Agenda and minutes

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The Cabinet Member will advise of any items they have decided to take as urgent business.

None.

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The report will seek Cabinet Member approval for the Sustainable Transport Works Plan for 2017/18 financial year.

The Cabinet Member for Environment considered the Sustainable Transport Works Plan for 2017/18, which set out the Council’s approach to managing the highways infrastructure, delivering Corporate Plan priorities and programmes as well as the Council’s transport strategies as set out in the Local Implementation Plan and the draft Transport Strategy. This included investment targeted at measures that:

·         Improve road safety, including tackling stretches of roads and junctions with accident problems;

·         Encourage walking and cycling and the use of sustainable alternatives to private car use;

·         Reduce congestion and delay that impact on public transport services; and

·         Contribute to Haringey’s preventative maintenance strategy to improve the overall condition of the road network.

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet Member for Environment, for the reasons set out in the report:

·         Approved the Sustainable Transport Works Plan for 2017/18 financial year as set out in Appendix 1 – Ward by Ward breakdown attached to the report;

·         Authorised the Head of Operations to consider any objections and representations to statutory consultation on schemes and to report back to the Cabinet Member for Environment if there are significant or substantial objections or concerns raised;

·         Delegated decisions relating to detailed scheme design to the Head of Operations;

·         Approved the adoption of a new highway maintenance capital investment strategy comprising of a combination of “worst first” and preventative maintenance, and a new risk based approach to the management of reactive maintenance;

·         Approved the addition to the existing call-off contract with Ringway-Jacobs under the LoHAC Framework contract of service 5, schemes design, for support in the delivery of capital programmes over a 1 year period for the 2017/18 financial year.

Alternative options considered

There were no other relevant options as the Council has a statutory obligation to maintain the public highway network. The 2017/18 work plan had been informed by highway condition surveys and visual highways inspections.

The programme included transport schemes previously agreed by Cabinet in October 2016 and funded by Transport for London. The funding was an interim arrangement awaiting the production of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy and subsequent production of Haringey’s third Local Implementation Plan. Council funded capital projects included within the programme were approved by Cabinet on the 14^th  June 2016 as part of the Capital Strategy and 10 year Capital Programme.

The report seeks Cabinet Member determination of an application to hire Tottenham Green every Sunday, for a one year period in order to stage a food and produce market.

The Cabinet Member for Environment considered a report that sought determination of an application made by Marika Gauci to hire Tottenham Green every Sunday for a one year period in order to stage a food and produce market. She also considered the exempt material contained at item 8 of the agenda.

RESOLVED

The Cabinet Member for Environment:

·         Noted that no comments were received from recognised stakeholders of Tottenham Green in response to the event notifications being set as part of the decision-making process;

·         Authorised the Assistant Director – Commercial and Operations, to approve conditional in principle agreement to hire Tottenham Green to the event promoter for the event detailed at paragraph 6.4 of the report;

·         Agreed that the conditions that were to be attached to any final approval of authority were as set out in the comments of the Assistant Director, Corporate Governance at paragraph 8.2.7 of the report.

Reasons for Decision

Under the terms of the Council’s Outdoor Events Policy, applications of the type detailed in the report were required to be determined with the prior agreement of the Cabinet Member.

If authority were given, officers would give in principle agreement to the applicant for the event applications to progress. The events would then be subject to discussions with relevant authorities before final agreement is given.

The rejection of the application would have had implications for the Parks Service budget, and reduce the opportunity for reinvestment into Tottenham Green (the Open Space) and other parks. It would also mean that the wider cultural and economic benefits to the borough were lost.

Alternative options considered

In adopting the Outdoor Events Policy, the Council established its commitment to using the Open Space for events. Accordingly, the only other alternative option which could be considered would be to reject the application. That option was rejected, on the grounds that the event does not fall within any of the grounds set out in paragraph 5.3 of the Policy for automatic refusal.

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That the press and public be excluded from the meeting for consideration of Item 8 as they contain information classified as exempt under Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 in that they contain information relating to the financial or business affairs of a particular person.

Resolved.

As per Item 5.

The Cabinet Member noted the additional information that was exempt from publication, pertaining to the decision on the application to hire Tottenham Green to host the weekly Tottenham Green Market.