Agenda

Minutes of the meetings of the Corporate Services and Economic Growth OSC held on 5 February 2021 and 8 February 2021, as circulated, to be confirmed as a true record and signed by the Chairman.

Unless already entered in the Council’s Register of Members’ interests, members are required to disclose any personal interest (which includes any disclosable pecuniary interest) they may have in any of the items included on the agenda for the meeting in accordance with the Code of Conduct adopted by the Council on 4 July 2012, and are reminded that if they have any personal interests of a prejudicial nature (as defined under paragraph 17 of the Code Conduct) they must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must leave the room. NB Any member needing clarification must contact Legal Services, on 01670 623324. Please refer to the guidance on disclosures at the rear of this agenda letter.

To note the latest Forward Plan of key decisions.  Any further changes made to the Forward Plan will be reported to the Committee.  (Schedule enclosed as Appendix A).

The Committee is asked to review and note its work programme for the 2019/21 council year.  (Report enclosed as Appendix B.)

It is expected that matters included in this part of the Agenda will be dealt with in private.  Reports referred to are enclosed for members and officers only, coloured pink and marked "Not for Publication".

The Committee is invited to consider passing the following resolution:

(a)     That under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item on the Agenda as it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A of the 1972 Act, and

(b)     That the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosure for the following reasons:-

Agenda Items            Paragraph of Part I of Schedule 12A

Xxx                               xxx

To update Cabinet on the position of the ongoing work being undertaken to enable the Council to make a decision if it wishes to proceed with the purchase of the Northumberland Energy Park Phase 3 (NEP3) site from RWE. (Report enclosed as Appendix C).

The Cabinet member requested to attend for this item is Councillor R. Wearmouth.

The Democratic Services Manager has received a call in of the decision taken by the Cabinet on 23 February 2021 in respect of the above report.  Call in notice attached as Appendix D).

The Cabinet member requested to attend for this item is Councillor G. Sanderson.