Agenda and minutes

The Leader announced the resignation of Councillor Bogle as Cabinet Member for Children’s Services.  Her Portfolio will be divided between Councillor Chaloner who will be responsible for Safeguarding, and Councillor Jeffery who will be responsible for Education.

To deal with any executive appointments, as required.

Cabinet approved the following appointments:

Councillor Payne to the Green Deal and ECO Partnership Board

Councillor Jeffery to replace Councillor Bogle on the Southampton Children and Young People’s Trust Partnership Board

Councillor Chaloner to replace Councillor Jeffery on Corporate Parenting

Councillor Jeffery to replace Councillor Bogle on the Health and Well Being Board

The resignation of Councillor Baillie from Eastpoint Centre Ltd. 

Report of the Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Leisure Services seeking an approval for an update on the current policy, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 13/14 11724)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Leisure Services and representation from a Member of the Council, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To approve the Arts and Heritage Collection Development Policy 2014-17, as set out in the appendix to the report, as the acquisition and disposals policy for the collections held by Southampton City Council.

(ii)  To approve delegated authority be given to the Arts and Heritage Manager to revise the policy if required, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Leisure. 

Report of Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport seeking approval for the Waste Management Policy, attached

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 13/14 11535)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport, Cabinet agreed the following modified recommendations:

(i)  To approve the Waste Management Policy as attached at Appendix 1.

(ii)  To delegate authority to the Head of City Services following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport to take any necessary steps to implement the policy and to take into account the recommendations from Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee.  

Report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, seeking approval for approval Southampton City Council and the Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group to work together to re-commission the adult domiciliary care framework across the City, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 13/14 11722)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To approve the pre­-tender considerations and the criteria to be used to evaluate tenders.

(ii)  To delegate authority to the Director, People to invite tenders and evaluate them in accordance with the recommended evaluation criteria.

(iii)  To note that the award of the contract will be considered by Council or Cabinet as appropriate as detailed in the procurement timetable listed in Section 13 of this report.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care seeking approval for Southampton City Council and the Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group to put in place a business case for Housing Provision for People with Learning Disabilities and Complex Needs, which is driven by the need to have local, person centred services delivered in the right place and at the right time. 

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 13/14 11729 )

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To enter into an arrangement under S256 National Health Service Act 2006 to manage the transfer of financial resources from Southampton City CCG to Southampton City Council upon such terms as the Director of People considers reasonable in line with the joint commissioning arrangements for learning disabilities.

(ii)  To allocate £1,500,000 that will transfer from SCCCG on housing developments for this group focused on those with continuing healthcare needs.

(iii)  Delegate authority to the Director of People to carry out all such ancillary matters to give effect to this resolution.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainability, seeking approval for the Housing Revenue Account Capital Programme Projects, attached. 

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 13/14 11621)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainability, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To approve a virement of £200,000 in 2014/15 from the unapproved provision for ‘DN: Future Decent Neighbourhood Schemes’, within the HRA Capital Programme, to provide a new budget for the ‘DN: Estate Improvement Programme’.

(ii)  To approve a virement of £475,000 in 2014/15 from the unapproved provision for ‘Communal Area works – Future Projects’, within the HRA Capital Programme, to increase the budget for the ‘Weston Court - Communal Area Works’ scheme from £1.5M to £1.975M.

(iii)  To approve a series of virements, totalling £1,425,000, from the unapproved provision for Communal Area Works – Future Projects, within the HRA Capital Programme, to provide new budgets for specific schemes, as detailed in Table 1 below.

(iv)  To approve, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, spend on schemes in the HRA Capital Programme as detailed in the table below.

Report of the Leader of the Council outlining a review of the planning policies in order to minimize the harmful impact of these developments, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 13/14 11671)

On consideration of the report of the Leader of the Council and representations from a Member of the Council, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  That the Council assesses all new planning applications for hot food takeaways within 500m of schools and, if there is considered to be a overriding health implication, then opening hours are restricted during lunch times.

(ii)  That a cross departmental group is set up to explore whether there are opportunities to influence the spread of betting shops, pay-day-loan premises, and the opening of fast food outlets near schools over the longer term and reports back to Cabinet within six months.  It is considered that cheap off-licence sales should not be considered further as this is not a planning issue.

(iii)  The report back to Cabinet should also consider whether an article 4 should be served to require planning permission for the conversion of pubs to any other use classes.

Report of the Leader of the Council, seeking approval for the designation of the Bassett Neighbourhood Area and a Bassett Neighbourhood Forum, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 13/14 11726)

On consideration of the report of the Leader of the Council, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To approve the application made for Bassett ward to be designated as a Neighbourhood Area under Section 61G and 61H of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

(ii)  Subject to approval of recommendation (i) above, to approve the application made for the proposed Bassett Neighbourhood Forum to be designated as a neighbourhood forum under Regulation 10 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012.

(iii)  To delegate to the Head of Planning, Transport and Sustainability the power to publicise the decisions on the Council’s website in accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012.