Decisions

The Head of Transportation:
i) noted the principles of the highway works to provide the vehicle accesses to the development, to provide footway, including dropped kerbs and tactile paving, along the frontages on Sovereign Street and Swinegate, and for provision of a loading bay on Sovereign Street;
ii) noted that there are £6,000 TRO costs and £10,000 staff checking and inspection costs, all to be fully rechargeable to the Sovereign Street Scheme through the Section 278 agreement; The funding of the work has been agreed in the Heads of Terms for an Option Agreement for the sale of Plot C, Sovereign Street, between the Council and the developer, with an agreed figure to be netted off the land sale;
iii) requested the City Solicitor to advertise a draft Traffic Regulation Order to facilitate the provision of the loading bay and access on Sovereign Street, as indicated on drawing 4797-00-106 Rev C, and, if no valid objections are received to make, seal and implement the order as advertised;
iv) gave authority to negotiate the terms of and enter into an agreement with the developer under the provisions of Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):

i) Noted the content of this report and,

ii) Considered and over-rule the objections to (Traffic Regulation)(Speed Limit)(Nº18)Order 2015, relating to the introduction of a 20mph zone covering the roads surrounding New Sturton Lane in East Garforth.

iii) Instructed the City Solicitor to make, seal and implement Leeds City Council (Traffic Regulation)(Speed Limit)(Nº18)Order 2015 and,

iv) Requested the City Solicitor to write to the objectors informing the objectors of the Chief Officers (Highways & Transportation) decision.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation) is requested to:

i) noted the contents of this report;

ii) gave authority to design, tender and implement the A61 Wakefield Road Stourton Outbound Bus Lane scheme at a total estimated cost of £108,000;

iii) requested the City Solicitor to advertise a draft Traffic Regulation Order to introduce movement restrictions in the form of a Bus, Cycle and Taxi lane on the lengths of roads shown on drawing number 716961/LCC/HWT/L2/DR/EP/01_01_ and, if no valid objections are received, to make, seal and implement the Order as advertised; and

iv) gave authority to incur expenditure of £23,000 staff design and supervision costs and £85,000 works costs, fully funded from the LTP Transport Policy Capital Programme.

The Director Environment and Housing gave approval of a new local lettings policy for 18 flats on the Swarcliffe Drive development, Swarcliffe

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed to approve the tender award for the purchase of up to 50 Medium Vans to Ringways Garages Leeds LTD as per tender (YORE- A54L-UIJPN)

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed to approve the tender award for the purchase of up to 35 Small Vans to Peugeot Motor Company PLC as per tender (YORE- A54G-JEOXPC)

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed to approve the tender award for the purchase of up to 50 Car Derived Vans to General Motors T/A Vauxhall motor Company as per tender (YORE- A54M-9TTLPE)

The Chief Parks and Countryside Officer approves the implementation of a review of charges for the Parks and Countryside Service from 1st April 2016 for the hire of sports pitches, season ticket charges for golf courses, charges for funfair operators to use Parks and Countryside sites, entrance charges for Temple Newsam Farm and casual use of bowling greens.
The Chief Officer of Parks and Countryside is recommended to implement the table of charges as shown in Appendix A.

The Chief Officer for Parks and Countryside authorised the use of the authority set out in Contract Procedure Rule (CPR) 1.3 to waive Contracts Procedure Rule No 8.1 and 8.2 – Intermediate Value Procurement – to enter into a contract for the purchase of vehicle tracking units direct from JCB Livelink.

The Deputy Director, Learning agreed to:
* waive CPR 8.1 & 8.2 to enter into a contract valued between £10k and £100k, without seeking competition, as per CPR section 27;
* reduce funding for the financial year 2016-17 from £50,166 to £42,641, consituting a reduction of 15%;
* put in place a contract for 12 months in the first instance (1/4/16 - 31/3/17), with options to extend the arrangement by two periods of 12 months each, subject to budget availability and directorate priorities;
* reduce funding to a sustainable level,which may or may not result in removal of all funding; and
* endorse Commissioning, Contracting & Market Management team support for Leeds Children's Charity, to seek alternative sources of funding support.

The Deputy Director of Children's Services approved the waiver of the following Contracts Procedure Rule(s):
Contracts procedure rules No. 8.1 and 8.2 - Intermediate value procurements
Contracts procedure rule number 3.1.15 - Requirement to use the council's standard tender documents
and award a contract to Osiris Educational in the sum of £35,000. The contract shall commence on the 29th Feruary and expire on the 5th May 2016.

The Chief Officer, Children's Social Work Service agreed the recommendation of a report relating to the placement of a child/young person. The individual costs of the place are £176,360.
It is considered in the public interest that information contained in the report is exempt from publication as it relates to a vulnerable child or young person of the city and the actions being taken to enable that person to live in a safe environment.

The Director of Children's Services approved the waiver of the following Contracts Procedure Rule(s):
Contracts procedure rules no. 8.1 and 8.2 - Intermediate value procurements and award a contract to AS in the sum of £22,000. The contract shall commence on the 8th February and expire on the 29th April 2016.

The Director of City Development has noted the contents of this report and approved as the response to the deputation.

The Director of Children's Services approved the waiver of the following Contracts Procedure Rule(s):
Contracts Procedure Rules No. 9.1 and 9.2 - Intermediate value procurements
Contracts Procedure Rule No. 3.1.15 - Requirement to use the council's standard tender documents
and to award a contract to STEM Learning Ltd for the provision of specialist training and event facilities at the National STEM Centre (STEM) for delivery of traded events to schools. The contract will be a call off contract to start on 1st March 2016 for 5 years. The maximum contract value is £138,750.

The Director of Adult Social Services approved the proposed standard charges, contributions, rates and allowances for 2016/17 for the Adult Social Care Directorate.
The standard charges, contributions, rates and allowances for 2016/17 will be implemented from 4th April 2016 by the Head of Finance, Adult Social Care.

The Director of Children's Services approved the waiver of Contracts Procedure Rules 9.1 and 9.2 - High Value procurements, and award a contract to LWCA in the sum of £171,852.

The Director of Environment and Housing approved the proposed Private Sector Housing Assistance Policy.
To also approve the proposal to fund staffing activity on bringing Empty Homes back into use to the value of £102k and £60k cost of Sanctuary installations from the £6.7m Disabled Facilities Grant budget, transferring the grant funding to the two new schemes, in both 2015/16 and 2016/17.

The Director of Public Health has approved expenditure up to the maximum amounts shown below relating to the out of scope costs associated with the provision of the Forward Leeds drug and alcohol service during 2015/16:

• £87,750 for Primary Care Extended Services
• £9,331 for needle exchange bin collection
• £20,438 for immunisation and vaccinations
• £600 for Pabrinex injectables
• £18,750 for drugs prescribed by York Street Practice

The Direcotr of Children's Services agreed to the extension of the Families First framework contract for a period of 6 months from 1st April 2016 - 30th September 2016 to ensure continuity while the service is being reviewed.

The value of the 6 month contract extension is £185,000.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):

i) noted the contents of this report;
ii) noted the identified maintenance responsibilities;
iii) approved a £25,000 funding contribution to the improvement of Public Bridleway as shown on drawing number LD.550.03; and
iv) gave authority to incur expenditure of £25,000 to be funded from the LTP Transport Policy Capital Programme.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):
i) noted and approve the proposed waiting restrictions as outlined in Section 3 and indicated on drawing referenced: 278209-LCC-HWT-XX-DR-EP-TRO_03, at an estimated cost of £6,000 for Traffic Regulation Order costs;
ii) instructed the City Solicitor to advertise a draft Traffic Regulation Order in relation to the waiting restrictions as indicated on drawing referenced: 278209-LCC-HWT-XX-DR-EP-TRO_03, and, if no valid objections are received then make, seal and implement the Order; and
iii) gave authority to enter an agreement with the Developer under provision of Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980 for provision of a new vehicular access and associated footway works on Swinnow Green, Pudsey at an estimated cost of £2,500 for staff fees.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):
i) Noted the contents of this report;
ii) Endorsed the use of a mobile speed camera and approve the detailed design and implementation of works for the construction of a vehicle hard standing and associated signage to allow operation on Dewsbury Road at the location shown in Appendix A.
iii) Gave authority to incur expenditure of £6,150, comprising of £5,500 works costs, £650 staff fees, to be funded from the LTP Transport Policy Capital Programme;

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation) is requested to:

i) note the contents of the report; and

ii) approve the application from Nourish, for a licence to operate a street café on the highway at 31 Bond Street, Leeds, LS1 2JZ as shown on the attached unnumbered drawing, to expire on the 31 March 2016 and that future licences be renewed annually, subject to satisfactory operation.

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed to the creation of a new C3 CCTV Engineers Assistant post within the Leedswatch service, to support the delivery of a maintenance and repair service for new Housing Leeds CCTV installations .
The Director alsoagreed that the remaining budget be used to support interim honorariums, pending a restructure of the Leedswatch Engineering section in 2016/17

The Head of Transportation:
i) took all necessary steps to under the provisions of Section 228 of the Highways Act 1980 to declare the area of highway shown hatched on the attached Drawing SD/994652/PH/01 to be highway maintainable at public expense;
ii) instructed the City Solicitor to prepare and advertise notices under the provisions of Section 228 of the Highways Act 1980 declaring the area of highway shown hatched on the attached Drawing SD/994652/PH/01 to be highway maintainable at public expense and
iii) if objections are received from the majority of the owners of the land, request the City Solicitor to make immediate application to the Magistrates’ Court for an Order overruling the objections.

The Head of Transportation instructed the council’s City Solicitor to apply to the Magistrates’ Court for a Stopping Up Order under the provisions of Section 116 of the Highways Act 1980 for the area of adopted highway shown hatched on the attached drawing number SD/217960/LG/01. The total area of highway to be stopped up is approximately 38 square metres.

The Head of Transportation instructed the council’s City Solicitor to apply to the Magistrates’ Court for a Stopping Up Order under the provisions of Section 116 of the Highways Act 1980 for the area of adopted highway shown hatched on the attached drawing number SD/299428/BM/01A. The total area of highway to be stopped up is approximately 110 square metres..

The Deputy Chief Planning Officer has authorised the designation of the Little Woodhouse Neighbourhood Forum pursuant to Section 61F of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

The Deputy Chief Executive has approved the updated sub-delagation scheme set out at appendix 1 of the attached report

The Heado fo Looked After Children's Service agreed the recommendation of a report relating to the placement of a child/young person.
The individual costs of the place are £124,540.
It is considered in the public interest that information contained in the report is exempt from publication as it relates to a vulnerable child or young person of the city and the actions being taken to enable that person to live in a safe environment.

The Chief Parks and Countryside officer authorised the waiver of contract procedure rules 3.1, 3.1.6, 3.1.7, 8.1 and 8.2 (in accordance with CPR27) in respect of the requirement to approach a single supplier who can provide all replacement equipment as necessary.

The Chief Officer Parks and Countryside also authorised awarding a contract to Dam Furniture Limited in the sum of £24092. The contract shall commence on the 8th February 2016 and expire on the 16th March 2016.

The Chief Officer Economy and Regeneration approved a fully funded injection of £280,000 into the Capital Programme and approved retrospective Authority to Spend of an additional £133,000 from the Heritage Assets Budget to fund the overspend on the refurbishment works undertaken at Lotherton Hall.

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed to approve the Write off irrecoverable Former Tenants Arrears in the sum of £249,840.53 represented by 490 accounts in relation to the citywide accounts.

The Chief Parks and Countryside Officer approved the injection and expenditure of £56,598 S106 green space monies for a improvements to Nunroyd Park – Outdoor gym and additional footpaths

The Chief Parks and Countryside Officer approved the injection and expenditure of £119,126 S106 green space monies for a refurbishment of Magpie Lane Play Area