Agenda
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Meeting |
Executive |
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Councillors Carl Les (Chairman), Mark Crane, Gareth Dadd, Michael Harrison, Simon Myers, Heather Phillips, Janet Sanderson, Greg White and Annabel Wilkinson. |
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Date: |
Tuesday, 17 June 2025 |
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11.00 am |
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Council Chamber, Town Hall, St Nicholas St, Scarborough, YO11 2HG |
This meeting is being live broadcast and recorded and will be available to view via our website and uploaded to our Youtube channel.
Business
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Apologies for Absence
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Declarations of Interest
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Exclusion of the Public |
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Members are recommended to exclude the public from the meeting during consideration of each of the items of business listed in Column 1 of the following table on the grounds that they each involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraph(s) specified in column 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to information)(Variation) Order 2006:-
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Public Participation |
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Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice to St John Harris , Principal Democratic Services Officer, and supplied the text by midday on Thursday 12 June, three working days before the day of the meeting. Each speaker should limit themselves to 3 minutes on any item. Members of the public who have given notice will be invited to speak: · at this point in the meeting if their questions/statements relate to matters which are not otherwise on the Agenda (subject to an overall time limit of 30 minutes); · when the relevant Agenda item is being considered if they wish to speak on a matter which is on the Agenda for this meeting. If you are exercising your right to speak at this meeting, but do not wish to be recorded, please inform the Leader who will instruct anyone who may be taking a recording to cease while you speak.
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Options for the Community Football Pitch at Scarborough Sports Village |
(Pages 5 - 24) |
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Recommendations
i) that the Council commits to ensuring that the defects are remedied, and the pitch resurfaced during the 25/26 football season, with a view to play commencing by the start of the 2026 season at the latest.
ii) that officers continue dialogue with the original contractors and agree a suitable remediation arrangement. That delegated authority be granted to the Director of Community Development, Director of Resources and the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal and Democratic) in consultation with the portfolio holder for Housing, Culture and Leisure, to agree a suitable remediation by the contractors.
iii) that in the event that an agreement as ii above cannot be achieved in a timely manner that the Council undertakes the works to remedy the defects and resurface the pitch as set out in paragraph 4.2 above, with the pitch resurfacing undertaken by direct award to a contractor on the MGAC (Football Foundation) framework, up to a maximum cost of £3.2million.
iv) that all appropriate legal remedies are pursued in relation to the original defects.
v) that the pitch be resurfaced with a FIFA Quality pro pitch surface to enable SAFC to continue to play in their current league.
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Housing Delivery |
(Pages 25 - 60) |
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Recommendations
i. The Executive is asked to ratify the previous options appraisal and business case of the Joint Venture and approve the principle of creating a Joint Venture limited liability partnership between the Council and Lovell and for the purposes of constructing and accelerating the delivery of good quality and environmentally sustainable homes, with a focus on accelerating the provision of affordable housing and generating social Value.
ii. To approve entering into preferred bidder stage with Lovell to form a Housing Delivery Vehicle noting that the formal agreement to set up the Joint Venture will be subject to a further Executive approval.
iii. To approve to consult on/publish notice regarding the disposal of open space land pursuant to s.123(2A) of the Local Government Act 1972 and as set out in paragraph 6.1
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Housing Performance, Complaint Handling and Service Improvement Review |
(Pages 61 - 132) |
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Recommendation
It is recommended that the Executive receive the report with attention drawn to those areas where a ‘null’ return will be submitted and approve the submission of the information within to the Regulator for Social Housing (RSH) and the Housing Ombudsman as required.
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Schools Condition Capital Programme 2025-26 |
(Pages 133 - 146) |
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Recommendations
The Executive is recommended to:
i. Approve the proposed Schools Capital Programme for 2025-26 as summarised in Appendix A
ii. Approve the detailed Programme, including the Planned Capital Maintenance Programme, for 2025-26 as set out in Appendix B
iii. Agree the continuation of the approach for dealing with any schools that convert to Academy status following the approval of the Programme as laid out in paragraph 3.2
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UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Rural England Prosperity Fund 2025/26 |
(Pages 147 - 162) |
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Recommendations
ii. To allow delegated authority to agree and enter into any associated agreements including but not limited to a Service Level Agreement with the YNYCA to access and deliver these funds to the Corporate Director of Resources in consultation with the Assistant Chief Executive Legal and Democratic Services and the Executive Member for Open to Business.
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Double Devolution - Update on Process and Approval of the transfer of the Market Place Public Conveniences Malton |
(Pages 163 - 178) |
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Recommendation
It is recommended that the Executive note the double devolution proposal for the transfer of the Market Place Public Conveniences at Malton together with the one-off grant of £57,000 to Malton Town Council to support the Town Council’s ongoing operation of those facilities and, subject to an in principle decision from the Corporate Director of Resources and negotiation of suitable heads of terms for the asset transfer and subsidy control compliance, to agree in principle to the transfer and grant of the facilities to the Town Council and to authorise the closure of the Wentworth Street public toilets upon successful transfer of the site at Market Place.
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Joint Place Committee with Humber and North Yorkshire NHS Integrated Care Board |
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TO FOLLOW
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Appointments to Committees and Outside Bodies |
(Pages 179 - 180) |
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Recommendation
That the Executive appoints Councillor Roberta Swiers to the following outside bodies:
· Vale of Pickering Internal Drainage Board
· North Yorkshire Moors National Park Local Access Forum.
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Forward Plan
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(Pages 181 - 200) |
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Any Other Items |
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Any other items which the Leader agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency because of special circumstances
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Date of Next Meeting - 15 July 2025
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Members are reminded that in order to expedite business at the meeting and enable Officers to adapt their presentations to address areas causing difficulty, they are encouraged to contact Officers prior to the meeting with questions on technical issues in reports.
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Members of the public are entitled to attend this meeting as observers for all those items taken in open session. You may be interested in subscribing to updates about this or any other North Yorkshire Council committee.
Recording is allowed at Council, committee and sub-committee meetings which are open to the public. Please give due regard to the Council’s protocol on audio/visual recording and photography at public meetings. We ask that any recording is clearly visible to anyone at the meeting and that it is non-disruptive.
Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact the Democratic Services Officer (details below) prior to the start of the meeting.
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Contact Details |
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For enquiries relating to this agenda and meeting please contact: St John Harris, Principal Democratic Services Officer E-mail: stjohn.harris@northyorks.gov.uk E-mail: democraticservices.east@northyorks.gov.uk Tel: 01723 383556
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Barry Khan
Assistant Chief Executive Legal and Democratic Services