Decision details

Oxfordshire Strategic Economic Plan

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

Purpose: to consider the draft plan

Decisions:

Cabinet considered the report of the interim head of development, regeneration and housing.  This summarised the revised draft Oxfordshire Strategic Economic Plan, which the council had been asked to comment on by its author, the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership.  The report highlighted the key points in the document, outlined issues that had already been raised during the formal consultation that had not been fully addressed in the revised draft, and recommended a response to the Local Enterprise Partnership.  The Joint Scrutiny Committee had also considered the revised draft plan and suggested a number of improvements.  The committee had also recommended that Cabinet referred the plan to the Council for debate. 

 

Cabinet concurred with the suggestions that the revised draft plan should be subject to a Council debate before the leader submitted his formal response to the consultation.  Cabinet suggested that the chief executive of the Local Enterprise Partnership should be invited to address Council to answer some of the key points made in the report. 

 

RECOMMENDED to Council to endorse the decision of Cabinet to:

(i)        welcome some of the changes made to the Oxfordshire Strategic Economic Plan which seek to make it “shorter and clearer”, and acknowledges that this has largely been achieved;

(ii)       support the broad thrust of the Oxfordshire Strategic Economic Plan document in terms of the stated vision, identified strengths weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and proposed actions; and

(iii)      believe the document would be more robust if it:

·         more fully addressed the issues highlighted in the body of the Cabinet report,

·         more clearly linked actions to identified issues, and confirmed where responsibility lies for implementing these various actions,

and to note that the Leader will take account of points raised at Council in responding to the consultation. 

Report author: Gerry Brough

Publication date: 14/10/2016

Date of decision: 06/10/2016

Decided at meeting: 06/10/2016 - Cabinet

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