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MEETING OF THE LIVERPOOL CITY REGION COMBINED AUTHORITY To: The Members of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Dear Member, You are requested to attend a meeting of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to be held on Friday, 28th June, 2019 at 1.00pm in the Authority Chamber - No.1 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP. If you have any queries regarding this meeting, please contact Trudy Bedford on telephone number (0151) 330 1330. Yours faithfully Chief Executive WEBCASTING NOTICE This meeting will be filmed by the Combined Authority for live and/or subsequent broadcast on the Combined Authority’s website. The whole of the meeting will be filmed, except where there are confidential or exempt items. If you make a representation to the meeting you will be deemed to have consented to being filmed. By entering the body of the Chamber you are also consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings for webcasting and/or training purposes. If you do not wish to have your image captured or if you have any queries regarding the webcasting of the meeting please contact the Democratic Services Officer on the above number or email [email protected] You should be aware that the Combined Authority is a Data Controller under the Data Protection Act. Data collected during this webcast will be retained in accordance with the Combined Authority’s published policy. (Established pursuant to section 103 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 as the Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority) LIVERPOOL CITY REGION COMBINED AUTHORITY AGENDA 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE 2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST 3. MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE LCR COMBINED AUTHORITY HELD ON 24 MAY 2019 (Pages 1 - 14) 4. LIVERPOOL CITY REGION METRO MAYOR ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPDATES To receive updates from the Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor. POLICY 5. CLIMATE EMERGENCY To consider the report of the Portfolio Holder: Low Carbon and Renewable Energy and the Director of Policy and Strategic Commissioning. (Pages 15 - 22) 6. DELIVERING THE LIVERPOOL CITY REGION DEMENTIA FRIENDLY PLEDGE - PROGRESS REPORT 2018/19 To consider the report of the Director of Policy and Strategic Commissioning. (Pages 23 - 44) TRANSPORT 7. A COMBINED AUTHORITY TRANSPORT PLAN To consider the report of the Portfolio Holder: Transport and Air Quality and the Director of Policy and Strategic Commissioning. (Pages 45 - 128) 8. PROPOSALS FOR DISTRIBUTING HIGHWAY POTHOLE ACTION FUND ALLOCATION IN THE 2019/20 FINANCIAL YEAR To consider the report of the Portfolio Holder: Transport and Air Quality and the Director of Policy and Strategic Commissioning. (Pages 129 - 138) 9. ACCESS FOR ALL FUNDING FOR STATION IMPROVEMENTS IN THE LIVERPOOL CITY REGION To consider the report of the Portfolio Holder: Transport and Air Quality and the Director of Commercial Development and Investment. (Pages 139 - 144) ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 10. STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FUND UPDATE - JUNE 2019 To consider the report of the Portfolio Holder: Inclusive Growth and Third Sector and the Director of Commercial Development and Investment. (Pages 145 - 162) 11. STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FUND: LOAN AND GRANT TO SANDON GLOBAL ENGRAVING TECHNOLOGY LTD To consider the report of the Portfolio Holder: Inclusive Growth and Third Sector and the Director of Commercial Development and Investment. (Pages 163 - 230) 12. STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FUND: SHAKESPEARE NORTH PLAYHOUSE UPDATE To consider the report of the Portfolio Holder for Inclusive Growth and Third Sector and the Director of Commercial Development and Investment. (Pages 231 - 276) GOVERNANCE 13. COMBINED AUTHORITY FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE REPORT : 2018/19 OUTTURN To consider the report of the Treasurer. (Pages 277 - 290) 14. DEPUTY PORTFOLIO HOLDER APPOINTMENT To consider the report of the Monitoring Officer. (Pages 291 - 292) 15. LIVERPOOL CITY REGION ARMED FORCES COVENANT ANNUAL REVIEW 2018/19 To consider the report of the Director of Policy and Strategic Commissioning. (Pages 293 - 296) 16. PUBLIC QUESTION TIME Members of the public will be given the opportunity to ask questions which have been submitted in accordance with Meetings Standing Orders No. 11. A period of 30 minutes will be allocated for this item. Copies of valid questions will be circulated at the meeting. Members of the public who wish to submit questions are asked to contact Democratic Services either by: Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0151 330 1330 In writing: Democratic Services, Merseytravel, PO Box 1976, No. 1 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP. A proforma will be supplied for the submission of public questions which for this meeting must be returned by 5.00pm on Monday 24 June 2019. 17. PETITIONS AND STATEMENTS Members of the public who wish to submit a single position or statement in accordance with Meetings Standing Orders No. 11 are asked to contact Democratic Services either by: Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0151 330 1330 In writing: Democratic Services, Merseytravel, PO Box 1976, No. 1 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP. The single petition or statement for this meeting must be returned by 5.00pm on Monday 24 June 2019. 18. MINUTES OF THE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE HELD ON 4 APRIL 2019 (Pages 297 - 304) Agenda Item 3 LIVERPOOL CITY REGION COMBINED AUTHORITY PUBLICATION: 24 MAY 2019 DEADLINE FOR CALL-IN: 31 MAY 2019 FOLLOWING THE CALL-IN PERIOD, DECISIONS INCLUDED IN THESE MINUTES MAY THEN BE IMPLEMENTED WHERE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN SUBJECT TO A CALL-IN. * DENOTES KEY DECISION At a meeting of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority held in the Authority Chamber - No.1 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP on Friday, 24th May, 2019 the following Members were P r e s e n t: Metro Mayor S Rotheram Chairperson of the Combined Authority (in the Chair) Mayor J Anderson OBE, Councillor P Hackett, Mr A Hamid MBE, Councillor I Maher, Councillor G Morgan, Councillor R Polhill, Councillor S Murphy (for Councillor D Baines) and Councillor L Robinson. 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE Apologies for absence were received from Rt Hon Jane Kennedy, Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner, Cllr Ian Moran (Leader: West Lancashire Borough Council), Cllr Russ Bowden (Leader: Warrington Borough Council), Councillor Kate Groucutt (Deputy Portfolio Holder: Inclusive Growth, Economic Development, Digital and Innovation), Councillor Nathalie Nicholas (Deputy Portfolio Holder: Air Quality and Transport) and Barbara Spicer (Mayoral Advisor: Social Housing). 2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST It was reported that no Declarations of Interest had been received. 3. MINUTES SILENCE Prior to the start of the meeting, the Metro Mayor referred to sad passing of Bernard Molloy. The Combined Authority stood for a minutes silence as a mark of respect. 4. LIVERPOOL CITY REGION METRO MAYOR ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPDATES Metro Mayor S Rotheram welcomed Councillor’s Pat Hackett (Leader: Wirral MBC), Councillor David Baines (Leader: St Helens MBC) and Councillor Sue Murphy (Deputy Leader: St Helens MBC) to their first meeting of the LCR Combined Page 1 Authority. He also took the opportunity to thank the retiring Leaders, Councillor Phil Davies and Councillor Derek Long for the contributions they had made to the work of the LCR Combined Authority. Metro Mayor Rotheram reflected upon the recent announcement from the Prime Minister, Theresa May, who had announced that she would be resigning as Prime Minister on 7 June 2019. He noted that with her departure this made it a stronger possibility that a No Deal Brexit was more likely to occur and this would have a negative impact on the economy. Metro Mayor S Rotheram reported that assessments had identified that 15,000 jobs in the North West where at risk from the World Trade Organisation rules set up. Therefore, the LCR Combined Authority Investment Team would be working on proposals to identify how the Combined Authority can support local businesses to cope with the impacts of a no deal. The Metro Mayor informed the LCR Combined Authority that Wednesday 22 May 2019 had marked the two year anniversary of the horrific attack on the Manchester Arena. He reported that the events on this day devastated lives in Greater Manchester, the North West and beyond and reiterated that the City Region should shoulder to shoulder with Manchester and thoughts were with the 22 victims, the survivors and all their families. He placed on record his thanks to Liverpool City Council and Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council for lighting up a number of buildings orange as a special tribute to Megan Hurley. Metro Mayor S Rotheram informed the LCR Combined Authority that he had recently met with representatives from the Climate Strike Group Liverpool, who had protested recently at a meeting of the LCR Combined Authority. He reported that the Group had asked him to consider issues on climate change and air quality, which young people felt particularly about. Metro Mayor S Rotheram informed Members that as a City Region significant progress was being made in this area, as the City Region was the first to adopt a Zero Carbon target of 2040, which was ten years earlier than the national target, had launched a £10m Green Investment Fund, had the first fleet of 25 zero emission hydrogen buses coming to the City Region in 2020 and the Mersey Tidal Commission with one of the biggest wind farms in Europe in Liverpool Bay. The Metro Mayor emphasised that further work could be undertaken in regards to Climate Change, therefore he would be consulting with the Leaders of the constituent Councils to declare a Climate Change emergency, which would enable the City Region to understand the pressing issues of Climate Change. Mayor J Anderson OBE, reflected upon the crucial important of addressing Climate Change and highlighted that it was the Labour Party who had brought the issue to the attention of Government who know needed to understand and respond to the issue of Climate Change, whilst also supporting the regions in this issue.