Cabinet Date: Monday 2 March 2020 Time: 10am Venue: Edwards Room, County Hall, Norwich Persons attending the meeting are requested to turn off mobile phones. Membership: Cllr Andrew Proctor Chairman. Leader and Cabinet Member for Strategy & Governance. Cllr Graham Plant Vice-Chairman. Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Growing the Economy. Cllr Bill Borrett Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, Public Health & Prevention Cllr Margaret Dewsbury Cabinet Member for Communities & Partnerships Cllr John Fisher Cabinet Member for Children’s Services Cllr Tom FitzPatrick Cabinet Member for Innovation, Transformation & Performance Cllr Andy Grant Cabinet Member for Environment & Waste Cllr Andrew Jamieson Cabinet Member for Finance Cllr Greg Peck Cabinet Member for Commercial Services & Asset Management Cllr Martin Wilby Cabinet Member for Highways, Infrastructure & Transport WEBCASTING This meeting will be filmed and streamed live via YouTube on the NCC Democrat Services channel. The whole of the meeting will be filmed, except where there are confidential or exempt items and the footage will be available to view via the Norfolk County Council CMIS website. A copy of it will also be retained in accordance with the Council’s data retention policy. Members of the public may also film or record this meeting. If you do not wish to have your image captured, you should sit in the public gallery area. If you have any queries regarding webcasting of meetings, please contact the committee Team on 01603 228913 or email [email protected] 1 Cabinet 2 March 2020 A g e n d a 1 To receive any apologies. 2 Minutes Page 5 To confirm the minutes from the Cabinet Meeting held on Monday 3 February 2020. 3 Members to Declare any Interests If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter to be considered at the meeting and that interest is on your Register of Interests you must not speak or vote on the matter. If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter to be considered at the meeting and that interest is not on your Register of Interests you must declare that interest at the meeting and not speak or vote on the matter In either case you may remain in the room where the meeting is taking place. If you consider that it would be inappropriate in the circumstances to remain in the room, you may leave the room while the matter is dealt with. If you do not have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest you may nevertheless have an Other Interest in a matter to be discussed if it affects, to a greater extent than others in your division • Your wellbeing or financial position, or • that of your family or close friends • Any body - o Exercising functions of a public nature. o Directed to charitable purposes; or o One of whose principal purposes includes the influence of public opinion or policy (including any political party or trade union); Of which you are in a position of general control or management. If that is the case then you must declare such an interest but can speak and vote on the matter. 4 To receive any items of business which the Chairman decides should be considered as a matter of urgency 5 Public Question Time Fifteen minutes for questions from members of the public of which due notice has been given. Please note that all questions must be received by the Committee Team ([email protected]) by 5pm on Wednesday 26 February 2020. For guidance on submitting a public 2 Cabinet 2 March 2020 question, view the Constitution at https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/what-we- do-and-how-we-work/councillors-meetings-decisions-and- elections/committees-agendas-and-recent-decisions/ask-a-question-to- a-committee 6 Local Member Issues/Questions Fifteen minutes for local member to raise issues of concern of which due notice has been given. Please note that all questions must be received by the Committee Team ([email protected]) by 5pm on Wednesday 26 February 2020. 7 Emergency Services Collaboration – Update. Page 36 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services 8 Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service – HMICFRS Improvement Plan Page 48 update. Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services 9 Repton Property Developments Ltd Business Plan. Page 76 Report by the Executive Director of Finance & Commercial Services. 10 NCC HH Limited – Articles of Association Page 97 Report by the Executive Director of Finance & Commercial Services. 11 NCC Nurseries Limited – Articles of Association Page 132 Report by the Executive Director of Finance & Commercial Services 12 Disposal, acquisition and exploitation of property. Page 167 Report by the Executive Director of Finance & Commercial Services 13 Finance Monitoring Report 2019-20 P10: January 2020. Page 176 Report by the Executive Director of Finance & Commercial Services 14 Highway Parish Partnership Schemes 2020/21 Page 206 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services 15 Norfolk Library Strategy. Page 221 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services 16 Hethel Innovation Ltd and Scottow Enterprise Park. Page 230 Report by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services 17 Peer Review Action Plan. Page 250 Report by the Executive Director of Strategy & Governance 18 Delegated Decisions Reports 3 Cabinet 2 March 2020 Decisions by the Cabinet Member for Highways, Infrastructure & Transport. • DfT ‘Pinch Point’ Bid Submission Page 264 • Recommendations of the Greater Norwich Development Page 274 Partnership Board Page 281 • Proposed Minor Amendments to Planning Obligations Standards 2020 Decision by the Cabinet Member for Communities & Partnerships • Building Contractor for Norwich Castle: Gateway to Medieval Page 318 England Development Decision by the Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services. • Residual Waste: Suffolk Inter-Authority Agreement Page 325 19 Exclusion of the Public Cabinet is asked to consider excluding the public from the meeting under section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 for consideration of the items below on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined by paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act, and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. Cabinet will be presented with the conclusions of the public interest test carried out by the report author and is recommended to confirm the exclusion. 20 Disposal, acquisition and exploitation of property. Page 330 Exempt Appendix to the report by the Executive Director of Finance & Commercial Services. Chris Walton Head of Democratic Services County Hall Martineau Lane Norwich NR1 2DH Date Agenda Published: 21 February 2020 4 Cabinet Minutes of the Meeting held on Monday 3 February 2020 at 10am in the Edwards Room, County Hall, Norwich Present: Cllr Andrew Proctor Chairman. Leader & Cabinet Member for Strategy & Governance. Cllr Bill Borrett Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, Public Health & Prevention. Cllr Margaret Dewsbury Cabinet Member for Communities & Partnerships. Cllr John Fisher Cabinet Member for Children’s Services. Cllr Tom FitzPatrick Cabinet Member for Innovation, Transformation & Performance. Cllr Andy Grant Cabinet Member for Environment & Waste. Cllr Andrew Jamieson Cabinet Member for Finance Cllr Greg Peck Cabinet Member for Commercial Services & Asset Management. Cllr Graham Plant Vice-Chairman and Cabinet Member for Growing the Economy. Cllr Martin Wilby Cabinet Member for Highways, Infrastructure & Transport. Other Members Present: Cllr Steve Morphew Cllr Danny Douglas Cllr Alexandra Kemp Cllr Bev Spratt Cllr Brenda Jones Cllr Haydn Thirtle Executive Directors Present: Tom McCabe Executive Director of Community & Environmental Services and Head of Paid Service. Gary Heathcote Director of Commissioning (for Executive Director of Adult Social Services) Helen Edwards Chief Legal Officer and Monitoring Officer Simon George Executive Director of Finance & Commercial Services Fiona McDiarmid Executive Director of Strategy & Governance Sara Tough Executive Director of Children’s Services 1 Apologies for Absence There were no apologies for absence. 2 Minutes 5 The minutes from the Cabinet meeting held on Monday 13 January 2020 were agreed as an accurate record and signed by the Chairman. 3 Declaration of Interests There were no declarations made. 4 Items of Urgent Business 4.1 There were no items of urgent business. 5 Public Question Time 5.1 The list of public questions and responses is attached at Appendix A. 5.2 As a supplementary question, Ms Jenn Parkhouse, on behalf of the Wensum Valley Alliance, asked if Norfolk County Council would now consider, in view of the fact the issue of mitigation for wildlife in general and bats in particular, regarding the Norwich Western Link had been brought into question by the broadcast of the “Inside Out” programme on BBC1 on Monday 27 January, if the Outline Business Case should be withdrawn from the DfT for reconsideration and revision. The Chairman deferred the question to the Cabinet Member for Highways, Infrastructure & Transport who responded that the preferred route had been chosen and that Norfolk County Council would continue to work with Natural England, the Environment Agency and all statutory bodies on any mitigation measures required to ensure the project was successfully delivered. 5.3 As a supplementary question, Mr Robin Ward stated he managed a service which was working on Pathway 3 and asked if Norfolk County Council could put formal and quantifiable numbers on the Pathway 3 project which would allow his service to say they were providing jobs and getting people into work or volunteering or was the Pathway project more informal. The Chairman deferred the question to the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Services, Public Health & Prevention who replied that one of the headline indicators would be the number of people in employment which, in Norfolk was about half of the achievement of comparator councils. He added that in order to get the best and most helpful outcomes, a suite of criteria would be something providers would be urged to deliver.