Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Finance, Growth and Investment presented a report on the new capital bidding process together with the detailed schemes recommended for inclusion in the 2017/18 Capital Programme.

A total of £40.482m of new schemes were proposed for the next five years, with £20.468m relating directly to 2017/18.  The Cabinet Member commented that the Council had to be increasingly innovative in how it provided services to its residents in view of the Government’s failure to provide sufficient funding and he referred to a number of the projects, including the Be First and Traded Services companies, frontline service delivery improvements, enforcement, parks infrastructure, the Youth Zone and highway and car park improvements.

The Cabinet Member for Enforcement and Community Safety particularly welcomed the investment in enforcement equipment and made reference to the pro-active work being undertaken to prosecute fly-tipping. 

In response to an enquiry, officers undertook to provide Members with an update on the appraisal of the Borough’s future flood prevention plans. 

The Cabinet resolved to approve the new capital schemes for 2017/18 as detailed in section 3 and Appendix A to the report.