Issue - meetings

Office accommodation

Meeting: 10/10/2019 - Council (Item 36)

Exclusion of the public

To consider whether to exclude members of the press and public from the meeting for the following item of business under Part 1 of Schedule 12A Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 and as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006 on the grounds that:

(i)        it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, and

(ii)       the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. 

Minutes:

RESOLVED: to exclude members of the press and public from the meeting for the following item of business under Part 1 of Schedule 12A Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 and as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006 on the grounds that:

i.          it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, and

ii.         the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

 


Meeting: 10/10/2019 - Council (Item 37)

37 New office accommodation - design, sustainability and building specification

At its meeting on 8 October Cabinet will consider a confidential report on the progress of the new council office building and car park programme at the council’s Crowmarsh Gifford site which asks Cabinet to determine the design, sustainability and building specification for the building and car park.

The confidential report, which Cabinet will consider at its meeting, is attached.

The Climate Emergency Advisory Committee considered the report at its meeting on 19 September. The views and recommendations of the committee will be presented to Cabinet at its meeting on 8 October.

The Cabinet recommendations will be circulated to all councillors following the Cabinet meeting on 8 October.

 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Council considered Cabinet’s recommendations, made at its meeting on 8 October 2019, on the progress of the new council office building and car park programme at the council’s Crowmarsh Gifford site.

 

Council resolved to:

 

(a)      note the progress of the new council office building and car park programme at the council’s Crowmarsh Gifford site; and

 

(b)      allocate additional budget provision to the capital scheme in the approved programme.

 


Meeting: 08/10/2019 - Cabinet (Item 31)

New office accommodation - design, sustainability and building specification

To consider the report of the head of corporate services - attached. 

Additional documents:

  • Restricted enclosure 8

Minutes:

Councillor Leigh Rawlins, the Cabinet member for planning, left the room for the consideration of this item. 

 

Cabinet considered the report of the deputy acting chief executive – transformation and operations which outlined the progress of the new council office building and car park programme at the council’s Crowmarsh Gifford site.

 

Representatives of Ridge, the council’s appointed project managers for the design and build, attended to answer members’ questions.

 

Councillor Sue Roberts, chair of the Climate Emergency Advisory Committee, addressed the meeting and outlined the recommendations of the committee’s meeting of 19 September 2019 regarding the sustainability options for the project.

 

RECOMMENDED: to Council to

 

(a)      note the progress of the new council office building and car park programme at the council’s Crowmarsh Gifford site.

 

(b)      allocate additional budget provision to the capital scheme in the approved programme.


 

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