Agenda

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Contact: Ian Hunt - Email: democracy@buckinghamshire.gov.uk 

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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies

2.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 178 KB

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting held on 2 January 2025.

3.

Declarations of interest

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Hot Topics

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Question Time

Question from Councillor Stuart Wilson to Councillor Angela Macpherson, Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing

How does Cabinet justify a Value for Money reason in proposing to close Council-run day care and respite services saving only £0.5m a year in south Buckinghamshire for Burnham, Hillcrest and Seeleys House serving the most vulnerable adults, given the significant contribution to the Buckinghamshire economy by carers and higher financial pressures avoided by the Council in higher cost care packages through direct payments, respite and carer support, all referenced in the All-Age Carers Strategy, when a high-need residential placement from the additional pressure from these closures on just one carer might cost £0.4m a year ?

 

Question from Councillor Robin Stuchbury to Councillor Mark Winn, Cabinet Member for Homelessness and Regulatory Services

I have concerns about Fairhive (formerly Aylesbury Housing Trust) selling historical council houses that were originally part of Aylesbury Vale District Council's housing stock. Fairhive have stated that these properties are unlikely to meet government energy performance targets (EPC level C) by 2030. Buckinghamshire Council has a goal of delivering 500 affordable social houses annually from 2024 to 2029. Please could the Cabinet Member comment on whether the sale of housing stock by the Housing Association could impact the Council’s target on delivering affordable social housing and could negatively impact rural areas and North Buckinghamshire ?

 

Question from Councillor Diana Blamires to Councillor Peter Strachan, Cabinet Member for Planning and Regeneration

The Government announced the rebirth of the Oxford and Cambridge arc, which the previous Government scrapped because the cost of building Expressway road scheme would have outweighed the benefits it brought. Developers would have bulldozed Bucks by building along it. With this new plan, what consideration is being given to the implications for the Local Plan for Buckinghamshire regarding housing and roads? The Expressway would have torn through Winslow so there are fears it is about to be blighted by a motorway on top of possibly being chosen as one of the Government's new towns.

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Forward Plan (28 Day Notice) pdf icon PDF 170 KB

7.

Select Committee Work Programme pdf icon PDF 80 KB

For Cabinet to note the Select Committee Work Programme.

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Transport, Environment & Climate Change Select Committee Review of Flooding Response pdf icon PDF 149 KB

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Budget Scrutiny 2025 Report pdf icon PDF 129 KB

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10.

Medium Term Financial Plan 2025/26 to 2027/28 and Capital Programme 2025/26 to 2028/29 pdf icon PDF 173 KB

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11.

Capital and Investment Strategy pdf icon PDF 154 KB

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12.

Director of Public Health Annual Report 2024 pdf icon PDF 160 KB

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All-Age Carers Strategy 2025-2030 pdf icon PDF 171 KB

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Leisure Facilities Strategy for Buckinghamshire pdf icon PDF 157 KB

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Buckinghamshire Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP) pdf icon PDF 200 KB

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16.

Q3 Budget Management Report 2024-25 pdf icon PDF 230 KB

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Q3 Capital Budget Adjustments and Reprofiling pdf icon PDF 226 KB

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Q3 Performance Report 2024-25 pdf icon PDF 135 KB

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New Letting of Store B, Friars Square Aylesbury pdf icon PDF 167 KB

20.

Exclusion of the public (if required)

To resolve that under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A of the Act.

 

Paragraph 3 - Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

21.

Confidential Minutes

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Confidential appendices - New Letting of Store B, Friars Square, Aylesbury

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Date of next meeting

11 March 2025 at 10am