Issue details

Cabinet received a report which followed the completion of a task and finish group instigated by the Sustainable Growth and Environmental Capital Scrutiny Committee.  The Task and Finish Group objective was to review the future management of the Council’s Farms Estate with a view to help informing and developing a long term strategy for the development of the estate.

The Group was established by the Committee at its meeting on 20 January 2014. At its meeting on the 17 March 2015, the Committee endorsed the Strategy for the Management of the Farms Estate and recommended the Strategy to Cabinet for approval.

Cabinet considered the report, along with a supplementary report containing additional recommendations (as highlighted in italics) and RESOLVED:

1.    To adopt the proposed strategy for the management of Peterborough City Council farm estate;

2.    To agree that the strategy be delivered within existing approved resource allocations and if necessary a report be brought forward to a future meeting if extra resources are required or submitted as part of the medium term financial planning process;

3.    Cabinet delegates to the Cabinet Member for Resources:

                      i.        That a working group be set up comprising of the Cabinet Member for Resources, three opposition councillors and three members of the Peterborough City Farm Tenants Association to bring forward an action plan arising out of  the Strategy for  the Management of the Farms Estate, such action plan to be presented to Cabinet within six months for approval and implementation; and

                    ii.        Approve the lettings procedure including associated guidelines on criteria.