Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

57.

Declarations of Interest

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest or an Affected Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Minutes:

Councillor Mrs Hayes declared an interest in agenda item 7: London Road (Strongs Heath) Landfill Site, as the Ward Member for this area.

58.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 301 KB

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 13 December 2016.

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 13 December 2016 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Leader.

59.

Charging Options for Care and Support at Home pdf icon PDF 348 KB

To seek approval to consult on potential changes to the Charging Policy for Adult Social Care Services (non residential services), aligned to transformation in the provision of the support offer at night.

Minutes:

RESOLVED that;

 

i)             the Executive noted the transformation of the support offer at night.

 

ii)            the Executive agrees to consult on the following option for charging:

 

that the Council when financially assessing someone in receipt of Adult Social Care fully takes account of the income received by people receiving the higher rate of benefit from Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, and Personal Independence Payments.

60.

School Capacity Strategy & School Places Plan pdf icon PDF 195 KB

To approve the School Places Plan 2016 – 2021, including the 2016-based pupil forecasts and the School Capacity Strategy 2016 – 2021 that details the construction works anticipated on school sites to deliver school places for Bracknell Forest children. 

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Minutes:

RESOLVED that;

 

i)              the School Places Plan 2016-21 (Appendix 1 of the agenda papers) which forecasts a further 2,980 pupils will be seeking a school place by 2020/21, an 18% increase, be approved.

ii)             the School Capacity Strategy set out in the report be approved.

iii)            refurbishment projects at Easthampstead Park and Sandhurst schools be added to the Education Capital Programme, to be funded from Department for Education (DfE) Basic Need Grant.

61.

London Road (Strongs Heath) Landfill Site, Part Disposal pdf icon PDF 119 KB

To consider an offer for part of the Strongs Heath Landfill site, which could support a larger housing scheme when joined with neighbouring land. This offer was unsolicited and would be subject to a successful planning application.

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Minutes:

RESOLVED that the Executive deferred the decision to dispose of part of the site and would reconsider the proposal in June 2017, when further work had been concluded to address the future management of the entire Strong’s Heath site.

Decision Records pdf icon PDF 47 KB

 

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