No apologies were received.

There were no announcements from the Chairman or the Head of Paid Service.

In accordance with the Regulations, Members are required to declare any personal or prejudicial interests they may have and the nature of those interests in respect of items on this Agenda and/or indicate if Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them.

No declarations of interest were received.

To confirm the Record of Decisions made at the meeting of the Cabinet held on 17 July 2018.

The record of decisions made by Cabinet on 17 July 2018, copies of which had been previously circulated, were confirmed by Cabinet.

To receive items raised by members of scrutiny which have been submitted to the Leader (copied to Chief Executive and Governance Officer) by 4.30 pm on Friday 27 July 2018.

There were no items raised by Scrutiny.

Report No. 133/2018

Report No. 133/2018 was received from the Chief Executive.

Mr O Hemsley, Leader of the Council, introduced the report, the purpose of which was to provide a background to the creation of the 2017/18 Rutland County Council Annual Report and information on how it would be used and distributed to highlight the impact the Council is making.

During discussion the following points were raised:

1. Cabinet commented that the report provided performance data in a logical, easy to understand format and highlighted the many areas where the Council is performing well;
2. The report was available online and a small number of printed copies would be distributed to partner organisations and would be available at the Councils Customer Services and Libraries.  Should Parishes wish to make hard copies available for those who were not able to access electronic copies, these could be provided at the Parishes cost.

DECISIONS

1)     Cabinet considered the 2017/18 Annual Report (Appendix 1 of Report No. 133/2018) and provided feedback;

2)     Cabinet RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL the APPROVAL of the Annual Report (Appendix 1 of Report No. 133/2018).

Reason for Decision

To provide feedback and approve the trial of this alternative style of communicating performance data.

(KEY DECISION)

Report No. 134/2018

Note: Report to follow (Report will be published no later than 20 July 2018)

(KEY DECISION)

Report No. 134/2018 was received from the Interim Director of Places.

Mr G Brown, Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Planning, Environment, Property and Finance introduced the report, the purpose of which was to seek approval from Cabinet for further specific consultation to be undertaken with respect to the formulation of the new Rutland Local Plan. This consultation was being undertaken in order to fully consider the implications of incorporating the potential development of St. George’s Barracks into the Local Plan.

Mr Brown provided a summary of the purpose of the report as follows:

The purpose of this report is to seek approval of Cabinet for a specific consultation to consider modifications to the emerging new Local Plan for Rutland and seek the views of the residents of the County on the attached documents. Those views will be considered by Cabinet and Council as part of their consideration of the developing Local Plan later this year.

This will allow full consideration of the implications of incorporating the potential development of the brownfield site at St George’s Barracks into the Local Plan.

The incorporation of the development provides an opportunity to reduce the scale of housing allocations in other locations across the County from those previously proposed in the Draft Plan in July 2017.

First of all St George’s. As you will recall the Council reached an agreement with the MOD through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the autumn of 2017 after the Draft Local Plan had been published. This was to examine the scope for the development on this brownfield site planned for closure in 2021. A high level MasterPlan providing “initial concepts” was produced and has been the subject of considerable public consultation which was reported upon last week.

During the early part of 2017, when the Local Plan was being produced in its draft form, there was no robust evidence to enable detailed consideration of St George’s for its inclusion in the Plan. A number of responses to that consultation specifically highlighted that it would be desirable if the Local Plan could articulate the potential re-use of this site.

The MoU proposes a garden village of between 1500 to 3000 homes together with new employment, shops, education, health and community facilities.

Within the paper to Cabinet and the consultation document an attempt has been made to explain what a garden village means in a Rutland context although this will be further developed with the Advisory Group and the Project Board and ultimately for approval by Cabinet and Council later this year.

There are a number of key issues which impact the scope of the development which need to be addressed

• The location of the minerals
• The feasibility and demand for the scale of development which will ultimately be proposed
• The listed buildings and their setting
• Transport infrastructure
• Landscape appraisals
• Ecological appraisals including a Habitat Regulation Assessment in respect of the Rutland Water Special Protection Area and the RAMSAR site

All these issues will need  ...  view the full minutes text for item 180.

To receive items of urgent business which have previously been notified to the person presiding.

No items of urgent business had previously been notified to the Chairman.