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Cabinet - Wednesday, 3rd December, 2025 10.00 am
December 3, 2025 Cabinet View on council website Watch video of meetingSummary
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Delegated decisions linked to this meeting
Decision summaries below are AI-generated from the council’s published record. Check the council source or the full decision page before relying on them.
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Complaints Performance and Service Improvement Report Half Yearly Update
For Determination...to note the half yearly update on the Council's Complaints Handling and Performance for the period 1 April 2025 to 30 September 2025, as it meets increased scrutiny requirements set out in complaint handling codes.
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Medium Term Financial Plan – Housing Revenue Account Update
For Determination...to note the revised Medium Term Financial Plan forecasts for the Housing Revenue Account and endorse the approach to setting the Revenue Maintenance and Capital Programme Budgets for 2026/27.
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CIL Local Infrastructure Bids
For Determination...to approve a supplementary budget of £18,365 and allocate £1,018,365 of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding to 24 local infrastructure projects for the 2026/27 financial year, while also authorizing amendments to the project list within 10% of the total budget and approving the opening of the local infrastructure bid windows for the 2027/28 financial year.
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Waste Service Budgetary Position
For Determination...to ensure service continuity, maintain the "behind the gate" food waste collection policy in areas with free-roaming livestock, and improve bring site management, the Council approved additional funding, including a supplementary budget for 2025/26, an increase to the Medium-Term Financial Plan from 2026/27, and an addition to the Capital Programme for 2026/27 for new vehicles.
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Medium Term Financial Plan - General Fund Update
For Determination...to address the forecast Medium Term Financial Plan deficit and potentially utilize the budget equalisation reserve, the Council noted revised forecasts, endorsed further development of options to close the budget gap through 2029/30, and endorsed the approach to setting Asset Maintenance and Capital Programme Budgets for 2026/27, including an enhanced Public Convenience renovation program.
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Council Tax Support Scheme and Premiums
For Determination...to continue the current Council Tax Reduction scheme and Council Tax Premiums from 1 April 2026 without changes, and to approve the S13A (1) (C) Policy and Discretionary Housing Payments Policy.
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Setting the Council Tax Base
For Determination...to approve the tax base for the year 2026/27 as 74,305.8, which is used for determining budget setting and the amount of council tax to levy.
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... to approve modifications recommended by the Examiner of the Lymington and Pennington Neighbourhood Development Plan and agree that the Plan proceed to a local referendum, subject to the separate agreement of New Forest National Park Authority.
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