(Report of the Chief Executive – Agenda Item 8):
The Council had achieved £14.2 million investment for the borough through Growth Area and Community Infrastructure funding. This had funded the purchase of the new school site in the Heartlands, the enabling works at the GLS site at Hale Village, Markfield Recreation Ground improvements, the Relocation of the Mortuary and the Heartlands Spine Road. Members interested in visiting the new Mortuary site in Church Lane Tottenham N17 were advised to contact Keith Betts, of Urban Environment.
Clarification was sought on the location of the coroners which was listed as being in Barnet borough Council. We were advised that the location of the coroners had already been discussed and agreed at the outset of this project.
We noted that the progress of the Decent Homes programme would begin to be reported to Cabinet on a quarterly basis and our Chair had asked Homes 4 Haringey to use the same reporting timescales for their reports to the Cabinet on capital and revenue spend. We were reminded that, the programme highlight report was considered on a quarterly basis to allow for information on Council projects to be collated and compiled so that Members could better consider the progress of a project over a meaningful period of time. The progress of projects from April 08 to June08 would be reported to Cabinet in September.
Arising from consideration of paragraph 12.1.35 clarification was sought on the state of progress for the development of the Hornsey Depot site. In response we were advised that the Council were fully committed to the scheme and were in the process of putting in place the mechanisms to facilitate fortnightly tri-partite meetings with the concerned stakeholders to expedite the progress of this project. We agreed that the concerned Members forward their ongoing enquiries, regarding this project, to the Cabinet Member for Resources who would ensure a response was delivered. We further agreed to keep ward Members appropriately appraised of the progress of the Hornsey depot project
RESOLVED:
That the progress against the Corporate Programmes and status at the end of reporting period, as shown in Appendix 1 to the interleaved report be noted.