This decision was delegated to officers under Part 4.4 of the Council’s Constitution: all executive functions except those in Part 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 are delegated to the officers in the senior management structure.

To grant project approval, with an overall budget of £100,000, to carry out a feasibility review of identified parcels of land owned by Oxford City Council (OCC) with a view to assessing the potential to use each for generating Biodiversity Units.  These units could potentially be used to provide biodiversity offsetting for OCC developments which will help to ensure that developments which OCC carries out are offset on OCC-owned land where possible.  It will also support ecological improvements to OCC-owned land.

Cabinet, on 17 April 2024 (‘Use of Retained Right to Buy Receipts to increase the provision of more affordable housing’) resolved to:

Delegate authority to the Executive Director (Communities and People) in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing; the Head of Financial Services; and the Head of Law and Governance to agree sites and enter into agreements and contracts relating to the spend of Retained Right to Buy Receipts for the provision of additional affordable housing into the Housing Revenue Account within this project approval.

To purchase a four-bedroomed house at 9 Barberi Close, Oxford for the sum of £400,000 from the open market for the purpose of adding to the Council’s HRA stock in order to let as an affordable housing property.

This decision was delegated to officers under Part 4.4 of the Council’s Constitution: all executive functions except those in Part 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 are delegated to the officers in the senior management structure.

To appoint Sygma Safety and Events Ltd to provide event and security management for May Morning, following a compliant procurement process.  The contract value is £51,660 including a £5K contingency.