ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD High House Production Park, Friday, 07 June 10:00 Vellacott Close, 2019 Purfleet, Essex, RM19 1RJ Quorum: 3 (to include 2 voting members) Membership Mr Geoff Miles Chairman Cllr Kevin Bentley Essex County Council Cllr Paul Carter Kent County Council Cllr Rodney Chambers Medway Council Cllr Keith Glazier East Sussex County Council Cllr Rob Gledhill Thurrock Council Cllr John Lamb Southend Borough Council Angela O’Donoghue Further Education/ Skills representative Lucy Druesne Higher Education representative For information about the meeting please ask for: Lisa Siggins (Secretary to the Board) [email protected] Tel: 03330134594 Page 1 of 240 Meeting Information All meetings are held in public unless the business is exempt in accordance with the requirements of the Local Government Act 1972. Most meetings are held at High House Production Park, Purfleet. 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The agenda is also available on the Essex County Council website Page 2 of 240 Part 1 (During consideration of these items the meeting is likely to be open to the press and public) Pages 1 Welcome and Apologies for Absence 2 Minutes 7 - 14 To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 12th April 2019. 3 Declarations of Interest To note any declarations of interest to be made by Members in accordance with the Members' Code of Conduct 4 Questions from the Public In accordance with the Policy adopted by the SELEP, a period of up to 15 minutes will be allowed at the start of every Ordinary meeting of the Accountability Board to enable members of the public to make representations. No question shall be longer than three minutes, and all speakers must have registered their question by email or by post with the Managing Director of the South East LEP ([email protected]) by no later than 10.30am seven days before the meeting. Please note that only one speaker may speak on behalf of an organisation, no person may ask more than one question and there will be no opportunity to ask a supplementary question. On arrival, and before the start of the meeting, registered speakers must identify themselves to the member of staff collecting names. A copy of the Policy for Public Questions is made available on the SELEP website - http://www.southeastlep.com/images/uploads/resources/Pub licQuestionsPolicy.pdf Email ([email protected]) 5 Vote on Vice-Chair 6 Digital Technology Campus, Basildon LGF funding 15 - 34 decision Page 3 of 240 7 Groundworks and Scaffolding Training Centre LGF 35 - 40 funding decision 8 Skills and Business Support for Rural Businesses, 41 - 48 Plumpton College LGF funding decision 9 Flightpath Phase 2 LGF Funding Decision 49 - 56 10 Sidney Little Road Business Incubator Hub LGF funding 57 - 64 decision 11 A131 Braintree to Sudbury project update 65 - 72 12 A127 Network Resilience Package Update 73 - 81 13 Medway City Estate Project Update si 82 - 87 14 Capital Programme Management of the Local Growth 88 - 112 Fund Please note that Appendix 4 is to follow. 15 A13 Widening Update 113 - 122 16 Growing Places Fund update 123 - 140 17 SELEP Operations Update 141 - 212 18 Chart Road Project Update 213 - 223 Appendices 1-6 are to be considered under Exempt Items 19 Sturry Link Road Update 224 - 233 Appendix 1 is to be considered under Exempt Items. 20 Bexhill Enterprise Park North LGF funding decision 234 - 240 Appendix 2 is to be considered under Exempt Items. 21 Date of Next Meeting To note that the next meeting of the Board will be held on Friday 13th September 2019 at High House Production House 22 Urgent Business To consider any matter which in the opinion of the Chairman should be considered in public by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) as a matter of urgency. Exempt Items Page 4 of 240 (During consideration of these items the meeting is not likely to be open to the press and public) The following items of business have not been published on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information falling within Part I of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. Members are asked to consider whether or not the press and public should be excluded during the consideration of these items. If so it will be necessary for the meeting to pass a formal resolution: That the press and public are excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the remaining items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information falling within Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, the specific paragraph(s) of Schedule 12A engaged being set out in the report or appendix relating to that item of business. 23 A28 Chart Road Update Confidential Appendix 1 • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); 24 A128 Chart Road Confidential Appendix 2 • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); 25 A128 Chart Road Confidential Appendix 3 • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); 26 A128 Chart Road Confidential Appendix 4 • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); Page 5 of 240 27 A128 Chart Road Confidential Appendix 5 • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); 28 A128 Chart Road Confidential Appendix 6 • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); 29 A28 Sturry Link Road Confidential Appendix 1 • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); 30 Bexhill Enterprise North Park LGF funding decision CONFIDENTIAL APPENDIX 2 • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); 31 Urgent Exempt Business To consider in private any other matter which in the opinion of the Chairman should be considered by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) as a matter of urgency. Page 6 of 240 Friday, 12 April 2019 Minute 1 ______________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the meeting of the SELEP Accountability Board, held in High House Production Park Vellacott Close, Purfleet, Essex, RM19 1RJ on Friday, 12 April 2019 Present: Geoff Miles Chair Cllr Kevin Bentley Essex County Council Cllr Paul Carter Kent County Council Cllr Rodney Chambers Medway Council Cllr Keith Glazier East Sussex County Council Cllr Rob Gledhill Thurrock Council Cllr John Lamb Southend Borough Council Lucy Druesne Higher Education representative Paul Sayers Further Education/Skills representative ALSO PRESENT Having signed the attendance book Suzanne Bennett SELEP Adam Bryan SELEP Edmund Cassidy Steer Paul Cale Kent County Council Kim Cole Essex County Council (Legal representative for the Accountable Body) Helen Dyer SELEP Jessica Jagpal Medway Council Joel John Essex County Council Stephanie Essex County Council (as delegated Mitchener S151 Officer for the Accountable Body) Rhiannon Mort SELEP Lorna Norris Essex County Council Andy Rayfield MAXIM Tim Rignall Southend Borough Council Paul Rogers Thurrock Council Stephen Taylor Thurrock Council Matthew Waldie Essex County Council Amy Wharton SELEP Page 7 of 240 Friday, 12 April 2019 Minute 2 ______________________________________________________________________ 1 Welcome and Apologies for Absence The Board welcomed back Lucy Druesne, as Higher Education representative, following a year of parental leave. The Board were informed that Graham Razey would now be the Further Education representative. Paul Sayers, from East Kent College Group, attended substitute. this meeting as Graham Razey’s 2 Minutes The minutes of the meeting held on Friday, 15th February 2019 were agreed as an accurate record and were signed by the Chair. 3 Declarations of Interest As a private Businessman, Geoff Miles declared a pecuniary interest in respect of agenda item 13. He advised of his intention to step out of the room whilst agenda item 13 (Growing Places Fund Update) was discussed; and it was confirmed that Lucy Druesne would chair this item. 4 Questions from the Public There were none. 5 Thanet Parkway LGF funding decision The Accountability Board (the Board) received a report from Helen Dyer, Capital Programme Officer which was presented by Rhiannon Mort SELEP Capital Programme Manager, and a presentation from Steer, the purpose of which was for the Board to consider the award of £14m Local Growth Fund (LGF) to the Thanet Parkway Project, as detailed in the Project Business Case. Cllr Carter pointed out that the figures used by Steer did not reflect the real situation in this area; this project would create a significant part in the regeneration of the East Kent peninsula. He added that he wanted to get on with the project and not delay further, as the process of getting new rolling stock into service took six years from the placing of the order. Other members agreed that Network Rail needed to be more positive in developing these schemes. It was agreed that Rhiannon Mort should write to the Department for Transport on behalf of the Board, expressing members’ concerns.