Decisions

The Head of Elections, Licensing & Registration approved the request to commence a procurement exercise for a dynamic purchasing provision of Taxi and Private Hire Driver Training for up to an initial 4 years.
The council currently requires all new taxi and private hire drivers to undertake training before being awarded a licence. Driver training is currently split between two council-provided services and several contracted suppliers.
The council is expecting the number of applicants to remain stable and possibly increase from 800-900 each year. Under the ring-fenced regulations for taxi and private hire licensing, the applicants pay for their training, with annual spend estimated to continue or rise above around £120-150k per annum.
There has been a review and consultation on driver training provision during 2017, with recommendations that the council consider procuring driver training from more than one organisation to increase training capacity and speed up the length of time between commencing training and award of a licence. A dynamic purchasing arrangement is recommended to contract a number of suppliers who can each provide all modules of the driver related training and assessment centre. This aims to improve our training capacity and maintaining quality and standards, while ensuring compliance with procurement rules

The Deputy Director, Access and Care Delivery approved the contents of a report regarding a care plan in respect of a person with complex care needs, the individual cost of which is £105,978.08 per annum.
It is considered in the public interest that information contained in the report is exempt from publication as it relates to a vulnerable citizen of the City and the actions being taken to enable that person to live independently in a safe environment.

The Deputy Director, Access and Care Delivery approved the contents of a report regarding a care plan in respect of a person with complex care needs, the individual cost of which is £107,666.00 per annum.
It is considered in the public interest that information contained in the report is except from publication as it relates to a vulnerable citizen of the City and the actions being taken to enable that person to live independently in a safe environment.

The Director of City Development approved a Waiver of Contract Procedure Rules 8.1 and 8.2, to appoint Ove Arup and Partners to provide specialist heritage engineering advice at Kirkgate Market without the need for inviting competitive tenders for the proposed commission.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation) approved the extension of the Underwater Maintenance Contract for a further 12 months to 3rd December 2018 in accordance with its terms and conditions.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation) approved the extension of the Noise Insulation Contract for a further 12 months to the 30th November 2018 in accordance with its terms and conditions.

The Head of Transportation:
i) Supported the proposal to pedestrianise Greek Street 7 days per week, 12 months per year, from 11.30am to midnight;
ii) Gave authority to make the ‘Summer TRO’ permanent. Specifically, that the existing Experimental Traffic Regulation Order which covers the period April 2016 to October 2017 is made permanent in November 2017, following a successful 18 month implementation period;
iii) Instructed the City Solicitor to introduce a new ‘Winter TRO’. This Experimental Traffic Regulation Order will close Greek Street to traffic between the 11.30am to midnight, 7 days per week, between 1st November 2017 and 30th April 2018, and between 1st November 2018 and 30th April 2019; and
iv) at the end of the 18 month experimental period (which runs until 1st November 2019) to give appropriate consideration to making the Order permanent incorporating any modifications considered appropriate following the monitoring of the measures.

The Head of Transportation:
i) approved the waiver of Contract Procurement Rule No 8.1 and 8.2 – Intermediate value procurements to allow Leeds City Council to procure work directly from consultants AECOM at a cost of £28,480.00; and
ii) approved the expenditure on the procurement of work by consultants listed in i)

The Chief Waste Management Officer approves the issue of a licence, which is subject to the performance of contractual requirement, to Seagulls Reuse Ltd for the siting of and collection of waste paint from collection banks on the Council’s eight Household Waste Sorting Sites (HWSS), and the subsequent re-use, recycling and disposal of this paint.
Appendix 1 & 2 to this report has been marked as exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rules 10.4 (3) on the basis that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) which, if disclosed to the public, would, or would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of that person or of the Council. The information is exempt if and for so long as in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. In this case the report author considers that it is in the public interest to maintain the exemption

The Director of Resources and Housing has approved the proposed appointment of five Housing Apprentices is agreed and approval for funding to the value of £123,682.00.

The Chief Planning Officer approved the following:

i) The designation of the proposed Grand Quarter Conservation Area boundary, as shown, on the attached plan (Appendix 2), with effect from 20th November 2017.

ii) Adoption of the Grand Quarter Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (attached appendix 3) as non-statutory planning guidance (and as such with weight as a material consideration) with effect from 20th November 2017.

The decision to waiver contract procedure rules and, moving forward, to engage with specialist contractors towards the imminent delivery of Phase 1, Leeds Urban Bike Park at Middleton Park.

The Head of Learning Systems accepted the tender supplied by Leeds Building Services (LBS) in the sum of £222,714.04 to carry out fire stopping works at St Bartholomew's C of E Voluntary Controlled Primary School.

The Chief Officer Economy & Regeneration has reviewed the decision to list Thorp Arch & Boston Spa Cricket Club on the List of Assets of Community Value and decided that the property should remain on the list on the basis that the nomination satisfactorily meets the criteria laid down in the Localism Act 2011.

The Director of Children & Families agreed to:

• Note the negotiations held with Solicitors acting on behalf of the Governing Body Pudsey Tyersal Primary School and the Co-op Trust;

• Give authority for the Commercial Transfer Agreement to be executed and completed to enable the Academy to open on 1st December 2017.

The Chief Officer of the Parks and Countryside service has approved the;

- waiver of contract procedure rules, 8.1 and 8.2 (in accordance with CPR27).
- to award a contract to Cotswold Decorative Ironworkers, Marsh Farm, Stourton, Warwickshire to the sum of £14,000.

The Director of Resources and Housing approved the requests to:
i. In accordance with Contract Procedure Rule (CPR) 3.1.8, approve the invitation of tenders via the Yorbuild 2 framework for the delivery of external building works to three blocks Shakespeare Grange, Towers and Court Leeds, LS9 7UD.

ii. Note that in line with pre-tender estimates of £3.9m, current authority to spend is £2.42m up to the end of 2017/18 with an additional £1.48m being sought as part of the overall Housing Leeds 2018/19 refurbishment programme in order to provide financial provision to deliver the works.

iii. Note that the evaluation of the tenders will be on a price/quality ratio of 70% price and 30% quality, the questions and weightings that make up the quality tender evaluation criteria have been prepared and approval will be sought in line with CPR 15.1 to invite tenders on this basis.

The Head of Learning Systems accepted the tender supplied by Leeds Building Services (LBS) in the sum of £143,738.68 to carry out fire stopping works at Rothwell Haigh Road Infant School.

The Director of City Development has given approval to declare the subject property surplus to operational requirements and sell on the terms as identified on the confidential appendix.

The Chief Officer, Economy & Regeneration;

i) Approved the award of a contract to VHE Construction Plc in the sum of £553,295.00

The Chief Planning Officer has approved the Red Hall Planning Brief

The Chief Officer, Housing Management, approved the new local lettings policy for the new build homes at Garnet Place and Garnet Terrace in LS11 as detailed in sections 3.13.

The Director of Resources and Housing agreed to the purchase of 1 long term empty former RTB property and completion of refurbishment works in order to let as council housing.
Appendix 1 to this report has been marked as exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rules 10.4 (3) on the basis that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) which, if disclosed to the public, would, or would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of that person or of the Council. The information is exempt if and for so long as in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. In this case the report author considers that it is in the public interest to maintain the exemption

The Director of Resources and Housing agreed to approve the award of a contract to Northern Commercials in the sum of £214,626.00 for the supply of three new 7t CNG Wash Vehicles as advised in the 2015/16 Vehicle Replacement Programme for Localities.
Appendix 1 to this report has been marked as exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rules 10.4 (3) on the basis that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) which, if disclosed to the public, would, or would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of that person or of the Council. The information is exempt if and for so long as in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. In this case the report author considers that it is in the public interest to maintain the exemption.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):

i) approved the gating of a stretch of footpath at the rear of properties 12 to 32 Nursery Mount Road, and the gating of one end of the adjoining footpath connecting to Woodville Square between properties 23-28 and 29 Woodville Square as shown on drawing Nos. 01 (2-9-14) and 03 (1-10-14), in accordance with section 59-64 of the ASB Crime and Policing Act 2014;

and:

ii) instructed the City Solicitor to draft and publish the Notice of intention to make a PSPO in respect of the footpaths detailed at 5 i) above and, in the event that no valid objections are received, to make, seal and implement the order as published.