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ITEM EX3

EXECUTIVE – 23 DECEMBER 2003

Minutes of the Meeting commencing at 2.00 pm and finishing at 2.40 pm

Present:


Voting Members:

Councillor Keith R Mitchell – in the chair

Councillor Tony Crabbe
Councillor John Farrow
Councillor Neil Fawcett
Councillor Janet Godden
Councillor Margaret Godden
Councillor Anne Purse
Councillor David Robertson
Councillor Don Seale

Officers:

Whole of meeting: J. Leverton and D. Mitchell (Chief Executive’s Office).

Part of meeting: M. Petty (Resources); C. Cousins, J. Disley and S. Roberts (Environment & Economy).

The Executive considered the matters, reports and recommendations contained or referred to in the agenda for the meeting, together with a schedule of addenda tabled at the meeting and decided as set out below. Except insofar as otherwise specified, the reasons for the decisions are contained in the agenda, reports and schedule, copies of which are attached to the signed Minutes.

    298/03. MINUTES

    The Minutes of the meeting held on 9 December 2003 were approved and signed, subject to the following amendments to Minute 295/03: (c)(i) Councillor Purse in place of Councillor Hodgson; (c)(ii) Councillor Hodgson in place of Councillor Purse.

    299/03. PETITIONS AND PUBLIC ADDRESS

    Mr Andrew Wood presented a petition containing 300 signatures in the following terms:

    "We, the undersigned, demand that Oxfordshire County Council sticks to its promise to "urgently" investigate ways of using its legal powers to make Oxfordshire GM-free (Council 4 November), and bring forward, to the meeting of the Council on 13 January 2004 at the latest, full proposals on how the commercial growing of GM Crops can be banned within Oxfordshire."

    The Leader of the Council reported that the Executive had received advice on the matter from the Council’s Legal Officers, and on the basis of that advice had undertaken to consider the item at their meeting on 17 February.

    300/03. FINANCIAL MONITORING

(Agenda Item 5)

The Executive considered a report (EX5) which outlined the budget monitoring position to the end of October 2003.

RESOLVED: to:

    1. note the report; and

    2. ask directors to continue to monitor and keep a firm control on expenditure.

    301/03. GOVERNMENT PLANNING POLICY STATEMENTS

(Agenda Item 6)

The Executive considered a report (EX6) which provided the background to a consultation by the Secretary of State on the draft planning policy statements on regional planning and local development frameworks, recommending a basis for the County Council’s response to the Secretary of State.

Mr Cousins advised that the following two errors had appeared in the Policy Planning Statement 11 (PPS11) – Regional Planning (Annex A and B to the report).

  • Page 8(xiv) in the third line down in the explanatory text, for "having" read "housing".

  • Page 10, 3rd paragraph, delete "(see paragraph 15 of main report)".

Councillor Purse asked officers to take particular care in agreeing the precise wording of the response in consultation with the relevant Executive members.

RESOLVED: to:

    1. endorse the comments in paragraphs 17 to 25 of the report as the basis for the County Council’s response to the consultation on the draft planning policy statements on regional planning (PPS11) and local development frameworks (PPS12);

    2. endorse the comments in paragraphs 26 to 30 of the report as the basis for the County Council’s response to the consultation on proposals to reform planning obligations;

    3. authorise the Head of Sustainable Development, in consultation with the Executive Members for Strategic Planning & Waste Management and for Transport to finalise and submit the detailed responses on the basis of (a) and (b) above.

      302/03.       WITNEY: INTEGRATED TRANSPORT AND LAND USESTRATEGY

    (Agenda Item 7)

    The Executive considered a report (EX7) which sought approval for the revised Witney Integrated Transport and Land Use Strategy and outlined the progress made so far towards its development and implementation.

    RESOLVED: to approve the revised Witney Integrated Transport and Land Use Strategy.

    303/03 FORWARD PLAN AND FUTURE BUSINESS

(Agenda Item 8)

The Executive considered a list of items shown in the Forward Plan for the next two meetings.

RESOLVED: subject to the additions and amendments reported on the Schedule of addenda, to note the items currently identified for forthcoming meetings.

in the Chair

Date of signing 2004

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