Decisions

1. To approve the updated Capital Grants Policy as set out in Appendix 1.

2. To delegate authority to the head of communities to make minor updates to the policy and scoring criteria, when required.

a)    That Cabinet notes the latest progress against the Housing Delivery Strategy Action Plan 2024/25.

b)    That Cabinet reviews and adopts the proposed Action Plan for 2025/26

That Cabinet notes progress made in implementing the Cornerstone Development Action Plan (Appendix 1) to optimise operation of the in-house delivery model before any consideration is given to alternative operating models.

That Cabinet note the contents of the report.

To continue to support and engage in an Oxfordshire electric vehicle (EV) car club scheme, until 31 December 2025 and issue a licence to allow for reserved parking in the relevant council car parks at no cost to the car club operator.

To authorise the Head of Legal and Democratic in consultation with the Head of Development and Corporate Landlord to sign the revised Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) document.

To delegate to the Head of Development and Corporate Landlord to allow parking free of any fee between South Oxfordshire District Council (the council) and the car club provider (Co-Wheels) in respect of using parking bays within the council car parks as set out below until 31 December 2025, for the use by the car clubs. As per Paragraph 1.2 of General delegations to Heads of Service, to remit or reduce charges normally paid to the council when there are exceptional or special circumstances justifying the remission or discount (in consultation with the relevant cabinet member).

To allow officers to carry out condition and Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) surveys on the leisure facilities in South Oxfordshire which equate to circa £60,000.