Decisions

To seek approval of the Bicester Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP) including its walking and cycling network plan, policies and targets (final draft following consultation).

Recommendations agreed.

Noted

To seek agreement to the uplift in High Needs funding.

Recommendationns agreed

Item 6 – Councillor John Sanders

Item  8–  John Riches, Chair of Oxfordshire Association of Special School Headteachers (OASSH)

Councillor Emma Turnbull, Shadow Cabinet member for Education (5 mins)

Item 9 - Councillor Liz Brighouse, Chairman of Performance Scrutiny Committee

Councillor Glynis Phillips, Shadow Cabinet Member Finance (5 mins)

Item 10 - Councillor Glynis Phillips

Financial report on capital spending against budget allocations, including any necessary capital programme approvals.

Recommendation agreed.

See attached Annex

Agreed.

None

None

To note and seek agreement of the report.

Joint Responsibility: Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Finance.

Recommendation agreed

To report on a quarterly basis any executive decisions taken under the specific powers and functions delegated under the terms of Part 7.1 (Scheme of Delegation to Officers) of the Council’s Constitution – Paragraph 6.3(c)(i).  It is not for Scrutiny call-in.

Noted

Quarterly staffing report providing details of key people numbers and analysis of main changes since the previous report.

Noted

To seek agreement to:

1.    assume responsibilities granted under The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restriction) (England) (No.3) Regulations 2020 giving local authorities powers relating to the control and prevention of coronavirus; and

2.    delegate powers to the City and District Councils in accordance with the above regulations.

Joint Responsibilities: Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care & Public Health

In July 2020 the government introduced new powers for local authorities to support local outbreak management.

Cabinet considered a report recommending that Oxfordshire County Council assumes responsibilities under The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restriction) (England) (No.3) Regulations 2020 in order to ensure that any serious and imminent threat to public health in Oxfordshire was necessarily and proportionately addressed.

Councillor Judith Heathcoat, Deputy Leader of the Council, in moving the recommendations highlighted that this was a joint responsibility between herself and Councillor Stratford as Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health. Councillor Heathcoat introduced the contents of the report. A Health Protection Board had been set up to oversee the development and delivery of the Oxfordshire Covid 19 Local Outbreak Control Plan commenting that it was an exemplar of good local collaboration and would ensure a co-ordinated response that was so important to Oxfordshire communities.

Councillor Stratford stressed that the proposals were essential. He welcomed the overarching role for the County Council but working with local District Council and parishes with the local knowledge and approach an important factor in a successful approach to any local outbreak.

During discussion Cabinet welcomed the recommendations and the joint approach being taken. Councillor Corkin, Cabinet Member for Council Business & Partnerships commented that using local knowledge at all levels would be important in a bid to bring the most and appropriate effective but lightest of touches to avoid heavy local restrictions.

RESOLVED:             to:

(a)          assume responsibilities granted under The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restriction) (England) (No.3) Regulations 2020 giving local authorities powers relating to the control and prevention of coronavirus and;

(b)          delegate powers to the City and District Councils in accordance with the above regulations.

Noted.

Noted.

The Committee received the report.

The Committee received the report.

Recommendations Agreed.

Recommendations Agreed.

Recommendations Agreed.

Recommendations Agreed.

Note:  The Committee thanked staff for their hard work and efforts towards end of year.

Recommendations Agreed.

Recommendations Agreed, subject to Sean Collins approving the fees in relation to recommendation (b).

Recommendations Agreed.

Recommendations Agreed.

There were none.

The Minutes of the Meeting held on 5 June 2020 were approved and signed subject to amending ‘Johnson’ with ‘Johnston’ and ‘Alister’ with ‘Alistair’ in the list of attendance.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Ian Corkin and Councillor Lawrie Stratford.

The Committee received a public address from Mr Karl Wallendszus on behalf of Fossil Free Oxfordshire.

Noted.

Recommendations Agreed, subject to the Committee officer checking the requirements surrounding draft minutes.

The Committee RESOLVED that the public be excluded for the duration of items 16,17 and 18 in the Agenda since it was likely that if they were present during those items there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) and specified in relation to the respective items in the Agenda and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of each case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information.

THE REPORTS RELATING TO THE EXEMPT ITEMS WERRE PUBLIC. ANY EXEMPT INFORMATION WILL BE REPORTED ORALLY.

No decision required.

Approved subject to amendments in bold and strike through text.

None

6.         Serving of the Prohibition Order for the review of the Mineral Planning Permission (ROMP) at Thrupp Farm and Thrupp Lane, Radley, Oxfordshire

            Richard Dudding

Roger Thomas

Andrew Coker

Nick Dunn

7.         White Cross Farm, Reading Road, Wallingford – MW.0033/18

            Simon Rees

            Councillor Mark Gray

Approved

Minute 27/20 – Swannybrook Farm, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon

Officers advised that although all further investigation work requested by Committee in July had been done it had not been possible to complete all the analysis work including the independent traffic survey, which had only been concluded a few days before.  Therefore, it had not been possible to bring a report back to this meeting but a report would be made to the October meeting.

None declared

Councillor Damian Haywood (Councillor Glynis Phillips)

Approved

34 questions with Notice were asked.  Details of the questions and answers and supplementary questions and answers will be set out in the Annex to the minutes.

In relation to Question 2, Councillor Heathcoat undertook to provide Councillor Emily Smith with a written answer clarifying whether over half of the money had been paid into the scheme has gone back to be Treasury and therefore had not been spent on training and education in Oxfordshire.

In relation to question 6, Councillor Walker invited Councillor Webber to email him with any particular concerns regarding the linking up of reporting tools.

In relation to question 7, Councillor Lindsay-Gale undertook to provide Councillor Hanna with a full written response, which had been omitted to her original question.

In relation to question 10, Councillor Lindsay-Gale undertook to provide Councillor Buckley with a written response detailing what was going to happen to the additional grant from government to compensate for additional costs from Covid.

In relation to Question 12, Councillor Constance undertook to provide Councillor Emily Smith with a written answer to explain why Bicester and Whitney scored higher than Abington or any other market town, together with the lists of projects that missed out on inclusion in the Tranche 2 bid, to help Seek alternative funding.

In relation to Question 18, Councillor Stratford undertook to provide Councillor Hannaby with a copy of the plans referred to in the answer, together with an explanation as to what monitoring would be taking place in relation supporting the vulnerable.

In relation to Question 20, Councillor Constance undertook to provide Councillor Phillips with a written answer detailing what the section 106 monies received from the Neilson site had been used on.

In relation to Question 2, Councillor Lindsay-Gale undertook to provide Councillor Turnbull with a written answer detailing school attendance figures for the first week of September in Oxfordshire.

In relation to question 24, Councillor Constance undertook to provide Councillor Sudbury with a written response detailing the projected emissions cuts in this decade and if they did not meet the 45% target, some detail about how and what the council and its partners were going to do to meet it.

In relation to question 25, Councillor Constance undertook to provide Councillor Pressel with a written answer to the question of when the Thames towpath was to be prioritised and by whom.

In relation to Question 27, Councillor Lindsay-Gale undertook to ask the Regional Schools Commissioner to provide Councillor Pressel with the answer she required.

In relation to Question 29, Councillor Constance undertook to provide Councillor Fawcett with a written answer detailing whether there was any evidence to suggest that repainting the cycle lanes improved safety or encouraged more cycling.

In relation to Question 31, Councillor Constance undertook to provide Councillor Leffman with a written response detailing how much of the emitted carbon at Ardley was recycled and how much ended up in the atmosphere.

In relation to Question 32, Counsellor Constance undertook to meet with Councillor Roberts, Councillor Liam Walker, Lee Turner and the new officer to discuss the matter further.

In relation to Question 33, Councillor Constance undertook to provide Councillor Roz Smith with a written answer detailing whether there was a remedial budget for the access to Headington works.

There were none.

Councillor received a public Address from Mr Ashley Smith on behalf of Windrush Against Sewage Pollution in support of the Motion by Councillor Nicholas Field-Johnson.

There were none.

Council paid tribute and held a minute’s silence in Memory of former Leader of Council Keith Mitchell and former County Councillor Maureen Hastings.

Council received an update from the Chairman on COVID19. It congratulated and paid tribute to staff and the community on their tremendous efforts and response during the Coronavirus pandemic.

There were none.

The Minutes of the Meeting held on 14 July 2020 were approved and signed as an accurate record.

Council received the report of the Cabinet.

The Recommendations were agreed nem con.

Recommendations agreed by 31 votes to 30.

To review Treasury Management activity in 2019/20 in accordance with the CIPFA code of practice.

Recommendations agreed nem con.

Motion Carried by 51 votes to 0, with 10 abstnstions.

The amendment by Councillor Tim Bearder was lost by 38 votes to 28.

The Substantive Motion was carried nem con.

The time being 4.05 pm, this Motion was considered dropped in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 15.1.

Motion lost by 34 votes to 25, with 2 abstentions.

The time being 4.05 pm, this Motion was considered dropped in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 15.1.

The time being 4.05 pm, this Motion was considered dropped in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 15.1.

The time being 4.05 pm, this Motion was considered dropped in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 15.1.

The business included at Item 10 of the agenda had been added to update Members on the outcome of a meeting due to be held 7 September 2020 with the Minister of Housing, Communities and Local Government. That meeting had been postponed due to a clash of urgent parliamentary business and therefore there was no update to give. The Chairman therefore, in the interests of the efficiency of Council business, exercised his powers as Chairman under Article 1, paragraph 4.2 of the Constitution having consulted the Monitoring Officer to postpone the item until a meeting with the Minister had occurred.