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Welcome colleagues to another cabinet this Tuesday morning the 16th of July, 2024. Before I proceed with cabinet discussions and report submissions and presentations. Just wanted to just draw everyone's attention to the tragedy that's befallen the community. Following the fire here in East Ham around the corner from this town hall on Napier Road. There's been a lot of violence and officers but for those members of the public who may not know, to date, three children have passed away as a consequence of the house fire that took place in the family home. I went to meet with local residents on Sunday afternoon. It is the entirety of the city is both heartbroken, as well as traumatized by what they witnessed and the tragedy that has happened since so I'd like to take a minute silence. In memory of the three children that, and with hope and love that the remaining family members are able to fall through. In addition, we have a former counselor whose funeral is taking place tomorrow. Council supports us to serve the communities of what was known as East Ham North board for a considerable period of time, and his funeral is tomorrow, alongside the funeral of Tony Wilson's mother, which will be taking place on Friday so as we take a minute of silence to remember the three children who are no longer with us, can we also spend that moment with a thought and condolences for Paul and Tony. In light of their profound and deep thoughts as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. And we're going to be proceeding with the meeting items for today's cabinet meeting, and just a couple of housekeeping rules. Before I kick off with those just welcome officers, members of the cabinet, and the members of public that may be via YouTube, as this meeting is being live streamed on the council's YouTube channel counselors, as you know, who are unable to join the meeting, they may be members of the cabinet or the watching online, while they're able to join remotely, they will not be able to present an item, move or second of motion or vote, and their attendance will not be officially recorded. And if there are any cabinet members or members of the executive online, if you wish to speak to a matter needs to raise your hand and join the committee, the party this committee will advise me and I will bring you in at the appropriate point. And also as a final reminder for members of the cabinet for us to report alongside officers, do you please kindly introduce yourself when before you mentally for speaking. Thank you very much. So I'm going to be jumping on top of his first instance, but you can't advise just for absence. We also have a pollard from Councilor Miraj Patel, Councilor John Whitworth, Councilor Mumtaz Khan, and Councilor Anne Easter, and Councilor Zafiqa, and Councilor O'Donnell, and Councilor O'Donnell, and Councilor O'Donnell. Thank you, and colleagues, can I just draw your attention to pages nine and 10, it's declarations of interest, and as set out, if you've got any pecuniary interests interests. You can't face them now does anyone have any disposable pecuniary or non pecuniary interests need to raise. I'm going to take the silence as a no. Thank you very much. And can we just formally note the minutes of the last meeting and decisions made cabinet on the fourth of June. Are they noted and agreed. Thank you very much on agenda item four, there are no points outside bodies, however, I do need to just make one additional announcement in regards to the school's forum. They've been the appointment of Madeline pointing to the schools forum, but in light of her appointment as cabinet member for children and people services. I'm going to need to be making changes to that appointment. So I will be bringing that back to our next meeting of cabinet. So if that could be noted. Now we're going to be moving on to the substantive items. First, main item short term partners, alternative to temporary accommodation. I'm going to be inviting Councillor Shabam Muhammad to introduce this report notes that in light of Councillors of Cali, having given his apologies, obviously you won't be able to receive the report. Before we start, just to clarify, could we maybe ask people that are online to mute themselves. Thank you. Shabam Muhammad. Thank you to your Councillor Shabam Muhammad, lead member for Housing Services and Modernisation. Thank you, Mr Chair. Thank you, Mr Chair. I just want to say thank you for the opportunity to support these experienced homeless and treat them with respect and dignity and find a wider, sustainable solution. We want to improve the social and wellbeing outcomes and reduce bad repressions and conditions contained in this report. We want to continue to keep the acquisition of car repressions and if agreed, the proposal will lead to additional 300 residential units to assist in reducing demand pressure or templarisation. This transaction will assist in achieving reduction in the Council's costly, insecure and likely accommodation class. I think the FSL have a positive impact on the life, on the outcomes of families generally and children's in particular. Children group partners limited are a financial advisor service regulated by the FSL and are based on other paths such as Hackney and Hayden. The average units will be acquired over a 15 to 20-month period and the unit will be refurbished to read standard at least to the end of the 10 years. Thank you, Chair. Thank you very much. Colleagues, before I bring in any officer colleagues, just to advise and remind you that there are some exempt appendices to this report. So if you have any questions, I'm going to have to exclude the person in public under the legislation because of commercial confidentiality. So I'm going to invite Comrade Hall to say any additional words. Thank you, Chair. Very little to add to that. This is another part of the Council's acquisition programme, which helps to buy in this case a relatively short leasing period of up to 10 years. This would help find an acquisition for the program, which includes as many options as possible to acquire luxury lithography. Inhabitably, in such way, there are penalties to be allowed to set out the report, subject to due diligence, of course, the spectrum of the report. And I see the time, as Councilman says, for the vote, which is now in the forecast. Thank you very much. Are there any questions? Okay, Councillor Sharlene McLean. Thank you, Chair. Councillor Sharlene McLean, Cabinet Member, Resident Engagement and Resident Experience. Thanks for this really great paper and it's good that we're getting the housing that our residents desperately need. I noted in the report that it mentioned about a third party housing provider that will manage the properties for us. I wasn't sure if we had any idea who that would be as of yet. And then also the second question was that it mentioned that in the risk that potentially there's other local authorities that are availing themselves of this. And what mitigations are we putting in place to ensure that we will get the properties when we need the properties? Thank you. Thank you very much. So in terms of a third party, the referred to short hill will be borrowing properties from a somewhat widespread geographic area on the council's housing needs. Obviously it will be better and more efficient because there won't be, there may be quite a bit of a geographic dispersal, it wouldn't be practical for the council to manage them directly for that to take years. So we have not yet resolved precisely who that agent will be. You're correct. The number of councils are looking at the sorts of solutions to the housing crisis and others have signed up to a deal like this. What I'm understanding is that the financial background for short hill will require about two thousand and five thousand. I'm sorry, it's not going to be their interest, our properties in Europe acquire four and have a full of your brother. So, although it's your right to highlight the issues, I think it is likely that maybe if this works, it would be possible to extend it beyond the freedom envisaged here. Just to avoid the downfall of that, obviously what we're signing up to is identified up to three hundred problems for us. Of course we are depending on what they actually acquire. Yes. OK. Are there any other questions? OK. And kindly colleague, raise your voice because there's quite a lot of outside. Councillor Neil Wilson, Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care. I think I know where it's going, but 913, the paragraph beginning the overriding risk is that in the event of sub leases require to be classed as a financial lease, statute dictate, etc. Then in the last sentence says, this will mean that the income cannot be used to fund the payments out under the head lease and cannot be used directly to improve the health and revenue position. Therefore, we are able to avoid a requirement to class the sub leases finance lease. Can we just have a bit more energy on that? Because I think that is open to a bit of interpretation within that paragraph. Yeah. Let me get on your right to raise it, Councillor Wilson, and say it's a complex point. So the first and foremost thing to say is that the accounting treatment, although of course it's paid for, doesn't alter the substance of the transaction. So we would receive income from the transaction, which together with the savings against our temporary accommodation bill would exceed the costs out for us. So you could just be able to say that's the first and most important thing to say. From the 1st of April, a new accounting standard has become applicable for local authorities. We have the international financial reporting standard number 16, which deals with lease transactions. So it's relatively new. Of course we are looking carefully at how that defines the transactions like this. It may be the debt piece that requires us to treat income directly as capital. So the amount of cash is set. And if so, we would need to think carefully about whether we could proceed with this, because then you would be faced with the short-term, relatively costly transaction, but you would have a secure long-term source of capital. We have not yet offered that model at all. That will highlight one of the due diligence points, in the same way that there will always be that for the sort of proper transaction. We will pay for it too, of course due diligence. So either we will satisfy ourselves that the accounting works in the way that we think it will do, and be able to treat everything directly to the transaction account. If that is not something that could be resolved, then we would need to take the decision either to proceed, but with the income being treated in the middle of the transaction, or else not to proceed with it. In some way of that being a deal breaker for this transaction, highlighting it, because one of the outstanding advantages of it is that this is a new accounting standard. It's only for a company that has got a good quality signal. Therefore, everyone needs a bit of time to get up to speed with it. That's what we would always do for any sort of transaction. Yeah, you can. Just very briefly, Chair, if I may. Yes, I understand the reference to the international financial reporting standard 16. It's only been in place three months, but if it were to be the case that this would have a material impact on this transaction, would it need to come back to us in order for it to be clarified? I just wanted some reassurance for any public watching. If that turned out to be exactly as you would have it, to have a material impact on the way that the financing would work, then of course, we would seek approval in that case. Again, I advise, this is only how you would have planned for the past. It doesn't affect the actual past. It's an accounting procedure. Yes. Thank you. Just a quick follow-up. I just wanted to get some additional clarification. When the 9.13 paragraph or section states, it's important, therefore, that we are able to avoid a requirement to class the subject of the finances. So how are you going to avoid it? What are the specific steps? Because you also make reference to finance lease statute dictates that the income receivable, et cetera, et cetera. And, you know, that is very much down to legal form and then detail of the transaction. So we go through that in detail. It's our own expertise in the council. It's fortunate to have in the last year or so recruited someone with the national reputation for the expertise in this area. Yes, I think we can be confident that we will arrive at the technical conclusion on that, often on such factors. And on the nature of it, we might then seek further confirmation from ethics, the accounting firm and/or the specialist with our external orders appropriate to make sure that the whole thing is agreed before we finalise the transaction. So that, in summary, is how we approach that. Of course, it is possible because the account of treatment is very much a function of the legal structure of the transaction. It may be possible to amend the small parts of that potentially going back to the substance that would be the purpose for you in order to ensure that it can be accounted for in a way that is most advantageous to the council. We will not, of course, do anything sort of, you know, unreasonably creative in that. I mean, I'll quietly concern, of course, is to ensure that it is accounted for in a properly intended way. And just to reiterate the point or question that Councillor Neil Wilson raised, if it transpires that despite the best capacity to avoid the requirements past the sublease, the finance lease, it will be brought back to the relevant cabinet leads and a decision will be taken to reverse this decision that we may be making today. Yes, I mean, in that circumstance, there are sort of two choices. Again, I come back to this really important point. This is how we account for the cash. It's not to do with the cash. But there would be two choices at our point. You could choose not to proceed. You could choose to proceed anyway. The consequence of that would be that you would still make the substantial savings from temporary accommodation. But they would not be quite sufficient to cover the payments out. So in the short term, this would be increasing your costs, but nonetheless providing housing, much needed housing. But instead, income would become a source of capital receipts for the next 10 years. Now, obviously that would have something to do with the Councillor's responsibility. It's exactly as you say, but it's not appropriate for a political decision. It would necessarily not proceed, but there would be a continuation at that point. OK, thank you. Are you satisfied? Yeah. All right, fine. I can't see any more questions. I'm going to just move to recommendations as set out on big page number 28 and top of big page number 29. So that's recommendations 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4. Do we all agree? We all agree. Thank you very much. The next cabinet report by Stratford, I'm going to be inviting my colleague Paul Kitchen to talk to this. Police, please do note the introduction that I've provided in the cabinet report is top of big page number 42 in the agenda pack. But over to Paul. Thank you, Chair. So, this paper seeks approval for the development of the Rector Theatre site in Stratford. The decision was to market the Rector Theatre for the purposes of leisure, arts and economy use. Secondly, seeks to get into a development agreement and seeks approval for capital to develop the site to the rear of the Rector Theatre for residential properties. As we'll be familiar with, this site has been vacant for a number of years. The Council has been working with fragmented landowners of the site and with popular homes to come forward with a viable proposal which is exciting to use. Important for a number of reasons. It's a key feature site by the station, Stratford Vision. The procedure has been abandoned for a number of years and we're seeking to improve footfall down the high street. We're seeking to stimulate the nighttime economy. We're seeking to address the Council's housing challenges as well. So, the proposal we have in front of us is for a residential development to the rear of the Rector Theatre for around 176 homes. About 36% being affordable social rent. The proposal is for the Council to fund through a development agreement with Populo and Hollybrook Homes, a tune of about £88 or £2 million. About capital, which would be recoverable over time through the receipt generated from the private homes and sites. Separately, of course, as I mentioned earlier, the Rector Theatre would be marketed to attract interest for leisure users, nighttime economy users and other activity, I guess, which would bring life to a local landmark. We know it's from poor sites from an exercise carried out about 18 months ago, there was considerable interest in that particular site. So, we're hopeful we'll get something really exciting for that part of Stratford at the same time, looking forward to residential development to the rear of it, which will really kind of get that site back into use. That's why I think it's important to get something revisionable. That noisy point, I'll stop. All right, thanks very much and just really to comment on the viability point that's been raised by Paul. Note on section 1.6, this is a potential scheme that will be able to bring forward residential on the site of 179 homes, including 65 new social rented homes, which is 36% affordable basic. And as we're in control of the development and subject conditions, it is very much possible, but we could aim to the intention to achieve 50% homes at social rent levels on Council owned land that should be integrated in the Regulation 19 local plan that we approved a cabinet, but for the purposes of this report, and based on viability in economic conditions, construction costs and the like, this is a position as is. So I'm going to be opening up to questions, questions for all. Yes, Councillor Sarah Ruiz. Thank you, Chair. Councillor Sarah Ruiz, Secretary, Deputy Mayor and Cabinet Member for Environment, Sustainable Transport, Children and Education. Just a really quick question. I think it's really exciting that we're looking at the recs in a separate, separate from the housing. But it has a really checkered history. I mean, it's been all sorts of things and I just wondered whether we, as elected members or cabinet, will the decision on who is awarded that contract to develop the recs separately, will that come back to us? So, by way of response, and I'll bring in Paul Kitzen, there is a Stratford vision. And there is, in the Regulation 19 local plan, a place and intention for that part of Stratford, which takes into account the significance of Stratford as our major town centre, and also what else is coming down the line in terms of carpenters. So, quite diligent thought has been given to the type of occupier in the commercial element of this development and scheme, and it will be in accordance with our Inclusive Growth Community Wealth Building and Stratford Place vision. And in line with our governance arrangements, in terms of any contractual agreements that need to be grouped with a preferred occupier, it will go through the relevant governance, i.e. the portfolio lead, it will come to cabinet visibility forum, no doubt, so that everyone on cabinet and the executive is appraised, and as a probe in line with the scheme of delegation, it will come to cabinet. But I'm not sure at this moment in time. Thank you, Jane. The paper is written, at the moment, under 2.1.7, does delegate to the directory of property, especially with the corporate direction of inclusive economy, housing and culture, which is big. And in association with the portfolio, we can finalise and then enter into a relevant agreement with the government. So the paper, as it stands, does delegate that to the director of property, and myself, the portfolio holder. So it's not going to come to cabinet. Thank you for clarifying. It's not going to come to cabinet, but just be assured that any decision made is going to be in conformity with strategies and policies that we as cabinet and the executive have approved. And there will be relevant updates at the appropriate time, in any case. Okay. Right. Any other questions, colleagues? Councillor Charlene McLean. Thank you, Chair. Just in 1.5 of the report, just on the back of what Sarah said about the, you know, the recs being accepted. It just, it mentions, this report also recommends the appropriation of the rec site and the island site for planning purposes to help facilitate development. I wasn't sure exactly what that meant because I thought that the rec site is ours, so what's the appropriation with regards to the recs itself? Thank you for your question. I think that should really refer solely to the island site for the appropriation for planning purposes. Yeah, because, not mostly, but it's two separate sites, isn't it? So there's the recs and the cultural aspects of that. And then there's the island site, which is, potentially, if we get planning permission, or whoever gets planning permission, then it will be developed. But if we didn't get planning permission for the island site, the recs could still proceed as cultural venue for Stratford in Lyman, Stratford Vision. Who wants to answer that? Sorry, sorry. Are you happy? Yeah. Okay, cool. Any other questions, colleagues? Okay, Councillor Neil Wolfson. On this appropriation of 422, on paragraph 422 on page 49, says the Council should only propose to appropriate land for planning purposes if it has the intention and intention to see the land use for development that promotes, et cetera, economic, social, or environmental wellbeing as their own beliefs that the appropriation is needed in order to facilitate or achieve any of these, and that meets those conditions. That, in other words, that overrides any objections, or is it still subject to an objection or appeal processes? 422. Do we have Giles? I'm not an expert in this legal. I think that's just stating the conditions under which the Council should be appropriating land and transferring land. And I think the final line is just confirming that this particular set of proposals meets that rationale and that reason for appropriating land. It seems to sort of catch all, because we have an economic, social, environmental wellbeing, obviously, we have the overriding wellbeing power in law, but also this is quite overarching, Chair. It's all right just seeking clarification. Is it the case if we were to appropriate anywhere, you know, to a general point, not just this particular, that that overrides any objections from any other parties? Just to be clear, this is referring to Council-owned land. Right, only Council-owned land. And also, in terms of promoting improved economic, social and environmental wellbeing of its area, that will be in line with the Inclusive Growth Strategy and the mention of a fixed success being the health, wellbeing and happiness of our residents, as iterated in the building up era of the plan. So, those judgments will have been made and discussed. Is that all right? Yeah, I just think it's good in public debate. All right, cool. Okay, so colleagues, I can't see any more hands up in terms of questions. Please kindly note the recommendations 2.1. That's all the way to, God, that's a lot of situations. You should all be pleased I'm not reading it out. 2.1.16. Do we agree? Agreed. Agreed. Thank you very much. Moving on to Item 7. This is a report from O'Brien's Scrutiny, and it's been presented by the Chair of O'Brien's Scrutiny relating to the relationship between black boys, which is a long-standing task and finish programme of work that has been undertaken since I think 2020. So I'm going to invite Councillor Antony Coleman to say a few words, and we're going to be moving to note the report. Thank you, Mayor, for inviting me to say a few words. I am remote as you know, but present in the chamber is Jasbinder. She and Jasbinder is being the supporting, excuse me, officer supporting the commission in this piece of work. Mayor, this is the first report arising from an in-depth scrutiny review of how the Council and its partner agency can improve the lives of black boys and young black men in the borough. The review is part of a scrutiny commitment to ensure equality and opportunities for Newham's residents. Newham young people chart a pledge to celebrate diversity and ensure that all young people can reach the best of their abilities, ensure equal participation and improve and remove our stigma and discrimination wherever it can be seen. In your vision, Mayor, you said that all young people in Newham should be able to fulfil their potential. Unfortunately, however, the research, data and lived experience shows that black boys often are not able to reach their potential or enjoy positive outcomes when compared with their peers from other ethnicities. The scrutiny commission therefore aims via this inquiry to support the Council's ambition to create fairer, inclusive communities where every individual has the opportunity to strive and succeed. This commission was set up to examine black boys' relationship with the borough, in particular, as it relates to social, political, criminal justice, economic, health, educational attainment and other relevant social policy dimensions impacting and or shaping this relationship. The root of under treatment within the black community and its boys are a result of structural poverty, social and environmental and environment, which are all areas where the Council has a focus and shape. And to Councillor Macaulay, we can't hear you anymore. You've muted yourself. Sorry, I don't know where I went to mute. However, I'm not sure at what point I went to mute, but the report, I would like to lead for a structural system to be addressed urgently. It is always about under treatment in areas such as educational attainment, social and economic well-being and over-representation in the criminal justice system and mental health issues. And arguably, these are seemingly the accepted norms by some. For far too long, the establishment has used table tennis and DJ mixing classes as a sticking plaster for the issues we see today. Perhaps it worked for some, at some of the times. But what we need is systemic changes. Mayor, accompanying this report is 12 recommendations. And as I said before, it's the first part of a report, the second report, I'm hoping that we would conclude by December of this year. So I ask the cabinet to note this report. Thank you very much, Councillor Macaulay. And I just wanted to formally note our collective thanks and appreciation to you, members of this past and finished meeting presently and those that have been involved in the past. And as you know, our approach to all things structural and systemic as it relates to racism and inequality and in particular on issues to do with disproportionality is very much an important aspect of what we do. And we look forward to providing you a report as set out by the process that we will undertake on page number 64 colleagues I'm going to just go straight to the recommendations for now. But the scrutiny report on relationship between black boys in the borough be noted and that an executive response to the scrutiny recommendations be prepared for consideration by the cabinet within the timeframe that we are required to do this. Is that agreed? Thank you very much. Thank you, Councillor Macaulay. Thank you, Mayor and cabinet. I'm now moving on to agenda item eight, which is the procurement of electrical vehicle charge. And I'm going to be inviting Councillor Sarah Ruiz to introduce us. The council has secured grant funding from various people for approximately 28% of the initial costs and the selected charge point operator will be responsible for financing at least 72% of the capital expenditure. The deployment plan includes 60 accessible charges co funded through the local electric vehicle infrastructure pilot scheme, along with an additional 100 charges partially funded by on street residential charge point scheme. And I think, Alec and is Charles here as well to, if they want to add anything or ask questions. Just want to say this has been concerted efforts with officers within the team in order to increase the provision of electric charging funds in the last 18 months. And there are a number of other schemes which we are looking at funding for. So we are very confident we will be getting the 3000 charging points be as outlined by 2013 will be another report coming to cabinet about a partnership arrangement, we've got a regimen of all forms, basically. So, we've really increased the speed now of delivering charges over the last 18 months by looking at the various partnerships, the various funding streams, central government. Okay. Charles, would you like to say anything, anything to add. Can I just form a note in just thank you, and the rest of the team so much for the work that you do on this and everything else, very much appreciated. Right. Are there any questions. Okay, counselor, I'm a very cabinet member of me in crime. It's good to hear that she speed up the process but is there any other challenges that we might expect along the way. And obviously, with the electric charge points I'll think there's always, I think you might come up to actually found a reposition them. The intention is to position them across the borough so it is not going to be just located in one area where we have a number of residents who are requesting it so social equality wasn't the art of this one so we'd be looking electric charging points, both in the streets but also in the states in order that are available for all. Hi, thank you. I was just wondering, where on the streets, were they going to be positioned on the pavement, or they're going to be built out into the road. The intention, and as officers say that I'm factoring correctly, is to put them on the pavement and there are small structures will be on the pavement. So, if you're going to build it out from the pavement six, it's a lot more expensive so it will be located on the pavement. And I'm going to look Charles to make sure that that is correct. Yeah, I was just going to say, we, when you look at what we've delivered so far, we've had some of them delivered on the pavement, and just going to confirm that going forward, there's an intention to put some on the category, but it depends on visibility as well. And that's really good, because when we did the first wave there was quite a lot of concern raised amongst resident groups around cluttering of the pavements for desk, and those with wheelchair users. I would be really encouraged and keen to have assurance that relevant stakeholder groups, particularly those that are from our elderly communities and disability communities and those that are visually impaired are engaged fully in this process of identifying sites will be, I also appreciate that we need to get this rolled out. The one thing that also strikes me, and I'm sure that there's a diligent method of deployment across the borough, it's nice to see whoever shouts the loudest they'll get a charging point on this route. We do have a process, and part of the process has been sure that they're not dispelling. Just to add, something really important is that they are going to be on some of our estates, so the parking on some of our council estates, I think it's really important that we do have that social equity across the borough because it's very easy, it would be very easy to have a large number in Stratford and Forest Gate, for example. Whereas in actual fact, we do have a lot of mini cab drivers who do use electric and we do need to ensure that there is social equity across the borough. Yeah, I mean to be quite honest, there'll be probably a concentration of the type of vehicle in particular parts of the borough. I think one area that we may need to start considering in terms of cycle hangers is cycle hangers for electrical bikes, not least because of the risk that they can also pose in small housing units. That's a subject matter, that's more likely of the time scooters rather than electric bikes, but electric bike scooters etc etc. Right, I'm going to move on to the recommendations. One all the way through to 2.2.3 do we agree. That's all agreed and noted. Right, okay moving on to agenda item nine, procurement a cycle hanger for bus. Moving, how seamlessly we've moved into that, see if it was classic. So this is a report that prompts our approval to start the procurement process for a contractor to install and maintain our cycle, your cycle hangers. And this would be for a period of four years. And this would also include the maintenance of keys for the cycle hangers so currently that isn't part of the deal. There's a significant demand for secure cycle hangers evidenced by a waiting list that has reached over 500 as of November 23 so I would imagine that by July 24 be significantly more than 500. We are absolutely committed to ensuring that people have secure cycle hangers, especially in areas where accommodation is small and overcrowded, and again about the social equity of the cycle hangers being right across the path. I'm looking definitely here, Charles and Alex and. Okay. Critical that you need to add. I've got one major question. Or actually, two. Why does this have to be done now what's driving the procurement with a million pounds, and has any consideration being given to a kind of sponsorship arrangement with a external partner agency, given that these will be quite prominent in our public realm, and will conform to the income generation potential of our public realm advertising spots, because they are quite important visible advertising opportunities for commercial companies. And I'm just wanting to get more assurance that we're thinking more commercially in these types of things, has that been done. I would imagine the boys would think about that. Yeah. There's no cost to the cost of these because this is basically going to be supplied by the private sector, and there are design which is very different to the ones that five years ago, where they cried. The design of these designed out trying a lot more robust. We have cycles and that's why we're doing it now and run to zero. So, run delay we we are behind the curve with other London councils and we need to get these in as soon as possible in order to expedite our transition to the model shift to active travel and especially walking. They are funded by the LIP funding with TfL as well so there is no capital cost to the council. It's not costing us anything. It says on 1.3 for financial year 24-25 the council has allocated a budget of 347. And I know that it comes from the LIP and active and sustainable transport capital scheme at 4 million. So, it will be at no cost to the council so we won't. It's from funding by funding, but we've also allocated just over a quarter of a million pounds to this. Yeah, from the LIP funding. So it's not. Maybe that just needs to be clarified. And so does that mean given the grant funding, money is going to be drawn from these hangers for income generation? We can look at that, but normally across London, they produce these green hangers in the option we could look at whether the supplier would allow some advertising on there as well. But they're normally green in order to sort of blend into the street. My question was just around 1.6 actually. It was just, as you mentioned, sir, about being equitable across the borough. Have we actually spied consultation with residents or I know this is going to be a separate report that comes later about decision making. Is that already underway? In terms of the site selection, we have a web page where we receive feedback from residents who also make suggestions in terms of where they want these located. We basically take that into consideration when we decide to where to place these and we also carry out the final location sites. And then with the level of demand that we got, how do we keep people appraised? The fact that, you know, it's a good news story in line with what we're doing with Just Transition, actual travel planning with schools and so forth. And they're on the same page with this journey that we're doing. There will be a community campaign. When we roll these out, there will be a conference campaign there in order to make people aware and then signpost them how they're able to join the waiting list for these new cycle hangers. What we expect is that the waiting list will go right down and the measure of success is that the waiting list will go up again as more people would want to use this checklist. And then maybe building additional hangers. We will be looking at those streets and ensure that we don't put them in those streets, which has to be a parking stress. We will be looking at that. It would be a material consideration where we site these. Thank you. Okay, colleagues, I'm going to move on to Neil Wilson and then Councillor Charlie McLean. Yeah, very briefly, I'm intrigued in a way with Paragraph 41 because we're signing up to the NHS. You couldn't make this up, really, in one regard. The NHS Sustainable Business Services, who's shared services arm. I get the link between the NHS and sustainable transport and air quality, but it's a proposal that then allows mini competition through that framework. Is that correct? This is just a sort of mechanism again. It's a process. I just think, does that have to be highlighted at all in the recommendations? Because it's not. It says it's proposed that we sign up to this, but then it's not in the formal recommendation. I mean, if it's understood, fine. If I'm being a bit pedantic here. Okay, so basically you're suggesting that it says total value of up to a trillion. There's an explanation that that's drawn from the implementation plan and the active and sustainable transport capital scheme. No, no. The proposal on or one, does that have to be contained within the recommendation? Because it's just about a framework. Okay. I didn't know whether the office. Can I just get some advice. 4.1 have to be included in the recommendations. Yes. Okay, so move 4.1 into recommendations, so it becomes near 2.1.4. And then only up to 4.4 million. Sorry, but we just insert the following words. Funded through the local implementation plan and the active and sustainable transport capital scheme. Do we need to make reference to the 347 in the recommendations. Okay, so join we've got that so far. So where I've said, insert the following words after 4 million in 2.1 full stop. It should now read up to 4 million. Funded through the local implementation plan and the active sustain and sustainable transport capital scheme. The finance for the financial year 2024 25 the council has also allocated a budget of 347,000 pounds. Yeah. And then you've got the new 2.1. Or, which replaces, which is going from current 4.1 and we delete 4.1. Or actually the 4.1 and just insert as noted in recommendations, comma, it is proposed. Okay, based on those changes. Yeah, I was just looking at the pictures of the cycle hangers on the pen in Appendix A. And they're very industrial. I've seen like some pretty ones in other things, but they're just a bit. I mean like raised beds at the end. Yeah, they just look full of dead flowers. Can we not, like there is a black poison on it. Can I suggest that's picked up on the other side? That's okay. They need a spliff by just different designs. This is the one which is set and rolled out across the standard. Okay. In terms of kind of prevention. Okay. Okay. So, colleagues, recommendations as amended on big page number 127. Do we agree? Agreed. Now moving on to agenda item 10. And I'm going to again invite Councillor Ruth to do a quick introduction. Thank you, Chair. This report seeks approval to award contracts for the supply of vehicles that will support the delivery of Newham's Air Quality Act. And will ensure that the Council's fleet continues to be compliant with the legal standards of the London Ultra Low Emissions Zone. Our Just Transition Plan sets out how we will cut emissions whilst creating opportunities for work and education and creating a better and fairer Newham. Following cabinet approval to procure, this report seeks approval for the order of the vehicles by a direct award on the Hertfordshire County Council vehicles purchase framework administered by the Procurement Partnership Limited. I think that's all I need to say. I don't know whether it's Alan and Helen or... Any really crucial additions? No. Are there any questions? Okay, Councillor Neil Wilson. Briefly, 438 rightly talks about working with the service to move forward about Folkestone Road Depot redevelopment plan. But to what extent would, because of the very real nature of that site, this is being, in a sense, a negative impact on further progress in this area. In other words, to what extent is Folkestone Road redevelopment actually hindering the way that we would like to travel here? Sorry, no funny changes. Okay. The direction of travel? It requires quite significant infrastructure improvements and Folkestone Road doesn't hinder the main constraints you've got there. If we want to have the infrastructure in there to charge the fleet, it would require substantial investment in order to get to substation and the infrastructure required. This would give just that option of looking at a business case in order to do that. So by the time this procurement finishes, we may be in a position, hopefully, that we would be able to procure a fully electric fleet should the technology allow us to do that. And we've got the investment. Thanks very much. Thank you. Yep. Okay, fine. And I'm going to go to the recommendations in page number 138. So that's recommendations 2.1, 2.1.2. Do we agree? Agreed. Okay, that's agreed. Now I'm moving on to the Building Affirmative Performance Report 2020 B24. Now, this is the outcome, so I'm going to be inviting James Parton to do a short and brief overview. Then we're going to open up to questions. I would just want to say, one, this is another demonstration of our ongoing transparency and showing the world and our members and residents how we're progressing as a council. It's all part of the mission to transform Council into an exemplary public service that delivers quality experience at all times of the journey, we are responding to the LTA action plan. We are going to be board proposals in terms of accelerating our transformation plans as a council, and more information will be provided to cabinet formally in due course. And I will just additionally add this final performance report highlights key achievements areas, which should be of most interest to us collectively as a cabinet with further improvements on. So that we are delivering the outcomes for our residents, including our valued partners in the voluntary sector and our businesses. And also please note that the Fair Challenge Action Plan is being integrated into our outcomes-based performance framework, so there's a commentary on that. Could you just maybe pull out key areas of improvement that we need to note? No problem. Thank you, Mayor. I'm James Parse, Assistant Chief Executive, Chief Transformation Officer for our performance framework, so very pleased. And in the interest of time, I will just cut straight to the chase when it comes to highlighting the kind of key exceptions. One key thing to flag is we are taking quite a substantial service planning exercise within the organisation at the moment to firstly review how far we can push progress on delivering corporate delivery plan commitments, which we think, even beyond the commitments that we've noted as being completed. And there was a substantial number of additional commitments that we think we've got significant improvements of delivery and improvement over the last quarter, which we'll come to in the next report. But equally as part of that process, we're seeking to kind of refresh, integrate and rationalise the corporate plan wherever possible, in line with the corporate peer challenge recommendation around our need to continually prioritise and streamline the kind of focus areas for the organisation. So that's just a bit of background and ongoing work, which no doubt will feature in the next quarter when we come back to Cabinet. For today's report, the key things to highlight are the exceptions and on the corporate delivery plan itself, 5.3 is a useful reference paragraph just for the emerging risk areas that have started to come through reporting, linked to delivery challenges and budget challenges for particular corporate plan commitments. We're highlighting particularly those commitments where we know there are continued budget and resource constraints that are going to affect our confidence and ability to deliver. I know some of these are linked to some reports today, but our plans around delivering 1,000 metric vehicle charging points, our cycle hangar programme, the continued investment in leisure, the continued investment in key parts of our digital affairs service. We're flagging some early risks there around budget commitments and the ability to kind of mobilise resources in constraint times for Cabinet's attention. Beyond that, we're also highlighting the red rated commitments and these are highlighted on the paragraph 5.11. These aren't particularly new, they've been consistently evaluated as red for a number of quarters now, mostly because of known either external pressures and challenges around working with external partners like TfL and others, affecting our ability to deliver. Or ongoing and well-known constraints within capital and budget available to deliver, what are ambitious and important key developments and deliverables in the corporate plan. The final ongoing challenge, and I don't think this will be a surprise that we're highlighting on the core plan commitments, is the ongoing challenge around temporary accommodation and the continued tracking of the significant increase in volume, demand and unit costs there. Which again, we're very transparently and openly sharing the latest challenges that the organisation is facing underneath those particular commitments. In terms of performance highlights, these are captured under the section starting in small page number 16, I don't know what the large page number is, but it's a long section which describes the portfolio, which of the key performance indicators we're tracking some challenges on. Highlights while we go through that, we know we've got continued challenges around rough sleeping, it's been a really positive area of council work, but we know there are increasing pressures in this area, particularly as a result of TA and housing crisis in the borough. And moving through the other key performance indicators, we're continuing to track the challenges we're experiencing around success criteria for our new work and the long term employment outcomes of that service, and the ongoing review and redesign work is a critical priority for the service. The modal shift remains a kind of challenging area but I think there's some very topical items coming to cabinet today, giving a flavour of the key developments that are going to start to shift that. Can I ask you to conclude please? Oh yeah, and I'll see if you can read the rest of the key exceptions there for any further information. All right, thank you very much. Questions colleagues? So let's not forget that by turning the tank, there are some good achievements, bless, and well done everyone. And I am noting even more enthusiasm and positivity amongst our resident communities. Right, okay. Can we just move straight to recommendations if that's okay? Because unless there's a really burning. Yes, we'll leave it there. Thank you very much. Okay colleagues, so I'm going to be new to, I can't even find the recommendations.

1. 152, thank you very much. Recommendations, okay. Would you kindly note recommendations 2.2 to 3. Are those agreed to be noted? Agreed. Okay, thank you very much. Then moving on to, just for formal noting, can I ask that we formally note the item 13, 14, and 15 items, are they formally noted? Agreed.