Meeting of the Borough Council To be held at 7.00pm on Wednesday 8th April 2015

Town Hall Burnley

27th March 2015

Sir or Madam,

Notice is given of a MEETING of the COUNCIL of the to be held at the TOWN HALL, BURNLEY, on

Wednesday 8th April 2015

starting at 7.00 p.m.

To transact the business specified below.

Tom Forshaw Head of Chief Executive’s Office

Members of the public may ask a question, make a statement, or present a petition relating to any matter for which the Council has a responsibility or which affects the Borough.

Notice in writing of the subject matter must be given to the Head of Chief Executive’s Office by 5.00 pm on the day before the meeting. Forms can be obtained for this purpose from the reception desk at Burnley Town Hall, Manchester Road or at the Contact Centre, Parker Lane, Burnley or from the web at: www.burnley.gov.uk/meetings. Requests will be dealt with in the order in which they are received.

A G E N D A

1. Minutes of the last meeting

To receive, as read, the Minutes of the proceedings of the Full Council meeting held on the 25th February 2015 and to confirm them or otherwise (enclosed)

2. Declarations of Interest

In accordance with the Regulations, Members are required to declare any personal or personal and prejudicial interests they may have and the nature of those interests in respect of items on this agenda and/or indicate if S106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them.

Please note that phones and other equipment may be used to film, record, tweet or blog from this meeting. The use of those images or recordings is not under the Council’s control. No part of the meeting room is exempt from public filming. Under current legislation members of the public can film or record this meeting provided they don’t disrupt the meeting.

3. Mayors’ Communications

To receive communications (if any) from His Worship the Mayor

4 Public Question Time

To receive questions, statements or petitions (if any) from members of the public.

5. Items for Decision by the Council Agenda Page No.

(a) Appointment of Mayor and Deputy Mayor 2015/16 13

To consider the Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the 2015/16 Municipal Year (report enclosed)

(b) Calendar of Meetings 2015/16 17

To consider the Calendar of meetings for 2015/16 (report enclosed)

6. Scrutiny Committee Chair’s Cycle 5 report 27

To receive the report of the Scrutiny Committee Chair on the fifth cycle of Scrutiny Committee meretings (report enclosed)

7. Strategic Plan Progress Reports

Mark Townsend Leader 33 John Harbour Deputy Leader/Housing and Environment 35 Howard Baker Resources and Performance Management 41 Bea Foster Leisure and Culture 45 Tony Harrison Community Services 49 Shah Hussain Regeneration and Economic Development 53 (reports enclosed)

8. Questions

To deal with questions (if any) relating to matters not contained in the Minutes before the Council and of which notice in writing has been received in accordance with Standing Order No 10 (2)

Please note that phones and other equipment may be used to film, record, tweet or blog from this meeting. The use of those images or recordings is not under the Council’s control. No part of the meeting room is exempt from public filming. Under current legislation members of the public can film or record this meeting provided they don’t disrupt the meeting.

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Minutes of the Last Meeting

BURNLEY BOROUGH COUNCIL

BURNLEY TOWN HALL

Wednesday 25th February 2015

PRESENT

MEMBERS His Worship The Mayor Councillor Andrew Tatchell in the Chair;

Councillors Baker, Barker, Briggs, Brindle, Campbell, Cant, Carmichael, Chaudhary, Cooper, Cunningham, Ellis, Fifield, Foster, Frayling, Graham, Greenwood, Harbour, Harrison, Heginbotham, Hussain, Isherwood, Johnstone, Kennedy, Arif Khan, Wajid Khan, Large, Lishman, Martin, Monk, Newhouse, Pate, Porter, Reynolds, Royle, Sumner, Towneley and Townsend OFFICERS Mick Cartledge - Acting Chief Executive Helen Seechurn - Director of Resources Tom Forshaw - Head of Chief Executive‟s Officer Amanda Hubberstey - Acting Deputy Monitoring Officer Phil Moore - Head of Finance and Property Management David Donlan - Accountancy Division Manager Jeremy Richards - Communications Officer Amber Corns - Burnley Place Brand Manager Imelda Grady - Democracy Officer Elaine Newsome - Democracy Officer David Farrar - Mayor‟s Officer

68. Minutes

RESOLVED The Minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the 26th January 2015 were confirmed and signed by the Chair.

69. Mayor’s Communications

The Mayor extended the Council‟s condolences to Councillor Sue Graham on the recent loss of her husband.

70. Revenue Budget Monitoring Q3 2014/15

With reference to Minute 71 (16th February 2015) of the Executive,

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consideration was given to the revised Revenue Budget for 2014/15, based upon actual spending and income in Quarter 3 to 31st December 2014

RESOLVED 1. That approval be given to the latest revised budget of £15,701k as shown in Appendix 1..

2. That the net transfers to earmarked reserves in the quarter of £670k as shown in Appendix 4 be approved.

3. That requests for revenue budget carry forward into the 2015/16 revenue budget totalling £111k set out in paragraph 12 of the report be approved and it be noted that these savings are excluded from the revenue budget forecast underspend of £55k.

4. That approval be given to a payment to the Leisure Trust of £218k to using £83k of budget set aside as Leisure contingency and £135k from in year general underspends.

5. That approval be given to a payment of £77k to cover the Council‟s 50% share of the costs of redundancies in Burnley Leisure. .

71. Capital Budget Monitoring Q3 2014/15

With reference to Minute 75 (16th February 2015) of the Executive, consideration was given to the revised Capital Budget for 2014/15 based upon monitoring in Quarter 3 to 31st December 2014.

RESOLVED 1. That a revised capital budget for 2014/15 totalling £11.171,315 , as outlined in Appendix 1 be approved; and

2. That the proposed financing of the revised capital budget totalling £11.171.315 as shown in Appendix 2 be approved

72. Revenue and Capital Budgets and Council Tax 2015/16

Consideration was given to the Housing Capital Programme 2015-2018, the Revenue and Capital Budgets and Council Tax for 2015/16.

It was moved by Councillor Howard Baker and seconded by Councillor Mark Townsend:

“That the Council approves the proposals contained in items c to i on the agenda and adopts the relevant minutes of the Executive. These relate to the approval of the Council‟s Housing Capital Programme 2015 – 2018, the revenue and capital budgets and setting the rate of Council Tax 2015/16.

An amendment was proposed by Councillor Mathew Isherwood and seconded by Councillor Ida Carmichael:

“To remove the Wards Opportunities Capital Fund, to freeze council tax,

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thereby reducing council tax income by £110k, and take up of council tax freeze grant of £71k and reduce the Executive by one member saving £4k from the revenue budget. Also to recommend referral to the Boundary Commission for an electoral review with the aim of reducing councillor numbers by a third, which if successful this could save up to £40k per annum with reserves of £35k being used as a „bridge‟ until this saving is achieved.”

. In accordance with Council Procedure Rule No. 16.7, a recorded vote was taken on the amended motion;

For the Motion

Councillors Ida Carmichael, David Heginbotham, Mathew Isherwood, Andrew Newhouse and Cosima Towneley

Against the Motion

Councillors Howard Baker, Jonathan Barker, Charlie Briggs, Paul Campbell, Frank Cant, Saeed Chaudhary, Julie Cooper, Jean Cunningham, Trish Ellis, John Fifield, Bea Foster, Gary Frayling, Sue Graham, Joanne Greenwood, John Harbour, Tony Harrison, Shah Hussain, Marcus Johnstone, Tracy Kennedy, Arif Khan, Wajid Khan, Stephen Large, Margaret Lishman, Tony Martin, Elizabeth Monk, Lian Pate, Tom Porter, Paul Reynolds, Ann Royle, Jeff Sumner, Andrew Tatchell and Mark Townsend

Abstentions

Councillor Margaret Brindle

Accordingly, the amendment was lost

In accordance with Council Procedure Rule No. 16.7, a recorded vote was taken on the original motion;

For the Motion

Councillors Howard Baker, Jonathan Barker, Paul Campbell, Frank Cant, Saeed Chaudhary, Julie Cooper, Jean Cunningham, Trish Ellis, John Fifield, Bea Foster, Gary Frayling, Sue Graham, Joanne Greenwood, John Harbour, Tony Harrison, Shah Hussain, Marcus Johnstone, Arif Khan, Wajid Khan, Stephen Large, Tony Martin, Elizabeth Monk, Lian Pate, Paul Reynolds, Ann Royle, Andrew Tatchell and Mark Townsend

Against the Motion

Councillors Ida Carmichael, David Heginbotham, Mathew Isherwood, Andrew Newhouse and Cosima Towneley

Abstentions

Councillor Charlie Briggs, Margaret Brindle, Tracy Kennedy, Margaret

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Lishman, Tom Porter and Jeff Sumner

Accordingly, the motion was declared to be carried and it was RESOLVED:

1) That the use of £700,000 prudential borrowing to contribute to the resources available for the Housing Capital Programme 2015-2018 be approved;

2) That the latest Medium-Term Financial Strategy be approved;

3) That the Reserves Strategy, as appended to the Medium-Term Financial Strategy be approved;

4) That it be noted that a refreshed document will be provided regularly when required as an aid to monitoring the continued delivery of an annually balanced budget and in the light of anticipated Spending Review announcements in the medium term;

5) That the approach that has been adopted in developing budget proposals that reflect the Council‟s Strategic Objectives for 2015/16 be endorsed;

6) That the proposals contained in the revenue budget report be approved;

7) That the setting of a Council Tax Requirement of £5,895,905 for the financial year 2015/16 be approved;

8) That the setting of a Net Budget Requirement of £15,903,292 for 2015/16 be approved;

9) That the statutory report issued by the Director of Resources under the Local Government Act 2003 be received;

10) That Directors/Heads of Service be authorised to progress action plans to deliver the 2015/16 budget and finalise any redundancies, early retirements or deletion of vacant posts or restructuring that result;

11) That approval be given to a Council Tax (Band D) figure of £272.58 for this Council for the year commencing 1st April 2015 and adopt the statutory resolution to set the full Council Tax for the year. This is equivalent to a 1.9% Council tax increase;

12) That the treasury management strategy statement for 2015/16 as set out in Appendix 1 to the report in compliance with the requirements of the CIPFA Code be approved;

13) That the prudential and treasury indicators for 2015/16 to 2017/18 as per Appendix 2 to the report, including the authorised limit for external debt of £30.737m be approved;

14) That the revised list of Counterparties for Deposits outlined within Appendix 3 to the report be approved;

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15) That the Council‟s Medium Revenue Provision (MRP) Statement for 2015/16 as set out in Appendix 4 to the report be approved;

16) That the 2015/16 Capital Budget as set out in Appendix 1 to the report be approved;

17) That the 2015-18 Capital Investment Programme as set out in Appendix 2 to the report be noted;

18) That it be noted that on 30th January 2015 the Council calculated the Council Tax base 2015/16

a. for the whole Council area as 21630 (Item T in the formula in Section 31B of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 [the “Act”] as amended by the Localism Act 2011)

b. for dwellings in those parts of its area to which a Parish precept relates as in the attached Appendix B.

19) That the Council Tax requirement calculated for the Council‟s own purposes for 2015/16 (excluding parish precepts) is £5,895,905

20) That the following amounts be calculated by the Council for the financial year 2015/6 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act

(a) £64,435,957 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(2) (a) of the Act taking into account all precepts issued to it by Parish Councils;

(b) £58,470,408 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A (3) of the Act;

(c) £5,965,549 being the amount by which the aggregate at (20)(a) above exceeds the aggregate at (20)(b) above, calculated by the Council in accordance with Section 31A (4) of the Act as its Council Tax requirement for the year. (Item R in the formula in Section 31B of the Act);

(d) £275.80 being the amount at (20)(c) above (Item R), all divided by Item T (18 (a) above), calculated by the Council in accordance with Section 31B of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year (including Parish Precepts);

(e) £69,644 being the aggregate of all special items (Parish precepts) referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act (as per the attached Appendix B);

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(f) £272.58 being the amount at (20)(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at (20)(e) above by Item T (the amount at 18 (a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 34(2) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which no special item (Parish precept) relates.

(21) To note that the County Council, the Police and Crime Commissioner for and the Fire Authority have issued precepts to the Borough Council in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 for each category of dwellings in the Council‟s area as indicated in the table below.

(22) That the Council, in accordance with Sections 30 and 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, hereby sets the aggregate amounts shown in the tables below and in Appendix A to these minutes as the amounts of Council Tax for 2015/16 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings.

VALUATION BANDS

Burnley Borough Council

A B C D E F G H £181.72 £212.01 £242.29 £272.58 £333.15 £393.73 £454.30 £545.16

Lancashire County Council

A B C D E F G H £753.19 £878.72 £1,004.25 £1,129.78 £1,380.84 £1,631.90 £1,882.97 £2,259.56

Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire

A B C D E F G H £106.04 £123.71 £141.39 £159.06 £194.41 £229.75 £265.10 £318.12

Lancashire Combined Fire Authority

A B C D E F G H £43.24 £50.45 £57.65 £64.86 £79.27 £93.69 £108.10 £129.72

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Aggregate of Council Tax Requirements

A B C D E F G H £1,084.19 £1,264.89 £1,445.58 £1,626.28 £1,987.67 £2,349.07 £2,710.47 £3,252.56

(23) That it be determined that the Council‟s basic amount of Council Tax for 2015/16 is not excessive in accordance with principles approved under Section 52ZB Local Government Finance Act 1992.

73. The Councils Strategic Plan 201518

Further to Minute 77 (16th February 2015) of the Executive, consideration was given to the updated Strategic Plan for 2015 to 2018 RESOLVED That the updated Strategic Plan be approved

74. Shared Parental Leave

Consideration was given to the Council‟s Policy on Shared Parental Leave developed in line with Government Regulations.

RESOLVED That the Council‟s Shared Parental Leave Policy be approved.

75. Appointments to the Independent Remuneration Panel

Consideration was given to appointments to the Independent Remuneration Panel (IRP), the size of the Panel and the requirement for the Panel to recommend a members‟ allowance scheme for 2016/17.

RESOLVED (1) That Anne Slater and Graham Knott be reappointed to the Independent Remuneration Panel until 24th February 2018; (2) That the Panel be requested to make recommendations to Council on a members‟ allowance scheme for 2016/17; (3) That the size of the Independent Remuneration Panel be reduced to 4 members and the vacancy be advertised; and (4) The Chief Executive be asked to send a letter of thanks to the retiring members of the IRP for their work on the Panel since 2002.

76. Scrutiny Chair’s Cycle 23 Report

RESOLVED That the Cycle 23 report of the Chair of Scrutiny be noted. . Strategic Plan Progress Reports

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77. Strategic Plan Progress Reports

RESOLVED That the Strategic Plan Progress Reports of Executive Members be noted.

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APPENDIX A Council Tax Schedule 2015/16 £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £

Burnley Borough Council 181.72 212.01 242.29 272.58 333.15 393.73 454.30 545.16

Lancashire County Council 753.19 878.72 1,004.25 1,129.78 1,380.84 1,631.90 1,882.97 2,259.56

Police and Crime Commissioner 106.04 123.71 141.39 159.06 194.41 229.75 265.10 318.12 for Lancashire

Lancs. Combined Fire Authority 43.24 50.45 57.65 64.86 79.27 93.69 108.10 129.72

Total - Areas Outside Parish/Town Council Areas 1,084.19 1,264.89 1,445.58 1,626.28 1,987.67 2,349.07 2,710.47 3,252.56

Parish/Town Council Areas Band A Band B Band C Band D Band E Band F Band G Band H £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ with Extwistle Parish/Town Council Only 4.33 5.06 5.78 6.50 7.94 9.39 10.83 13.00 Parish/Town and District 186.05 217.07 248.07 279.08 341.09 403.12 465.13 558.16 Total 1,088.52 1,269.95 1,451.36 1,632.78 1,995.61 2,358.46 2,721.30 3,265.56

Cliviger Parish/Town Council Only 7.67 8.95 10.23 11.51 14.07 16.63 19.18 23.02 Parish/Town and District 189.39 220.96 252.52 284.09 347.22 410.36 473.48 568.18 Total 1,091.86 1,273.84 1,455.81 1,637.79 2,001.74 2,365.70 2,729.65 3,275.58

Habergham Eaves Parish/Town Council Only 3.43 4.00 4.57 5.14 6.28 7.42 8.57 10.28 Parish/Town and District 185.15 216.01 246.86 277.72 339.43 401.15 462.87 555.44 Total 1,087.62 1,268.89 1,450.15 1,631.42 1,993.95 2,356.49 2,719.04 3,262.84

Padiham Parish/Town Council Only 9.28 10.83 12.37 13.92 17.01 20.11 23.20 27.84 Parish/Town and District 191.00 222.84 254.66 286.50 350.16 413.84 477.50 573.00 Total 1,093.47 1,275.72 1,457.95 1,640.20 2,004.68 2,369.18 2,733.67 3,280.40

Worsthorne with Hurstwood Parish/Town Council Only 3.87 4.51 5.16 5.80 7.09 8.38 9.67 11.60 Parish/Town and District 185.59 216.52 247.45 278.38 340.24 402.11 463.97 556.76 Total 1,088.06 1,269.40 1,450.74 1,632.08 1,994.76 2,357.45 2,720.14 3,264.16

Hapton Parish/Town Council Only 8.22 9.59 10.96 12.33 15.07 17.81 20.55 24.66 Parish/Town and District 189.94 221.60 253.25 284.91 348.22 411.54 474.85 569.82 Total 1,092.41 1,274.48 1,456.54 1,638.61 2,002.74 2,366.88 2,731.02 3,277.22

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APPENDIX B

Parish/Town Council Precepts 2015/16

2014/15

Tax Precept less: Precept Council Parish/Town Council Base Additional Net of Tax Grants Grant (Band D) £ £ £ £

Briercliffe with Extwistle 1,218 8,000 746 7,254 5.96

Cliviger 855 10,000 790 9,210 10.77

Habergham Eaves 513 2,664 124 2,540 4.95

Padiham 2,460 30,000 7,177 22,823 9.28

Worsthorne with Hurstwood 1,017 6,000 452 5,548 5.46

Total/Average 6,063 56,664 9,289 47,375 7.81

2015/16

Tax Precept Council Council Parish/Town Council Base Tax Tax (Band D) Increase £ £ %

Briercliffe with Extwistle 1,231 8,000 6.50 9.1%

Cliviger 869 10,000 11.51 6.9%

Habergham Eaves 514 2,644 5.14 3.8%

Padiham 2,515 35,000 13.92 50.0%

Worsthorne with Hurstwood 1,035 6,000 5.80 6.2%

Hapton 649 8,000 12.33 n/a

Total/Average 6,813 69,644 10.22 30.9%

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ITEM

Appointment of Mayor and Deputy Mayor 2015/16

ITEM NO

Appointment of Mayor and Deputy Mayor 2015/16

REPORT TO FULL COUNCIL

DATE 08/04/2015 PORTFOLIO Leader REPORT AUTHOR Imelda Grady TEL NO 01282 477258 EMAIL [email protected]

PURPOSE

1. To report on the position relating to the appointment of the Mayor and Chair of the Council and Deputy Mayor and Vice-Chair of the Council for the municipal year 2015/16.

RECOMMENDATION

2. That the position on the appointment of Mayor and Chair and Deputy Mayor and Vice- Chair for the municipal year 2015/16 be noted.

REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION

3. To allow arrangements to be made for the installation of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor for 2015/16.

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

4. The Council’s policy on the appointment of the Mayor states:

“That the office of Deputy Mayor/Mayor elect shall be offered each year to the member of the Council having the longest continuous service”.

This allows for the current Deputy Mayor to become the Mayor the following year.

5. The Head of the Chief Executive’s Office has delegated authority to deal with the invitations for the appointment of the Mayor/Deputy Mayor in accordance with the Council’s normal policy and report the outcome at a future meeting of the Council.

6. The current position is that Councillor Elizabeth Monk has accepted the Council’s invitation to become Mayor and will undertake the Office of Mayor and Chairman of the Council for the 2015/16 municipal year.

7. Councillor Jeff Sumner has accepted the Council’s invitation to become the Deputy Mayor/Mayor elect for the 2015/16 municipal year.

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FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS AND BUDGET PROVISION

8. None

POLICY IMPLICATIONS

9. This matter has been dealt with in accordance with the Council’s policy.

DETAILS OF CONSULTATION

10. Member Structures and Support Working Group

BACKGROUND PAPERS

11. None

FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Imelda Grady ALSO: Tom Forshaw

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ITEM

Calendar of Meetings 2015/16

ITEM NO

Calendar of Meetings 2015/16

REPORT TO FULL COUNCIL

DATE 08/04/2015 PORTFOLIO Leader REPORT AUTHOR Tom Forshaw/Eric Dickinson TEL NO 01282 477256 EMAIL [email protected]

PURPOSE

1. To consider a Calendar of Meetings for 2015/16.

RECOMMENDATION

2. To agree the attached Calendar of meetings for 2015/16 including a) Incorporating the work of the Budget Scrutiny Panel into the Scrutiny Committee; b) Merging the Audit and Standards Committees with the final constitution of that Committee being determined by the Head of the Chief Executive’s Office after consultation with Group Leaders, the S151 Officer and the Monitoring Officer ; and c) Setting the start time for evening meetings, including Council, as 6.30 pm.

REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION

3. To ensure that the Committee structure is in proportion to the current scale of the organisation and has regard to further changes linked to the Change Programme.

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

4. The attached 2015/16 calendar has been drafted as in 2014/15, based on a 10 week Full Council cycle. The recommended changes have been the subject of consultation with each Group and supported by the Member Structures Working Group. No change is proposed to the Council cycle or to the 5 week Executive cycle

5. Scrutiny Committee and Budget Scrutiny Panel (BSP)

The work programme of the Scrutiny Committee has been a mixture of Reviews involving Working Groups, upcoming Executive or Council policy work, and consideration of information on a range of issues.

Attendance at Scrutiny has been an average of 11 out of 17 Members from June 2014 until January 2015, with 5 Members attending less than 50% of meetings. The Budget Scrutiny Panel meets twice during the budget setting process and at the first meeting only 2 out of 6 Members attended, with only one Group represented.

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Proposal – Incorporate the work of the Budget Scrutiny Panel into the Scrutiny Committee. This is an opportunity to strengthen scrutiny of the budget by giving that function to the Scrutiny Committee. This would have the added benefits of engaging more members in the evolving budget and avoid members and officers have to attend a separate Panel meeting.

6. Standards and Audit Committees

Audit Committee currently meets 4 times each year and comprises 9 Members plus two co-opted Members. The Standards Committee, although scheduled to meet 4 times has only needed to meet twice this Municipal year. It comprises 6 members, 2 co-opted Parish Councillors and 1 Independent Member. Both Committees are concerned with aspects of Corporate Governance.

Due to a streamlined process of dealing with complaints involving the Monitoring Officer and Independent Persons, and the contribution of Group Leaders, there has been a reduction in the workload of Standards Committee and the need for formal meetings.

Proposal - Combine the two Committees to strengthen and consolidate the focus on Corporate Governance.

If this was agreed in principle we would need to work through in more detail how the different aspects of Audit and Standards, the co-opted members on Audit, the Independent member and the Parish members’ roles on Standards could be best accommodated. This would be established after consultation with Group Leaders.

7. Licensing Committee and Licensing Sub Committees

The 15 member Licensing Committee is scheduled to meet 4 times each year but only needs to meet twice unless other business arises. In the first cycle it establishes the Sub Committees and in the February cycle it sets fees. Legislation requires it to have between 10 and 15 Members.

There are two Sub Committees one for Taxis (7 Members) and the other for alcohol and licensed premises (3 Members). Both have daytime and evening meetings.

Proposal – No change to the current arrangements

8. Development Control No Changes proposed.

9. General frequency, and timing of meetings

As a matter of custom and practice the Council has generally held meetings in the evenings That said a number of meetings are held during normal working hours, such as some of the Licensing Sub Committees (10 am) or late afternoon (Standards and Member Structures at 4.30 pm).

As a result of reductions in staffing there is less capacity to support meetings. Daytime meetings or earlier start times would reduce the amount of time staff are out of the office while they take accumulated Time off in Lieu.

Members are asked to consider whether current arrangements should be maintained or whether, as many other councils do,

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 There should be a move to mostly daytime meetings? Or;  If evening meetings are retained should the normal start time be 6.00 pm rather than 6.30 pm? Council could be brought forward to 6.30 pm? The Member Structures Working Group recommend a 6.30 pm start time for all evening meetings.

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS AND BUDGET PROVISION

10. Subject to the outcome of these options the appropriate Chair’s allowances would be reviewed by the Independent Remuneration Panel.

11. There are no other direct financial implications although there are potential increases in efficiency and effectiveness to be gained

POLICY IMPLICATIONS

12. It is good practice to review arrangements for the discharge of the Council’s functions from time to time to ensure they maintain the right balance between efficiency, economy and effectiveness.

DETAILS OF CONSULTATION

13. Democracy Team Management Team Member Structures and Support Officer and Working Group

BACKGROUND PAPERS

14. None.

FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Tom Forshaw ALSO: Eric Dickinson

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Municipal Year 2015/16

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CL Full Council - 6.30pm SPMW Special Member Workshop (Budget) - 6.30pm DC Development Control Committee - 6.30pm S1/ Scrutiny Committee (including -6.30pm S2/BSP Budget Scrutiny Panel) E Executive - 6.30pm ASC Audit and Standards Committee - 6.30pm MW Member Workshop - 6.30pm LIC Licensing Committee - 6.30pm MSSWG Member Structures and Support Working - 4.30pm BE Budget Executive -6.30pm Group BCL Budget Council -6.30pm PLBCE Pennine Lancashire Building Control -4.30pm Executive

Criteria for Calendar

1. 10 week cycle for Full Council, within Election and Budget timetabling constraints,and Xmas/New Year weeks excluded, to start at 6.30pm 2. 5 week cycle for Executive within above parameters (no change) 3. 5 week cycle for Scrutiny within above parameters- 2 meetings per cycle being S1 and S2, and combine BSP with Scrutiny to meet on the scheduled S2 dates in Nov and Feb as S2/BSP) 4. 10 week cycle for Licensing within above parameters, to start at 6.30pm 5. 10 week cycle for MSSWG, within Election and Budget timetabling constraints, and Xmas/New Year weeks excluded (no change) 6. 4 weekly cycle for Development Control (no change) 7. Quarterly cycle for combined Audit and Standards Committee, to meet on the previous A dates as ASC 8. Quarterly cycle for PLBCE (no change) 9. Combine Ordinary Feb 2016 Executive and Feb 2016 Council meetings with Budget Executive and Budget Full Council meetings (no change) 10. Member Workshop start time to be 6.30pm (no change)

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Scrutiny Chair’s Report Cycle 5

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Scrutiny Chair’s Cycle 5 Report to Council

Since the last meeting of the Full Council in February, the Scrutiny Committee has held one meeting with the focus on the future Pedestrianisation of the Town Centre, and on the promotion of claims for Exceptional Hardship Payments as part of the work done following the Welfare Reform Sub Group.

At the meeting on 18th March 2015, the Scrutiny Committee received a comprehensive report on the progress of proposed upgrade of the existing pedestrianisation of the Town Centre, which included confirmation of the joint funding arrangements with Lancashire County Council of the £3M scheme, as well as a timetable of actions culminating in August 2017. Members were keen to ensure that disability groups would be consulted, and that current activities and adjacent areas could potentially be enhanced. As Members, I think that it’s fair to say we all have a much better understanding of the project and the Head of Streetscene also confirmed that we would be part of the public stakeholder events by the end of May 2015 regarding the project. I am sure future involvement in this project by the Committee will be considered as a potential part of the Work Programme for 2015/16.

At the March meeting, the Committee also received an update on an aspect of the work of the Welfare Reform Sub Group which had been reported to the Executive earlier in the year, namely promotion of the Exceptional Hardship Payments which claimants of Council Tax Benefit can apply for from the Council where appropriate. Members were informed of a range of measures taken to promote take up including reaching out to the under 25’s as a group and that this had resulted in a number of successful claims. Members were also advised of next steps to promote the other claimant groups and were asked to note that a future report on collection rates will be considered after the financial year end.

The Committee will soon be turning its attention to the next Municipal Year with a view to working smarter and adding more value to Council services, and I hope to see innovative and fresh ideas for Scrutiny reviews during 2015/16.

Councillor Ida Carmichael

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Strategic Plan Progress Reports

BURNLEY BOROUGH COUNCIL REPORT TO THE FULL COUNCIL Internal link to previous report

PORTFOLIO: LEADER

EXECUTIVE MEMBER: COUNCILLOR MARK TOWNSEND

DATE OF REPORT: 08/04/2015

Progress on Strategic Objectives

PE1 Strong visible leadership for the Council and the Borough Action Progress PE1a- Work with partners to My fellow Executive Members will provide further ensure the delivery of the details on the Council’s current contribution to Borough’s Community Strategy. partnership work in the borough, including an update on community safety partnership matters, and our work with the private sector on economic development projects.

I attended the Burnley Action Partnership (BAP) Executive meeting on the 19th March, where we considered a presentation on the Fairness Commission report. We are looking to work with partner agencies on ideas to turn the report’s recommendations into local action. PE1b- Ensure the Council plays There is continued support for the Combined a major role in Pennine Authority. The focus for the next few months will Lancashire Leaders and Chief be a Governance Review. This will look at the Executives group (PLLACE), and possible shape and scope of a Combined in the Lancashire Leaders Authority. Group, in developing proposals for a Combined Authority and joint delivery proposals PE1d- Work with educational Great Education is the foundation of a skilled partners in the Borough and the workforce. We are committed to working with Education Trust to improve partners to provide our young people with the educational attainment. Education they need to lead confident and prosperous lives. The Chief Executive will be joining the Board of the Education Trust and attending all future meetings. PR1 Developing a diverse business base with an entrepreneurial culture Action Progress PR1a- Contribute to the strategic I continue to represent the district councils on the direction of the Lancashire Local LEP. The Board has been putting in place an Enterprise Partnership, playing a assurance framework that will provide full part in developing and transparency to the Board and accountability for implementing the Local Growth the government funding that has been secured Deal 1, securing resources from through the growth deal. A key priority for the Growth Deal 2 and positioning Board is to drive forward the Enterprise Zone at projects for funding support. BAE Salmesbury and I will be working hard with colleagues to ensure that the aerospace and advanced engineering sector throughout East Lancashire benefit from the investment at the EZ. PF2 To transform and re-shape the Council to deliver a sustainable business model Action Progress PF1a- Procure a strategic The Invitation for Tender has been issued to the partner to deliver a range of organisations that passed the pre-qualification services within a reduced cost stage. The deadline for submission of tenders is base. May 13th. Officers have done a significant amount of work in preparing the specification. Members should therefore be confident that, in the event of the Council entering into an agreement with the private sector, we have worked to achieve the best available deal from the market place. PF1g- Review the democracy There are no immediate plans for significant functions of the Council. changes to the Council’s Democratic structures. All Groups have been consulted on changes to next year’s Calendar of meetings which is on tonight’s agenda. Last year’s review of Scrutiny has been positive and it is important to let the Committee continue to establish this new model.

BURNLEY BOROUGH COUNCIL REPORT TO THE FULL COUNCIL Internal link to previous report

PORTFOLIO: DEPUTY LEADER, HOUSING AND ENVIRONMENT

EXECUTIVE MEMBER: COUNCILLOR JOHN HARBOUR

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Progress on Strategic Objectives PE3 Ensuring services to vulnerable groups are protected wherever possible Action Progress PE2a- Proactively work with Between 1st January 2015 and 28th February residents vulnerable to losing 2015, the Council provided housing advice their home through preventative to 191 households. Of these, 18 households strategies underwent a full homelessness assessment. In these cases the Council investigated the household’s circumstances and issued a formal decision setting out the conclusion of the investigation and the level of duty owed to the applicant. From the 18 assessments, 3 households were given a full housing duty.

The Council also prevented 14 households from becoming homeless, of these 3 were issued bonds to assist homeless households access accommodation in the private rented sector.

We are continuing to implement the Prevention of Homelessness Strategy 2013– 2018 action plan, which will ensure we work effectively with our partners and maximise our ability to prevent homelessness and offer a range of quality services to those in housing need. PE2b- Ensure quality housing The Council continues to assist vulnerable, and services are available to elderly and disabled residents through its vulnerable, elderly and disabled grants programmes. residents, aiming to assist independent living in decent Disabled Facilities Grants have been housing across all sectors. awarded to 180 residents and the grants team are working towards approving a further 10 cases to bring the total up to 190 grants approved in financial year 2014/15.

Vulnerable residents who have serious disrepair at their property are also assisted through the Council’s emergency works grant and 20 residents have received assistance through this project during 2014/15.

Burnley residents are also assisted in obtaining minor repair works through Preston Care and Repair’s Handyperson Scheme, helping people to live comfortably in their own homes.

PL1 Making the Borough Cleaner Action Progress PR3a – Facilitate redevelopment For Burnley Wood officers are now preparing of key priority neighbourhoods the documentation for the next transfer of across the Borough land to Keepmoat that covers the remaining land to the south of the development between Branch Road and Glebe Street. This transaction is expected to be completed in the coming weeks ready for the development of this third phase which is programmed to start in May.

In South West Burnley work is also due to start in May time on the final 18 units that will see the completion of phase two of Keepmoats development Following my recent meeting with Keepmoat I can also confirmed that they are in the process of preparing information for a detailed planning application that will be submitted later this year for a further 99 properties on cleared land in the South West Burnley neighbourhood.

In Daneshouse & Stoneyholme, now that we have cleared the commercial properties on Barden Lane, Gleeson have relocated their sales centre to this prominent Colne Road / Barden Lane junction. Sales have picked up since Christmas and Gleeson re-launched the scheme with an event attended by the Mayor and Mayoress on 17th March.

PL2 Making the Borough Safer Action Progress PL2b- Improve condition and We are now at the end of year 1 of the management systems across the Trinity designation area. The annual report private rented sector, including has being drafted and was presented to the the use of selective landlord Private Rented Sector forum on the 5th licensing in designated areas. March 2015. We have licensed 380 properties out of a known 560 private rented properties, which represents 68% of all known properties that require a license.

With regards to the other selective licensing designations currently 279 properties have been licensed in Queensgate representing 40% of the total known properties to be licensed and 207 in Gannow representing 48% of the total known properties to be licensed.

A Landlord Development Day was held on the 17th March 2015 with 23 landlords attending the session run by the National Landlords Association. The Council also held a Landlord Evening on 25th March where 63 Landlords attended to hear and engage with a range of speakers and keep up to date with developments in the sector.

We have been inundated with applications for the Council’s landlord accreditation scheme the Good Landlord and Agent Scheme (GLAS). There are now a total of 269 accredited landlords, 124 of which were accredited this financial year. As the scheme is Borough wide it will help to improve the management of private rented properties throughout Burnley.

The Council has received 250 new disrepair complaints from private rented sector tenants since the start of April 2014. The majority of the disrepair cases received are dealt with informally and are resolved as soon as possible. We have a current caseload of 80 open and ongoing disrepair cases.

PL3 Making the Borough Greener Action Progress PL3a - Improve energy efficiency, The Council continues to work closely with reduce fuel poverty and help other Lancashire authorities through the tackle climate change. Lancashire Home Energy Officers Group. This group is tasked with obtaining funding for energy efficiency schemes across Lancashire.

The Council secured £47,435 of funding from Lancashire County Council Public Health. This funding has been used to ensure vulnerable residents have access to a boiler servicing and repair scheme during the winter months.

The Burnley Heating Rebate scheme is also available for residents who upgrade their boiler to an “A” rated boiler and since April 2014, 205 rebates have been awarded. PR3 Establishing Burnley as an attractive place to live, work and learn Action Progress PR3h - Start work on a disposal The Council is continuing to assess the programme that over a three year options for bringing forward a programme of period should both deliver much sites for new housing development. Reports needed higher value housing in will be brought to the Executive as the the Borough but also contribute programme develops. receipts to the Council’s budget. This will include the on-going disposal of our clearance sites in the Borough to the private sector

PR3i – Implement the Empty The Clusters of Empty Homes Programme is Homes Programme due to finish at the end of March 2015 and was targeted with bringing back into use 175 vacant properties across three areas located in the wards of Gannow, Trinity and Queensgate. At the last count we had managed to bring back into use over 200 vacant properties and we are currently working on the final figure to be reported as the end of programme total.

At their meeting in February the Executive Committee approved a three year Housing Capital Programme which has put in place an ambitious programme that will see the continuation of work to tackle long term empty properties and address issues of clusters of empty homes. This work will be funded by recycled receipts generated from the sale of empty properties.

BURNLEY BOROUGH COUNCIL REPORT TO THE FULL COUNCIL Internal link to previous report

PORTFOLIO: RESOURCES AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

EXECUTIVE MEMBER: COUNCILLOR HOWARD BAKER

DATE OF REPORT: 08/04/2015

Progress on Strategic Objectives

PRF1 - To transform and re-shape the Council to deliver a sustainable business model Action Progress PF1b - Maintain an up to date Budget Council approved the annual budget Medium-Term Financial Strategy 2015/16 and the latest medium term financial (MTFS) to ensure that future strategy. The MTFS has been based on reductions in funding levels are projected funding levels is anticipated to result in anticipated and factored into a potential budget gap of £2.2m or 14% by 31 budget setting. March 2018. However the uncertainty around future Government funding intentions will not be resolved until later in the year beyond the general election in May and the outcome of a new spending review in the Autumn.

Work however is progressing to consider savings options for 2016/17 and beyond. Progress is being made in particular to secure anticipated savings arising from the procurement of a strategic partner from January 2016.

PF1c - Review the overall Consideration is being given to the development structure of the workforce to of a Council client function but this will be secure further efficiencies and progressed following submission of bids from align to the Council’s new potential partners. business model PF1d - Re-align the Council’s The OD Strategy will be formally reviewed in Organisational Development (OD) September/October 2015. strategies to fit the Council’s new business model Progress on the currently agreed Action Plan continues including:

. Preparation for IiP assessment. The internal review on the PDR/Job Chat process is complete and the report is being prepared; . A group of Talent Management colleagues are supporting the IiP preparations; . The Wellbeing Action Plan is updated for 2015 supporting a variety of initiatives for employees and charity events; . Further SharePoint roll out training has been undertaken; . Managers are preparing to undertake PDRs during April – May; and . Preparations and plans to support the Change Programme continue through the Change and Team Burnley Boards in order to transform working practices and redesign services. PF1f - Review of the Council’s Work has begun to consider appropriate governance and regulatory governance arrangements arising from the new framework to align it with the strategic partnership and will be considered as Council’s new business model part of the bidding process. PF1h - Monitor impact of key Universal Credit was rolled out in Burnley on changes to Council Tax Benefit 6th October 2014. The Council currently has 68 and Housing Benefit to ensure a live Council Tax Support claims from people continuing good quality service entitled to Universal Credit and 29 Council Tax for Burnley residents. Support claims awaiting details about the Universal Credit award from the Department for Work and Pensions before processing. Council officers will provide help to claimants who need support to make a claim for Universal Credit online. The Council will also provide personal budgeting support for Universal Credit claimants who are struggling with their weekly budgets. From 2nd March 2015, Universal Credit was rolled out to families in Burnley but no claims have been made.

The Council Tax Support Scheme for 2015/16 was presented to the Council in December for approval and is now published on the Council’s website.

Welfare Reform has been the subject of a cross- party Scrutiny Committee review, supported by officers, focussed on the Council Tax Support scheme and its impact in terms of protecting vulnerable groups and creating incentives; and a recent update has been provided to Scrutiny Committee.

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PORTFOLIO: LEISURE AND CULTURE

EXECUTIVE MEMBER: COUNCILLOR BEA FOSTER

DATE OF REPORT: 08/04/2015

Progress on Strategic Objectives

PE3 Ensuring Services to vulnerable groups are protected wherever possible

Action Progress PE2c-Implement the Children and As part of our work on safeguarding the Young People's Plan for Children’s Partnership Board (CPB) is driving Burnley/Pendle. forward the recommendations from the recent multi agency safeguarding practice inspection (MASPI) undertaken in October 2014.

Also, in partnership with community safety partners the CPB will be distributing a sex and relationships questionnaire to parents of all secondary age children in Burnley. The survey will be distributed after Easter with responses due in early May. The results will then be collated and shared through the CPB. All Burnley secondary schools have engaged with this process.

The Early Words Together programme, to support our work to engage wider partners in a child’s learning, is now being delivered to its first cohort of parents in Reedley Hallows Children’s Centre and South West Burnley Children’s Centres. The second cohort will be delivered in April and May in Burnley Wood and Ightenhill Children’s Centres.

We are also working with Burnley Football Club to progress the delivery on Premier league reading stars programme.

Many of Burnley schools and Children’s centres took part in World Book day on 5th March celebrating the love of books with children and staff dressing up in their favourite book characters.

PE4 Improved health standards

Action Progress PE3b- Continue to develop the Prairie Sports Village is making good progress. leisure and cultural offer of The 3G synthetic pitch was completed in the Burnley in partnership with autumn of 2014 and is currently being used by Burnley Leisure including the UCFB, Burnley Women and Girls, Burnley FC in development and operation of the the Community, plus various adult and junior Prairie Sports Complex. teams. Burnley Leisure’s Active Streets project also makes use of the pitch 1 night per week. The main pavilion and golf range outfield is currently in the construction phase with completion expected in July 2015. A full and varied programme will be available from July onwards, that will include the Burnley Rounders League, holiday camps, golf coaching programmes, small sided soccer league.

A working group of Burnley Leisure staff is currently developing a Corporate Games event that will take place in September.

A funding application has been submitted to Sport England to deliver a women and girls Get in2 Golf programme at Prairie Sports Village .

The Get in2 team organise Burnley Sports Awards each year and this years’ event takes place on 9th July at the Mechanics Theatre, hosted by Tessa Sanderson.

PL3 Making the Borough Greener

Action Progress PL3b –Adopt and implement the The stage one application to the Heritage Lottery Borough’s Green Space Strategy Fund for the restoration of was submitted at the end of February.

The Council is applying for a grant of £867,000 from the HLF towards the £1,162,000 costs of restoring and interpreting the heritage of the Park.

If the stage one application is approved in June, the Council will be given funding to prepare a more detailed stage 2 application, which would be submitted in 2016.

The HLF funding would be used to restore features in the park which are in poor condition, such as the pavilion (which is now closed) the Italian gardens and improvements to the paddling pool, play area, toilets and other facilities.

A copy of the application has been placed in the member’s room.

During the winter months Green Spaces staff have topped up woodchip on all of Burnley’s playgrounds, with much of the woodchip being produced from tree work undertaken by the Council’s tree team and from thinning of the young Forest of Burnley Woodlands.

Through working in partnership with the Friends Group, nearly 3 kilometres of new footpaths have been completed in . These include new paths alongside the River which were funded by a Big Lottery grant and new paths around the 9-hole golf course which were funded by a Forestry Commission woodland improvement grant.

PL3c– In partnership with other Projects including the disabled fishing platform agencies, implement the Brun and new footpath links through Queens park are Valley Forest Park scheme progressing.

In partnership with the Friends of Brun Valley Forest Park, a Forest Park festival is being planned for the end of June to celebrate opening of the route over the top of the former landfill site and to promote the Forest Park’s extensive network of paths to the community.

PF2 Review Service Delivery

Action Progress PF1i- Implement the Rethinking As part of the Rethinking Parks project, the Parks Programme. Council, in partnership with the Offshoots Permaculture project at Towneley is developing a Volunteer In Parks ‘VIP’ programme which will provide opportunities for people to volunteers to help with a range of tasks including horticultural and woodland management, bee keeping and volunteer ranger duties.

The programme has already registered 36 volunteers from a wide variety of backgrounds including young people seeking work experience, college students, older and retired people and has organised training activities.

A file containing information about the Rethinking Parks Programme has been placed in the member’s room.

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PORTFOLIO: COMMUNITY SERVICES

EXECUTIVE MEMBER: COUNCILLOR TONY HARRISON

DATE OF REPORT: 08/04/2015

Progress on Strategic Objectives

PL1 Making the Borough Cleaner Action Progress PL1a – Maintain a high standard Mobilisation for the new waste and cleansing of Street Cleansing, Refuse contract is going to plan. The contractor is on Collection and Recycling service. track in terms of the finalisation of vehicles, including the implementation for a depot and transfer of staff for the new contract. smooth contract start in June 2015. The Town Centre litter enforcement campaign took place in Burnley town centre during March and has been successful in tackling littering.

PL2 Making the Borough Safer Action Progress PL2a - Work with our partners in The figures for “All Crime” in Burnley is set to the Community Safety record a slight increase of approximately 7% by Partnership and the Police and the year end, with the increase primarily down Crime Commissioner to deliver to an increase of recorded offences in October the strategic priorities identified in 2014. the Strategic Assessment A full Strategic Assessment process has been started this year in conjunction with key partners and authorities within the Pennine Community Safety Partnership. The purpose of the Assessment is to identify the community safety Strategic Priorities for 2015-2018. The process will involve all relevant community safety partners and a completed document is due in October 2015.

Burnley have been successful in a joint partnership bid with the County Council, the 11 other Lancashire district authorities to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to increase current refuge bed space provision for victims of domestic abuse.

For Burnley this is very good news as it will almost double the current 35 safe house bed spaces available within the refuge for victims of Domestic Abuse with more complex needs.

PE2 Developing opportunities and sustaining ambition of local residents Action Progress PE1c- Communicate our work The Burnley Question Time event in March was and policies, and engage attended by around 40 residents, and there was residents and partners around the lively discussion on a range of issues. The key Council’s strategies and focus was on the top priority issue of jobs, the initiatives. economy, and continuing to generate growth in Burnley. Prospects for young people were a particular focus, with inputs from two young people from Burnley Youth Council, as well as from Paul Dyson–Knight from the LCC and from Ejaz Hussain (Managing Director, Telematics).

The Council’s annual magazine – Burnley 2015 – has been printed and distributed to households across the borough. This sets out information on top Council priorities, some of our key initiatives and services, and carries information about activities by some of our key partners, including events in Padiham, Burnley Leisure services, and the Northern Rail service direct from Burnley to Manchester which begins next month.

One of the council priorities highlighted in the magazine is the campaign to tackle dog fouling and littering which we will be running later this year. We will be working with partners and community groups on this, and it will be a big campaigning focus for the Council.

We have been publicising the importance of people being registered to vote, and then using their vote at the General Election and local elections. People need to be on the register by 20th April in order to vote on 7th May. We’ve produced leaflets and adverts (with funding support from the government Cabinet Office) about this and held information sessions at / UCLan.

PE4 Improved health standards Action Progress PE3a- Improve the health and The Executive approved the Council’s new well-being of residents, and work Tobacco Action Plan at its March 2015 meeting. in partnership with the East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group and the Lancashire Health and Well- being Board. PR3- Establishing Burnley as an attractive place to live, work and learn Action Progress PR3b – Work with Lancashire The stakeholder consultation phase has now County Council to ensure public commenced. This work, which will be realm priorities are shared and undertaken by both the Council and County delivered, including Council Officers, aims to discuss early concepts improvements to the and options with key agencies, groups and pedestrianised area of Burnley service users. There will be publicity activity and town centre. events to promote this phase during May. Early construction work is expected to start in the town centre in Autumn 2015 and will be phased over 2 years to minimise disruption.

PRF1- To transform and re-shape the Council to deliver a sustainable business model Action Progress PF1e- Implement the Council’s Installation and training underway on the new IT strategy and Customer LLPG (Local Land and Property Gazetteer Access and Service Strategy. system). The LLPG is an address database maintained by councils in the United Kingdom. In the UK, local authorities have responsibility for creating and removing all addresses. The new product, links seamlessly with our mapping product which has overlays for parks, street scene and a number of other services. It will enable us to become more efficient by reducing double keying of data, and will update overlays automatically, reduce IT support and system downtime during updates. It is the first stage of the council being able to comply with the Government Inspire directive (digital publication of geographical data) and will assist the Council to transform planning services.

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PORTFOLIO: REGENERATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

EXECUTIVE MEMBER: COUNCILLOR SHAH HUSSAIN

DATE OF REPORT: 08/04/2015

Progress on Strategic Objectives

PR1 Developing a diverse business base with an entrepreneurial culture Action Progress PR1b- Pro-actively work with The Business Support team are working with national and regional property a wide range of property professionals, land agents to attract new business agents and developers on a number of key and investment into Burnley. strategic sites across the borough.

Enquiries include both commercial, industrial and leisure activities and land requirements range from 0.2 hectare to in excess of 8 Hectare - the Business Support & Project teams are in detailed discussion with land owners and developers on a number of development opportunities. The projects require close working relationships which the Regeneration team maintain across a wide range of business professionals working within Pennine Lancashire and also further afield this includes regional and national agents. In addition the Regeneration/Business Support team have a planned presence at a number of key events throughout the year

PR1c- Proactively support the The business support team currently have Borough’s key growth businesses 50 live enquiries from companies looking to and deliver the council’s Business relocate into the Borough or expand within Growth Programme. it. Of the 50 enquiries, 24 are from outside of the Borough with the remainder being companies already based in Burnley. The majority of enquiries are for industrial premises with 7 enquiries for office premises. The enquiries are from a range of sectors including IT & Telecoms, Advanced Manufacturing, Construction, Creative & Digital and Warehousing & Logistics. The requirements range from 500 Sq Ft to 65,000 Sq Ft. Of these enquiries, 5 of the companies are expected to relocate by Summer 2015.

Business Growth Programme

In the first two years of the programme the following key outcomes have been achieved:-

 20 companies have been assisted  Total amount of financial support awarded = £392,024  £10,725,423 of private sector investment  Over 500 jobs to be created  Less than £1,000 cost per job.

PR2: Establishing Burnley as a key retail and service centre in Pennine Lancashire Action Progress PR2a- Deliver a quality Town In February 2015 vacancy rates in Burnley’s Centre Management service in prime retail areas stood at 11.63% which is both Burnley and Padiham slightly lower than the national average. Vacancy rates are high in secondary retail areas including lower St James’s Street and Standish Street. Town Centre Management is working pro-actively with businesses in both areas to develop a programme of improvements.

Funding has been secured to continue to provide a Town Centre Management service to Padiham. Work is on-going to complete a website and on-line business directory. PR2b- Complete ongoing review Officers are now moving to the stage of of Burnley Markets. establishing the structural integrity of the existing facilities, to inform consideration of any future investment options. PR2c- Deliver a significant The Council signed a two year lockout Leisure Scheme on the Curzon agreement with a developer in July 2014 to Street site in partnership with deliver leisure based development including private developer a Cinema. We are working with the developer to bring the scheme forward. PR3: Establishing Burnley as an attractive place to live, work and learn Action Progress PR3c- Progress the Weavers’ Barnfield Investment Properties are currently Triangle regeneration programme working on a scheme to convert the iconic in partnership with Barnfield Slater’s Terrace and adjoining Engine House Investment Properties, St. into high quality business space for Modwen’s and the Canal and completion by June 2015. The Banny’s Rivers Trust Drive Through Fish and Chip Restaurant will be completed in April 2015.

St Modwen’s are working with the Council’s planning team to secure the consents required to start demolition works to part of the mill in summer 2015. PR3d- Ensure that the new The Council is working with Network Rail, Burnley – Manchester Rail Northern Rail and LCC to ensure a strong services commences in May 2015 consumer launch for the service commencing on May 17th. PR3e- Work with LCC to Lancashire County Council is drawing up implement Local Growth Deal schemes for improvements along Accrington funded transport improvements. Road and around the Town Centre ring road. Some improvements are being implemented at Rose Grove station including new shelters and a real time information system prior to the commencement of the new Manchester service. PR3f- Work with 150 Burnley Work continues with the appointed PR Bondholders to Implement the agency to champion Burnley businesses and Borough’s Branding Plan to their success stories. The Manchester direct reposition Burnley as a place to train service gives us an opportunity for a live and invest press launch in Manchester to highlight Burnley’s economic regeneration strategy and results. The next Bondholder event will focus on Skills and Education. PR3g - Develop and deliver the Work is continuing on developing a Local Plan. This will act as the Preferred Options draft of the Local Plan to key supporting framework for the timetable set out in the current Local encouraging employment and Development Scheme (LDS) adopted on 2 housing investment. December 2014 and on completing some key pieces of evidence. Work is progressing on revising the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) and completing the (annual) Monitoring Report. PR4: To enhance Burnley’s reputation as a regional advanced manufacturing centre Action Progress PR4a- Support the development We are continuing to work with developer of the Princess Way Knowledge Trebor to bring forward the first phase of a Park, developing advanced 25,000sq ft workshop space aimed at manufacturing and engineering growing Advanced Engineering and incubation and growth on space Manufacturing Businesses and 10,000sq ft linked to facilities at Burnley of Grow on Space. The Council’s business Campus support team are actively working with property agents GVA Grimley and Trevor Dawson to market the site. PR4b- Secure further occupiers Officers are working closely with Barnfield in for the Innovation Drive business securing further occupiers for the site. Two park. companies have recently expressed an interest in the site and proposals are currently being worked up.