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Medium Term Financial Strategy 2024 to 2029 - Capital Programme - HHE PAC

 

 

Meeting: 16/01/2024 - Housing, Health and Environment Policy Advisory Committee (Item 112)

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Minutes:

The Cabinet Member for Housing and Health introduced the report, and stated that:

  • The capital programme totalled £434 million, with the programme for the Committee’s remit representing the largest portion at £303.4 million;

  • The main items concerned affordable and private rented housing and temporary accommodation. There were no private sector housing schemes shown within years 7 to 10 of the programme, but this was as schemes had been identified for that stage of the programme at this time; and

 

Agreeing the capital programme was not an approval to spend the funds, with each of the schemes to be subject to detailed review before taking place.

Several Members expressed support for the increased capital funding shown for the Waste Crime Team, as the service was of high importance to residents, and queried if further funding could be provided in future. The Cabinet Member for Environmental Services stated that it was anticipated that the additional capital funds should support the service in becoming self-sustaining, for example with any income generated through fines being reinvested into the service.

 

In response to queries, the Cabinet Member for Housing and Health reassured the Committee that schemes for flood management and biodiversity were still being pursued with successes in Marden and a proposed scheme in Staplehurst but relied on submission and allocation of appropriate land.

 

The Head of Finance would provide further information on the refurbishment of toilet blocks outside of the meeting. 

 

RESOLVED to RECOMMEND to the CABINET: That

  1. The capital programme 2024/25 onwards as set out in Appendix 2 to the report, be agreed;

  2. It be noted that the agreement to recommendation 1 above will be subject to the prudential borrowing limit which will be recommended to Council as part of the Treasury Management Strategy 2024/25.

 

Note: Councillor Hastie joined the meeting at 6.42 p.m. during consideration of this item. She stated that she had no disclosures of interest or of lobbying.