Agenda and draft minutes

The Leader/Cabinet  Member will notify any items of business which it has decided to take as urgent.

There were no items of urgent business.

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

There were no declarations of interest.

To consider any requests received in accordance with Standing Orders.

There were no deputations, petition or questions received.

(Report of the Director of Place and Sustainability): To appoint an architectural design team for the development of two major public realm improvements schemes in Wood Green and the  Green Lanes area.

The Leader considered a report that sought approval to appoint an architectural design team, as detailed within (exempt) Appendix 3 paragraph 8.1 of the report, to undertake work with respect to the development of two major public realm improvements schemes in the Wood Green and Green Lanes areas.

It was noted that the Wood Green Town Centre scheme was being funded by Transport for London (TfL) and would focus on public realm and highways infrastructure improvements. A total of £4.2m was being provided by TfL for the improvements.

Work in the Green Lanes area would focus on two areas the first being improvements to public realm, shop fronts and the railway bridge, which was being funded by £1.8m from the Outer London Fund. The second would also assist in the delivery of public realm improvements and highways infrastructure improvements and was being delivered from £1.2m of funding from the TfL Corridor Scheme.

RESOLVED:

That the appointment of the consultant, as detailed within (exempt) Appendix 3 paragraph 8.1 of the report, be approved.

That as the following item contains information classified as exempt under Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended,  which related to the amount of expenditure proposed to be incurred by the Local Authority and information relating to the financial and business affairs of individuals, the press and public should be excluded for the remainder of the meeting.

RESOLVED:

That the press and public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting as the report being considered contained exempt information, as classified under paragraph 3 of Part 1, Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. 

To consider exempt information pertaining to item 4.

Exempt information pertaining to the report was considered under this item.

RESOLVED:

As detailed in the exempt minutes of the meeting.