Decisions

The purchase of the Houndshill Shopping Centre and the use of Prudential Borrowing to complete the purchase.

To purchase the Houndshill shopping centre at a cost of £47.6m (Market Value) excluding costs and SDLT.

To use Prudential Borrowing to fund the purchase, SDLT and associated costs.

To novate the contracts to appoint CBRE for the asset management and Eddisons for facilities management, both on an interim basis.

To seek approval for officers to proceed with the statutory consultation and advertisement in respect of a proposed Traffic Regulation Order to introduce a residents parking scheme as detailed within this report

To authorise the statutory consultation and advertisement of notice of the intention of the Council to make a Traffic Regulation Order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, the effect of which will be to implement a residents parking scheme on Boothley Road between Devonshire Road and Coleridge Road.

If no objections are maintained to the proposals, to authorise the Head of Legal to make the Traffic Regulation Order.

The purpose of this report is for Blackpool Council to discharge its statutory duty under the Flood and Water management Act (2010) Section 19, which is attached to investigate significant local flooding incidents, and to publish the report into the significant flooding incident in Blackpool on the 22 November 2017 in line with its policy on investigation.

The Head of Licensing Service deals with a number of requests for licences under the Licensing Act, the Gambling Act and other pieces of legislations. Details of the licences, applied for and granted are outlined in the report.

The Head of Licensing Service agreed to grant the licences as set out in the attached Appendices.

The Council's delegated budgets scheme allocates budgets of £15,000 to each Ward covered for the financial year 2019/2020. The funding for this scheme can be spent on supplementing funding public services, for the benefit of the local community.

Councillors Blackburn and G Coleman of Brunswick Ward have requested £200 as funding to The Washington Group towards the International Women’s Day Festival in March 2020 to benefit young women in Brunswick Ward.

To authorise the request, as submitted.

The Head of Licensing Service deals with a number of requests for licences under the Licensing Act, the Gambling Act and other pieces of legislations. Details of the licences, applied for and granted are outlined in the report.

The Head of Licensing Service agreed to grant the licences as set out in the attached Appendices.

The Executive resolved as follows:

1. To note the report.  

2. To use all possible to means to continue to lobby Government (HM Treasury, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department for Education in particular) along with local authority peers, the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services for significantly more funding to cope with the soaring demand and new burdens presenting in Children’s Services. This to include personal contact with the local MP’s.

3.      To require the respective directors and Director of Resources to continue to closely monitor and manage service financial and operational performances, specifically Children’s Services but also Strategic Leisure Assets, Concessionary Fares and Parking Services, and to ensure the release of at least £1m of budgets across all directorates as a consequence of a 1-year freeze on non-essential spend.

The Executive agreed the recommendation as outlined above namely:

To agree the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Service Strategy 2019/2021, as attached at Appendix 3a, to the Executive report, including its vision and strategic objectives, with effect until 30 September 2021.

The Executive agreed the recommendation as outlined above namely:

To agree the Blackpool Early Years Partnership Strategy 2019/2020 for the period until 30 September 2020, and endorse its key strategic priorities.

The Head of Licensing Service deals with a number of requests for licences under the Licensing Act, the Gambling Act and other pieces of legislations. Details of the licences, applied for and granted are outlined in the report.

The Head of Licensing Service agreed to grant the licences as set out in the attached Appendices.