Agenda and decisions

Cabinet - Monday, 4th November, 2024 7.00 pm

Venue: Ground Floor - Clockwork Building, 45 Beavor Lane, London W6 9AR - Clockworks Building. View directions

Contact: Katia Neale 

Link: Watch the meeting on YouTube

Items
No. Item

1.

Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting held on 7 October 2024 pdf icon PDF 251 KB

2.

Apologies for Absence

3.

Declaration of Interests

If a Councillor has a disclosable pecuniary interest in a particular item, whether or not it is entered in the Authority’s register of interests, or any other significant interest which they consider should be declared in the public interest, they should declare the existence and, unless it is a sensitive interest as defined in the Member Code of Conduct, the nature of the interest at the commencement of the consideration of that item or as soon as it becomes apparent.

 

At meetings where members of the public are allowed to be in attendance and speak, any Councillor with a disclosable pecuniary interest or other significant interest may also make representations, give evidence or answer questions about the matter.  The Councillor must then withdraw immediately from the meeting before the matter is discussed and any vote taken.

 

Where Members of the public are not allowed to be in attendance and speak, then the Councillor with a disclosable pecuniary interest should withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is under consideration. Councillors who have declared other significant interests should also withdraw from the meeting if they consider their continued participation in the matter would not be reasonable in the circumstances and may give rise to a perception of a conflict of interest.

 

Councillors are not obliged to withdraw from the meeting where a dispensation to that effect has been obtained from the Standards Committee.

4.

Creating a Housing Company pdf icon PDF 290 KB

Decision:

Cabinet is recommended to:

 

  1. Approve in principle the establishment of a wholly owned housing company limited by shares.

 

  1. Delegate to the Executive Director of Finance and Corporate Services in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and Reform and the Director of Legal Services:

 

  1. to incorporate the company, establish its article of association and such other documents that are necessary to enable the establishment of the company, its board and governance structure.

 

  1. to take any necessary steps including procuring and appointing any consultants or suppliers to support the governance of the company, and support feasibility studies on any trading activity that company may undertake subject to future decisions.

 

  1. Appointment of company directors.

 

  1. Note that the company business case/s prior to incorporation of the company with be brought back to Cabinet for approval.

 

5.

Civic Campus - Strategic Options pdf icon PDF 112 KB

Decision:

To agree that appendix 1 and the recommendations contained therein are not for publication on the basis that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) as set out in paragraph 3 of schedule 12a of the local government act 1972 (as amended).

 

6.

Forward Plan of Key Decisions pdf icon PDF 1 MB

7.

EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

The Cabinet is invited to resolve, under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, that the public and press be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of items of business, on the grounds that they contain the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the said Act, and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption currently outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.