Decision details

That the Executive:

2.1       Recommends to the Council

a)         General Fund capital funding of £16.798m for 2015/16 in respect of those schemes listed in Annexes A – E.

b)         The inclusion of an additional budget of £1m for Invest to Save schemes.

c)         The inclusion of £2.219m of expenditure to be funded from S106 as outlined in paragraph 5.25.

d)         That those schemes that attract external grant funding are included within the Capital Programme at the level of funding received.

e)         To bring forward funding of £20k for Superfast Broadband from 2015/16 into 2014/15.

f)          To approve as a supplementary capital approval funding in 2014/15 of £0.447m for Binfield Learning Village at Blue Mountain, as outlined in the Funding Model agreed by the Executive in October 2014.

2.2       Agrees that capital schemes that require external funding can only proceed once the Council is certain of receiving the grant.

2.3       Reviews the indicative programme for 2016/17 and 2017/18 in the light of resources available and spending priorities in December 2015.

The reasons for the recommendations are set out in the Executive report.

The alternative options are set out in the Executive report.

None.

The Council’s web site, a dedicated mailbox and a letter to all business ratepayers.

Targeted consultation exercises will be undertaken with business rate payers, the Schools Forum, Parish Councils and voluntary organisations. In addition, this report and all the supporting information will be publicly available to any individual or group who wish to comment on any proposal included within it. Internal consultation is via officers, members and more specifically the Overview & Scrutiny Commission and its panels.