Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Infrastructure and Development Strategy

Forward Plan Ref: 2024/149

Contact: Bryan Evans, Senior Transport Planner

(Bryan.Evans@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Corporate Director for Environment and Place (CMDIDS4)

The information in this case is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed categories:

3. Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

The annexes containing exempt information under the above paragraph is attached.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to: 

a)    Delegate authority to the Corporate Director of Environment and Place in consultation with the Head of Legal and Deputy Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer to negotiate, complete, sign, seal and implement the Income Sharing Agreement with Oxford City Council for the Oxford Zero Emission Zone Pilot Scheme. 

Recommendations approved.

The Chair introduced the item to the meeting, invited speakers to address the meeting and responded to their points in turn.

The Chair asked officers to provide background information to the report.

Officers explained that the Oxford Zero Emission Zone (ZEZ) was a road-user charging scheme for vehicles, based upon their emission levels.

Officers noted that the scheme is promoted jointly by Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council, with income from the scheme being shared between the two authorities.  

Officers noted that the recommendations would be updated to reflect the new management structure within the County Council.

The Chair thanked officers and agreed to the recommendation in the report.

RESOLVED to:

a)    Delegate authority to the Director of Environment and Highways in consultation with the Head of Legal and Deputy Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer to negotiate, complete, sign, seal and implement the Income Sharing Agreement with Oxford City Council for the Oxford Zero Emission Zone Pilot Scheme.

Cabinet Member: Infrastructure and Development Strategy

Forward Plan Ref: 2024/149

Contact: Bryan Evans, Senior Transport Planner

(Bryan.Evans@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Corporate Director for Environment and Place (CMDIDS4)

The information in this case is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed categories:

3. Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

The annexes containing exempt information under the above paragraph is attached.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to: 

a)    Delegate authority to the Corporate Director of Environment and Place in consultation with the Head of Legal and Deputy Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer to negotiate, complete, sign, seal and implement the Income Sharing Agreement with Oxford City Council for the Oxford Zero Emission Zone Pilot Scheme. 

The Chair welcomed everybody to the meeting. The Chair informed the meeting that 28 days’ notice had not been given as the decision contained exempt information. The Chair stated that the decision would be deferred so that the notice could be given.

The Chair apologised for any inconvenience and deferred the report.

RESOLVED to:

a)    Defer the decision to ‘delegate authority to the Corporate Director of Environment and Place in consultation with the Head of Legal and Deputy Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer to negotiate, complete, sign, seal and implement the Income Sharing Agreement with Oxford City Council for the Oxford Zero Emission Zone Pilot Scheme’.