Agenda and decisions

To approve, as a correct record, the minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 08 July 2024.

To receive questions and statements from the public, if any.

Members are asked at this stage to declare any interests that they may have in any of the following items on the agenda. The Code of Conduct for Members requries that declarations include the nature of the interest and whether it is a disclosable pecuniary interest (see attached guidance and flowchart)

To determine any other items of business which the Chairman decides should be considered as a matter of urgency pursuant to Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972

To receive oral questions from Members, if any

The following recommendations were made by the Overview & Scrutiny Committee at the meeting held on 17 July 2024:

1.     East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Recommended that the Council –

(A) Request the East of England Ambulance Trust to provide

(1) the mapping of CFRs in North Norfolk to establish where any gaps in the numbers of volunteers are

(2) communication materials for members of the council to use when talking to their respective Parish and Town Councils about the co-responding and the role of CFRs

(B) the Council

(1) works with the Norfolk Ambulance Trust to help promote its Campaign on Community First Responders and co responding by signposting members of the public towards the Ambulance Trust’s Community First Responders https://www.eastamb.nhs.uk/join-the-team/volunteering-and-volunteers/community-first-responders

(2) encourages the members of the council to talk to their respective Parish and Town Councils on the importance of the work being done by Community First Responders with the aim of increasing the understanding of these roles and seeking to achieve more volunteers to apply for these roles

2.     North Walsham High Street Heritage Action Zone

‘To update the Overview & Scrutiny Committee in 12 months time on the impact of the North Walsham High Street Heritage Action Zone initiative and learning from this, to establish a set of evaluation criteria, including baselines, that can then be used for similar projects in other towns in North Norfolk.’

Decision

RESOLVED to support the following recommendations:

1. East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Recommended that the Council –

(A) Request the East of England Ambulance Trust to provide

(1) the mapping of CFRs in North Norfolk to establish where any gaps in the numbers of volunteers are

(2) communication materials for members of the council to use when talking to their respective Parish and Town Councils about the co-responding and the role of CFRs

(B) the Council

(1) works with the Norfolk Ambulance Trust to help promote its Campaign on Community First Responders and co responding by signposting members of the public towards the Ambulance Trust’s Community First Responders https://www.eastamb.nhs.uk/join-the-team/volunteering-and-volunteers/community-first-responders

(2) encourages the members of the council to talk to their respective Parish and Town Councils on the importance of the work being done by Community First Responders with the aim of increasing the understanding of these roles and seeking to achieve more volunteers to apply for these roles

2. North Walsham High Street Heritage Action Zone

‘To update the Overview & Scrutiny Committee in 12 months time on the impact of the North Walsham High Street Heritage Action Zone initiative and learning from this, to establish a set of evaluation criteria, including baselines, that can then be used for similar projects in other towns in North Norfolk.’

The following recommendations were made by the Planning Policy & Built Heritage Working Party at the meeting held on 18 July 2024:

1.     Wells Neighbourhood Plan:

In order to comply with the statutory timeframe, the

Planning Policy & Built Heritage Working Party

recommends to the Leader to make a delegated

decision on behalf of Cabinet, that having been

subject to successful local referendum;

a. The Wells-Next-The-Sea Neighbourhood Plan be

made (brought into force) as part of the statutory

Development Plan for North Norfolk in accordance

with section 38A(4) of the Planning and

Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended) as

soon as practical and within the 8 week statutory

time frame and no later than 30th August 2024;

b. The issuing of the Decision Statement

2.     NW West Development Brief  (updated report attached)

Members are asked to recommend to Cabinet that:

a.     The Development Brief is endorsed as a material

consideration in order to assist in the development

and determination of applications in relation to the

emerging site allocation, Land West of North

Walsham (NW62/A)

and

b.     Prior to Cabinet, authority to make further minor

changes to the Development Brief is delegated to

the acting Planning Policy Manager.

Decision

RESOLVED to approve

1. Wells Neighbourhood Plan:

In order to comply with the statutory timeframe, the Planning Policy & Built Heritage Working Party recommends to the Leader to make a delegated

decision on behalf of Cabinet, that having been subject to successful local referendum;

a. The Wells-Next-The-Sea Neighbourhood Plan be made (brought into force) as part of the statutory Development Plan for North Norfolk in accordance with section 38A(4) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended) as soon as practical and within the 8 week statutory time frame and no later than 30th August 2024;

b. The issuing of the Decision Statement

2. NW West Development Brief  (updated report attached)

Members are asked to recommend to Cabinet that:

a.     The Development Brief is endorsed as a material consideration in order to assist in the development and determination of applications in relation to the emerging site allocation, Land West of North Walsham (NW62/A)

and

b.     Prior to Cabinet, authority to make further minor changes to the Development Brief is delegated to the acting Planning Policy Manager.

Resolved to recommend the following to Full Council:

1)    Seek approval of full Council to include a budget of £300k for borrowing costs in 2024/25 and that this be funded by using the Treasury Management Reserve (as explained in paragraph 4.8).

2)    Seek approval of full Council to include an addition to the capital programme in 2024/25 to the extension and enhancement of the car parking offer in the District, at a location to be identified and that this is funded from revenue (car park income) (as explained in paragraph 5.6).

Decision

RESOLVED that

Option 1 - Full and winter closures is progressed by officers, for the least well used and most aged sites in terms of management or maintenance, to include discussions with town and parish councils and other interested parties, regarding possible transfer of sites, where there is a particular context for doing so.

To pass the following resolution:

“That under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs _ of Part I ofSchedule 12A (as amended) to the Act.”