Announcements
To receive announcements and business brought forward by the Mayor, Leader, and Members of the Cabinet or the Chief Executive.
4.1 By the Mayor:
4.2 By the Chief Executive:
4.3 By the Group Leaders: Any apologies for absence
4.4 Council Leader and Members of the Cabinet:
Councillor Williams Leader of the Council
Councillor Williams Commercial Strategy and Delivery
Councillor Barrett Neighbourhood Services
Councillor Banks Communities
Councillor Anderson Place
Councillor Elliot Corporate Services
Councillor Griffiths Housing Services
Decision:
.1 By the Mayor:
Messages of condolence were received for former Councillor Linda Morris.
A minutes silence was held for Cllr Linda Morris
4.2 By the Chief Executive:
James Doe made the following announcement on behalf of the Chief Executive
The results of the Kings Langley Neighbourhood Plan Referendum, held on the 17th of November 2022 are as follows:
In response to the question ‘Do you want Dacorum Borough Council to use the Neighbourhood Plan for Kings Langley to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area?”
842 votes were in favour
73 votes were against
The turnout was 20.14%
4.3 By the Group Leaders:
Cllr Williams gave apologies for Cllrs Bassadone, Durrant, Guest and Imarni
Cllr Tindall gave apologies for Cllrs Cllrs Freedman and Foster
The following Cllrs were not present at the meeting; Oguchi, Bhinder
4.4 Council Leader and Members of the Cabinet:
Full details can be found in the full minutes
Minutes:
4.1 By the Mayor
Messages of condolence were received for former Councillor Linda Morris.
A minutes silence was held for Cllr Linda Morris
4.2 By the Chief Executive
The Chief Executive was not able to be present at this meeting so James Doe – Strategic Director made the following announcement.
The results of the Kings Langley Neighbourhood Plan Referendum, held on 17 November 2022 are as follows:
In response to the question, “Do you want Dacorum Borough Council to use the Neighbourhood Plan for Kings Langley to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area?”
842 votes were in favour
73 votes were against
The turnout was 20.14%
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4.3 By Group Leaders
Cllr Williams gave apologies on behalf of Cllrs Bassadone, Durrant, Guest and Imarni
Cllr Tindall gave apologies on behalf of Cllrs Freedman and Foster
The following Cllrs were not present at the meeting; Oguchi, Bhinder
4.4 Council Leader and Members of the Cabinet
Councillor Williams, Leader of the Council
The Leader advised he had nothing to update under this particular section of the agenda, but happy to take questions.
Questions
There were no questions
Councillor Williams, Portfolio Holder for Corporate and Contracted Services
The Portfolio Holder presented his update as follows:
Work is continuing on the development of our commercial programme. Full Business cases are being developed by officers and this work is being supported by our Commercial Advisors CommercialGov.
Two Full Business cases are very close to completion and are likely to be presented to Scrutiny and Cabinet for consideration in the New Year. The rest will be taken through the approvals process when they are finalised.
The wider commercial programme work is being developed and new proposals will be added to the programme for initial business case development as they are identified. This work will be ongoing and will become a business as usual part of the Council’s commercial approach.
The Commercial Board meetings continue to meet regularly and, at these meetings, officers oversee the development of the business cases along with the progression of the Garage Strategy, the EV Charging project, all procurement activity. The Board also closely monitors commercial income to the Council
There were no questions
Councillor Barrett, Portfolio Holder for Environmental Services
The Portfolio Holder presented his update as follows:
Parks and Open Spaces
We have planted 69,800 bedding bulbs. We have laid 35m2 wildflower turf and planted 3,000 bee friendly bulbs in Nash Mills. We have donated 1000 Bluebell bulbs and wild garlic bulbs for a community-planting project. 100m2 of wildflower seeds have been planted at Pond Road. We have given 2,000 bulbs of various varieties to the Oakwood Drive community group in Berkhamsted.
Swan Mead has been planted with wildflower Meadowscape We delivered 15m2 of wildflower turf plus 1,000 bee friendly bulbs to Flaunden Parish Council.651 Bee tubes have been returned to Masons Bees, which is double the amount returned last year.
We have extended the Covid memorial wildflower area again using Meadowscape.
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