Agenda and minutes

Councillor Suleman submits a report which presents the findings of the recent external consultation exercise on Strategic Options for Adult Learning, undertaken by TRIBAL Education Consultancy.  The Cabinet is asked to decide on a preferred option for the future of Adult Learning.

The full report of TRIBAL is attached for Members of the Cabinet only.  Further copies are available at www.leicester.gov.uk/cabinet or by contacting Frances Wake, Committee Services on 252 6028.

The minutes of the Education and Lifelong Learning Scrutiny Committee on 23 January will be circulated as soon as they are available.

Councillor Blackmore submitted a report which presented the findings of the recent external consultation exercise on Strategic Options for Adult Learning, undertaken by TRIBAL Education Consultancy.  The Cabinet was asked to decide on a preferred option for the future of Adult Learning.

The relevant minutes of the Education and Lifelong Learning Scrutiny Committee on 23 January had been circulated to the Cabinet and their preferred option noted.

Officers reassured Cabinet that the writing school at Leicester Adult Education College could be maintained under the proposed new arrangement.

RESOLVED:

(1)that option (d) be progressed as the most viable option for the future arrangements for the provision of Adult Learning

(2)that the Corporate Director, Education and Lifelong Learning, be authorised to carry out detailed design work on the preferred option

(3)that a further report be submitted to Cabinet on 24 April, to consider and approve the detailed proposal for a new Adult Learning structure, to include full detailed legal, financial and Human Resources implications of the proposal; and

(4)that the local authority, in addition, commits itself to exploring, with local communities, including the Lifelong Learning Forum, learners and other stakeholders, appropriate forms of lay governance for the newly configured Adult Learning Service.

The Service Director, Regeneration, Highways and Transportation submitted a report that updated the Board of the final recommendations of the Pitt Review – Lessons Learned from the 2007 Floods and updated the Committee on the City Council’s actions. 

The board agreed to defer detailed consideration of the report until a special meeting was set up in which the Environment Agency and Severn Trent Water would be invited to discuss how they were responding to the Pitt Review. 

The head of Highway Management explained that there had been good progress on Surface Water Management Plans in the City and that good co-ordination with the county and districts was in place.  Furthermore, it was reported that the authority had invested significant resources into flood management and that a number of community flood wardens had been recruited.  In addition, the council’s emergency planning team had produced significant work on the risks associated with flooding, and those officers involved were thanked for their work.

RESOLVED:

(1)               That the report be noted.

(2) That the Environment Agency (EA), Severn Trent Water (STW) and any other interested parties be invited to attend a special OSMB meeting to discuss how the various authorities are responding to the Pitt Review, and;

(3) That a joint member group with adjacent district Councils and the County Council be supported to improve the mutual joint working.

Councillor Coley submits a report which provides Cabinet with a routine quarterly summary of decisions made at Corporate Director level in consultation with Cabinet Leads.  The Cabinet is recommended to note and review the summary of decisions made at Corporate Director level in consultation with Cabinet Leads during the period October to December 2005.

Councillor Coley submitted a report which provided Cabinet with a routine quarterly summary of decisions made at Corporate Director level in consultation with Cabinet Leads.

RESOLVED:

                        that the summary of decisions made at Corporate Director level in consultation with Cabinet Leads during the period October to December, 2005, as summarised in Appendix A to the report be noted.

RESOLVED:

That the report dated 22 January 2002 of the Director of Environment, Development and Commercial Services on; Contravention Matters, Applications Recommended for Refusal, Applications Recommended for Approval, Development by the City Council, Planning Inspectorate Appeal Decisions and Other Items, together with the additional information circulated at the meeting, and reported verbally by officers, be received, and the action be determined as below:-

CONTRAVENTION MATTERS

20014617C – 454 London Road

Subject to the roof lights being coloured dark grey within six months of the meeting and the Director being satisfied with the colour and the process of colour coating (durability), that no further action be taken.

APPLICATIONS RECOMMENDED FOR REFUSAL

Application 20011972 – 289 St Saviours Road

Deferred to allow officers to have further discussions with the applicant about opening hours.

APPLICATIONS RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL

Application 20011068 – 42 Cank Street

Approved subject to the conditions listed in the report.

Application 20011576 – Wimbledon Street, Wimbledon Mills

Approved subject to the conditions listed in the report and subject to the following new condition.

NEW CONDITION

18.            Internal and external alterations to the remaining building shall not be started until a programme of recording and analysis has been undertaken by a conservation specialist, in accordance with a written brief which shall first have been agreed in writing with the City Council as local planning authority. A copy of the report shall be lodged with the City Council before alterations commence.

(To enable a record of the architectural and historic features of the building to be made.)

Application 20011820 – Fosse Road North, Tesco Express

Approved for a limited period of a year to enable the impact to be assessed.

Application 20011833 – Parkhill Drive, Parkhill Court

Approved subject to the conditions listed in the report and the amended description.

Application 20011844 – 411 Saffron Lane

Approved subject to the conditions listed in the report and the following new condition.

NEW CONDITION

8.         The workshop illustrated on the plan shall only be used for car valeting, ancillary to the petrol filling station and not as an independent business of any form.

(In the interests of residential amenity, pedestrian and highway safety in accordance with Policies H7 and T20.)

Application 20011855 – Macdonald Road, Belgrave Commercial Centre

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