Issue - meetings

Two questions had been received from Jacob O’Callaghan, which were as follows:

1. Do officers consider (with the greatest of respect)  that all the non-commercially confidential material in the items 19 and 20 listed as exempt, really needs to be kept secret, in particular the presentation on "branding", according to the criteria in the Local Government Act 1972 s100, and should some of this this in any case have been subject to consultation with the APP Conservation Area Advisory Committee and other interested parties?

2. Have there been any developments regarding restructuring the governance of the charity, please?

A written response had been provided to Jacob O’Callaghan before the meeting and circulated to Board Members including::

“The branding is for both the charity and the trading subsidiary. It is not in the best interests of either entity for incomplete and unapproved branding proposals to be in the public domain. The marketing decisions of neither entity is subject to consultation with stakeholder committees. We will be more than happy to share our revised branding with our recognised stakeholder committees once the Board has had the opportunity to agree on the revisions.

The Council’s Legal team are consulted in the preparation of all reports.Information provided in items 19 and 20 were exempted as defined in Schedule 12a of the Local Government Act 1972; Paragraph 3 – information relating to the business or financial affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

The branding is majority funded by APTL and the Trust’s contribution is a small percentage of the costs of the work.  In any case, the element provided by the Trust is charitable not public.  The Charity has an obligation to consult the SAC on planning permission.  Listed Building Consent is not planning permission and the Trust has not routinely consulted on LBC as the LBC process itself includes a statutory consultation requirement. 

The Colour Strategy has been withdrawn from this Board meeting and will be presented to the board at a future date. 

            There have been no further developments on governance restructuring at this      moment in time.