Agenda
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Venue: Room 2&3 - County Hall, New Road, Oxford OX1 1ND. View directions
Contact: Chris Reynolds Tel: 07542 029441; E-Mail: chris.reynolds@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Link: video link https://oxon.cc/Cabinet25032025
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Apologies for Absence |
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Declarations of Interest - guidance note below |
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Questions from County Councillors Any county councillor may, by giving notice to the Proper Officer by 9 am two working days before the meeting, ask a question on any matter in respect of the Cabinet’s delegated powers.
The number of questions which may be asked by any councillor at any one meeting is limited to two (or one question with notice and a supplementary question at the meeting) and the time for questions will be limited to 30 minutes in total. As with questions at Council, any questions which remain unanswered at the end of this item will receive a written response.
Questions submitted prior to the agenda being despatched are shown below and will be the subject of a response from the appropriate Cabinet Member or such other councillor or officer as is determined by the Cabinet Member, and shall not be the subject of further debate at this meeting. Questions received after the despatch of the agenda, but before the deadline, will be shown on the Schedule of Addenda circulated at the meeting, together with any written response which is available at that time. |
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Petitions and Public Address Members of the public who wish to speak at this meeting can attend the meeting in person or ‘virtually’ through an online connection.
To facilitate ‘hybrid’ meetings we are asking that requests to speak or present a petition are submitted by no later than 9am four working days before the meeting i.e., 9am on Wednesday 19 March 2025. Requests to speak should be sent to chris.reynolds@oxfordshire.gov.uk
If you are speaking ‘virtually’, you may submit a written statement of your presentation to ensure that your views are taken into account. A written copy of your statement can be provided no later than 9am 2 working days before the meeting. Written submissions should be no longer than 1 A4 sheet.
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Appointments |
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Reports from Scrutiny Committees Cabinet will receive the following Scrutiny reports:-
Education and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee report on Local Area Partnership SEND Update
Place Overview and Scrutiny Committee report on Network Coordination of Road and Street works and Lane Rental for Oxfordshire
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Response to Council Motion on Part-night Lighting by Councillor Brighouse
Forward Plan Ref: 2025/009 Contact: Sean Rooney, Service Lead - Highway Maintenance sean.rooney@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Report by Director of Environment and Highways (CA8)
The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:
a) Note the proposal to undertake a full and thorough consultation, including early engagement with key community groups as set out and presented to Place Scrutiny on the 5th February 2025 (Place and Overview Scrutiny report: Review of Street Lighting and Illuminated Assets policy framework proposals for part night lighting)
b) Approve a community led approach to any part-night lighting proposal, through an application made by the town/parish council (if there is one) and the local county councillor, which following this request will include an area specific public consultation.
c) Request that officers;
i. Keep councillors informed through regular updates on progress of this work, through locality meetings and/or by way of an all-member briefing. ii. Ensure that there is full engagement from a cross section of users in the update of the Street Lighting Policy and development of Part night lighting regime framework. iii. Undertake a full, thorough and robust Equalities Impact Assessment for the updated Streetlighting and illuminated assets policy, as well as the Part night lighting framework and during each stage/element of a project. iv. Bring the proposals to Cabinet in the summer for decision together with any wider changes to the council’s existing Street Lighting and Illuminated Assets policy
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Citizens' Assembly Update Cabinet Members: Infrastructure and Development Strategy & Transport Management Forward Plan Ref: 2025/059 Contact: Carole Stow, Engagement and Consultation Manager Carole.stow@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Report by Director of Public Affairs, Policy and Partnerships and Director of Environment and Highways (CA9)
Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to
a) Commit to considering and responding to the key recommendations of the travel and transport citizens’ assembly included in Annex A to this report.
b) Formally request that Place and Overview Scrutiny Committee consider the council’s response to the assembly recommendations, prior to approval by Cabinet in July 2025.
c) Record its thanks to the residents who participated in the travel and transport citizens’ assembly.
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Treasury Management Q3 Performance Report 2024/25 Forward Plan Ref: 2024/166 Contact: Tim Chapple, Treasury Manager Tim.chapple@oxfordshire,gov.uk
Report by Executive Director of Resources and Section 151 Officer (CA10)
The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to note the council’s treasury management activity at the end of the third quarter of 2024/25.
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Business Management and Monitoring Report - January 2025 Forward Plan Ref: 2024/215 Contact: Kathy Wilcox, Head of Financial Strategy Kathy.wilcox@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Report by Executive Director of Resources and Section 151 Officer (CA11)
The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:-
a) note the report and annexes b) write off £0.1m owed to the council by a company who are in liquidation. (Annex B, para 107). c) write off 17 Adult Social Care contribution debts totalling £0.380m. (Annex B, para 110). d) propose to contribute £5.0m to the Local Government Devolution and Reorganisation reserve from the un-utilised contingency (£3.3m) and unallocated pay inflation of £1.7m, taking the total contribution to £10.0m in 2024/25 (Annex B, para 124) e) approve the transfer of £1.0m funding from IFRS9 reserves to the budget priorities reserve to support rural active travel measures. (Annex B, para 134 - 136)
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Forward Plan and Future Business Cabinet Member: All Contact Officer: Colm Ó Caomhánaigh, Committee Officer Tel: 07393 001096
The Cabinet Procedure Rules provide that the business of each meeting at the Cabinet is to include “updating of the Forward Plan and proposals for business to be conducted at the following meeting”. Items from the Forward Plan for the immediately forthcoming meetings of the Cabinet appear in the Schedule at CA12. This includes any updated information relating to the business for those meetings that has already been identified for inclusion in the next Forward Plan update.
The Schedule is for noting, but Cabinet Members may also wish to take this opportunity to identify any further changes they would wish to be incorporated in the next Forward Plan update.
The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to note the items currently identified for forthcoming meetings. |
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For information only: Cabinet response to Scrutiny items Disposal of County Hall Local Nature Recovery Strategy EOTAS Policy (Education Other Than At School)
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Exempt item In the event that any Member or Officer wishes to discuss the information set out in annex 3 to Agenda Item , the Cabinet will be invited to resolve to exclude the public for the consideration of the Annexes by passing a resolution in relation in the following terms: "that the public be excluded during the consideration of the Annex since it is likely that if they were present during that discussion there would be a disclosure of "exempt" information as described in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act, 1972 and specified below the item in the Agenda."
THE ANNEX HAS NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC AND SHOULD BE REGARDED AS ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ BY MEMBERS AND OFFICERS |
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Capital Programme and Monitoring Report - January 2025 Forward Plan Ref: 2024/227 Contact: Natalie Crawford, Capital Programme Manager, Natalie.crawford@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Report by Executive Director of Resources and Section 151 Officer (CA14)
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.
Annex 3 containing exempt information under the above paragraph is attached.
The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:
Capital Programme
b. Approve the updated Capital Programme at Annex 2 incorporating the changes set out in this report.
Additions to the Capital Programme
c. Approve a budget increase for the Speedwell House Redevelopment programme, to be funded from corporate resources. (see paragraph 63 - 65)
d. Approve the inclusion of £2.500m funding into the Capital Programme to fund a contribution to the Cowley Branch Line. The expectation is that as far as possible, this will be funded by S106 developer contributions. Any funding gap will be met through alternative funding sources. (see paragraph 66 - 70)
Budget Changes / Budget Release
e. Approve the inclusion of £0.868m Active Travel Tranche 5 (ATF5) and a further £2.650m of Consolidated Active Travel Funding (CATF) into the Capital Programme. This additional funding, announced by Active Travel England, will be divided into £2.050m for capital expenditure and £0.600m revenue expenditure. Funds will be held in earmarked reserves, pending business cases coming forward.
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