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Council
8 Sep 2020 - 18:45 to 21:28
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Agenda

Standard Items
Public Items
1. The Mayor will invite the Chaplain to say prayers.
 
2. Register of Attendance and Declarations of Interest

The Town Clerk and Chief Executive will open the meeting by calling the roll; and at the same time Members are invited to declare any disclosable pecuniary interests, other registrable interests and any interests, relating to any item on the agenda at this stage.

 

3. Minutes
The Council will be asked to receive the Minutes of the meeting of the City Council held on 14 July 2020.
4. Public and Press

To determine whether any of the items of business within Part A of the Agenda should be dealt with when the public and press are excluded from the meeting.

To determine whether any of the items of business within Part B of the Agenda should be dealt with when the public and press are present.

5. Announcements

(i)   To receive any announcements from the Mayor

(ii)  To receive any announcements from the Leader of the Council

(iii)  To receive any announcements from Members of the Executive

(iv)  To receive any announcements from the Town Clerk and Chief Executive

6. Questions by Members of the Public
Pursuant to Procedure Rule 10.1, the Corporate Director of Governance and Regulatory Services to report that no questions have been submitted on notice by members of the public.  
7. Presentation of Petitions and Deputations
Pursuant to Procedure Rule 10.11, the Corporate Director of Governance and Regulatory Services to report that no petitions or deputations have been submitted by members of the public. 
8. Questions from Members of the Council

Any views or opinions expressed in the questions set out in this Agenda paper are those of the person submitting the questions and do not necessarily reflect the position, views or opinions of the Council.

 

Pursuant to Procedure Rule 11.2, the Corporate Director of Governance and Regulatory Services to report the receipt of the following questions submitted on notice by Councillor Dr Davison:

 

Would the Finance, Governance and Resources Portfolio Holder:

 

 

 

(a)  Provide an update on the details and progress of the task group he set up to ensure residents are properly engaged with the city council’s response to the permitting process for the incinerator?

(b)  Detail the task group’s remit?

(c)   List the actions that have been taken to date?

(d)  Provide a hard copy of the group’s agreed action plan, given the time constraints of the Environment Agency consultation process?

 

 Given the concerns recently highlighted by residents about the legality of aspects of the county council’s planning process, the makeup of the Task Group now leaves itself open to accusations of conflict of interest, as both the city and county council representatives on it are both members of both authorities.

Will the portfolio holder today commit to add a local city councillor to the group who is not also on the county council, to ensure that the voices of our citizens are heard above those of the county and provide residents transparency and trust in the process?”

9. Minutes of the Executive
The Council will be requested to receive the Minutes of the meetings of the Executive held on 20 July and 17 August 2020 and ask questions of the Leader and Portfolio Holders on those Minutes.
10. Executive - Portfolio Holder Reports
The Council will be asked to receive reports from the following Portfolio Holders:
 
(vi) Pdf Leader's Portfolio (51Kb)

and ask questions of the Leader and Portfolio Holders on those Reports.

(Copy Reports herewith)

11. Minutes

The Council will be asked to receive the Minutes of the meetings as detailed within Minute Book Volume 47(2); and ask questions of the Leader, Portfolio Holders and Committee Chairs.

 

For ease of reference the Minutes are:

 

Committee                           Meeting Date 

Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Panel           

  16 July 2020
Business and Transformation Scrutiny Panel        23 July 2020 
Economic Growth Scrutiny Panel    9 July 2020
Development Control Committee   17 and 19 June; and 17 July 2020 
Audit Committee   30 July 2020

12. Scrutiny
The Council will be asked to receive reports from the Chairs of the Scrutiny Panels:
(Copy Reports herewith)
13. Notice of Motion
 
(i) Great British September Clean

Pursuant to Procedure Rule 12, the Corporate Director of Governance and Regulatory Services to report the receipt of the following motion submitted on notice by Councillor Nedved:

 

“Carlisle City Council fully supports the Great British September Clean to be held from 11th to 27th September 2020.

 

This Council is committed to tackling the blights of litter, fly tipping, graffiti and dog fouling.

 

Support can be given by organising private clean ups with up to five family or friends.

 

Litter blights our streets, parks and green spaces costing this Country millions of pounds to clear up every year.

 

Carlisle City Council expresses its thanks to Officers and Staff from Green Spaces and Area Maintenance Teams for their hard work in keeping Carlisle and District tidy."

 

(ii) Deer Park

Pursuant to Procedure Rule 12, the Corporate Director of Governance and Regulatory Services to report the receipt of the following motion submitted on notice by Councillor Dr Davison:

 

“Carlisle City Council
1. Acknowledges the value that its diverse and open green spaces provide as important places for people to get out into to benefit their health and wellbeing, even more so given the challenges and increasing stresses on many in our community as a result of the pandemic.

 

2. Recognises that those spaces closest to people’s homes are particularly important for their overall sense of wellbeing in terms of how they feel about where they live and their ability to easily get outdoors and into nature.

3. Acknowledges that, given the environmental crisis and biodiversity loss happening alongside the climate crisis, it is more critical than ever before that biodiverse areas within our city are protected from development.

4. Recognises that Deer Park field, directly next to Kingmoor Sidings nature reserve, is one of these precious spaces, much loved and used by local residents young and old, over the years to walk in, walk dogs, get out into a place where they can feel away from it all, pick fruit, watch wildlife, enjoy the varied flora and, as children, play in.

 

5. Recognises that Deer Park field enhances the offer of the Kingmoor Sidings Nature reserve, both as the route to it but also in offering different habitats from the nature reserve, enjoyed and used by residents and the wildlife to be regularly observed in it

6. Acknowledges that since the last revision of the local plan, adopted in 2016, much has changed in our understanding of the full impact of human activity on our environment and biodiversity and that it is time that we make decisions based on new knowledge and focused on protecting those spaces and habitats which, once lost, will be irreplaceable, along with the species growing and living there.

 

7. Recognises that the loss of Deer Park to housing development will be a very significant loss to the local and wider community of Carlisle and also to all the wildlife, flora and fauna that currently inhabit it.


Given all the above issues the City Council:

1. Commits to expedite the local plan review process and ensure that all green spaces within the city are reconsidered as to their benefit for wellbeing to local residents and providing biodiverse spaces.

 

2. Will support residents in investigating and getting those which are of real community value designated as a Local Green Space, as allowed under the National Planning Policy Framework.

 

3. Will add to the local plan process our planners doing a properly publicised whole district call for sites to be considered as Local Green Spaces, alongside work to identify and directly contact green space / friends groups.

 

4. Commits to prioritise supporting residents in the Deer Park area to have this field protected in this way, should the current planning application be refused, and in the longer term to investigate, and as funds or grants allow acquire the land, to link it to, enhance and develop the offering of Kingmoor Sidings nature reserve to safeguard that historically interesting and biodiverse green space for residents.”

14. Proposals from the Executive in relation to the Council's Budget and Policy Framework
  

Pursuant to Minute EX.69/20 and EX.88/20, to consider a recommendation from the Executive that the Medium Term Financial Plan 2021/22 to 2025/26 be referred to Council for approval.

(Copy Report RD.25/20 and Minute Extracts herewith)

Pursuant to Minute EX.70/20 and EX.89/20, to consider a recommendation from the Executive that the Capital Investment Strategy 2021/22 to 2025/26 be referred to Council for approval.

(Copy Report RD.26/20 and Minute Extracts herewith)

Pursuant to Minute EX.71/20 and EX.90/20, to consider a recommendation from the Executive that the Asset Management Plan for 2021 to 2026 be referred to Council for adoption.

(Copy Report GD.43/20 and Minute Extracts herewith)

Pursuant to Minute EX.68/20 and EX.73/20, to consider a recommendation from the Executive that Council approves and adopts the updated Cumbria Choice Allocations Policy.

(Copy Report GD.39/20 and Minute Extracts herewith)

Pursuant to Minute EX.99/20, to consider recommendations from the Executive concerning the financial implications on the Council's budgets and the Medium Term Financial Plan, as a result of the Council completing both the Grant Determination Agreement and the Collaboration Agreement, in relation to the Carlisle Southern Link Road on 31 July 2020.

(Copy Report RD.27/20 and Minute Extract herewith)

Pursuant to Minute EX.100/20, to consider recommendations from the Executive relative to a proposed scheme of delegation for the decision making powers contained within the Business and Planning Act 2020.

(Copy Report GD.41/20 and Minute Extract herewith)

To consider the Annual Report of the Audit Committee.

(Copy Report RD.28/20 and Minute Extract herewith)

Pursuant to Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rule 15(i), the Corporate Director of Governance and Regulatory Services to report on the operation of call-in and urgency procedures.

(Copy Report GD.42/20 herewith)

17. Communications
To receive and consider communications and to deal with such other business as may be brought forward by the Mayor as a matter of urgency, in accordance with Procedure Rule 2.1(xv) to pass such resolution or resolutions thereon as may be considered expedient or desirable.
Exempt Items

- NIL -

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
Councillor Ruth Alcroft13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestSubstitute Member of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Trevor Allison14(vi)Business and Planning Act 2020 and Constitutional Amendment relating to Delegation of Emerging Legislative PowersAn InterestThe interest is family related
Councillor Pamela Birks13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Lisa Brown13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Nigel Edward Christian13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor John Richard Collier13 (ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Mrs Anne Glendinning13 (ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Colin William Glover10(i)Culture, Heritage and Leisure Portfolio Holder ReportRegistrable InterestCouncillor Glover is a Trustee of Cumbria's Museum of Military Life
Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Anne Mallinson13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestCouncillor Mallinson has a house for rent on Etterby Park next to the proposed planning
Councillor John Mallinson13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestCllr Mallinson is the owner of a property on the Etterby Estate which is close to Deer Park
Councillor Keith Meller13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor David Douglass Morton13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Paul Nigel Hamilton Nedved13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Lucy Patrick14(iv)New Cumbria Choice Allocations PolicyAn InterestCouncillor Patrick's employer is one of the registered providers involved in the Policy
Councillor Lucy Patrick13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestSubstitute Member of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Mr Calvin Joshua Rodgerson13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor David Shepherd13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Mrs Valerie Tarbitt13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestSubstitute Member of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Dr Les Tickner13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestSubstitute Member of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Raymond Tinnion13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee
Councillor Miss Jeanette Maria Whalen13(ii)Notice of Motion - Deer ParkAn InterestMember of the Development Control Committee

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

Town Clerk and Chief Executive

Corporate Director of Governance and Regulatory Services