Issue - meetings

A.        To formally receive the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 28th July 2010.

            (All decisions here have previously been fully resolved. There are no outstanding recommendations or referrals which require the Council’s consideration.)

(Minutes circulated in Minute Book 4 - 2010/11)

B.        To receive the decisions notice and consider the recommendations and/or referrals from the following meeting of the Executive Committee:

8th September 2010

Matters requiring the Council’s consideration may include:

·        Building Control – New Supplementary Charges;

·        Review of Redditch Borough Council’s Sheltered Housing Stock – Customer Feedback Update; and

·        Church Hill District Centre – Redevelopment Report

(Decision attached)

Members received the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 28th July 2010 and the decision notice of the meeting held on 8th September 2010.

In respect of Minute 60, Officers undertook to speak to Councillor Hartnett about the implementation of additional charges for building control services following the meeting.

In respect of Minute 63, Review of Redditch Borough Council’s Sheltered Housing Stock – Customer Feedback Update, Councillors Carole Gandy and Diane Thomas requested that their thanks to Sharon Powell, Trainee Housing Manager, for the work she had undertaken over the course of the review of the sheltered housing stock be formally recorded.

RESOLVED that

1)         the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 28th July 2010 be received and adopted; and

2)         the decision notice of the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 8th September 2010 be received and all recommendation approved, subject to:

in respect of Minute 63 (Review of Redditch Borough Council’s Sheltered Housing Stock – Customer Feedback Update) it being further resolved that the following decision relating to that item be amended to read as set out below:

1)                       Officers’ findings now be considered conclusive; and, further to Council Minute 31(2), the proposals for the Review of Sheltered Housing, subject to Resolution 2 below, now be fully approved and adopted;

and the original decision taken by the Council on 9th August 2010 be varied by the following additional decision, namely that it be RESOLVED that

2)         the Council deem Auxerre House to be unsuitable accommodation for older persons in the future and that authority be delegated to officers to investigate, subject to the outcome of the Housing Market and Viability Assessment, the options available for first time buyers.

(Prior to consideration of this item, and in accordance with the requirements of Section 81 of the Local Government Act 2000, Councillors Greg Chance, Adam Griffin, Bill Hartnett and Roger Hill declared personal and prejudicial interests in view of the fact that they were Board Members of Redditch Co-operative Homes and took no part in the voting on the relevant recommendations (Minute 69 – Church Hill Redevelopment Project)