LONDON BOROUGH OF SUTTON HOUSING, ECONOMY AND BUSINESS COMMITTEE TUESDAY, 26TH NOVEMBER, 2013 7.30 pm at the Civic Offices, St Nicholas Way, Sutton SM1 1EA To all members of the Housing, Economy and Business Committee:- Chair: Councillor Jayne McCoy Vice-Chair Councillor Richard Clifton Councillors: Malcolm Brown, Nick Emmerson, David Hicks, Gerry Jerome, Joyce Melican, Roger Roberts, Roger Thistle and Graham Tope Substitutes: Councillors Pathumal Ali, Eric Allen, Tim Crowley and John Drage. Ex Officio Councillor Ruth Dombey Note This is a Council meeting held in public. Additional representations are at the invitation of the Chair of the Committee. If you are a relevant organisation and you wish to submit representations on a proposal contained within the reports to this agenda please submit a request via the Committee Manager three working days before the meeting date. This meeting will be recorded and made available on the Council’s web site. Niall Bolger Chief Executive Civic Offices St Nicholas Way SUTTON SM1 1EA 15 November 2013 Enquiries to: Angela Guest, Committee Manager. Tel:020 8770 5122, Email: [email protected] Copies of reports are available in large print on request CIVIC OFFICES, SUTTON GROUND FLOOR MEETING ROOMS FIRE PRECAUTIONS If there is a FIRE in the building the fire alarm will sound continuously. Leave the building immediately by the most direct route, either back through reception or the fire exit into Lower Square. Take your coat and any bags with you. Assemble in the car park in front of the Holiday Inn. First Aid can be obtained from Civic Security in reception. Toilet Toilet Room 1 Toilet Toilet Reception Fire Room Room Room Room Exit 5 4 3 2 Fire Lower Square Exit Entrance Holiday Inn Car Park 2 Reminder – Declaration of Interests Members should consider the following interests and whether they have any they should declare. 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Any four members of the Council may notify the Chief Executive by then if they require a decision to be reviewed by the full Council at its next meeting on 13 January 2014. Please contact the Committee Manager named on the Agenda frontsheet for further information. AGENDA 1. WELCOME AND INTRODUC TIONS 2. APOLOGIES AND SUBSTI TUTES 3 3. MIN UTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING (Pages 1 - 6) Minutes of the meeting held on 8 October 2013. 4. DECLARATIONS OF INTE REST 5. RESIDENT INVOLVEMENT QUALITY STANDARD FRO M TPAS (TENANT PARTICIPATION ADVISORY SERVICE) (Pages 7 - 18) To provide members of the Housing and Economic Business Committee with a summary of the results, following the successful accreditation of the TPAS (Tenant Participation Advisory Service) Resident Involvement Quality Standard. Attendees for this item will include: • Andrew Taylor, Chief Executive Sutton Housing Partnership • Mike Davies, Chair Sutton Housing Partnership • Emma Wallington – TPAS Consultant A copy of the presentation can be read online from the day of the meeting at: http://sutton.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=450&MId=3424&Ver=4 Indicative time 30 minutes 6. EXCLUSION OF PRESS A ND PUBLIC That, by virtue of Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, which would not be in the public interest. 7. REVIEW OF MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS ON THE ROUNDSHAW ESTATE Report for noting. Attendees for this item will include: • Brian Johnson, Chief Executive Metropolitan Housing Association • Jane Ball , Regional Director Hyde Housing Association Indicative time 20 minutes 4 8. A REVIEW OF COUNCIL PROCUREMENT SPENDING AND ITS IMPACT ON SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (Pages 19 - 32) This report explains how the Council's procurement report can be used to support local training and jobs. Indicative time 15 minutes 9. ENFORCEMENT PROTOCOL (Pages 33 - 50) To set out recommended priorities. It also emphasises that enforcement is an important part of cross council area-based initiatives to improve the borough. Indicative time 20 minutes 10. UPDATE ON SOCIAL REF ORM - CRISIS LOAN AND GRAN T SCHEME (Pages 51 - 98) Update report of the Strategic Director, Resources. Indicative time 15 minutes 11. ECONOMIC INDICATORS (Pages 99 - 124) Report of the Executive Head for Economic Development, Planning and Sustainability for noting. Indicative time 10 minutes 12. BEDDINGTON NEIGHBOUR HOOD AREA AND FORUM DESIG NATION (Pages 125 - 148) This report sets out the process and results of consultation on the applications from the 'Beddington Neighbourhood Development Group' for formal designation of, (a) the neighbourhood area, and; (b) the neighbourhood forum for the purposes of producing a neighbourhood plan. Indicative time 5 minutes 13. DELEGATED DECISIONS TAKEN SINCE THE LAST MEETING To note any delegated decisions taken since the last meeting of this committee. 5 14. TASK A ND FINISH GROUPS a. Allocations Policy Review (Pages 149 - 150) To recommend the establishment of a Task & Finish group to review the Council's Housing Allocation Policy. Indicative time 5 minutes 15. REFERENCES FROM C OUNCIL COMMITTEES OR OTHER OUTSIDE BODIES 16. ANY URGENT BUSINESS BROUGHT FORWARD AT T HE DIRECTION OF THE CHAIR 17. DATE OF NEXT MEETING The next meeting will be held on 28 January 2014. 6 Page 1 Agenda Item 3 Housing, Economy and Business Committee 8 October 2013 HOUSING, ECONOMY AND BUSINESS COMMITTEE 8 October 2013 at 7.30 pm MEMBERS : Councillor Jayne McCoy (Chair), Councillor Richard Clifton (Vice (*Absent) Chair) and Councillors Malcolm Brown, Nick Emmerson, David Hicks, Gerry Jerome, Joyce Melican, *Roger Roberts, Roger Thistle and *Graham Tope. Councillor *Ruth Dombey (ex -of ficio) Attended as Councillor John Drage Substitute 951. APOLOGIES AND SUBSTITUTES Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Graham Tope and Roger Roberts. Councillor John Drage attended as a substitute. 952. MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING The minutes of the meeting held on 18 June 2013 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair. Further to Minute 614/13 the Chair announced that the national Non Domestic Rate Appeals Panel was due to meet on 18 October 2013. 953. KIPPA BID RENEWAL - UPDATE The Committee considered a report which sought the approval of a yes vote from the Council in the forthcoming ballot on the extension of the Business Improvement District (BID) for another five years. Michael Cumper, Chair of the Kimpton Industrial Park Proprietors Association (KIPPA) explained the priorities for KIPPA and the work undertaken to improve access and security to the site as well as assistance provided to member businesses. He thanked Sutton Council officers for the excellent service received. The Committee noted the excellent partnership working and congratulated KIPPA on their achievements. Resolved: (i) To endorse the Kimpton Industrial Park Proprietors Association Business Improvement District renewal strategy. (ii) To approve a yes vote for the BID proposal in the forthcoming ballot for all the Council’s hereditaments within the Kimpton Industrial Park. (iii) To delegate authority to the Strategic Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods to exercise the vote for the Council’s hereditaments within the Kimpton Industrial Park (iv) To note that if a majority of businesses in the KIPPA area by number and rateable value vote in support of the BID, the Council will be liable for an annual payment of the BID levy of £800. 954. ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION The Committee considered a report which explained that on the 30 May 2013, the Government introduced permitted development rights for offices to convert to residential uses (i.e. without the need for a planning permission). It was therefore proposed that an Article 4 Direction be introduced to cover Sutton Town Centre 903 Agenda Item 3 Page 2 Housing, Economy and Business Committee 8 October 2013 which would reinstate a planning permission requirement for offices to convert to residential uses.