Issue - meetings

The Managing Director introduced a report, which had been circulated in advance of the meeting, presenting department service plans for 2022/23. A number of technical amendments had been made to the Plan for the Place Department since the plans were approved at Cabinet. These technical amendments had been circulated to Members prior to the meeting and were outlined in detail by the Managing Director. The Managing Director also confirmed the amendments would be reflected in the published version of the plan, subject to their consideration and approval by Council.

On the motion of Councillor B Lewis duly seconded it was

RESOLVED to:

Approve departmental service plans for 2022/23 subject to the following technical amendments to the Plan for the Place Department:

1)   On page 401 - for Trading Standards, the figure in the brackets contained in the unallocated budgets column should read (47) and not (105). This amendment has then changed some of the total amounts at the bottom of the table.

2)   Updates to the Forward Plan section as follows:

a)   Page 404 Agnes meadow – contract start date now 03/06/2022

b)   Page 405 TS16019 – Novus – contract start date now 30/06/2023

c)    Page 408 Elvaston Castle Capital Enabling Works – contract start date now 27/11/22

d)   Page 409 Restoring your Railway Outline Business Case and related works on the Barrow Hill, Ivanhoe and Main Marian lines– Value increased from £500,000 to £1,200,000

3)   On page 399 Section Two – Priorities (not a Council Deliverable) – an additional priority has been added – P-46 Worked with District and Borough Councils to optimise our approach to verge management whilst balancing biodiversity and highway safety; and

4)   On page 379 the performance measure targets for Customer satisfaction with Highways and Transportation Services have been increased to: 2022-23 57% and 2023-24 60%.