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information regarding recent decisions that have been taken by the
council’s decision making bodies.
Decisions recommendations approved (subject to call-in)
To seek approval for the Energy Service to
apply for a number of government funds for carbon reduction
projects.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Authorised the Executive Director
for Growth and Regeneration, in consultation with the Cabinet
Member for Transport and Energy, the Cabinet Member for Finance
Governance and Performance, the Chief Finance Officer and the
Monitoring Officer, to accept:
i.
£2.6m Green Homes Grant awarded by central government to
Bristol City Council to deliver energy efficiency and renewable
measures to low-income households with poor energy efficiency
ratings.
ii.
If successful, a £6.9m Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme
bid to central government to connect existing public buildings to
the Redcliffe and Old Market heat networks. This will be subject to
recommendation from the executive director for Growth and
Regeneration in consultation with the s151 officer.
2.
Authorised the Executive Director for Growth and Regeneration, in
consultation with the Cabinet Member for Transport and Energy, the
Chief Finance Officer and the Monitoring Officer, to procure all
goods, works and services necessary to deliver the projects in
receipt of government grant funding.
- Authorised the Executive Director
for Growth and Regeneration, in consultation with the Cabinet
Member for Transport and Energy and with Procurement, and noting
that the City Leap Board is to be consulted on all key
decisions/arrangements that may have a bearing on the City Leap
tender, to procure/extend/vary the contract(s) necessary for the
implementation of:
i.
Routing zero-carbon electricity generated from the Council’s
own renewable energy generation to nominated Council sites.
ii.
An electricity supply arrangement for City Hall with a tariff
structure that optimises use of and income from the planned storage
battery.
iii.
New contracting arrangements for Generators, which will allow
pre-qualified renewable generators to enter long term supply
arrangements for nominated Council sites,
and made accessible to other organisations.
iv.
Authorise the Executive Director for Growth and Regeneration to
implement any subsequent extensions/variations specifically defined
in the above-mentioned contract(s) being awarded, subject to the
financial impact not exceeding the maximum budget envelope.
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Lead officer: Patsy Mellor
To seek approval to commence retendering of
Rough Sleeper Service for a 3 year period.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Authorised the Executive Director of
Growth and Regeneration and Head of Procurement, in consultation
with the Cabinet Member for Housing, to approve the final
Commissioning Plan, tendering recommendations for the core Rough
Sleeper Service and to take all steps necessary to deliver, procure
and award a contract from October 2021 for three years with options
to extend for two periods of two years at a cost of
£1,678,650.
- Approved the submission and spend of
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s
Protect Programme, Protect Plus and Rough Sleeper Initiative
continuation funding - assumed above in this report – in line
with grant conditions.
- Authorised the Executive Director of
Growth and Regeneration, in consultation with the Cabinet Member
for Housing to authorise and accept the (MHCLG) RSI potential
additional grant funding above assumed above in this report and to
spend to reduce rough sleeping for 2021/22 in line with any grant
conditions.
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Lead officer: Hywel Caddy
To seek approval for the development of the
film and television studio facilities at The Bottle Yard Studios at
Hawkfield Business Park.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Approved option 4 of the ten-year
Bottle Yard Studios business plan of developing three new studios
at the Hawkfield Business Park site
alongside maintaining eight studios at the existing Bottle Yard
Studios site at a cost of £11.86m for the purchase and
development of Hawkfield Business Park
and £1.6m for essential renewal and improvement works at the
Bottle Yard Studios site.
- Noted the approval of the Outline
Business Case for the purchase and development of the Hawkfield Business Park site by the West of England
Combined Authority (WECA) Joint Committee of 29th January
2021.
- Approved the submission of a Full
Business Case to WECA for the £11.86m of external
funding.
- Authorised, on successful grant
award, the Executive Director, Growth & Regeneration in
consultation with the Council’s s.151 Officer and Deputy
Mayor with responsibility for Finance, Governance and Performance,
to enter into a grant agreement and procure and award contracts for
expenditure of the WECA grant funding for the development of the
Hawkfield Business Park site.
- Authorised the Executive Director,
Growth & Regeneration in consultation with the Council’s
s.151 Officer and Deputy Mayor with responsibility for Finance,
Governance and Performance to bid for and, if successful, to enter
into up to £3m of external grant agreements and procure and
award contracts for additional decarbonisation measures at
Hawkfield Business Park and The Bottle
Yard Studios, as grant funding opportunities become available.
- Approved the investment of capital
funding of £1.6m on the Capital Programme for essential
renewal and improvements at the Bottle Yard Studio site to allow
continued operation of existing studios over the term of the
ten-year business plan.
- Authorised the Executive Director,
Growth & Regeneration in consultation with the Council’s
s.151 Officer and Deputy Mayor with responsibility for Finance,
Governance and Performance to procure and award contracts of up to
£1.6m for essential renewal and improvements.
Wards affected: Hengrove and Whitchurch Park;
Lead officer: Oliver Roberts
To seek confirmation for establishment and
operation of a Covid-19 rapid test centre for Bristol.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Confirmed the establishment of a
Covi-19 Rapid Testing centre at a cost of £1.75m from the
outbreak management fund.
- Authorised the Executive Director
People, in consultation with the Cabinet Member Communities,
Equalities & Public Health to take all steps required to
maintain the Testing Centre in accordance with Government
requirements.
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Lead officer: Christina Gray
25/02/2021 - Changing Futures Bid ref: 984 Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)
To seek approval to submit a funding
application to Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local
Government's ‘Changing Futures’ Fund.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet:
- Noted the submission of an
expression of interest for the MCHLG Changing Futures funding
programme of up to £4.5m over two years.
- Authorised, if this expression of
interest is successful, the Executive Director of People in
consultation with the agreed Cabinet Member, to develop a detailed
delivery plan for submission by April 2021.
- Noted that, if successful, a further
report will be brought to Cabinet to seek approval for how the
funding will be spent.
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Lead officer: Katherine Williams
To seek approval for the closure of St Pius X
Catholic Primary School.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Approved the Governing Body’s
recommendation to close St Pius X Catholic Primary School.
Wards affected: Bishopsworth; Hartcliffe and Withywood; Hengrove and Whitchurch Park;
Lead officer: Alison Hurley
To consider development of a new build
community and health hub in Lawrence Weston on Council owned
land.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Approved expenditure of £1m
Strategic CIL within the Capital Programme, and the expenditure of
£150k from the Ports Communities Resilience Fund, by way of
grants to Ambition Lawrence Weston towards the development of the
Lawrence Weston Community Hub, conditional upon S151 officer
sign-off of the due diligence of the final project business
case.
- Authorised the Executive Director of
Growth & Regeneration, in conjunction with S151 officer, to
negotiate terms for the award and drawdown of the proposed
grants.
- Noted the proposed development will
promote or improve the economic, social or environmental well-being
of Lawrence Western and its community
- Authorised the Executive Director
for Growth & Regeneration (in consultation with the Cabinet
Member for Finance, Governance and Performance) to agree terms for
the grant of a 35 year lease to Ambition Lawrence Weston, at an
undervalue.
Wards affected: Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston;
Lead officer: Oliver Roberts
To seek approval for the closure of St
Michael’s on the Mount and St George’s CofE Primary
Schools and establish a new school on the site of St
Michael’s.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Approved the closure of St
Michael’s on the Mount and St George C of E Primary
Schools;
- Approved the establishment of a new
school on the site of St Michael’s.
Wards affected: Clifton; Hotwells and Harbourside;
Lead officer: Alison Hurley
To seek approval to accept West of England
Combined Authority funding to extend the ‘Reboot West’
project supporting care leavers into education, training and
employment.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Approved, subject to meeting the
requirements of the WECA Committee, the acceptance of
£720,000 of WECA funding to extend the Reboot West project
until 2024.
- Authorised the Executive Director
People in consultation with the Cabinet Member to take all steps to
enter into a grant agreement and partnership agreements to extend
the Reboot project.
- Approved an update to the
partnership agreement between Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North
Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset councils, including
sharing the administration and legal costs of establishing Phase 2
of Reboot West.
- Approved the extension of the
partnership arrangements outlined in Appendix A1 with/on behalf of
the three participating local authorities to deliver the proposal
to support an increased proportion of care leavers into education,
employment and training.
- Approved engagement with wider
public sector partners and obtain monetised evidence during this
Phase 2 project in order to make savings and shift resource into a
preventative Reboot model from 2024 onwards.
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Lead officer: Jane Taylor
To seek approval for a 2 year extension to a
number of substance misuse services contracts.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet, in consultation with the
Cabinet Member for Communities, Equality and Public Health:
- Approved the extension of the
contract for two years until 1st February 2025 at a cost of
£5,998,340 per annum.
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Lead officer: Christina Gray
To seek approval for a 12 month extension to
the current concession agreement to Clear Channel UK Ltd and to
commence tendering process for a new agreement.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Agreed a 12-month extension to the
current Bus Shelter Advertising Concession Agreement to CCUK, from
1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022, on the same terms as the current
contract.
- Authorised the Executive Director
for Growth & Regeneration to invite tenders for, and to
subsequently award, a new contract for the Bus Shelter Advertising
Concession Agreement, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for
Transport and Energy, the Green New Deal, Clean Air Zone
planning.
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Lead officer: Nuala Gallagher
To seek approval for a 3 month extension to
the current agreement for the supply of mobile devices and
associated airtime used by Bristol City Council.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Approved the re-procurement of a
compliant Mobile voice and data contract for a period of 2 +1 years
at a cost up to £2m pa/£6m over the term of the
contract.
- Authorised the Director –
Digital Transformation in consultation with the Cabinet Member
– Finance, Governance & Performance to take all steps
necessary to procure and award the contract.
- Authorised the Director –
Digital Transformation to agree a 3 month extension of the existing
Mobile Voice and Data Contract at an estimated cost of
£250k.
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Lead officer: Simon Oliver
To seek approval for the Bristol Impact Fund 2
over 4 years.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Approved the Bristol Impact Fund 2:
Growing the Power of Communities - a total grants fund of
£6.4m over four years from 1st October 2021 to the 30th
September 2025.
- Approved the allocation of up to
£600k p.a. (£2.4m over four years) to:
- extend existing medium and large BIF
funding agreements by three months from 1st July –30th
September 2021
- extend the Voice & Influence
contract by four-and-a-half months from 17th May – 30th
September to give more time to the BIF 2 application process.
- support the delivery of a VCSE
recovery strategy to be agreed by March 2021 working with the
Voluntary and Community Sector Strategy Group and enabling a new
Communities Resilience Fund commencing 2021/22.
- Authorised the Executive Director
for People in consultation with Cabinet Member for Communities
(Public Health, Public Transport, Libraries, Parks), Events and
Equalities Communities, to invite community and voluntary
organisations to apply to Bristol Impact Fund and to award grants
necessary for the implementation of Bristol Impact Fund Growing the
Power of Communities.
- Authorised the Executive Director
for People to invoke any subsequent extensions or vary /variations
specifically defined in the funding agreements being awarded, up to
the maximum budget envelope outlined in this report.
- Noted the Communities Resilience
Fund is subject to budget approval in February 2021 and a further
cabinet report.
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Lead officer: Penny Germon
To seek approval for the
next steps in the delivery of new homes and regeneration in
Southmead in accordance with the masterplan including procurement
and negotiation of contracts.
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Made at meeting: 25/02/2021 - Cabinet
Decision published: 25/02/2021
Effective from: 09/03/2021
Decision:
Cabinet
- Approved the delivery of new homes
and regeneration in Southmead in accordance with the spatial
principles of the Southmead Masterplan.
- Authorised the Executive Director
Growth and Regeneration, in consultation with the S151 Officer and
Cabinet Member for Finance, Governance and Performance to negotiate
with third parties and enter into contracts to secure the delivery
of new homes and regeneration in Southmead within the budget
envelope detailed in the report
- Approved the allocation of Strategic
CIL funds of up to £7m to support development and library
relocation costs and fund Health Centre, Library and Community
enterprise space development.
- Authorised the Executive Director
Growth & Regeneration, (in consultation with the S151 Officer,
Cabinet Member for Housing and Cabinet Member for Finance,
Governance and Performance) to use Strategic CIL funds up to
£7m to support development and library relocation costs and
fund Health Centre, Library, and Community enterprise space
development.
Wards affected: Southmead;
Lead officer: Stephen Peacock