Decisions

With the approval of the Chair of the Children and Education Scrutiny Committee, the urgency and special urgency procedures have been invoked to suspend the requirement to publish the decision on the forward plan for 28 days and the requirement to publish for a 5-day consideration period. These procedures have been invoked due to the need to get the grant out to parents for the start of the summer holidays.

The Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, Education, Skills and the University and the Cabinet Member for Housing, Culture and Communities:

1.    Agreed the contract exemption is approved for the sum of up to £699k to provide supermarket vouchers in time for the first voucher to be distributed on the 23^rd July.   

2.    Agreed to the proposed approach to the distribution and criteria to award the vouchers as outlined in this report.  

3.    Agreed to enter into a contract with Wonde (Furlong House, 2 Kings Court, Newmarket, CB8 7SG) for the period 17^TH July to 1^st September for a value of up to £699k. 

4.    Agreed the allocation of the remaining funding to support families in Peterborough via our City Hub arrangements.   and

5.    Delegated authority to the Executive Director: People and Communities to effect the matters referred to above. 

The purpose of this report is to seek Cabinet approval to recommend that Council ‘makes’ (adopts) both the Glinton Neighbourhood Plan and the Barnack Neighbourhood Plan and thereby make both plans part of the Development Plan for Peterborough.

Cabinet considered the report and RESOLVED to:

1.    Note the outcome of the Referendum on the Glinton Neighbourhood Plan, which took place on 6 May 2021: the outcome being 466 votes in favour of the Glinton Neighbourhood Plan, versus 62 votes against the Neighbourhood Plan.

2.    Recommend to Full Council that the Glinton Neighbourhood Plan, as set out at Appendix A, be ‘made’ (which means to all intents and purposes ‘adopted’) and thereby form part of the Development Plan for Peterborough for the purpose of making decisions on relevant planning applications within the Glinton Neighbourhood Area (the Glinton Neighbourhood Area is the same area as Glinton Parish).

3.    Notes the outcome of the Referendum on the Barnack Neighbourhood Plan, which took place on 1 July 2021: the outcome being 175 votes in favour of the Barnack Neighbourhood Plan, versus 20 votes against the Neighbourhood Plan.

4.    Recommend to Full Council that the Barnack Neighbourhood Plan, as set out at Appendix B, be ‘made’ (which means to all intents and purposes ‘adopted’) and thereby form part of the Development Plan for Peterborough for the purpose of making decisions on relevant planning applications within the Barnack Neighbourhood Area (the Barnack Neighbourhood Area is the same area as Barnack Parish minus the part of Burghley Park that falls within the parish).

The purpose of this report is to: 1) recommend that the climate change working group’s terms of reference is updated.

Cabinet considered the report and RESOLVED to approve the updated terms of reference for the climate change working group (Appendix 1), subject to the amendment of paragraph 8 to read:

"Five Member representative, or another number as determined by the Leader of the Council, are invited to sit on the Working Group. The political balance of the working group will be reflective of the political proportionality of the Council. Substitutes are permitted. The Chair of the Working Group will be agreed at the first meeting of the group. Appropriate officers will attend meetings of the Working Group."

This report provides Cabinet with the forecast outturn for 2021/22 as at May 2021 budgetary control position.

Cabinet considered the report and RESOVLED to note:

1.    The budgetary control position for 2021/22 at 31 May 2021 is a forecast overspend of £3.701m against budget.

2.    The additional funding, costs, and activity associated with the Covid-19 (C-19) pandemic, as outlined in section 4.

3.    The key variance analysis and explanations are contained in Appendix A.

The purpose of this report is to present to Cabinet the recommendations of the Cycling and Walking Member Working Group for their consideration.

Cabinet considered the report and RESOLVED to:

1.    Select the Thorpe Wood on-road cycleway project for implementation, to widen the road and to create a bi-directional cycle lane from the footbridge to the business park.

2.    Continue with the School Streets programme where it was safe and appropriate to implement. 

3.    Establish a new permanent Cycling and Walking Member Working Group and approve the draft terms of reference (Appendix 1), subject to the amendment of paragraph 7 to read:

"Five Member representative, or another number as determined by the Leader of the Council, are invited to sit on the Working Group. The political balance of the working group will be reflective of the political proportionality of the Council. Substitutes are permitted. The Chair of the Working Group will be agreed at the first meeting of the group. Appropriate officers will attend meetings of the Working Group."

The purpose of this report is to set out the recommendations made by the independent Inspector and, subsequently, seek Cabinet’s approval to recommend the Minerals and Waste Local Plan to Council for adoption.

Cabinet considered the report and RESOLVED to:

1.    Note the conclusions of the independent Inspector who was appointed to examine the submitted Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan (see Appendix A);

2.    Subject to recommendation 6, recommend to Council the adoption of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan as set out in Appendix B, which incorporates modifications as recommended by the Inspector (Inspector ‘Main Modifications’ as found at the end of Appendix A) and other minor editorial modifications (‘Additional Modifications’ – see Appendix C);

3.    Note that should Council adopt the Minerals and Waste Local Plan, the following council documents are revoked and must no longer be used for decision making:

·         Minerals and Waste Core Strategy (2011)

·         Minerals and Waste Site Specific Proposals (2012)

4.    Subject to recommendation 2, recommend that Council endorses that the Peterborough ‘Policies Map’ be updated in accordance with Appendix D;

5.    Subject to recommendation 2, agree to revoke the following two Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) for decision making in Peterborough, but with such revocation only taking effect from the same date that the new Minerals and Waste Local Plan is adopted:

·         Location and Design of Waste Management Facilities Supplementary Planning Document (2011)

·         RECAP Waste Management Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (2012)

6.    Recommend to Council that recommendation 2 only comes into effect if Cambridgeshire County Council has already agreed to adopt the Local Plan (which it is scheduled to do so on 20 July 2021); or, if that agreement is not yet achieved by Cambridgeshire County Council, recommendation 2 comes into effect from the date that Cambridgeshire County Council does agree to adopt the Plan. If Cambridgeshire County Council agree not to adopt the Plan, then recommendations 2-5 become null and void.

7.    Delegate to the Head of Sustainable Growth Strategy, in consultation with colleagues at Cambridgeshire County Council, to make any minor presentational or typographical errors to the documents referred in this item, prior to their publication.

The Cabinet Member:

1.    Authorised the issue of the following work packages to Milestone Infrastructure Services under the Council’s existing Peterborough Highway Services Contract.

• Safety fencing works in 2021/2022, works package value not to exceed the available budget of £2.057m including £0.657m slipped from 2020/21

• Safety Fencing works in 2022/2023, works package value not to exceed the available budget of £1.4m

• Safety Fencing works in 2023/2024, works package value not to exceed the available budget of £1.4m 

2.    Authorised the Executive Director, Place and Economy, to vary the value of the works order when required, subject to;

(i)         available budget being in place.

(ii)        the reason for the variation is for genuinely unforeseen reasons leading to fundamental changes in the project plan and target cost, and that such details along with a breakdown of where costs have been varied shall be made available in full on request.

(iii)       the total sum of each variation not exceeding £50,000; and (iii) the combined value of the works order and any authorised variation(s) do not exceed the annual budgets advised above. Order variations in excess of £50,000 are to be made in consultation with the council’s Internal Audit and Finance Teams.

3.    Authorised the Executive Director, Place and Economy, to vary the scope of the order when required to cover other related highway works subject to the limits imposed by items 2 and 3 above and with the approval of the Executive Director of Resources.'