Agenda item

Joint report of the Chamberlain, Director of the Built Environment and Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries.

The Committee considered a joint report of the Chamberlain, Director fo the Built Environment and Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries which provided the annual submission of the revenue and capital budgets overseen by the Committee. The report sought approval for the provisional revenue budget for 2015/16, for subsequent submission to the Finance Committee.  Details of the Committee’s draft capital budget are also provided.

Members noted that business priorities for the forthcoming year included:

Director of the Built Environment

·        Supporting the ongoing Service Based Reviews to deliver savings for 2015/16 and beyond;

·        2015/16 will be a year of delivering high profile external schemes, maintaining our high quality external services whilst continuing the improvement to our internal processes;

·        Developing our Road Danger Reduction Plan will be a high priority; and

·        Modernisation of the Planning Service.

RESOLVED – That,

a)               the budget be approved for submission to the Finance Committee;

b)             the Chamberlain be authorised to revise these budgets to allow for further implications arising from potential budget developments including changes to the Additional Works Programme and changes in respect of recharges;

c)               it be noted that the Service Based Review changes reported to your Committee on 11^th November 2014 which were agreed, have been included in 2014/15 and 2015/16 budgets.