Issue - meetings

Councillor Draycott submits a report proposing a programme of work for this financial year under the Capital Receipts Initiative, in line with the Cabinet’s decision in January 2001. The report summarises the bids received and Cabinet is recommended to consider the bids and indicate whether it supports the proposed schemes; to indicate whether works such as door entry system, and dropped kerbs/hardstandings should only proceed if owner occupiers meet their full share of the costs involved; to instruct the Central, Humberstone and Beaumont Leys Tier 2 groups to review or reprioritise their bids to stay within the resources allocated; to approve the bids for New Parks and Saffron Tier 2 Groups; and to approve the bid from Braunstone Tier 2 subject to no work being undertaken on streets covered by the demolition proposal, until such time as Cabinet has made a final decision.

Councillor Draycott submitted a report proposing a programme of work for this financial year under the above initiative. The report outlined a  summary of all the bids received from the various Tier 2s in the City and in the case of Braunstone, where there was currently no Tier 2, bids from the Neighbourhood Manager, in consultation with the Ward Councillors, the local Member of Parliament, the Police, Braunstone New Deal and the Braunstone Residents Action Group.

An amended recommendation was circulated to the meeting.

RESOLVED:

(1)that the programme of schemes proposed under the Capital Receipts Initiative in 2001/2002, as detailed in the report, be endorsed;

(2)that work on communal facilities or facilities that directly benefit people who are in private properties, should only proceed if the owner occupiers met their full share of the cost of the work involved, the Director of Housing, in consultation with the Cabinet  Lead Member for Housing and Neighbourhood Renewal, being authorised to approve replacement schemes should this not prove possible;

(3)that the Central, Humberstone and Beaumont Leys Tier 2s review and reprioritise their bids to stay within the resources allocated and that the Director of Housing be authorised, in consultation of the Cabinet Lead Member for Housing and Neighbourhood Renewal, to approve the revised bids;

(4)that the bids from New Parks and Saffron Tier 2s be endorsed; and

(5)that the bid from Braunstone Tier 2 be approved subject to no work  being undertaken on the streets covered by the demolition proposal until such time as the Cabinet made a final decision on the area.