Agenda and minutes

Agreed.

Received a report on the proposed Planning Advice Note (PAN) 5 in relation to sustainable design and construction.  This PAN will act as the Council’s guidance document on how to achieve high sustainable design and construction standards in new and refurbished developments.

Agreed, in order to achieve high environmental standards in new and refurbished developments and to assist the Council to achieve its Community Priorities of ‘Making Barking and Dagenham Cleaner, Greener and Safer’; ‘Raising General Pride in the Borough’ and ‘Developing Rights and Responsibilities with the Local Community’, to:

(i)  Approve the Planning Advice Note 5: Sustainable Design and Construction as set out in Appendix 1 to the report, subject to the Corporate Director of Regeneration making any non-material changes as may be necessary; and

(ii)  Require Council officers charged with delivering new build or refurbishment projects to incorporate the measures proposed in PAN 5 into their plans.

The Performance Monitoring graphs will be circulated to Members under separate cover and will also be available on the Internet, in the Members’ Rooms and at public libraries.

Deferred to the next meeting.

Received a report on the Council’s revenue and capital outturn position for the 2005/06 financial year.

Agreed, as a matter of good financial practice, to:

(i)  Note the final outturn position of the Council’s revenue and capital budgets for 2005/06, as detailed in Appendix A to the report, which shows an overall underspend of £33,000;

(ii)  Note the final working balance of £3.5 million for the 2005/06 Housing Revenue Account, as detailed in section 4 of the report;

(iii)  The carry forwards from the 2005/06 revenue budget into the relevant 2006/07 Departmental budgets, as detailed in Appendix B to the report;

(iv)  Note the final outturn position of £88.688m for the 2005/06 Capital Programme, against a total budget of £92.913m, as detailed in Appendix C to the report;

(v)  The carry forward of category A, B, D and E schemes totalling £5.664m from the 2005/06 Capital Programme into 2006/07, as detailed in Appendices D and D(i) to the report;

(vi)  Adjustments to appropriate 2006/07 Capital Programme budgets to reflect advanced expenditure in 2005/06 of £1.507m, as detailed in Appendix E to the report;

(vii)  The roll forward of the category C scheme in the sum of £12,000 from the 2005/06 Capital Programme into 2006/07 as detailed in Appendix F to the report, subject to the necessary approvals via the Capital Programme Management Office (CPMO) process; and

(viii)  Note the outturn position for 2005/06 Prudential Indicators as set out in Appendix G to the report.

The Chief Executive confirmed that the Council’s Capital Programme is the sixth largest in local government in England and Wales.  The Executive commended officers on achieving such a balanced revenue account and on the improvements to the management of the Council’s Capital Programme which has enabled a 95% spend against the overall programme for the year.