Agenda

Agenda

Special for Call In, Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday 20 January 2016 6.15 pm, CANCELLED

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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for absence

2.

Declarations of interest

3.

Potential call in of the City Executive Board decision on the Oxpens Revised Delivery Strategy pdf icon PDF 145 KB

Contact Officer: David Edwards, Executive Director, Regeneration & Housing Tel 01865 252394, dedwards@oxford.gov.uk

 

 

Background Information

The City Executive Board will be asked to consider the report which proposes a revised delivery strategy for the Oxpens development at its special meeting on 14 January 2015.

This provisional meeting of the Scrutiny Committee has been scheduled in case that City Executive Board decision is called-in.     

Why is it on the agenda?

For the Scrutiny Committee to hear any call-in of the City Executive Board decision on the Oxpens Revised Delivery Strategy.  

If the Scrutiny Committee is required to review the City Executive Board decision in light of any new representations. The Scrutiny Committee, on a majority, can decide to:

1.    support the decision, which can then be acted on immediately; or

2.    send the decision back with its comments to the City Executive Board who will then take a final decision.  

Who has been invited to comment?

The following Board Members and officers have been invited to attend the meeting to answer the Committee’s questions:

·         Councillor Price, Board Member Corporate Strategy and Economic Development

·         Councillor Turner, Finance, Asset Management and Public Health

·         Councillor Hollingsworth, Planning, Transport and Regulatory Services

·         Peter Sloman, Chief Executive

·         David Edwards, Executive Director, Regeneration & Housing

·         Nigel Kennedy, Head of Financial Services

·         Lindsay Cane, Legal Services Manager

 

Additional documents:

4.

Minutes

The Minutes from 12 January 2016 will be circulated as a supplement to this agenda.

 

Recommendation: That the minutes of the meeting held on 12 January 2016 be APPROVED as a true and accurate record.

 

5.

Dates of future meetings

Meetings are scheduled as followed:

 

2 February 2016

7 March 2016

5 April 2016

 

All meetings being at 6.15 pm.

 

6.

Matters exempt from publication

If the Committee wishes to exclude the press and the public from the meeting during consideration of any of the items on the exempt from publication part of the agenda, it will be necessary for the Board to pass a resolution in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 21(1)(b) of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2000 on the grounds that their presence could involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as described in specific paragraphs of Schedule I2A of the Local Government Act 1972.

           

The Committee may maintain the exemption if and so long as, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

 

PART TWO

MATTERS EXEMPT FROM PUBLICATION

 

7.

Confidential appendices - Potential call in of Oxpens Revised Delivery Strategy