Agenda and minutes

Report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services seeking determination of Admission Arrangements for 2014/15, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9713)

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

(i)  To note the responses from the admissions consultation with Southampton Admissions Forum, schools, other relevant admission authorities, and the Church of England and Roman Catholic dioceses.

(ii)  To approve the admissions policies and the published admission numbers (PANs) for community and voluntary controlled schools including Bitterne Park, selection by aptitude and 6^th form arrangements; the schemes for co-ordinating primary and secondary admissions for the academic year 2014-15 as set out in Appendices 1- 6;

(iii)  To authorise the Executive Director for Children’s Services and Learning to take any action necessary to give effect to the admissions policy, and to make any changes necessary to the Admissions Policies where required to give effect to any Acts, Regulations or revised Admissions or Admissions Appeals Codes or binding Schools Adjudicator, Court or Ombudsman decisions whenever they arise.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services seeking approval for an increase to the Children’s Services and Learning Capital Programme, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9984)

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

(i)  To add, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, a sum of £711,000 to the Children’s Services and Learning Capital Programme in 2013/14, funded from non-ring-fenced Department for Education (DfE) grant, for the Early Years Expansion Programme.

(ii)  To approve, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, capital variations totalling £650,000 to the programme approved by Council on 13 February 2013, as follows:

·  £500,000 transfer from Special School Estate scheme to the Early Years Expansion Programme; and

·  £150,000 transfer from Wordsworth Infants expansion project to the Early Years Expansion Programme.

(iii)  To note that approval to spend in relation to the capital additions and variations of recommendation (ii) and (iii) which total £1,361,000, will be sought from Cabinet when sufficient detail can be provided to effectively inform decision making.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport, seeking agreement to procure a service provider of a Sustainable Distribution Centre for the City of Southampton and its surrounding districts, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9641)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member forEnvironment and Transport, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To delegate authority to the Head of Planning, Transport and Sustainability to take any action required to procure and implement a service provider for the SDC from the LSTF revenue budget.

(ii)  To delegate authority to the Head of Planning, Transport and Sustainability, following consultation with the Head of Finance and IT as well as the Head of Legal, HR and Democratic Services to proceed to financial and contractual close.

(iii)  To delegate authority to the Head of Legal, HR and Democratic Services to enter into all necessary legal contracts and documentation to action the above decisions.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport seeking approval to spend and provide details of the Environment and Transport Capital Programme in 2013/14, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9695)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member forEnvironment and Transport, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To approve capital variations, totalling £260,000 in 2013/14, to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme agreed at Council on 13th February 2013, as detailed in Appendix 4;

(ii)  To approve the addition of £293,000 to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme towards the legible bus networks project, to be funded from S106 developer contributions, as detailed in Appendix 4;

(iii)  To approve the addition of £510,000 to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme towards the unclassified roads scheme, to be funded from additional Local Transport Plan (LTP) Government Grant (£310,000) and Revenue funding (£200,000), as detailed in Appendix 4

(iv)  To approve, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, capital expenditure of £7,706,000 in 2013/14 as detailed in Appendix 2, from the total Environment and Transport Capital Programme of £14,498,000 (excluding the Platform for Prosperity scheme);

(v)  To note the detail of the projects within the Environment and Capital Programme for 2013/14 to be approved by this report, as set out in Appendix 3, including the completion of the major scheme to resurface Redbridge Roundabout.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Resources, seeking approval of the City Centre Action Plan and the City Centre Master Plan, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref CAB 12/13 9963)

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

(i)  To approve the City Centre Action Plan (Proposed Submission) as placed in the members’ room.

(ii)  To approve the City Centre Master Plan as placed in the members’ room, including as a material consideration in the determination of planning applications where it is consistent with the Action Plan.

(iii)  To delegate to the Head of Service for Planning, Transport and Sustainability (in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Resources) the power to make changes to the City Centre Action Plan and City Centre Master Plan;  provided these do not affect the main policy direction of the Plans.  Such changes to the Action Plan could be made prior to publication of the ‘proposed submission’ or ‘submission’ plan;  or proposed during the public examination.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Resources, seeking approval of the Core Strategy Partial Review, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9962)

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

(i)  To approve the Core Strategy Partial Review (Proposed Submission) as placed in the Members’ rooms.

(ii)  To delegate to the Head of Service for Planning, Transport and Sustainability (in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Resources) the power to make changes to the Core Strategy Partial Review; provided these do not affect its main policy direction.  Such changes could be made prior to publication of the ‘proposed submission’ or ‘submission’ plan; or proposed during the public examination. 

Report of the Senior Manager Children and Young People Strategic Commissioning, Education and Inclusion seeking approval for the adoption of the new Special Schools, Units and Pupil Referral Units funding formula, attached.

DECISION MADE (Ref: CAB 12/13 9985)

On consideration of the report of the Senior Manager Children and Young People Strategic Commissioning, Education and Inclusion the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services made the following decision to approve the implementation of the new Southampton funding formula for special schools, special units and the Pupil Referral Unit with effect from 1 April 2013.