Agenda and draft minutes

Bracknell Town Centre Regeneration Committee - Monday, 10 July 2023 5.30 pm

Venue: Council Chamber - Time Square, Market Street, Bracknell, RG12 1JD

Contact: Hannah Harding  01344 352308

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Items
No. Item

1.

Election of Chair

Minutes:

RESOLVED that Councillor Bidwell be elected Chair of the Bracknell Town Centre Regeneration Committee for the municipal year 2023/24.

2.

Appointment of Vice-Chair

Minutes:

RESOLVED that Councillor Neil be nominated Vice Chair of the Bracknell Town Centre Regeneration Committee for the municipal year 2023/24.

3.

Declarations of Interest

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.

Minutes:

Councillors Bidwell and Neil declared affected interests in relation to

item 7 being the Council’s representatives on the Board overseeing the joint

venture.

4.

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To approve as a correct record the minutes of the previous meeting of the Committee.

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 20 March 2023 be approved as a correct record.

 

5.

Urgent Items of Business

Any other items which, pursuant to Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act, the Chairman decides are urgent.

Minutes:

There were no urgent items of business.

Executive Decision containing Exempt Information pdf icon PDF 65 KB

The Committee considered a report containing exempt information submitted on the following item.  The decision is recorded in the decision sheet attached to these minutes and summarised below:

Additional documents:

6.

Exclusion of Public and Press

To consider the following motion:

 

That pursuant to Regulation 4 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2012, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of items 8 and 9 which involve the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972:

 

(3)        Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority).

 

(NB:     No representations have been received in relation to the notice published pursuant to Regulation 5 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2012.)

Minutes:

RESOLVED that pursuant to Regulation 4 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2012, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of items 8 and 9 which involves the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972:

 

(3)        Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority).

 

7.

Bracknell Town Centre Regeneration Update

To consider the latest progress report on proposals for the regeneration of Bracknell town centre.

Minutes:

RESOLVED that

 

i.       The Committee notes the contents of the report.

 

ii.     The Committee notes a potential site acquisition as set out

in paras 7.4-7.6 of the Confidential report, subject to due diligence and formal approval by the Commercial Property: Executive Committee.

8.

Joint Venture Programme

To provide an update to the Committee on current matters pertaining to the operation of the Bracknell Forest Cambium Partnership.

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the Committee confirms the approach to the feasibility study to be

undertaken for Block D, as set out in section 4.4 of the report.