Minutes:
Minute 34 – Matters Arising Update:
(i) Minute 21 – Leeds Strategic Plan Performance Report for Quarter 4 2008/9
The format currently being trialled on the financial breakdown was brought to the Proposals Working Group meeting held on 29th September 2009.
(ii) Minute 23 – Independence Wellbeing and Choice Inspection Action Plan: May 2009
The Chair reported that the Independence Wellbeing and Choice Action Plan was brought to the Proposals Working Group on 29th September 2009. The Chair suggested that as the working group have been monitoring the plan for a number of months and are happy with progress that the Director of Adult Social Services submit these reports to the Chair on a monthly basis. Should the Chair notice any information which needed to be brought to the Board’s attention, it would be brought to the next appropriate Board meeting.
RESOLVED - That the Independence Wellbeing and Choice Action Plan reports be submitted to the Chair on a monthly basis and to the Scrutiny Board on a quarterly basis as outlined above.
(iii)Minute 29 – Older People’s Day Services for People with Learning Disabilities
The following information was requested and was circulated to the Board in advance of this meeting.
· Broken down by different sectors/groups, the number of people who had been refused day care, in which centres and on what grounds.
· The number of people who had started going to day centres in the past 12 months, by day centre.
· For each day centre a breakdown of where people were travelling from to attend.
With regard to the statistical representations of the 'Average day care attendance', a redefined way of representing the information.
(b) Minute 38 –Major Adaptations for Disabled Adults – Formal Response. Recommendation 9.
Members agreed that in line with Executive Board agreement at it meeting held on the 26th August 2009, that the following more robust response be adopted to recommendation 9 which the Director for Adult Social Services had also agreed:
Recommendation 9
That the Director for Development investigates and reports on the viability of adopting a model to be implemented, which reflects the spirit of the London Supplementary Planning Guidance for mandatory development to Lifetime Homes Standards, but suits the diversity and specificrequirements of the City of Leeds, reporting findings to the Executive Board before 31 December 2009.
Response - We are currently nearing completion of a draft SPD on Sustainable Design and Construction which it is intended to publish for consultation in the Autumn. For housing, this looks at the introduction of the Code for Sustainable Homes (CHS) which at various levels embraces the Lifetime Homes Standard. Lifetime home standards are mandatory at CSH level 6. From 2010 they will be mandatory at CSH level 4 and in 2013 at CSH level 3. Once approved we will be encouraging housebuilders to follow the guidance but it will not be mandatory. SPD`s have to be supplementary to a policy in an approved development plan document as was the case in London where their SPD clearly elaborated on a policy in the approved Plan for London. We will be dealing with the policy position through the LDF Core Strategy. It is currently proposed that the Core Strategy includes a policy requiring new major residential development to meet the requirements of CSH. However, the Core Strategy is only at a relatively early stage of development, although we hope to be in a position to undertake further public consultation in the Autumn. The Core Strategy will eventually will be subject to public examination by an independent inspector, testing the appropriateness and justification for the policies that the Council is seeking to introduce, including in this case issues of viability.
Note: Councillor A Gabriel joined the meeting at approximately 10.10 a.m. and Councillor C Fox joined the meeting at 10.15 a.m. during discussions on the above item.