Agenda and minutes

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.

Councillors Brunel-Walker and Heydon indicated that they would be declaring an

interest in relation to agenda item 9.

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 18 October 2022.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 18 October 2022 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record.

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:

RESOLVED that the Bracknell Forest Domestic Abuse Strategy 2022-24, approved by the Bracknell Forest Domestic Abuse Executive Group, be endorsed.

RESOLVED that the updated Contaminated Land Inspection Strategy be approved.

RESOLVED that

       i.         Members note the progress made and initial feedback from Department for Education and NHS England relating to the first quarter of implementation.

     ii.         Members note that in support of improvement area 4, a bid has been submitted to the DfE for a 2022 free special school capital fund.

To consider the following motion:

That pursuant to Regulation 4 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2012  and having regard to the public interest, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of item 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 holding that information).

NB:      No representations were received in response to the 28 day notice of a private meeting.

RESOLVED that pursuant to Regulation 21 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2000, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of item 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).

To approve the settled site development plan for Market Street.

RESOLVED that the Executive:

       i.         Approves the adoption of the Settled Site Development Plan for Market Street

proposed by the Bracknell Forest Cambium Partnership, noting the amended proposal requires further Planning consent that has still to be considered due to the proposed change in tenure and increased number of affordable homes.

     ii.         Approves spend of up to £0.500m to a nominated Registered Provider from the Council’s s106 affordable housing commuted fund, to support the development of an additional 52 affordable rented homes, increasing the proportion of affordable homes in the Market Street development to 56%.

RECOMENDS that Council approves an equal share of funding needed to undertake this development up to a peak requirement of £12.5m and land drawdown when conditions have been met.