Springwell School from the 5 November 2012 by the addition of eight places (one class group) in year R and continuing incrementally in subsequent years (if there is sufficient demand for additional places in future years).

(iii)  To delegate authority to the Director of Children’s Services and Learning, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, to do anything necessary to give effect to the recommendations in this report.

(iv)  To approve, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, capital expenditure of £399,000 from the Children’s Services Capital Programme, for the expansion of Springwell School.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Communities, seeking approval to accept the transfer of funding from central Government to Southampton City Council for local support to replace discretionary payments from the Social Fund, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 8770)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Communitites, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To note the letter from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) about the abolition of the Social Fund attached at Appendix 1 and that the Council’s financial settlement will include an un-ringfenced element for local welfare provision which is not guaranteed after 2014/15.

(ii)  To consider the work of the Scrutiny Inquiry on Welfare Reforms and multiagency local assessment on the impact of the Welfare Reforms on local residents and services in developing a way forward.

(iii)  To delegate authority to the Director for Environment and Economy, following consultation with Cabinet Member for Communities and Cabinet Member for Resources, to develop and implement a sustainable and holistic way forward that enables vulnerable residents to become more self reliant in the future.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Communities seeking approval of the Southampton Youth Offending Service (YOS) Annual Youth Justice Plan 2012/13, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 8771)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities, Cabinet agreed to endorse the Southampton Youth Offending Service Annual Youth Justice Plan 2012/13 and to recommend its approval to Council on 14^th November, 2012, as set out in Appendix 1. 

Report of the Cabinet Member for Housing and Leisure Services providing an update on the Phase 2 Estate Regeneration schemes attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9090)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member forHousing and Leisure Services, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To note the update on Phase 2 Estate Regeneration Programme sites.

(ii)  To approve, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, capital expenditure of £347,000, phased £284,000 in 2012/13 and £63,000 in 2013/14, for highway and sewer diversion works associated with the Cumbrian Way Shopping Parade redevelopment, provision for which exists within the Housing and Leisure Services Portfolio General Fund Capital Programme. 

Report of the Leader of the Council seeking approval to sign up to the Covenant of Mayors, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9171)

On consideration of the report of the Leader of the Council, Cabinet agreed to approve the signing of the Covenant of Mayors adhesion form, as set out in Appendix 2, for submission to the European Commission, as a commitment to meeting and exceeding the EU 20% CO₂ reduction target.

Report of the Leader of the Council recommending approval for the advertisement of the loss of open space and entering into new leasehold arrangements associated with an expanded Mayflower Park resulting in a net gain in open space, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9161)

On consideration of the report of the Leader of the Council and having received representations from the Secretary Southampton Commons and Parks Protection Society, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  That the Head of Legal, HR and Democratic Services be authorised to:-

a)  Negotiate and enter into any necessary legal agreements or other legal documentation following consultation with the Senior Manager City Development to acquire land associated with an extended Mayflower Park.

b)  advertise proposals for the appropriation and/or disposal of Public Open Space land respectively under S.122 and S.123 of the Local Government Act 1972; and

(ii)  That the Director of Environment and Economy, after consultation with the appropriate Cabinet Member, be authorised to agree the exact area of land to be disposed of in (b) above.

Report of the Leader of the Council recommending approval of a land ownership strategy in respect of an area of Royal Pier Waterfront development, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9162)

On consideration of the report of the Leader of the Council, Cabinet approved the recommendation set out in the confidential report.

Report of the Head of Safeguarding Children seeking approval from the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services to the commitments in the Disabled Children’s Charter from the campaign group “Every Disabled Child Matters” attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9166)

On consideration of the report of the Senior Manager, Safeguarding Children; the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services agreed to enter into the Every Disabled Child Matters Disabled Children’s Charter as set out at Appendix 1 on behalf of the Council.

Report of the Senior Manager – Planning Sustainability and Transport seeking to consider and determine the representations received in relation to the proposed appropriation and subsequent development of Vokes Memorial Gardens and part of Queens Park attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 8773)

On consideration of the report of the Senior Manager – Planning Sustainability and Transport, the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport agreed, with modification, the following:

Modified recommendation (ii) decision:

(i)  To note that there were not any objections received in relation to the proposed appropriation of land at Vokes Memorial Gardens and Part of Queens Park Platform Road, as identified in (Appendix 1 – Plan 11ALMO19032).  The appropriation has therefore been completed in respect of this area of land.

(ii)  To delegate authority to the Director of Environment and Economy following consultation with the Platform Road Client Manager to determine the form and extent of an additional area of Vokes Memorial Gardens required within the final design for a Dock Gate 4 entrance and a wider Dock Gate 5 exit. 

(iii)  To delegate authority to the Director of Environment and Economy to instruct the Head of Legal, HR and Democratic Services to advertise the appropriation of the additional land determined in accordance with recommendation (ii) above at Vokes Memorial Gardens for two consecutive weeks in a local newspaper circulating in the locality.

(iv)  To delegate authority to the Director of Environment and Economy following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport to determine any objections received from the second series of adverts and to make a final decision as to whether or not to approve the appropriation in light of any such objections.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Resources seeking approval for the acquisition of the Pan Handle Car Park Eastern Dock Southampton, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 8877)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member forResources, Cabinet agreed the following:

Having complied with Rule 15 of the Council’s Access to Information Procedure Rules:

(i)  To approve the purchase of the freehold interest of the land identified in Appendix 1 – Plan 11ALM19039 and to delegate authority to the Senior Manager Property, Procurement and Contract Management, to agree the final terms and conditions of purchase.

(ii)  To delegate authority to the Senior Manager Property, Procurement and Contract Management in consultation with the Director of Environment to do anything necessary to give effect to the recommendations in this report.

(iii)  To note the level of expenditure of the purchase, which has been previously approved by Cabinet as part of the Platform to Prosperity Capital expenditure programme.