Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Finance

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/233

Contact: Natalie Crawford, Capital Programme Manager, natalie.crawford@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Executive Director of Resources and Section 151 Officer (CA12).

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    approve the inclusion of ‘Great Mead’, a Children’s Residential Home, into the Capital Programme, releasing £3.1m of funding agreed by Council in February 2023.  

b)    approve the inclusion of ‘Willow Bank’, a Children’s Residential Home, into the Capital Programme, releasing £1.8m of funding agreed by Council in February 2023.

c)    approve the inclusion of a new Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) School for Social and Emotional High Needs (SEMH) and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), located in Didcot, into the Capital Programme, with an indicative capital budget of £14.4m to be met by section 106 funds and High Needs grant 2021/22 to 2023/24.

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet had before it a report setting out requests for changes to the Capital Programme requiring Cabinet approval that would be incorporated into the agreed programme and included in the next quarterly update to the Capital Programme in March 2024.

Councillor Dan Levy, Cabinet Member for Finance, presented the report.

In response to a question, the Executive Director of Resources confirmed that funds had been allocated to rail feasibility studies for a number of routes within the County.

Councillor Levy moved, and Councillor Roberts seconded the recommendations, and they were approved.

RESOLVED to:

a)    approve the inclusion of ‘Great Mead’, a Children’s Residential Home, into the Capital Programme, releasing £3.1m of funding agreed by Council in February 2023.

b)    approve the inclusion of ‘Willow Bank’, a Children’s Residential Home, into the Capital Programme, releasing £1.8m of funding agreed by Council in February 2023.

c)    approve the inclusion of a new Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) School for Social and Emotional High Needs (SEMH) and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), located in Didcot, into the Capital Programme, with an indicative capital budget of £14.4m to be met by section 106 funds and High Needs grant 2021/22 to 2023/24.