Please ask for: Antony Spouse Telephone: 01482 613712 Fax: 01482 614804 Email: [email protected] Text phone: 01482 300349 Date: Wednesday, 05 December 2018 Dear Councillor, Economy and Investment Overview and Scrutiny Commission The next meeting of the Economy and Investment Overview and Scrutiny Commission will be held at 09:30 on Thursday, 13 December 2018 in Room 77 . The Agenda for the meeting is attached and reports are enclosed where relevant. Please Note: It is likely that the public, (including the Press) will be excluded from the meeting during discussions of exempt items since they involve the possible disclosure of exempt information as describe in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. Yours faithfully, Scrutiny Officer for the Chief Executive Town Clerk Services, Hull City Council, The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA www.hullcc.gov.uk Tel: 01482 300300 Page 1 of 116 Economy and Investment OSC To: Membership: Councillors Abbott, Brabazon (DC), Burton, Chaytor, Dunstan, Gardiner, Herrera- Richmond (C), Langley, Robinson, Williams Portfolio Holders: Councillor Brady, Leader of the Council Cllr Dave Craker, Portfolio Holder for Culture, Leisure and Tourism Councillor Hale, Portfolio Holder for Economic Investment, Regeneration and Planning, Land and Property Officers: Mark Jones – Director of Regeneration Malcolm Relph – City Economy Manager Antony Spouse, Scrutiny Officer (x5) For Information: Councillor Chaytor, Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee Reference Library (Public Set) Public Set: Reference Library Page 2 of 116 Economy and Investment Overview and Scrutiny Commission 09:30 on Thursday, 13 December 2018 Room 77 A G E N D A PROCEDURAL ITEMS 1 Apologies To receive apologies for those Members who are unable to attend the meeting. 2 Declarations of Interest To remind Members of the need to record the existence and nature of any Personal and Discloseable Pecuniary interest in items on the agenda, in accordance with the Member Code of Conduct. (Members Code of Conduct - Part D1 of the Constitution) NON-EXEMPT ITEMS 3 Minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 22 November 2018 5 - 20 To approve the minutes as a true record. 4 Hull Truck Theatre Update 21 - 28 To update the Commisison on the work of the Theatre and plans going forward. 5 Director of Regeneration Presentation 29 - 36 To enable the Director of Regneration to update the Commission on any strategy, performance or service delivery issues that fall within the remit of the Commision. 6 City Centre Update 37 - 116 To enable the Commisison to review city centre and Local Plan performance as well as receiving updates on the City Centre Design guide and city centre strategic sites. Page 3 of 116 EXEMPT ITEMS Page 4 of 116 Economy and Investment Overview and Scrutiny Commission 9:30 a.m. Thursday, 22 November, 2018, Room 77, The Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull, HU12AA Present: Councillors: Abbott, Burton, Chaytor, Dad (substituting for Councillor Williams), Dunstan, Gardiner, Herrera-Richmond (Chair), Nicola (substituting for Councillor Brabazon), Robinson and Williams In attendance: Councillor Brady (Leader of the Council, Hull City Council) P. Holloway (Arts and Culture Manager, Hull City Council) J. Howard-Coombes (Co Chief Executive. Freedom Festival Arts Trust) M. Martin (Co Chief Executive. Freedom Festival Arts Trust) C. Howell (Provider Manager, Young People Skills and Employability Team, Hull City Council) R. Mendham (Director of Training, Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce) T. Chalmers (Executive Director Employment and Skills, Humber Enterprise Partnership) J. Blesic (City Human Resources Manager, Hull City Council) G. Taylor (City Major Projects and Infrastructure Manager, Hull City Council) A. Yates (Assistant City Manager, Visitor Economy, Hull City Council) A. Spouse (Scrutiny Officer, Hull City Council) Apologies: Councillors Brabazon, Langley and Williams Page 5 of 116 Minute Number Action to be Taken by 24 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST Councillors Chaytor, Dunstan and Gardiner declared a personal interest in agenda item 11 (minute 33) in so far as they sat on the Council’s Planning Committee. 25 MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON THURSDAY, 12 (a) Scrutiny Officer - AS OCTOBER, 2018 The Scrutiny Officer submitted the minutes of the meeting held on Thursday, 12 October, 2018, for approval. Recommendations: Reasons for Recommendations: Agreed: a) That the minutes of the meeting held on Thursday, 12 a) N/A October, 2018, are agreed, and having been printed and circulated be taken as read and correctly recorded. b) The Commission are provided with an update on the Yorkshire Energy Park development at the earliest opportunity. P a g e 2 Page 6 of 116 26 PORTFOLIO HOLDER PRIORITIES – LEADER OF THE (a) Councillor Brady (b) M. Jones / M. Relph (c) COUNCIL Scrutiny Officer - AS Councillor Brady, the Leader of the Council attended for this item and introduced the paper. He explained that: i. The employment figures for the City continued to be positive. Employment was up 14% since the launch of the City Plan. More work was needed to encourage salary growth and raising skill levels would be a key factor. ii. There would be more information to come following the government’s review of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP). There was support on both banks of the river to retain the current Humber LEP footprint. The Leader believed maintaining the current arrangements made economic sense for the region. The Council continued to support the Humber LEP. iii. Talks regarding Yorkshire Devolution were ongoing. Representatives from Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council were due to meet with the Northern Powerhouse minister next week. The Leader felt progress was being made. Yorkshire was an incredibly strong brand. A deal would bring huge benefits to the region. Eighteen out of the twenty local authorities were united behind the deal. iv. The Humber LEP continued to develop an Industrial Strategy for the region and the council continued to feed into that process. v. The City Plan and City Leadership Board membership were both being refreshed with a view to ensuring the City was well placed to face future challenges. vi. A breakfast event to launch the City Centre Design Guide had attracted a host of potential investors and the Council had received lots of positive feedback from the attendees. vii. Work on the Castle Street footbridge had now started. viii. The Council continued to work with the Environment Agency on flood prevention works. ix. The results of the recent peer review were welcome and had highlighted the Council’s commitment to pursuing fair growth, partnership working and tackling deprivation. P a g e 3 Page 7 of 116 x. 162 new homes had been built in east Hull through a public/private partnership which had provided a real boost to the area. Builders had also highlighted the skills shortage in the City which showed there were career opportunities for young people in the City. xi. The city’s population has risen by 3.5% overall but the Leader was still surprised by the number of people leaving the City. The possible impact of Brexit on the local economy remained a concern. The Commission discussed: i. The need to get more people into long term sustainable jobs. The Leader agreed and highlighted the need to promote skills training to young people. There were skill shortages in key trades which provided huge opportunities for young people. Going into work early was a viable option. The University Technical College was another positive development in regard to skills training. ii. Whether the Humber LEP Board was likely to be refreshed. The Leader explained that the Government’s review had highlighted equality issues and ensuring both sexes were well represented on LEP boards. The Government had also announced that LEP chairs would need Government approval before taking up their post in future. iii. Whether ‘One Yorkshire’ would ever get off the blocks. The Leader believed the Government had concerns about the size of the Yorkshire deal and the power a devolved Yorkshire could yield. He felt a federal model, similar to Germany, was the way forward. iv. Economic growth and the challenge in ensuring people living inside the City boundary benefitted as much from the uplift as people living in the East Riding. The Leader explained that he thought the skills agenda was vital. The local authority boundary would always be a factor. Some people moved outside of the City when they started to earn more money but they tended not to move too far way. The objective was to increase the spending power of families living in the City. The Council was performing extremely well in regard to housebuilding and the Council hoped the Government would continue to offer support on the back of that performance. v. Long term concerns around migration and whether the employment data could be broken down by postcode and other demographics in order to determine if the City’s residents were benefiting from the recent economic growth. The Leader drew Members attention to paragraph 7.2 of the paper which confirmed 14,200 more residents were in work than were in work five years ago. We needed to make sure children were equipped with the right skills. The new Siemens factory in Goole was another good news story for the area. P a g e 4 Page 8 of 116 vi. Whether the number of available school places was a concern going forward. The Commission discussed how the demand for school places had fluctuated over recent years and whether Brexit might lessen the demand for school places in the longer term. Recommendations: Reasons for Recommendations: Agreed: a) That the Leader is thanked for attending the Commission a) N/A and updating the Commission on his priorities for the year ahead.