Pre-Decision Scrutiny Questions and officer responses were noted.

The reasons for urgency set out in the report were agreed.

DECISION

1.    To approve the budget allocation of £37.133m for additions to the Approved Capital Programme (Table 3) set out in this report, subject to sign off through the capital governance process, agreement to proceed given by the Corporate Director of Place and Corporate Director of Resources and that schemes funded by future capital receipts, s106 and/or CIL will not go ahead until such funds have been securely received (an appendix will be tabled at CLB).

2.    To note the funding sources for the new additions to the Annual Rolling Programme, as set out in paragraph 4.7 of the report.

3.    To note the funding sources for the new additions to the Invest to Save programme, as set out in paragraph 4.8 of the report, subject to business cases being approved by the Corporate Director of Place and Corporate Director of Resources. 

4.    To note the funding sources for the additional schemes being added to the Approved Capital Programme 2020/21 to 2022/23.

5.    To approve delegated authority to the Corporate Director of Place and Corporate Director of Resources for all activities required to deliver the additional schemes e.g. go out to tender, appoint consultants and contractors, acquire land interests, appropriate land from the General Fund to the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) for the delivery of new council homes, subject to approved budget. 

6.    To note that this programme requires a reduction to Year 3 of the Streetlighting Replacement Programme by £0.060m to provide sufficient capital receipts for other priority schemes.

Action by:

CORPORATE DIRECTOR, PLACE (A. SUTCLIFFE)

CORPORATE DIRECTOR, RESOURCES (N. MURTON)

(Interim Head of Capital Delivery (J. Abraham)

The reasons for urgency as set out in the report were agreed, namely that:

“The report was not published five clear days in advance of the meeting. This is due to the additional time required to confirm the availability of funding sources to finance the additions to the programme and give time for finance and legal comments to be completed. This report seeks budget approvals for programmes, many of which are expected to be delivered in 2020/21, such as Liveable Streets projects, highway maintenance and the buy-back programme for the provision of temporary accommodation. If this report is not considered at this meeting, there will be insufficient time for these programmes to be delivered and this will have a negative impact on local residents.”

Councillor Rachel Blake, Deputy Mayor and Cabinet Member for Adults, Health and Wellbeing (with responsibility for Capital Delivery), introduced the report setting out further projects for approval as part of the 2020-2023 Capital Programme. She explained that these projects had been agreed in principle before but now that funding sources were confirmed they were presented for final sign-off. She recommended this ambitious programme be approved by the Cabinet.

The Mayor welcomed the report. He noted the discussion around a number of school and college sites, including the Westferry school site. The Pre-Decision Scrutiny Questions and officer responses were noted. The Mayor proposed the recommendations as set out. These were agreed without dissent and it was:

RESOLVED

1.    To approve the budget allocation of £37.133m for additions to the Approved Capital Programme (Table 3) set out in this report, subject to sign off through the capital governance process, agreement to proceed given by the Corporate Director of Place and Corporate Director of Resources and that schemes funded by future capital receipts, s106 and/or CIL will not go ahead until such funds have been securely received (an appendix will be tabled at CLB).

2.    To note the funding sources for the new additions to the Annual Rolling Programme, as set out in paragraph 4.7 of the report.

3.    To note the funding sources for the new additions to the Invest to Save programme, as set out in paragraph 4.8 of the report, subject to business cases being approved by the Corporate Director of Place and Corporate Director of Resources. 

4.    To note the funding sources for the additional schemes being added to the Approved Capital Programme 2020/21 to 2022/23.

5.    To approve delegated authority to the Corporate Director of Place and Corporate Director of Resources for all activities required to deliver the additional schemes e.g. go out to tender, appoint consultants and contractors, acquire land interests, appropriate land from the General Fund to the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) for the delivery of new council homes, subject to approved budget. 

6.    To note that this programme requires a reduction to Year 3 of the Streetlighting Replacement Programme by £0.060m to provide sufficient capital receipts for other priority schemes.