Decisions

Risk Management – Corporate Risk Register

(1)        That the Risk Owners for Risk 4, Finance Income, Risk 6, Data/Information, Risk 8, Partnerships, and Risk 11, Transformation Programme, be updated;

(2)        That the Key Date and Required Further Management Action for Risk 3, Welfare Reform, be updated;

(3)        That the Required Further Management Action for Risk 11, Transformation Programme, be updated;

(4)        That Risk 1, Local Plan, be reviewed by the Acting Chief Executive and Planning Portfolio Holder; and

(5)        That, including the amendments above, the revised Corporate Risk Register be approved.

(1)        That, as part of the Council’s Corporate Plan for the period 2015/16 to 2019/20, the progress made with the achievement of the Council’s Key Action Plan for 2017/18 at the end of Quarter 4 be noted.

(1)        That the Petition received in support of retaining a Sports Centre within Epping Town be noted;

(2)        That the Petitioners be advised:

            (a)        the Council had yet to take any formal decision on the future of Epping             Sports Centre; and

            (b)        at this point, the Council was exploring options to meet the leisure   needs of existing and future residents of the local area; and

(3)        That the Council’s preferred approach would be to ensure that the existing Sports Centre in Epping remained open until any new alternative facilities were provided.

(1)        That the minutes of the meeting of the Asset Management & Economic Development Cabinet Committee, held on 19 April 2018, be noted.

(1)        That, in accordance with Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the items of business set out below as they would involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 12(A) of the Act indicated, and the exemption was considered to outweigh the potential public interest in disclosing the information:

To establish the Council’s new Common Operating Model as part of the People Strategy.

To consider further details for the implementation of the Council’s People Strategy.

1)         To waive the provisions of Sections 10 and 12 of the Council’s Procurement Rules for the purchase of furniture for the Council’s Community Safety Hub, due to the price being in excess of the £25,000 threshold normally requiring at least three competitive tenders to be obtained; and

2)         To accept the price provided by Rainbow Furniture Ltd in the sum of £26,662, in order to continue procurement arrangements for the development of the District’s new Community Safety Hub based at the Civic Offices, which will provide an operating base for the three Council-funded Police Officers.

1.           To confirm the District Council’s response to the Chigwell Neighbourhood Plan submission version and associated supporting documents.

To confirm the District Council’s response to Lee Valley Regional Park Authority’s Park Development Framework Draft Strategic Policies and Draft Amended Proposals for Areas 6, 7 and 8 Consultation.

a)     to support the overall approach of the proposals in the context of the statutory functions of the Park Authority i.e. in relation to (i) sport and recreation, (ii) leisure, (iii) education, and (iv) landscape, heritage and nature conservation.

b)     To express concern regarding the possible extent of new building in the Green Belt but to recognise the Local Planning Authority’s role in managing such development and responding to applications within the national policy context.

c)     To express concern regarding the proposed approach to glasshouse development in the Park but to recognise the Local Authority’s role in managing such development and responding to applications within the national and local policy context together with the Councils’ aim to support the vitality and expansion of protected horticulture in the District.

d)     To express concern regarding the desire to ultimately remove valuable industrial and commercial uses from the Park, and the Councils’ aim to protect employment uses in the District.