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Agenda and minutes

Shadow Executive
Thursday, 15th November, 2018 4.30 pm

Venue: Council Chamber, West Somerset House, Killick Way, Williton, TA4 4QA

Contact: Richard Bryant Email: r.bryant@tauntondeane.gov.uk  01823 219736

Items
No. Item

23.

Apologies.

24.

Minutes of the previous meeting of the Shadow Executive.

25.

Declarations of Interest.

    To receive and record any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests or personal or prejudicial interests in respect of any matters included on the agenda for consideration at this meeting. 

    (The personal interests of Councillors and Clerks of Somerset County Council, Town or Parish Councils and other Local Authorities will automatically be recorded in the minutes.)

    Minutes:

    Members present at the meeting declared the following personal interests in their capacity as a Member of a County, Parish or Town Council:

               

    Name

    Minute No.

    Member of

    Action Taken

    Cllr A Trollope-Bellew

    All

    Crowcombe

    Spoke and voted

    Cllr B Maitland-Walker

    All

    Carhampton

    Spoke

     

     

26.

Public Participation.

    The Chairman to advise the Committee of any items on which members of the public have requested to speak and advise those members of the public present of the details of the Council’s public participation scheme.

    Minutes:

    No member of the public requested to speak.

27.

Heart of the South West - Joint Committee - Council Update (attached)

    This report provides Members with a progress report and set out the Heart of the Southwest Local Industrial Strategy, budget statement for 2018/19 in addition to the budget and cost sharing agreement set out in Appendix B.

     

    Minutes:

    The purpose of the report was to summarize the progress made by the Committee over recent months in key areas of activity and sets out actions proposed in the coming months.

     

    The Leader introduced the item and the now Head of Localities presented the report in further detail, drawing attention to the salient points contained within.

     

    In January 2018, the HotSW Joint Committee was formally established by the councils and organisations involved since 2015 in the devolution partnership.  The Committee was tasked with improving productivity across the HotSW area in collaboration with the HotSW LEP and other organisations as necessary.  

     

    The Committee had met formally three times in 2018, in March, June and October.   In addition to this the management structure that sat behind the Committee and involved Chief Executives and senior officers from across the partnership had met regularly to drive the business of the Committee. The Committee was chaired by Cllr David Fothergill, Leader of Somerset County Council and the Vice-Chair was Cllr John Tucker, Leader of South Hams District Council.

     

    During the discussion of this item Members made comments and statements and asked questions, and the following main points were raised:

    ·         Members queried that the Head of Localities though in a new post now was still the Council’s Officer Representative on the Local Enterprise Partnership?

    ·         It was confirmed that they were for the time being, but that this may change depending upon the Strategic Direction given by the new Chief Executive.

    ·         It was raised that the LEP had a heavy emphasis on driving innovation and skills, and that their agenda had a lot of overlap with the recent Task and Finish Report’s into Employment Land and an Innovation Centre.

    ·         Report Author would be happy to meet to discuss this further but the alignment of Council objectives with the LEP’s was strong. A Prosperity Strategy would be prepared in due course which would tie all this work together.

    ·         Engagement with the LEP to tackle productivity was considered important. Members had attended Productivity Workshops which had brought focus, and this momentum needed to be carried forward into the practicalities and how this work could be achieved.

     

    RESOLVED (1) that the Shadow Executive notedthe progress report setting out the work of the Heart of the South West (HotSW) Joint Committee since its establishment in March 2018;

     

    RESOLVED (2) that the Shadow Executive recommended Taunton Deane Borough Council and West Somerset Council to agree to delegate the development and endorsement of the HotSW Local Industrial Strategy (LIS) to the HotSW Joint Committee (noting that final approval of the HotSWLIS rests with the HotSW Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and the Government).

     

    RESOLVED (3) that the Shadow Executive noted the Budget statement for 2018/19 set out in Appendix B and that in accordance with the decisions taken at the time the Committee was established the two extant Councils will be asked to make an annual budgetary provision to meet the support costs of the Joint Committee in line with the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 27.

28.

Exclusion of Press and Public

    To consider excluding the press and public during consideration of the report and appendices contained in the Proposed Disposal of Commercial Land Report on the grounds that, if the press and public were present during this item, there would be likely to be a disclosure to them of exempt information of the class specified in Paragraph 3 pf Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended as follows:

    Agenda Item 7 contains information that could release confidential information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information). It is therefore proposed that after consideration of all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

     

    Minutes:

    RESOLVED that the press and public be excluded during consideration of Item 7 on the grounds that, if the if the press and public were present during the item, there would be likely to be a disclosure to them of exempt information of the classspecified in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act1972 as amended as follows:

     

    The item contained information that could release confidential information thatrelated to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including theauthority holding that information). It was therefore agreed that afterconsideration of all the circumstances of the case, the public interest inmaintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing theinformation.

29.

Confidential Report - Proposed Disposal of Commercial Land (Report of the Special Project Consultant).

    This report provides members with a proposal for the disposal of commercial land.

     

    Minutes:

    This report referred to the Sale of Land at Smithsyard, Washford, Somerset, TA23 0NB.

     

    RESOLVEDthat Shadow Executive recommended that West Somerset Full Council approve that all of the land owned Freehold by West Somerset Council andas shown on Appendix A is sold to 308 Developments Ltd.

30.

Forward Plan

    To consider items to be added to the Shadow Executive’s Forward Plan.

    Minutes:

    The purpose of this item was to approve the Forward Plan.

               

    RESOLVED that the Shadow Executive’s Forward Plan be circulated to Members of the Shadow Executive after the meeting.

31.

Date of next meeting

 

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