Decisions

The Chief Officer Asset Management and Regeneration has given approval to a release of the restrictive user covenant on land at Holdforth Court in order to facilitate the redevelopment of the site.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):
i) noted the contents of this report.

ii) approved the proposal at the total cost of £50,000; and

iii) gave authority to incur expenditure of £43,000 works costs and £7,000 staff costs, to be funded from the LTP Transport Policy Capital Programme (West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan 3, Implementation Plan 2) 100% Government grant funding.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):
i) noted the principles of the highway works to provide safe pedestrian and vehicular access to the development site;
ii) gave authority to incur expenditure of £7,500 TRO costs and £5,000 staff checking and inspection costs, all to be fully rechargeable to the developer through the Section 278 agreement;
iii) requested the City Solicitor to advertise a draft Traffic Regulation Order to introduce double yellow lines indicating No Waiting and No Loading at Any Time at the site access and along the Gower Street site frontage and relocation of a controlled on-street parking bay, as indicated on Drawing No. 70017468-GA-100_P03, included as Appendix 3 and if no valid objections are received, to make and seal the TRO as advertised.
iv) noted and approved the changes to the adopted Highway boundary proposed as part of the works as described in section 7.2. The area shown in red on the attached Proposed Adopted Highway Plan, included as Appendix 4, will be the resultant area of adopted Highway.
v) 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;

To invoke the absence provisions of the City Solicitor’s Sub-delegationScheme in repect of Executive Function - Specific Delegation “The authorisation of Council officers to conduct legal matters in court”
(ii)To delegate the function outlined in (i) above to Head of Legal Services
Reasons for the decision:
Pursuant to Part 3 3E(e) of the Constitution the City Solicitor has delegated authority to authorise Council Officers to conduct legal matters in court. The City Solicitor Sub delegation Scheme confirms as at Specific Delegations - Art 1(b)(iii) that this function is not sub delegated, unless the absence provisions of that Scheme of Delegation apply. The City Solicitor has confirmed in writing she will will be absent from the office for an unspecified period.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):

i) noted the highway works as outlined in Sections 3.7-3.12 and indicated on drawing TM/29/2477/05

ii) authorised the detailed design and implementation for the works associated to Royds Lane, Rothwell – Road Safety Measures as shown on drawing TM-29-2477-05

iii) authorised the injection of £26,000 into the Capital Programme for the works associated to Royds Lane, Rothwell – Road Safety Measures, funded from a Section 106 agreement / receipt.

iv) gave authority to incur expenditure of £26,000 being £15,000 works costs, £11,000 staff costs including legal fees all to be fully funded by a developer from a signed S106 Agreement, for the works associated to Royds Lane, Rothwell – Road Safety Measures; and

v) requested the City Solicitor to advertise a draft Speed Limit Order and, if no valid objections are received, seal a 40mph and 30mph speed limit on Royds Lane in the Rothwell Ward as shown on drawing TM-29-2477-05.

The Chief Planning Officer has
i)Noted the contents of the attached report and documents; and
ii)Approved the South Bank Leeds Regeneration Framework Supplementary Planning Document and its formal adoption as part of the Leeds Development Plan

The Director of Children & Families approved the waiver of Contract Procedure Rules 8.1 and 8.2 (intermediate value procurements) to award a call off contract to the current providers of the One-To-One Tuition Service for Children with SEND from the Provision of Temporary Teachers Framework. The contract will commence on 1st September 2018 for a period of five months up to a value of £77,000.

The Chief Officer, Partnerships and Health approved a pause to the phased introduction of transport changes for new entrants to post-16 education scheduled for September 2018. This pends further review of how recent feedback from families can be taken into account in taking the proposals forward with effect from September 2019. Any changes to be introduced will be communicated to families in advance of making post-16 choices so that transport arrangements can be given consideration during the decision-making process.

The Deputy Chief Officer for Waste Management approves the waiver of CPRs 8.1 and 8.2 to enable LCC Waste Operations section to purchase WasteSTORs systems without seeking competition.

Approval sought from the Chief Parks and Countryside Officer to:-
(i) waive contract procedure rules, 8.1 and 8.2 (in accordance with CPR27) in respect of the requirement to approach a supplier who can provide the product as necessary; and
(ii) Place an order with Axo Leisure for £45,969 for cleaning, marking and painting of tennis courts and multi-use games areas in Bramley Park, Westroyd Park, Queens Park, Western Flatts Park, Dartmouth Park, Woodhouse Moor and The Hollies.

The Director of Communities and Environment:
- Noted the contents of the report.
- Authorised expenditure of £122,200 for the delivery of the Mobile Community Hubs and Scanning solution

The Chief Digital and Information Officer agreed to approve the waiver of contract procedure rule 8.1 and 8.2 entering into a contract with Entrust Limited for the provision of an Enterprise Account to support and maintain the councils SSL Certificates for a period of 3 years at a total cost of £11,535.36.

The Director of Resources and Housing agreed to approve the Write off irrecoverable Former Tenants Arrears in the sum of £98,259.55 represented by 275 accounts in relation to the citywide accounts.

The Chief Officer Parks and Countryside has approved to;

- waive contract procedure rules 3.1.6, 3.1.13, 8.1 & 8.2 in order to support the appointment of Southern Green without competition in the sum of £50,000. The contract shall commence on the 12th July 2018 and expire on the 1st December 2018.

The Chief Officer - Human Resources agreed to waive the Contract Procedure Rules 8.1 requirement for competition and 8.2 invitation of three tenders for the coaching contract with the HR service.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):

i) noted the contents of the report; and

ii) approved the application from Dakota Hotels, for a licence to operate a street café on the highway at Greek Street, Leeds, from 11.30am to 11pm as shown on the attached drawing, to expire on the 31 March 2019 and that future licences be renewed annually, subject to satisfactory operation, and with approval from the Chief Officer Highways and Transportation.

The Chief Officer Parks & Countryside has approved;

- the outsourcing of this specialist role to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. The appointment will be full time for a 3 year period and theProject Officer will be based in Parks & Counryside’s Natural Environment team, reporting directly to the Natural Environemnt Manager. In particular to award a contract to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust in the sum of £130,000. The contract shall commence on the 1st September 2018 and expire on the 31st August 2021.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation) gave approval to advertise a draft Traffic Regulation Order for the loading only bay on Whitehall Road, as shown on drawing number drawing 732227/LCC/HWT/DR/EP/12_03a and; if no valid objections are received, to make, seal and implement the order as advertised.

The Chief Officer (Highways and Transportation):

(i) noted and approved the contents of this report;

(ii) instructed the City Solicitor to advertise Notices in the press and on the relevant streets under the provisions of section 35C of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to vary the tariffs for on street parking as detailed in paragraph 3.

The Director Resources and Housing approved the decision to award the contract of the analysis and reconciliation of Leeds City Councils historic electricity and gas bills covering historic six year period to Professional Cost Management Group (PCMG) Ltd.

The Chief Digital and Information Officer approves entering into a 1 (one) year contract with CDW Limited for the provision of end user compute break/fix services with an option to include ancillary services and goods relating to end user compute, to commence on the 9th July 2018 and expire on the 8th July 2019, with an estimated contract spend of £175,000.

The Director of Resource & Housing approved the proposed award to the below 6 providers for a period of 18 months commencing 23rd July 2018 with no further option to extend. Work will be allocated to providers on a rotational basis commencing with the supplier identified as ranked first as a result of the price only evaluation.

• Rank 1 - FSH Group Ltd
• Rank 2 - Main-Pro Ltd
• Rank 3 - Neo Property Solutions Limited
• Rank 4 - Excell (UK) Limited
• Rank 5 - Aspect Building Solutions Ltd
• Rank 6 – Walter West Builders Ltd

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 Asset Management and Regeneration has declined the nomination to add land at the former Chapeltown Community Nursery, Roundhay Road, Chapeltown, Leeds, LS7 4NT to the List of Assets of Community Value and instead add the property to the List of Assets Nominated by Unsuccessful Community Nominations on the basis that the nomination does not meet the criteria laid down in the Localism Act 2011.

The Director, Children & Families agreed the recommendation of a report relating to the placement of a child/young person. The individual costs of the place are £319,592.00.
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 and Families approved the request to enter into a co-operation agreement with Leeds Community Healthcare Trust to deliver the Intensive Positive Behaviour Support service until 31st March 2020. This is a direct consequence of DN 46357.

The Head of Governance and Scrutiny Support has approved an amendment to the Constitution as detailed in the appendix to and for the reasons set out in the report attached.