Only just to endorse Councillor Gilbies statement and also from the exec team, my fellow peers, I'd like to thank all those involved working on a plan for the past decade is a phenomenal feat.
So we'd just like to relay my thanks for all the hard work that has gone into it.
Thank you, Leader.
Well, I would just like to say, I would add to this, it's a solid, robust, well practiced, well thought out plan.
I'm particularly pleased with the overarching climate change pitch.
I wish it said sustainable materials would be made rather than forced to be there rather than encouraged, but that's a government thing, not this, and this is a really good solid policy.
And a good plan, and it will be here for a while, and we can make sure that it actually reflects all we want to break the forest.
Is there anyone else who would like to speak?
Thank you. Would the mover like to wind up?
Only to reinforce your point that it's unfortunate that the team had tried putting very strong provisions around both sustainable construction and zero carbon building, but those had been removed by the government.
One would hope that for future plans and other councils, the provision from central government will be stronger.
Beyond that, I certainly endorse the sentiments that have been expressed today. Thank you.
Will all those in favour please raise their hand for the movement of this plan?
Thank you.
Then move on to item six, which is the approval to consult on the town centre master plan supplementary planning documents, and the gain is going to be presented by Andrew Hunter, the executive director, place planning and regeneration.
Thank you, this report seeks the approval to consult on Tamsen to master plans.
These master plans have been prepared to provide additional information to guide development on the southern and eastern gateway sites allocated in the local plan that we've just talked about, and the now closed high street car park.
The documents before executive set out the general uses and configuration of development that will take place on these sites.
Particularly, these include a new direct link between the train station and the town centre, a new link between the town and the Peel centre and the Inner Ring Road, new public spaces in the south and east of the town including rooftop gardens, a mixture of residential and commercial uses with active ground floor uses,
new bus stop shelters and driver layover space creating a replacement for the bus station in the south of the town.
The provision of mixed housing of types of including apartments, townhouses and other people's accommodation and formal areas of open space and play areas.
The master plans are in draft form and if approved will be subject to public consultation. The details of the consultation set out in section 7 of the report and include a manned exhibition in Princess Square.
Following those consultation period, the comments will be reviewed and the plans will be updated and the version of the plans will be brought back to executive for final sign off.
Once signed off they become a supplementary planning document known as an SPD and they are then used to help guide development decisions and form a part of the planning policy documents that the council uses to determine planning applications.
Happy to take any questions on the master plans. Thank you.
Are there any questions? Any questions at all?
Thank you, Leader. I know there was a lot of concern about the bus station and how changes would affect the layout and the feasibility of getting one bus and then another bus.
Could you just give us some more information regarding that?
Yes, so this has been a long held ambition to have a user space more efficiently so what we're proposing within this document is that there will be bus stops and shelters on the roadside around in a looping area.
Alongside that there will be layover space for buses so buses that aren't, you know, when they finish their round and the drivers take a break, there'll be an opportunity for that.
And also there will be far more facilities for the drivers to use because they'll be in and amongst the town centre with places to get something to eat, somewhere to go to the toilet, all of those sorts of things.
So the intention is it's a looping system so it will still be focused at the southern end of the town based by the train station and creating a hub for public transport in that location.
Are there any other questions?
Could I just ask that when there is consultation going on if we could be as involved as possible please because I think that is really good because we want to take the council to the residents and this is another glorious opportunity of doing that.
Thank you.
Any other questions at all, none?
No, okay.
Can I ask them for somebody to move this recommendation?
Councillor GILBEE. Thank you, Leader.
Can I ask someone to second it?
Yes, Leader, Council, a bit more second.
Thank you.
Can I ask Council of GILBEE to speak to it?
Thank you, Leader.
I'm excited to support the development of these town centre master plans which provide further detail in relation to the site allocations within the local plan.
These plans set out the opportunities to regenerate parts of the town centre building on the success of the lexicon.
The draft proposals seek to create high quality public spaces, a better connection between the town centre and the rail station, the removal of some of the underpasses, provision of a mixture of new homes, including affordable and older people's housing, as well as commercial development.
The plan also seeks to create new bus stops and bus delay over space to create a new bus interchange, as was elaborated on by Andrew Hunter.
These proposals create a framework within which planning applications would be judged so we want residents views on the proposals so we can shape the final master plan which will be agreed by executive later this year.
In line with our approach to engagement and echoing the words just said by the Leader, offices and Councillors will be on hand to talk through the plans and hear views with an exhibition in principle.
An exhibition in Princess Square after the Easter break.
There will also be all of the normal opportunities online to comment on the plans and I highly, highly encourage all residents to feedback their thoughts for us to consider.
Members, I commend and move the recommendations before executive.
Thank you. Would the second delight to speak?
Yes, Leader. It's important to approve this SPD so that right and we generation can continue. The SPD builds upon local plan policies and the approved town centre vision in order to add greater detail, greater development and facilitate delivery of the strategic locations.
I'd also like to add that it's important to ensure consultation feedback is regularly reviewed, ensuring that future associated planning applications cater to the wishes of our residents. Thank you, Leader.
Would anyone else like to speak?
I would just like to say that this is the opportunity to develop the most sustainable location in the borough for us. It's a huge opportunity to build social housing, houses, flats and to give green space in the centre of our town.
And I'm sure we can have a big input on the use of material and the use of the demolition material so it's as green, it's as near carbon zero as possible.
So I am fully in support of this and I ask anybody who's got any reason to question anything to please take part in this consultation so we make it as effective and representing everybody's ideas and everybody's concerns within the borough.
Would the mover like to wind up?
Nothing to add, Leader.
Can I ask then all those in favour of this recommendation on the approval to consult on the town centre master plan supplementary planning documents? All those in favour please raise your hands.
Thank you.
We then move on to item seven, the Highways and Transport Capital Program, 2024, 25 and again, it's Andrew Hunter, who is the Executive Director, Place Planning and Regeneration.
Thank you, Leader. So following the approval of the budget, funding for Highways and Transport was agreed.
And this sets out the Highways and Transport Program for the forthcoming financial year and we would bring this report annually to you so you'll see a version of this every year.
There's an annex attached to the report which probably sets this out in the most easy form and that sets out the various funding streams that are available to deliver the program.
And that's a mixture of grant funding, Section 106, Sil Money, but particularly in this year, a large extra allocation of capital money that was agreed at council.
So an additional two million was put in the program for the purposes of managing road maintenance issues.
The program is generally broken down into six main areas of work.
So we have mobility, access mobility and travel choice, and that generally contains schemes which help to deliver safer routes to schools, additions of crossing points, 20 mile an hour zones, et cetera.
And there's examples within the annex.
We also deal with traffic management, which covers things like parking schemes, which the council implements around the borough and road safety schemes.
There's also a large amount of the program which deals with maintenance, road maintenance, structures maintenance and drainage maintenance.
And in this particular program it's worth noting that there's a very large scheme for electrical maintenance along the mill lane where we're replacing some different lighting and some recabling in that location.
The program is delivered within the 24-25 year, and all of the schemes are listed within that program, and the executive are asked to approve that program tonight, and I'm happy to take any questions.
Are there any questions, please?
None.
All right.
Thank you. Can I ask a member to move this recommendation, please?
Councillor GILBEE, I'd like to move, please.
Thank you. Can I have a second, please?
Councillor Jaffries.
Thank you.
With the move, I'd like to speak, please.
Thank you, Leader.
I do promise the double act of the executive director and myself will stop at some point tonight.
Thank you, Leader. Colleagues, I am proud to move the Highways and Transport Capital Program for 24-25.
This is the first capital program we as an administration can call our own, and reflects the priorities and concerns we all heard on the doorstep.
We know that parking is one of the top things we're likely to hear, and I can say that this administration takes that challenge seriously by adding an extra £100,000 in funding towards residential parking improvements
in our most pressured streets, including the Green Verge Conversion Program.
This is a 50% increase compared to last year, and I'm sure this is welcome news to all our residents.
Furthermore, the program includes an increase of £1.8 million in Council funding towards resurfacing roads,
now totaling almost £4.4 million, almost double what Government provides to Bratnell Forest Council for all highway maintenance activities.
I know residents in much of Bratnell have been long concerned about the broken lights down Mill Lane.
While I am pleased to announce that this program has allocated just over £1 million to its repairs, again, I'm sure good news to residents.
The plan will also deliver safety improvements, including creating improvements to facilitate safer routes to schools,
something the Council in a recent meeting has agreed is a top priority.
I know colleagues will join me in commending this program as an ambitious and targeted program,
focusing on the priorities of residents and ISO move.
Thank you for the second I'd like to speak.
I'd like to reserve.
Thank you, anyone else like to speak?
Councillor Lai.
Thank you, Leader.
I'd just like to say I'm really glad to see this going to be a crossing at Bratnell Lane and a crossing at Gelats Hill,
because both of these have been highlighted by residents as areas where they felt they needed safe crossing.
It's so really good to see that that the Council's responded.
Thank you.
Thank you, Councillor Wright. Anyone else like to speak?
I'd just like to say it's good that we might be able to fill up a lot of the potholes that the report from Asheville Association this morning was so depressing
that I think this is really good news for Bratnell Forest, and let's hope that with the park in particularly,
I'd like to thank everybody involved in making sure that was an increase this year.
Would the mover like to wind up?
Nothing to add at this time, Leader.
Will all those in favour of this recommendation please raise your hand.
Thank you.
We then move on to item eight, the long act in reversible contraception procurement,
re-percurement.
And this again is Andrew Hunter, Executive Director of Place Planet of the Generation.
I'm glad you're here tonight.
Apologies, this is my last one.
So this is very quickly, so this is a procurement we're being with, which are taking forward as the host authority to replace this contract
and we'll be representing RBWM so the Royal Borough of Windsor main head and slough in the procurement.
Local authorities commission these services as part of their responsibilities to commission wide of sexual health services.
Within the report you will note that GPs are the main provider of the long act in contraception and pharmacies
are the generally the provider of the emergency contraception.
Providers of the services following tonight will be notified of the opportunity to undertake these services
and they can be to undertake that work but it will be generally in the NHS that provide these two particular strands of the sexual health provision in Bratnell Forest.
So the executive are asked to agree the procurement approach and that Bratnell Forest hosts the contract for the two other local authorities
but have it taken any other questions?
Are there any questions please?
Can I just ask, so it said in the any provider and you said that's mostly GPs so as the provider comes forward and they've got the necessary requirement
and they answer all the right questions and they answer them greatly and they've got the capacity then they can get, they can have this.
Yes, essentially a GP would come to us and say we want to offer this to our residents.
We've got the capability and the space to do it if that's what they need.
We would then commission them and they would be paid on the rate that is agreed across all of those services universally so they're not all bidding against one another.
It's a single tender cost and they would come to us and they would then provide the service to do this contract.
So is this what happened in the past?
Yes, essentially it's just a reason.
And it was spread across the whole of the barrier.
Yeah, and it's just dependent on whether they want to provide it or not.
Okay, thank you. Are there any other questions?
Can I ask for somebody to move this recommendation please?
Councillor Wright.
Thank you.
Can I ask for a second then?
I'll second this recommendation, thank you.
Councillor Wright, would you like to speak?
Thank you, Leader.
Since transfer of public health to local government in 2013, councils have been working hard in collaboration with the NHS partners to maintain and improve access for our residents to sexual and reproductive health services and to ensure seamless pathways of care.
Brattnell Forest with SLOW and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead are working to secure a supplier that provides quality and good value, long-acting and emergency contraception using the new provisions in procurement legislation.
In doing so, we improve the health and well-being of our residents and provide savings down the line for NHS and social care services.
I support the recommendations that are set out in the paper before the executive.
Thank you.
But anyone else like to speak?
I'd just like to say I hope the provision remains very local.
It's the paper's express is all that is needed here and I second what Councillor Wright said.
And if it's just cheap, he's can apply and then across the borough, then that would be a very, very good provision.
Would the mover like to wind up?
Thank you, Liz. I've got nothing more to say. Thanks.
And all those in favour of this recommendation, please raise your hand.
Thank you.
We then move on to item nine, which is a service plans for 2024-25.
These are our plans.
So, over, and I think it says here reporting, Katie Flippen, and I think it's a chief exec.
Thank you. Thank you, Leader.
Yes, so within this report are the service plans for the directorates detailing what the services will be delivering in this coming financial year
against the council plan that was agreed earlier on in this financial year and against the budget that was agreed
in February's council meeting.
The plans include the targets and indicators that performance will be measured against.
And as you'll see in item 10, they will be reported back on a quarterly basis through the council plan overview report.
So, the first of those reports will be produced at the end of Q1, so at the end of June,
it will go through the usual process of being reviewed by a review institution and then back to executive.
So, I think I'll leave it to that and take any questions. Thank you.
Are there any questions?
I've got a question.
It says about the indicators, key results, KPIs, on the standard, it says a new one called contextual indicators.
Can you tell me what could be an example of contextual indicator?
That is designed there to give you just a bit more information around what the services are delivering.
So, it puts it more, I hate to use the word context, but I can't think of now another word other than context, sorry.
This explains a lot more. Yeah, it sort of gives you more of a holistic picture.
I should have guessed that really, shouldn't I? Right, okay.
And I do think this is a really detailed plan, I think, and it is about our manifesto and the new council plan,
and it will represent the performance of the council and what progress would be made, so I think it's really welcome.
Are there any other questions?
Can I ask someone to move this?
Councilor Wright?
Yes, Liz, I'm happy to move it, thank you. Can I ask someone to second it?
Councillor Jaffrey, it's just a second. Thank you. Would the mover like to speak?
Thank you, Linda. I've studied my portfolio, which is a service plan for people in quite a lot of detail,
and we, as an executive, have quite a lot of targets to hit in the coming plan.
I look forward to it, I look forward to hitting those targets and working with the council and doing so.
Thank you very much.
Would the second I'd like to speak?
No, just to thank everybody for the hard work involved in bringing this plan together,
and I also look forward to being part of the review process.
And look forward to it. Thank you, Lita.
I think the KPIs and everything, there's a lot of detail in here that is really, really well expressed
and gives us a good insight of what we've got to aim for and what to look for.
So thank you. Anyone else? Mover like to wind up?
No, just really to say that I've written them all out and they're buying my laptop in my office
and then I've written underneath no pressure.
But yeah, no, thank you. No, it's a really good plan, thank you.
Will those in favour the recommendation please raise your hand.
Thank you. We now come to item 10, which is the council plan overview report, quarter three.
And that is going to be presented by Katie.
Oh, here she is. Yes, there she is.
So Katie policy and performance lead to present the item.
Welcome. Thank you. Thank you very much.
So this is the report presented this evening is the council plan overview report for quarter three.
It covers the period of October until December and covers work across the whole council.
As the chief executive has already explained, this current report is for the outgoing council plan.
So this is the penultimate report for the outgoing council plan.
And just to give a very short overview, you'll see within the report that the majority of actions
and indicators for Q three are on track and any items that are highlighting a risk or a challenge.
So anything highlighted in red has additional commentary provided within the report to explain this position a little bit further.
The report does reflect a number of highlights and performance for this quarter.
So that includes things like the children in care service, maintaining their offstead rating of outstanding,
establishing the joint climate action board and agreeing the new council plan.
An extra highlight is that the latest community data from the office of national statistics is now showing that the happiness reported by residents in Brown forest is significantly above the average locally and nationally.
Details and commentary are provided within the report against each item.
These have also been reviewed and discussed by the overview and scrutiny commission with a summary of their questions and recommendations appended at the end.
And that's all I will say. So the recommendation for executive tonight is to review and note the performance for this quarter, including the comments made by the overview and scrutiny commission. Thank you.
Are there any questions?
And I just ask a question. It says that the focus of the new business change program will be to try and improve this difficulty in recruiting. And that's again in the new plan. So this is an ongoing issue.
Is there any update that is getting less difficult?
I'll provide an update on that. Yes. So within our business change program, that's part of the council plan.
We have a program that is titled workforce retention and recruitment.
We are seeing a slight uptick in improvement in recruitment, certainly in the level of applications that we're getting for roles. There are still hard to fill roles, which nationally are very difficult.
But we seem to be attracting some very high caliber colleagues into the organization with the most recent recruitment processes that said we can't be complacent, and it still is a challenge across the piece.
And that's partly why the business change program is also looking at retention and ensuring that we're looking after the capability and the capacity that we have at the moment, making sure that we have continued to be an organization
that supports and looks after itself.
Any more questions? Can I ask member to move this recommendation, please? I'll move it. Can I ask someone to second?
Councillor Neill, seconded.
Councillor Neill.
I would just like to say that this is a very, well as the overview and scrutiny said, it's very solid. They said it was very solid. I think it's a good report. It's a lot achieved within this quarter.
The consultations, just read this, this local transport plan, housing allocation, local plan, economic strategy, sports and leisure, and the draft council budget all took part, all the consultations in this quarter.
So a lot of involvement of a lot of residents in seeing what was going on and having their say.
And I think it's a very detailed, I like the detail. I like the detail beside each of the comments to make sure that it explains what the situation is and if it's good, why it's good, and it's not so good, what can be done.
I would move this recommendation. Anyone else like to speak?
Councillor Neill, would you like to speak?
Thank you, Leader. I think just to add to those comments, yes, a very solid report, very solid set of results and lots of resident consultation, which is really welcome to see and look forward to seeing the next round of reports. Thank you.
I bring you up, nothing else to add, except thank you very much, very detailed report. Can all those in favour of this recommendation, please raise their hand.
Thank you. Item 11, the Send Written Statement of Action, and we have Ganyu Siggins, Executive Director of People to present this.
Thank you, Chair.
As with nearly every other Council in area in the country, we are in the process of improving our services for children, people, special educational needs and disabilities.
As an area, Ratnal Forest, ourselves, Ratnal Forest Council, and Frimley NHS Integrated Care Board are subject to a written statement of action.
That written statement of action is monitored on a quarterly basis by NHS England and Department for Education, and that was following an inspection of services quite some time ago now by Offstead and the Care Quality Commission.
In December, we had our latest monitoring report, a monitoring meeting with the Department for Education and NHS England.
The report in front of you includes a summary of the progress made, the progress reported, and the narrative and outcomes from that meeting.
What we have to do is submit a very detailed report, giving detailed information on every single action to be reported within the written statement of action of which they're 113.
We have to submit evidence to evidence the contributions and the narrative that we're articulating in that report.
The meeting is with the Executive with Frimley NHS Integrated Care Board with Parent Care representatives and with HeadTeacher representatives and happens roughly on a quarterly basis.
The report includes the update from that submission.
They're not quite every quarter, the next quarterly meeting does take place in early May this year, which we will provide all of the updates in terms of the reporting on the progress made since the written statement of action.
One of the key documents is that we produced and you signed off last June was the send strategy.
And in addition to the particulars within the written statement of action, we continue to progress the core priority areas outlined within the send strategy as part of our commitment to improving send services within the borough.
One point to note which is separate but connected to the update within the written statement of action meeting is just to note the investment made by the council to further increase the capacity within the special educational needs and disabilities team within the council
and the recruitment just to update the recruitment is progressing and will continue to do so.
Hopefully we will have populated the majority of that structure by July.
That aims to significantly increase capacity to be able to develop educational health and care plans and the annual reviews.
You'll be aware that there is a continuous significant increase in number of children and people with those plans.
So resources need to continue to be reviewed in order to meet that requirement.
In the report also, there is information about the consultation on the potential closure of college or pupil referral unit and the consultation finishes on Wednesday the 24th of April.
Thank you.
Are there any questions?
Councillor Neill.
Thank you and thank you for the report and the report references a 52 week wait time for an occupational therapist.
Is this due to, we know it's a national shortage but is that linked to that and also the report talks about the CAM service which we also know has really long lead times.
Is it possible to sort of understand a bit more about what's causing those.
Thank you.
I think it's twofold, a significant increase in demand for services, especially in relation to child and adolescents mental health services.
So they have an urgent referral and then a standard wait time to, but as you all know demand has significantly increased.
The service delivered by Berkshire Health Foundation Trust and commissioned by NHS Rimley Integrated Care Board as a core service.
We continue to try to influence the shape of those services, but it's both the professionals, I would argue it's demand plus the ability to recruit to post.
They have been more successful than there is a CAMs child and adolescent mental health service transformation underway through a Frumley Integrated Care Board and they are reporting improved figures but noting that demand is increasing.
It's similar for occupational therapy too.
Are there any other questions?
Councillor MURRAY.
I just have a question about preparing for adulthood.
I went to the event at Bratton Alamoikim College which was great and it was really good to see all the things that were there for people who were transitioning into adulthood.
I was just wondering, it says it's an insufficient long-term plan for young people as they move into adulthood.
How are you going to measure success in this area? How is that going to be ascertained?
I don't have the specific actions within the written statement of action included in the papers, but I can send them over to you with the update.
Specifically what we're going to do to address that within the written statement of action is included in the regular report and I think I did share it with the lead of the report so I can send you the latest detailed report so that you can see.
It's articulated in the written statement of action which is a public document, it's just not referenced here.
It's an important point because the improvements preparing for adulthood is more than what's in the written statement of action.
Whilst that's what we're being monitored, that's one component part.
And the same strategies include some enhanced activity too, plus as part of preparing young people into adulthood as part of adult social care and so people can have a fruitful and quality of life moving forward.
There's going to be additional activity advanced in addition to what's written in the current send documents separate within adult social care.
Can I just ask follow-in on from Councillor Niels about the cams?
It says they've got money, the ICB has got money and it's going to have a cams for children in care and especially children, young persons, mental health practitioners in primary care, which is superb.
But it says both services are currently in the mobilisation state.
So does that mean they're still recruiting and did you say they had recruited and it's operational now?
The report goes back to the December period.
So at that point it was mobilisation does normally mean they're in the process of recruiting and bringing it to life.
So what we can do, we're preparing the report in advance of the main meeting.
So the next quarterly report, we can get you a detailed update when we submit that report on that.
Separately I can ask the direct question of them if you're interested in receiving the answer to that outside the meeting.
But mobilisation generally does mean recruiting to the post and waiting for people to actually land and take up their role.
It's really good news if we just want it to happen.
OK, thank you very much. Are there any other questions?
Can I ask someone to move these recommendations?
Yeah, Councilor Bailey, I'd like to move the recommendation that we note the progress made on the implementation of the Sen. Britain Statement of Action.
Thank you.
Can I ask someone to second it?
Council, right. Thank you.
I'm happy to second it.
Council, would you like to speak to it?
Yes, just briefly. It's a welcome report.
The scale of the challenge cannot be overstated.
It's a huge task for us. It's clearly one of the priorities in our manifesto.
But I'm delighted to report that there are definite signs of progress.
And there are some areas for which we have no control.
The agency is a part of this, but we can't control.
And that can be a blockage to progress.
But certainly from what I see, and I meet regularly with the Chair of the Parent Carrots Forum.
I sit on the various boards that Granja has mentioned.
I can feel this real progress, but it's not there yet.
There's still quite a bit of work to do, but it's hard going, and we're going to keep at it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
With the second I'd like to speak.
Just to say thank you to everyone in the People's Director for their hard work
and this because it's obviously a big challenge.
Thank you.
Can I just say I've looked at the local offer on the website, and it's so much better.
So it's very much more improved.
And there's a lot of real positive action, a huge amount of input.
And I'm sure that this will all pay off pretty quickly as soon as we can.
And as you say, the situation, there's still a lot of children reporting
with special educational needs and it's on the increase again.
So thank you for all you do.
And would the mover like to wind up?
I don't think there's much more to say than I've already said, other than to say thank you
for the team who are part of working at this.
With new staff, new energy, new focus, I think we're getting there.
But there's still some way to go yet.
Thank you.
Can all those in favour of this recommendation, please raise your hand.
Thank you.
We now move on to item 12.
But this has got some confidential information included in it.
So I do not want to exclude the press and the public and prefer all comments
to remain outside the pink papers and outside the confidential material.
So if there is anyone here that is likely to want to ask detailed questions
that's included in the confidential material, can you tell me now, please?
Because then I'd love to move and ask the press and the public to leave us.
Is there anyone?
All right, thank you.
Then I'm delighted to maintain that this meeting remains open.
I would then suggest that Council have bidwell and Council have new lawyer
because the press and the public can stay, but they have to go.
Because they are on the board.
Thank you.
So then we come to item 12, which is the joint venture business plan with you.
And we ask Sarah Holman of the joint venture business partner to come forward and give us a report.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Leader.
The report in front of you sets out the progress made against the business plan objectives
to the end of December 2023.
It also outlines the activities ambition and ambition proposed by the partnership
for the period up to December 2026.
The objectives of the JV, which is called Bracknell Forest Cambian Partnership,
are mandated in the legal agreements which the Council entered into in December 2020.
This requires the strategy for the delivery of sites to be included in the JV plan,
which is then formally agreed by each JV partner annually.
The scope of the JV plan has not changed materially since 2020,
albeit with the inclusion of the surplus plan at the depot site,
which is now included within this business plan.
Progress since the last JV business plan was approved,
that was approved by executive includes the continued construction at Cooper's Hill,
which is due to be completed by the end of this year.
Market Street has been cleared, a major surmove completed,
and piling and foundations are in place for the main build.
To note, legal contracts are being concluded for 48% of the scheme to be affordable tenure
with the proportionate social rented values.
Initial plans for the depot were agreed at executive in October 2023,
with the initial plan for a housing led scheme at the site.
Looking forward, the JV aims to begin looking at future regeneration sites
in and around the town centre, subject to executive approval of course,
and to continue to support the delivery of the council vision.
Recommendations within the report ask the executive to support the JV business plan at Annex A
and the confidential financial information,
and to note the progress made towards the previous business plan objectives.
Recommendations are at 2.1 and 2.2 of the report.
Happy to take any questions later.
Are there any questions?
Are there any questions, please?
None?
Okay, thank you.
I would like to move this report.
Does anyone like, would second it?
Councillor Panell, I'll have a second.
Thank you.
I remember going around looking for different buildings,
the Greenwich and other places, to see which partnership we should be involved in,
or those, well, not so long ago, really.
And I think we can celebrate the fact that we actually got a very good partner in this relationship.
This goes on, this is to start for 2023-26.
But from the 2020 to 23, it's been a very successful three years, I think.
It's good working relationship, good partnership.
It's quite there being really trying times with the construction,
the custom materials, and new building regulations.
This partnership, our partners, have an excellent record of sustainability.
It's a joy to read it, actually, and to see that they really believe in it
when you talk to them, they do.
So I fully recommend this report, and I think I look forward to what they've achieved already.
You see when you walk down Coopers Hill, you see it, and you think this is really coming on,
and we haven't even started the greening of it yet, so it's the depot and then at the bottom of the market street.
So I think we've got a good relationship with them,
and I look forward to the next three years, and I would like to move these recommendations.
With the second I'd like to speak.
Thank you, Leader, just to say that obviously one of our ambitions is to,
our residents have a safe and affordable place to live,
and this partnership is a key means for us to achieve that aim.
Would anyone else like to speak?
No?
Well, I don't wish to wind up, but I would now like everybody to recommend to approve the recommendations of 2-1,
which is to the progress made by the Bracknell Forest-Cambian Partnership from 2022 to 23,
and to approve the proposed JV business plan for the Bracknell Forest-Cambian Partnership as set out in Annex 8,
and the financial budget and forecast as set out in Confidential Annex B.
For those two recommendations, can I ask you to raise your hand if you're in support, please?
Thank you.
We can invite our lost members back in.
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