Executive Committee - Recommendations
On the resumption of the meeting, to receive and consider recommendations from the Executive Committee and to pass the appropriate resolutions.
(Executive Committee reports refer)
Minutes:
The Council considered the recommendations of the meeting of the Executive Committee held during the adjournment referred to above.
RESOLVED that
the recommendations of the Executive Committee be approved, as detailed below:
Draft Core Strategy
1) the Revised Preferred Draft Core Strategy (Appendix A to the report) be approved for the purposes of public consultation;
2) the Sustainability Appraisal (Appendix B) for the Preferred Draft Core Strategy be approved for the purposes of public consultation;
3) a consultation period be held from 21st January 2011 for six weeks; and
4) authority be delegated to the Acting Development Plans Manager, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Planning, the Leader of the Council and the Leader of the Opposition, to make any minor amendments to the Revised Preferred Draft Core Strategy and Sustainability Appraisal prior to the consultation period commencing on 21st January 2011.
Local Development Scheme – Update
5) work on the Site Allocations and Policies Development Plan Document be abandoned temporarily.
Worcestershire Waste Core Strategy and Worcestershire Local Plan No 3 – Responses
6)
the response prepared to the
Worcestershire Waste Core Strategy, as detailed in the Appendix to
the report, be endorsed; and
7)
the response to the
Worcestershire Local Transport Plan No. 3, as detailed in the
Appendix to the report, be endorsed, subject to an amendment in
respect of Paragraph 4.2 (iii) of the report regarding the
potential opening of bus lanes to other traffic.
Job Evaluation and Terms and Conditions
8)
authority for negotiation and agreement of changes to Terms and
Conditions be delegated to the Executive
Director Leisure, Environmental & Community
Services and Executive Director of Finance and
Resources.
(This report had been accepted as a matter of Urgent Business – not having met the publication deadline – and was considered at the meeting as such, with the approval of the Chair, in accordance with the Council’s constitutional rules and powers vested in the Chair by virtue of Section 100 (B) (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972 to agree to matters of urgency being discussed by reason of special circumstances.
In this case the special circumstances were that the report needed to be considered at the current meeting to allow implementation of the Job Evaluation Scheme to progress and to delegate powers to Officers to undertake negotiations aimed at amending a number of Terms and Condition.)