Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Assistant Director (Recovery).

Councillor J Kerr, Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Customers and Partnerships) will be in attendance for this item.

Appendices C, D E, J, R, S and T have been circulated via email to Cabinet Members.

Executive Councillor: S Taylor.

The Cabinet approved recommendations (a) to (d) inclusive as set out in the exempt report now submitted.

Due to the reasons contained within the exempt report and an imminent decision being required and having obtained the agreement of the Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Customers and Partnerships), this item of business was considered under the Special Urgency Provisions - Section 16 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules, as contained in the Council’s Constitution, in accordance with Section 100B (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972.

Councillor J Kerr, Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Customers and Partnerships) was in attendance for this item.

The Cabinet gave consideration to an exempt report by the Assistant Director (Recovery) (a copy of which is appended in the Annex to the Minute Book) on the updated business case relating to Hinchingbrooke Country Park.

A detailed explanation was delivered by the Executive Councillor for Leisure, Waste and Street Scene on the developments to date.

Councillor J Kerr, Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Customers and Partnerships) outlined the comments she had received from the Panel following the abandonment of their meeting on 8th September 2022 in light of the announcement of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Each comment raised was responded to at the meeting by the Executive Councillor for Leisure, Waste and Street Scene.

Following debate on the matter and having been satisfied with the explanation provided by the Executive Councillor for Leisure, Waste and Street Scene, it was

RESOLVED

that recommendations (a) to (d) inclusive contained within the exempt report now submitted be approved.