Agenda and minutes

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 6 February 2024.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 6 February 2024 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record.

Members are asked to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary or Affected Interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary 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 Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Any Member with an Affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

There were no Urgent Items of Business.

The Executive considered the following items.  The decisions are recorded in the decision sheets attached to these minutes and summarised below:

To seek a recommendation from Executive to Council to:
1) Adopt the Bracknell Forest Local Plan incorporating the Main Modifications recommended by the Inspectors and Additional Modifications
2) Agree to make the alterations to the adopted Policies Map that are necessary to give effect to the policies of the adopted Bracknell Forest Local Plan as modified.
3) Withdraw the saved policies in the Bracknell Forest Borough Local Plan (adopted 2002), policies in the Core Strategy (adopted 2008) and policies CP1, SA11, SA12 and SA13 of the Site Allocations Local Plan (adopted 2013).

The appendixes to the report can be found on the following links:

Appendix A -  Bracknell Forest Local Plan for adoption

 https://consult.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/file/6304536

Appendix B:

Polices Map 1 – Binfield

https://consult.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/file/6304573

Policies Map 2 – Warfield and Winkfield North

Policies Map 4 – Crowthorne and Sandhurst

https://consult.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/file/6304574

That Executive RECOMMENDS to Council that it:

       i.         Adopts the Bracknell Forest Local Plan incorporating the Main Modifications recommended by the Inspectors and non-material additional modifications (see Appendix A).

     ii.         Agrees to make the alterations to the Policies Map (see Appendix B) that are necessary to give effect to the policies of the Bracknell Forest Local Plan, as modified.

    iii.         Agrees that on adoption, the Bracknell Forest Local Plan will become part of the Development Plan for the Borough and that its policies will supersede all saved policies in the Bracknell Forest Borough Local Plan (adopted 2002), the Core Strategy (adopted 2008) and Policies CP1, SA11, SA12 and SA13 of the Site Allocations Local Plan (adopted 2013) for the purposes of decision making in Bracknell Forest.

    iv.         Agrees that any other non-material additional modifications to the Bracknell Forest Local Plan, can be agreed by the Executive Director: Place Planning and Regeneration in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Transport, prior to final publication.

     v.         Carries forward adopted Supplementary Planning Documents, as related to relevant policies in the Bracknell Forest Local Plan (see Appendix C).

RESOLVED that:

       i.         A public consultation on the Bracknell Town Centre Masterplans SPD

Consultation Draft (Appendix 1) and supporting documents is agreed, beginning on 8 April 2024 and ending on 20 May 2024 as set out in section 7 of this report.

     ii.         Authority be delegated to the Executive Director Place Planning and Regeneration in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Transport to agree any necessary minor amendments to the Bracknell Town Centre Masterplans SPD Consultation Draft, and supporting documents, prior

            publication for public consultation.

RESOLVED that the Highways and Transport Capital Programme for 2024/25 is approved.

Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Reprocurement - to be undertaken through the Provider Selection Regime.

RESOLVED that

i.         The procurement route for of provision of Long-Acting Reversible

Contraception (LARC) service, and the Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) Service is agreed.

ii.         Bracknell Forest continues to host the contracting of LARC and EHC for the 3 local authorities across Berkshire East (Bracknell Forest, Slough and Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead).

RESOLVED that

       i.         the new service plan content for 2024-25 be endorsed, noting the actions committed to by each directorate to support the delivery of the Council Plan.

     ii.         the plans be published on the Council website in April and to monitor their delivery through the review of the Council Plan Overview Report.

RESOLVED that the performance of the council over the period from October to

December 2023 highlighted in the Overview Report in Annex A is noted, this includes any recommendations made by Overview and Scrutiny in Annex B.

RESOLVED that the Executive notes the progress made on implementing the SEND WSOA to improve services to children and families and the feedback from the DfE and NHS England to the end of November 2023.

RESOLVED that

       i.         the progress made by Bracknell Forest Cambium Partnership for the

period December 2022 to December 2023 be noted.

     ii.         the proposed JV Business Plan for the Bracknell Forest Cambium

Partnership as set out in Annex A and the financial budget and forecast as set out in Confidential Annex B.