EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL’S FORWARD PLAN

 

The Leader of the County Council is required to publish a forward plan setting out matters which the Leader believes will be the subject of a key decision by the Cabinet, individual Cabinet member or officer in the period covered by the Plan (the subsequent four months). The Council’s Constitution states that a key decision is one that involves

 

(a)    expenditure which is, or the making of savings which are, significant having regard to the expenditure of the County Council’s budget, namely above £500,000 per annum; or

 

(b)    is significant in terms of its effects on communities living or working in an area comprising two or more electoral divisions.

 

As a matter of good practice, the Council's Forward Plan includes other items in addition to key decisions that are to be considered by the Cabinet/individual members. This additional information is provided to inform local residents of all matters to be considered, with the exception of issues which are dealt with under the urgency provisions.  Only key decisions to be taken by officers are included.

 

For each decision included on the Plan the following information is provided:

 

-          the name of the individual or body that is to make the decision and the date of the meeting or relevant time period for an officer decision

-          the title of the report and decision to be considered

-          groups that will be consulted prior to the decision being taken

-          a list of documents that will be considered when making the decision

-          the name and telephone number of the contact officer for each item.

 

The Plan is updated and published every month on the Council’s website two weeks before the start of the period to be covered.

 

Meetings of the Cabinet/individual members are open to the public (with the exception of discussion regarding reports which contain exempt/confidential information). Copies of agenda and reports for meetings are available on the website in advance of meetings. Key decisions taken by officers will not be taken at a meeting – documents listed can be made available on request to the contact officer, with the exception of those which contain exempt/confidential information.

 

For further details on the time of meetings and general information about the Plan please contact Andy Cottell at County Hall, St Anne’s Crescent, Lewes, BN7 1UE, or telephone 01273 481955 or send an e-mail to andy.cottell@eastsussex.gov.uk.  For further detailed information regarding specific issues to be considered by the Cabinet, individual Member or officer please contact the named contact officer for the item concerned.

EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL

County Hall, St Anne’s Crescent, Lewes, BN7 1UE 

 

For copies of reports or other documents please contact the officer listed on the Plan or phone 01273 335274.

 

 

FORWARD PLAN – EXECUTIVE DECISIONS (including Key Decisions) –1 June 2021 TO 30 September 2021

Additional notices in relation to Key Decisions and/or private decisions are available on the Council’s website.

 

Cabinet membership:

 

Councillor Keith Glazier - Lead Member for Strategic Management and Economic Development

Councillor Nick Bennett – Lead Member for Resources and Climate Change

Councillor Rupert Simmons – Lead Member for Economy

Councillor Claire Dowling  – Lead Member for Transport and Environment

Councillor Carl Maynard  – Lead Member for Adult Social Care and Health

Councillor Bob Bowdler – Lead Member for Children and Families

Councillor Bob Standley – Lead Member for Education and Inclusion, Special Educational Needs and Disability

 

Date for Decision

Decision Taker

Decision/Key Issue

Decision to be taken wholly or partly in private (P)  or Key Decision (KD)

Consultation

 

List of Documents to be submitted to decision maker

Contact Officer

<PI1>

11 Jun 2021

Lead Member for Adult Social Care and Health

 

Supported Apprenticeships for residents in supported accommodation

The decision being made is whether to approve Contain Outbreak Management Funding (COMF) for £645 000 to provide a one-off programme of work to support people who are living in supported accommodation into apprenticeships.

People living in supported accommodation (as well as those in temporary accommodation and those at risk of becoming homeless) are often not in work or training. They may require additional support to take up an apprentice scheme or a programme to see if they would be interested/ appropriate to take on an apprentice (Sector Based Work Academy Programme - SWAP).

The funding would enable up to 150 SWAPs and 50 supported apprenticeships in key sectors including health, care, construction and the visitor economy.

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Darrell Gale

 

01273 336032

</PI1>

<PI2>

17 Jun 2021

Lead Member for Resources and Climate Change

 

East Sussex County Council corporate office requirement - Hastings office

To seek approval for signing of leases for office accommodation in Hastings

 

P

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Nigel Brown

 

07394 410630

</PI2>

<PI3>

17 Jun 2021

Lead Member for Resources and Climate Change

 

Modernising Back Office Systems (MBOS) - Preferred Solution Provider

To approve the engagement of the preferred implementation and technical solution provider.

 

P

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Phil Hall

 

078576555532

</PI3>

<PI4>

21 Jun 2021

Lead Member for Transport and Environment

 

ESCC response to Government Bus Strategy

To decide whether ESCC will indicate to government its notice of intent to prepare an Enhanced Partnership Plan and accompanying Enhanced Partnership Scheme, as required and set out in section 138F of the Transport Act 2000.

 

 

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Carl Valentine

 

01273 336199

</PI4>

<PI5>

21 Jun 2021

Lead Member for Transport and Environment

 

Notice of Motion: To request the Cabinet set an authority-wide default 20mph limit for urban and village roads

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Brian Banks

01424 724558

 

</PI5>

<PI6>

21 Jun 2021

Lead Member for Transport and Environment

 

Petition to improve road safety on the B2116 near Plumpton Lane

To consider the petition calling on the County Council to improve road safety on the B2116

 

 

 

 

Local Members

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Michael Higgs

 

01273 482106

 

</PI6>

<PI7>

24 Jun 2021

Lead Member for Adult Social Care and Health

 

Extra Care Contract Awards

To seek approval from the Lead Member for Adult Social Care and Health to award Extra Care contracts, prior to a competitive tender for new contract awards in January 2023.

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Angela

Yphantides

 

01273 336599

 

</PI7>

<PI8>

29 Jun 2021

Cabinet

 

Ashdown Forest Trust Fund 2020/21

To consider the Ashdown Forest Trust Income and Expenditure Account and Balance sheet for 2020/21.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Jill Fisher

 

01273 482542

 

</PI8>

<PI9>

29 Jun 2021

Cabinet

 

Council Monitoring: Quarter 4 2020/21 - Year End

To consider the Council Monitoring report for the fourth quarter of the financial year 2020/21 as part of the Council's Reconciling Policy, Performance and Resources (RPPR) budget monitoring process.

 

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Victoria Beard

 

07894 708914

</PI9>

<PI10>

29 Jun 2021

Cabinet

 

NHS White Paper - Integration and Innovation

To inform Cabinet of the potential implications for the County Council in respect of the White Paper “Integration and Innovation - working together to improve health and social care for all’, ahead of the anticipated Health and Care Bill later in the year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Mark Stainton

 

01273 481238

</PI10>

<PI11>

6 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Resources and Climate Change

 

Land transaction with Eastbourne College, Eastbourne

Land at Eastbourne College, Eastbourne

 

P

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Nigel Brown

 

07394 410630

</PI11>

<PI12>

6 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Resources and Climate Change

 

Lease renewal at St Mary's House, Eastbourne

Lease terms to renew the occupancy of St Mary's House, Eastbourne

 

P

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Peter Smith

 

01273 337647

 

</PI12>

<PI13>

6 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Resources and Climate Change

 

Notice of Motion: Carbon Neutrality by 2030

To consider the Notice of Motion calling for the County Council to bring forward the date at which it aims to become carbon neutral from 2050 to 2030.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Andy Arnold

 

01273 481606

 

</PI13>

<PI14>

6 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Resources and Climate Change

 

Transfer of freehold of the Cuckoo Trail

Transfer of that part of the Cuckoo Trail that is held freehold by East Sussex County Council to Wealden District Council subject to due diligence

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Zoe Tweed

 

01273 336104

</PI14>

<PI15>

6 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Resources and Climate Change

 

Wadhurst former Household Waste Recycling Centre - disposal

 

P

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Peter Smith

 

01273 337647

 

</PI15>

<PI16>

13 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Strategic Management and Economic Development

 

Coronavirus contingency arrangements

To review the temporary measures agreed by the Leader of the Council in April 2020 in relation to the Coronavirus pandemic

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Philip Baker

 

01273 481564

</PI16>

<PI17>

13 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Strategic Management and Economic Development

 

Growing Places Fund round 3 Loan Funding Agreement - The Observer Building Hastings (Phase 2)

 

To approve the loan funding from the South East Local Enterprise Partnership’s Growing Places Fund Round 3 to The Observer Building Hastings (Phase 2) project

 

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Marwa Al-Qadi

 

01273 336439

</PI17>

<PI18>

13 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Strategic Management and Economic Development

 

LEP Funded Capital Programme Financial Statement - Confirmed Spend for 2020/21 and Forecast for 2021/22

 

Agree and approve the Local Growth Fund, Growing Places fund and Getting Building Fund spend for 2020/21 and the forecast for 2021/22

 

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Marwa Al-Qadi

 

01273 336439

</PI18>

<PI19>

13 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Strategic Management and Economic Development

 

UK Community Renewal Fund - Grant Agreements

 

To approve East Sussex County Council (ESCC) as local lead authority, entering into a grant agreement with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for the UK Community Renewal Fund (CRF), and to enter into back to back grant agreements with successful CRF bid applicants in East Sussex to manage and transfer the CRF monies to individual projects.

 

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Marwa Al-Qadi

 

01273 336439

</PI19>

<PI20>

13 Jul 2021

Cabinet

 

Highways Contract Re-procurement Project (DBC)

To present the outcomes and recommendations from the Detailed Business Case for the Highway Contract Re-procurement Project (HCRP) for review and approval by Cabinet.

 

P

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Phil McCorry

 

01273 335993

 

</PI20>

<PI21>

13 Jul 2021

Cabinet

 

Internal Audit Annual Report and Opinion 2020/21

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Russell Banks

 

01273 481447

 

</PI21>

<PI22>

13 Jul 2021

Cabinet

 

Reconciling Policy, Performance and Resources (RPPR) - State of the County 2021

To consider the State of the County report and begin the Reconciling Policy, Performance and Resources (RPPR) process for 2022/23 and beyond.

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Claire Lee

 

07523 930526

 

</PI22>

<PI23>

19 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Transport and Environment

 

Eastbourne Town Centre Improvement Scheme Phase 2a (Terminus Road: Bankers Corner to Langney Road)

To consider the final design of the Eastbourne Town Centre Improvement Scheme Phase 2a ahead of advertisement of the associated Traffic Regulation Orders and construction

 

KD

 

Local Members

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Rebecca Newby

 

01273 336434

</PI23>

<PI24>

22 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Education and Inclusion, Special Educational Needs and Disability

 

Lowering the age range at Cradle Hill Community Primary School

To seek Lead Member approval to publish statutory notices in respect of a proposal to lower the age range at Cradle Hill Community Primary School to enable the governing body to provide early years provision on the school site.

 

Open

 

 

Local Members

Parents

School

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Jane Spice

 

01323 747425

</PI24>

<PI25>

22 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Education and Inclusion, Special Educational Needs and Disability

 

Proposed re-designation of Special Educational Needs facility at Wallands Community Primary School.

To seek Lead Member approval to publish a statutory proposal to re-designate the SEN facility at Wallands Community Primary School from 1 September 2022, to also include pupils with a primary need of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Gary Langford

 

07584 262521

 

22 Jul 2021

Lead Member for Education and Inclusion, Special Educational Needs and Disability

 

To agree to consult on the changes to in year admission arrangements for 2021-22 required by the School Admissions Code 2021 (currently before parliament).   These changes will involve a new co-ordinated scheme for community and Voluntary Controlled schools, as well as tighter timescales for in year admissions to reflect the deadlines in the new Code.

 

 

KD

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Jo Miles


01273 481911

</PI25>

<PI26>

30 Sep 2021

Cabinet

 

East Sussex – Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plan

Endorsement of the plan to enable ESCC & their partners to utilise the document to secure funding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Lisa Simmonds

 

01273 336515

</PI26>

<PI27>

30 Sep 2021

Cabinet

 

East Sussex, Brighton & Hove and the South Downs NPA Waste and Minerals Plan Review

To recommend to Full Council that; the Proposed Submission of the Plan is published for statutory public consultation; that authorisation is given to subsequently submit the Plan to the Secretary of State for Examination, and; to provide authorisation to the Director of CET to agree to any draft modifications to the Plan in order to make it sound and for these modifications to be published for consultation.

 

KD

 

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Olu Abiwon

 

 

</PI27>

<PI28>

30 Sep 2021

Cabinet

 

Home care and extra care contract re-tender

To consider proposals in relation to the re-tendering of home care and extra care service provision from January 2023 when the current contracts end.

 

KD

Home care provision is Countywide.

We have already consulted with a range of internal and external stakeholders including home care providers, care workers, clients and carers.

 

Report, other documents may also be submitted

 

Sarah Crouch

 

01273 481110

</PI28>

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