Contents
Part A: First Quarter Revenue Budget 2023/24
A1) Revenue Budget
A2) Significant Variances
Part B: First Quarter Capital Budget 2023/24
B1) Capital Budget
B2) Significant Variances
A1) Revenue Budget: Planning, Infrastructure & Economic Development (PIED) PAC
A2.1 The table below provides a detailed summary of the budgeted net expenditure position for the services reporting directly into PIED PAC at the end of Quarter 1. The financial figures are presented on an accruals basis (i.e. expenditure for goods and services received, but not yet paid for, is included).
A2.2 This table now shows the variance split between expenditure and income to give more of an insight into the nature of the variance.
PIED Revenue Budget: NET EXPENDITURE (@ 1st Quarter 2023/24)
By Cabinet Member
A2) PIED Revenue Budget: Significant Variances
A2.1 Within the headline figures, there are a number of both adverse and favourable net expenditure variances for individual cost centres. It is important that the implications of variances are considered at an early stage, so that contingency plans can be put in place and, if necessary, be used to inform future financial planning. Variances will be reported to each of the Policy Advisory Committees on a quarterly basis throughout 2023/24.
A2.2 The table below highlights and provides further detail on the most significant variances at the end of Quarter 1.
PIED PAC Variances (@ 1st Quarter 2023/24)
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Positive Variance Q4 |
Adverse Variance Q4 |
Year End Forecast Variance
|
Planning, Infrastructure & Economic Development |
£000 |
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PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
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Former Park & Ride Sites – These are budgets that were used to fund the Business Rates and running costs for the site. They are no longer required and will be removed for 2024/25. |
80 |
|
100 |
|
Positive Variance Q4 |
Adverse Variance Q4 |
Year End Forecast Variance
|
Planning, Infrastructure & Economic Development |
£000 |
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PLANNING SERVICES |
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Development Control (Majors) – Numbers of applications are down as developers are waiting for the Local Plan to be approved before they submit new ones. |
|
-90 |
-150 |
B1) Capital Budget 2023/24 (@ 1st Quarter 2023/24)
B2) Capital Budget Variances (@ 1st Quarter 2023/24)
Planning, Infrastructure & Economic Development |
Town Centre Strategy – The current strategy is being reviewed and updated and is unlikely to be adopted until early 2024, so it is anticipated that there will be some spend in the final quarter of the year.
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