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Executive Report

Meeting: 21/04/2021 - Council (Item 56)

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To receive the Leader’s report on the work of the Executive since the Council meeting held on 22 February 2021.

 

Council is asked to resolve a recommendation in respect of:

  • Initial Site Development Plan - Market Street

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Leader of the Council, Councillor Bettison OBE, presented his report on the work of the Executive since that reported at the Council meeting on 24 February 2021. The Executive had met once on 16 March 2021.

 

The Leader highlighted the following matters that had been considered:

 

·       The following six recommendations were all agreed from the Education, Skills and Growth Overview & Scrutiny Panel Review on Apprenticeships:

1)             Work with Apprenticeship pathways providers to ensure young people have best opportunities and outcomes

2)             Adopt Apprenticeship policy setting out expectations around pay, terms and conditions

3)             Promote Apprenticeships externally and internal with promotional video

4)             Review current Apprenticeship web pages

5)             Investigate possible mentoring scheme between large and small/medium businesses

6)             Develop partnerships across Berkshire to provide support and guidance to businesses to help use apprenticeship levy.

 

·       Three procurement plans were agreed:

1)             South Central Independent Fostering Agency Framework

2)             MS Team Telephony

3)             Core Network

 

·       To allow Council owned facilities at Bracknell Sports & Leisure Centre, Coral Reef and Downshire Golf Course managed by Everyone Active to reopen in line with Government Roadmap the follow support measures were agreed:

1)    Management fee break April – June 2021

2)    Underwrite ‘open-book’ losses for April – June 2021

3)    Review in light of Roadmap progress after three months

 

·       The Market Street Development Plan was agreed which supports the overarching Joint Venture Business Plan. Within the Plan there would be four blocks with 25% affordable housing throughout:

                A – 96 flats, 5070 sq ft retail

                B & C – 87 flats, 6781 sq ft retail

                D – outline only but predominantly office with retail on ground floor

 

The report contained recommendations that the Council was asked to resolve in respect of the following matter:

·       Site Development Plan for Market Street

 

Having declared disclosable pecuniary interests Councillors Brunel-Walker and Heydon left the meeting before this element of the item commenced.

 

On the proposition of Councillor Bettison OBE, Leader of the Council, seconded by Councillor Birch it was

 

RESOLVED that:

 

i)               the proposed Site Development Plan for Market Street, including land drawdown where conditions have been met as set out in confidential Annex B in the Executive agenda be approved; and

 

ii)             the Council’s equal share of funding be made available to undertake this development up to a peak requirement of £15.4m.


 

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