Decision details
Review of the Council’s Property Procedure Rules
Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decision:
The Chief Executive Officer considered the
report presented at the informal meeting of Executive Members held
on 12 October 2021. Having taken account of the comments made by
Executive Members, all relevant information provided at the meeting
and the draft Minutes from the meeting, he agreed to recommend to
full Council at its meeting on 19 November 2021:
i) Approval of the suggested amendments to the Property Procedure
Rules as set out at Appendix 2 and the suggested consequential
amendments to the Executive Members’ Delegation Scheme set
out at Appendix 3;
ii) That authority be given to the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal
and Democratic Services) to make any further consequential
amendments required to the Constitution in light of the changes to
the PPR.
iii) That a forward schedule of decisions, as set out under
paragraph 1.11 of Appendix 2, be shared with the Executive Member
with responsibility for Property, on a no less than quarterly basis
to assist in matters of property planning;
Reasons for the decision:
Under his delegated decision making powers in
the Officers’ Delegation Scheme in the Council’s
Constitution, the Chief Executive Officer has power, in cases of
emergency, to take any decision which could be taken by the
Council, the Executive or a committee.
Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police
and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and
Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations
2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for
committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved
at its meeting on 5 May 2021 that, for the present time, in light
of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic circumstances, remote
live-broadcast committee meetings should continue (as informal
meetings of the Committee Members), with any formal decisions
required being taken by the Chief Executive Officer under his
emergency decision making powers and after consultation with other
Officers and Members as appropriate and after taking into account
any views of the relevant Committee Members and all relevant
information. This approach was reviewed in July and will be further
reviewed in November 2021.
The Chief Executive Officer took all relevant information into
account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this
matter, including considering the views of the Executive Members ,
and made the decision set out above for the reasons set out in the
body of the report – see report attached.
Alternative options considered:
N/A.
Publication date: 18/10/2021
Date of decision: 14/10/2021
Effective from: 26/10/2021