Cabinet – Tuesday, 23rd January, 2024 4.00 pm

Cabinet – Tuesday, 23rd January, 2024 4.00 pm

Papers: https://democracy.bristol.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=135&MId=10643

Agenda:

1. Welcome and Safety Information 00:00
2. Public Forum 0:41
3. Apologies for Absence 0:53
4. Declarations of Interest 1:00
5. Matters referred to the Mayor for reconsideration by a scrutiny commission or by Full Council 1:21
6. Reports from scrutiny commission 1:30
7. Chair’s Business 1:52
8. Purchase of properties for the provision of Children’s homes 1:58
9. Wrap Around Childcare – in Primary Schools and Academies 5:07
10. Increasing allocation for Bristol’s Smoking Cessation Service – Stopping the Start a new smoke free generation funding 10:41
11. Changing Futures – Bristol Multiple Disadvantage Strategy and Changing Futures programme contract extension 12:46
12. Clean Air Zone (CAZ) Evaluation Report 18:04
13. Application of Bristol Clean Air Zone net proceeds 43:20
14. Residents Parking Scheme Policy Review 50:53
15. Bristol Avon Flood Strategy Outline Business Case 1:07:38
16. Multi-Storey Car Park Pay on Foot Contract 1:17:30
17. Mission Net Zero Project Delivery – Innovate Pathfinder Places Programme Phase 2 1:18:41
18. Cemetery and Crematorium Capital Programme – South Bristol Cemetery Expansion 1:23:29
19. Procurement of Insurance Cover for the Council’s Leasehold Flats 1:30:57
20. Procurement of Financial Systems including internet and telephony payment systems 1:32:11
21. Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Budget Proposals 2024/25 1:33:31
22. Dedicated Schools Grant budget proposals 2024/25 1:45:30
23. 2024/25 Budget Recommendations & Treasury Management Strategy 1:48:05
24. Q2 Quarterly Performance Progress Report – Q2 2023/24 2:02:08
25. Q3 Corporate Risk Report 2023/24 2:03:15
26. Finance Outturn Report (P8/Q3) 2:04:08
27. Bristol’s Just Transition Declaration 2:06:20
28. Barton House Emergency Evacuation 2:11:04

Right welcome everybody um we are running slightly late so apologies for that so uh welcome to fellow cabinet members councelor as a member of the public to this cabinet meeting at City Hall today as usual the agenda papers and public forum submissions are available on the council’s website uh housekeeping can I please

Draw your attention to the emergency evacuation procedure which is outlined in the agenda and is currently being displayed on the screen thank you the meeting is being webcast so please kind remind everyone to speak into the microphone to ensure you are clearly heard agenda item two public forum it’s

Just a reminder that statements and questions will be taken at the time the relevant agenda item is discussed I will reply to questions or ask the relevant camet member to respond agenda item three apologies for absence apologies have been given by the mayor who was at an event at the House of Lords

Agenda item four Declarations of interest do I have any Declarations of interest to declare Don I think you Don I thank you do you want to put your microphone on uh item eight I because I’m a director of gorm homes I shall be leaving for that item thank you thank you

Don agenda item five matters for matters referred for consideration by scrutiny or for Council there have been no referrals from scrutiny or for councel agenda item six reports from scrutiny commissions we do have one report from the overview scrutiny management board I think Tony Dar was going to come but

There was some suggestion he may had to head I’m I’m afraid de Fred he had to um go away to attend to Family Matters yeah thanks and the out to be taken us sort of read yeah we’ve we’ve all read the read the report anyway so thank you agenda item seven chair’s business

There’s none on this occasion agenda item eight so don if you want to if you want to step out for this one purchase of properties for the provision of children’s homes and I’ll ask councelor Asher Craig to introduce his report uh thank you so this paper um

Seeks approval for the funding uh the acquisition of two properties from the one Lo Le development to be used as children’s homes while it is our aspiration that most children requiring care live with families in a family setting there is a national decline in availability of foster care and a

Prediction of growth in numbers of children requiring care this alongside growing complexity of needs of children has led to an increase in the ratio of children placed in residential provision these properties will help us to deliver high quality placements within the local area securing better outcomes for our children in their own

Communities they will also secure better value for money for the council by addressing the drivers for the increase in spend and future proofing the service against increasing demand thank you Asher in terms of public forum statements and questions we’ve received no public forum statements or questions on this item do

Any cabinet members wish to comment Tom just briefly it’s really good to see this paper coming forward and I think you know one lot leads the first of the gorm homes developments to come forward you it’s 55% uh genuinely affordable homes coming forward on that scheme

Council housing um and as well as that what we’re thinking about is what are the wider needs of the city as well so we’re bringing forward children’s homes as well and it shows that you know we’re really thinking about how we can use land in the most effective way to meet

Meet the needs of the city and obviously want to try and keep children in area don’t we if if if we can because of the challenges that come without of area placements yeah great thanks Tom any other cabinet members no thank you um in which case I

Will hand back to council CR to take the decision which I support and will now be displayed on the screen yeah just before I I I make the decision and just following on um from what councelor Renard had said it’s interesting um earlier today um I had to

Review um a document that had come to me about um you know us being held over a barrel I feel by um the uh kind of Residential Care sector I mean the the prices that we are paying per child are just going through the roof and uh

There’s hardly any room for maneuver um so um yeah not only the government has to really take a handle on this because you know it’s just fast becoming incredibly expensive um and so growing our own is the only way forward uh particularly as we look at um the need

For sufficiency of placements in the local area so in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report thank you thank you aser agenda item nine wraparound child care in primary schools andies and I’ll introduce this one this

Paper seeks approval to accept and spend grant funding from the DFE to support the creation and expansion of wraparound child care places in primary schools andies paid for by parents starting in September 2024 funding will be allocated On A needs assessment basis where there is evidence of Parental demands and a

Model that will will be sustainable by the time funding expires in March 2026 this will Empower parents to be able to have more flexibility to return to work and extend their hours the raang childcare will deliver a provision that is child- centered easily accessible response to the need of families

Including those with special educational needs and disabilities on this report we’ve received no public forum statements there was a public forum question submitted and that was from councelor Christine townend Christine here yes welcome Christine please ask your first question would you like me to read out

Oh well unless I mean aser do you want yeah happy to just reply I said would you like me to read out no you can read that the question oh okay yeah that’s what I said yeah um so we know that if we do what we’ve always done we’ll get what we’ve always

Got so I’m interested to understand what additional strategic planning um is going to go into um implementing this in order to ensure that most disadvantaged communities and the primaries that serve those communities are going to be supported to make sure that they are able to engage with it so you’re

Actually highlighting a key challenge for us here in the city and we um should all agree that it’s important to break down entrenched um inequalities uh wraparound Child Care is being expanded to support working parents uh the creation of sustainable and stable before and after school Child Care will

Ensure that our parents re-entering the workforce will not be restricted from taking up roles within uh the school hours funding for the expansion of wraparound CH Child Care will be based on Parental demand and both working parents and those returning to work must be included by primaries when measuring

Sufficiency as a means of eligibility for funding now the places will be paid for by parents and whilst the use of tax-free Child Care is essential the child care element of of Universal Credit and that’s for those families on benefits but also uh who work will be promoted with equal measure uh to

Highlight that lower income families can get up to 85% of their child care costs paid for uh by Universal Credit and can be claimed one month in advance as per the changes um introduced in July 2023 any supplementary you okay so that’s a good understanding from the perspective of the government and who

That is that they’re trying to Target and how it is that those on universal credits might be able to engage my question is relating to those schools Who currently serve are most disadvantaged and therefore have the have arguably the L the greatest distance to travel in order to engage

With this particular project within the structures in Bristol so is there any additional support or is there anything within the application um of this grant coming from the labor Administration to ensure that those commun those primaries in those communities who are currently up to their eyeballs in work are going to be

Better able than those maybe across the road that serve less uh disadvantaged to more affluent families to be able to engage in this I think my response to you is um yeah first and foremost we will do everything in our power to work uh with with those schools in our most

Disadvantaged areas for me uh particularly our non kind of uh our maintained schools uh are the ones that are operating in uh some of our most deprived Wards so uh we will work with each of those schools um independently to ensure that the take up by parents in

Those schools um is maximized as much as possible so yes the owners may be on those schools but we will just have to look at what uh what resource we we have to support them uh and and ensure that the the takeup um is um you know the take up is

Is yeah appropriate yeah absolutely thanks AER any is that the yeah yeah then do any cabinet members want to comment yeah Nicola other than just to really welcome this as there’s no surprise really for as a working mom with two children I think this is a really really important

Um really important part of trying to actually have a healthy family and and a a me health health and well-being approach to women in particular and working so I really commend anything in this Direction one of the reasons why I cut it quite fine getting here today was

Because I was trying to deal with my children after school and so I think it’s um it’s it’s really good thank you very much Asha and whoever told me that it was going to be easy once your kids go into school was uh definitely fibbing when I had two babies thanks

Thanks Nia anyone else no okay um in terms of decisions to be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report agenda item 10 increasing the allocation for Bristol smok and cessation service stopping the start of new smoke free generation funding I will ask councelor Ellie King to introduce this

Report thank you this paper seeks approval to accept and spend additional government grant funding of up to 700 42,000 per year for our Bristol smoking cessation service the majority of funding is required to be focused on smoking cation but there is some flexibility for funding to support wider

Tobacco efforts to control youth vaping our Public Health teams work closely with our schools and our wider communities to measure and address the rise in vaping through our healthy schools program and this includes free bespoke training for schools and partners we also fund specific enforcement work on you vaping from our

Trading standards seems tobacco addiction Remains the single biggest cause of premature death and leading um modifiable risk factor for poor pregnancy outcomes this service therefore helps to children to find to make the best start in life by supporting our ambition to tackle Health inequalities and focus on preventative and early intervention

Approaches um I will say that this this funding is extremely welcome and will um be a significant uplift to the amount of money that we’re currently able to put into smoking sensation however nothing replaces the benefit of giving a meaningful uplift to the public health Grant overall

Thanks yeah indeed thanks Ellie uh any other cabinet oh sorry now we’ve received no public form statements or questions on this one do any cabinet members want to comment no obviously there a hugely important um bit of work that we do here and as Ellie says would be better if the

Overall Public Health Grant has raised in recent years instead of us having to make do with a similar some money which is therefore less each year worth less each year I could buy less each year uh so back to you ell take decision which I support and will now be displayed on the

Screen thank you in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report agenda item 11 changing Futures Bristol multiple disadvantage strategy and changing Futures program contract extension I will ask councelor Helen Holland to introduce this thanks very

Much Craig and I think that this is a really important report obviously the reports we take are important but I think that this is about being able to access additional funding to be able to do things that probably all the Professionals in the field have known

That they needed to do but needed to have the additional resource in in order to be able to do it so so in uh 2021 we won nearly 3 million pounds for this program and this report reports that we’ve bid for an extra 800,000 and been successful in that bid

To be able to extend it so changing Futures works with some of the most disadvantaged people in our community people who are experiencing multiple disadvantages so it’s it’s also the heart of it is the my team around me approach because when you talk to any of

Those people who um if they do have confidence which they very often don’t in agencies that they’ve been around before and have failed them basically one of the things that they’ll always say is that they don’t want to have to tell their story multiple times to different agencies so the my team around

Me approach does mean that people whether they’re from mental health from uh Drug and Alcohol Services domestic abuse whatever it is homelessness that it draws that team together so that the people have confidence in the team that’s working working with them I think that we should credit here particularly

The lead partner organization which is second step who’ve been doing a fantastic job on this piece of of work and also the report mentions the work that we’re now doing with women and particularly women um who’ve been in prison or in prison now thinking about their um pathway when when they leave

Prison because as we know that’s a particularly problematic thing for women who have been in prison and the lead partner on that is the Nelson trust who are doing some again some some brilliant work so um it not only obviously acknowledges the additional money that we’ve brought in which is all to the

Good but hopefully when the money runs out this will be how we do things and it needs to be embedded in a sustainable way but it’s also led to us working in a co-productive way which is we’re doing more and more of in adult social care

And is hard work but well worth doing so talking to people with lived experience about their experience of the services and shaping services to meet their needs so we’ve got now going to have a multiple disadvantage Str Y and that is going to be produced with people who um

We have worked with and we will continue to work with so um I think it’s an excellent piece of work and I think the fact that we got more money from government and the lottery to support it shows that the outside Partners think it is too so very happy to present the

Report great thanks Helen um we’ve received no public for statements or questions on this one do any cabinet members want to comment on it’s brilliant to see this coming forward are really welcome particularly with my sort of Prior background PRI to being in in cabinet and Council in mental health and mental health

Campaigning and it’s lovely to see a program of work that’s got people with lived experience so rooted firmly at the center where actually it’s it’s nothing about us without us um and those those people are involved in decision- making in a meanful ways co-production is a term I often hear bandied around yeah

We’re co-producing it’s like oh are you or are you just Consulting and but actually we’ve got a program here that’s working meaningfully and it’s you know how how we can continue to embed the learning and this work across the council in other departments you know we’re developing a new homelessness

Strategy as our you know current one will run out this year you know one of the STS I’ve given is we need to make sure we’re involving people Liv experience need to make sure we’re joining up the work the independent futures um are involved in so you know

It’s just brilliant to see this continued investment um in the city obviously it’s a bit frustrating you’re getting pots of money here and there for onee extensions just make things easy to plan but despite that you know what a brilliant bit of work it’s been over the

Last what eight nine 10 years when you sort of think about Golden Key yeah yeah thanks Tom yeah councelor Renard kind of um said said a lot of what I wanted to say but yeah along the lines of the the work of co-production you know we’ve been walking our talk

I’ve SE um again today we we’re about to uh launch our uh employment and skills strategy for the next 5 years and I was gobsmacked by the amount of co-production that had gone into it AC with communities right across the piece so in terms of the work that has gone

Into um you know uh developing this strategy yeah definitely commend this and uh kind of look forward to uh the extension to this work brilliant thanks Usher anyone else no which case I’ll hand back to council Holland to take this decision which I support and will now be displayed on the

Screen thanks in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations that set out in the report great thanks s agenda item 12 clean aiz Zone evaluation reports councelor Don Alexander will introduce this report on behalf of the mayor thank you Craig I was pleased to

See these figures which show a huge drop in nitrogen dioxide pollution over the first year of the Clean Air Zone is down by 10% across bristle and down almost 133% inside the Clean Air Zone as a director of public Public Health has set out this Improvement is important for

Our health and our children’s health now and in the future I know that Ellie will be particularly Keen as the portfolio holder for public health to speak to these benefits given the permanent lung damage that nitrogen darkx side can cause and the deaths which it contributes to as a counselor for an

Area on the edge of Bristol I am pleased that the air quality has improved outside the C as well as inside totally dispelling the myth that the the C would disperse traffic and make air quality worse in Bedminster down nitrogen di dioxide pollution is down

27% and in the Heart of the City by the BR and Children’s Hospital One sensor has it down 27.5% in my own Ward levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution at the portway Junctions with silven way and romanway average out at around 50% of the legal limit these initial numbers from our

First annual publication are positive and after their initial State one report last year uh hope that the official ver verdict from jacku in their state 2 report later in this year will be as well the aim of the C was to D drive Behavior change and with nine out of

Every 10 Journeys into the Cass being compliant this has worked effectively another positive symbol of behavior change is the comparison that the proportion of of drivers paying the daily cash charge has risen by around 1/5 while pcns issued for non-payment is down around 1/3 and despite challenges during the

First year around driver numbers it looks like bus number bus passenger numbers are up as people adjust and take up public transport footfall in the city has also stayed fairly steady except for St Nick’s Market which has seen a 16% jump proving that more people are using

Public transport or active travel as a direct consequence of the c one point we’re extremely proud of is how we successfully negotiated with government for support for bristolian despite opposition parties pressing us to rush to a Caz millions of pounds of support have be paid out to Bristol

Residents and businesses to help them and we are planning a further push to publicize a sport which is still available having secured another 11 million on Clean Air Day in June since then we have also opened Bristol’s new first train station in almost a century

At portway park and ride in my own Ward giving an option for thousands of motorists to turn into rail commuters I also want to highlight the importance of the hard one local exemptions for the first four months of the C which saw 350,000 Journeys Exempted to help smooth the

Transition over the first year that number Rises to more than 550 ,000 and during the first six weeks to help drivers adjust to the C those who received pcns were given a Time limited opportunity to pay the C’s daily charge rather than the full PCN 73% of PCN

Issued during this period were close were closed following payment of the daily cash charge while there has been understandable but somewhat on due focus on the financial data it is the air quality that matters most our objective is clean air not a clean air zone and not net

Proceeds as the mayor has set out in his forward to the report we were right to secure support before starting the C and we were right to ignore those who called for a charging C to cover the whole city if our progress cleaning up our air continues then in coming years the C

Will come to an end with clean air here to stay thank you thanks Don so uh n public forum statements and questions on this report we have two public forum statements the first is from Christina bigs Bristol clean air Alliance clean air Alliance yeah you have one minute thanks

Christina thank you Christina bigs representing K Bristol clean air Alliance we very much welcome the clean a Zone um as you may be aware of be we’ve consistently um encouraged BCC to uh adopt a fair and effective zone so we’re delighted that there’s been a such

A good um result in the first year things to be aware of though is that um some of the modeling um did actually predict a drop anyway in um emissions because of natural turnover in the fleet so I think it’ be good to just check um yeah just check what that would have

Been and just just make sure that that’s still you know better than than than what would have happened anyway um we would like to point out also um the C does not address particulates um so in the original 300 deaths actually 168 of those deaths are due to particulate a pollution so um

While we obviously want to see the cars continue to work to make to clear up the rest of the pollution we’d like to see more action on wood burning in particular um especially when it’s it’s non um yeah not not completely necessary um May of status um statement as it were

Um finally um um yes we think um we understand you’re thinking of replacing the transport Levy to wer with the c earnings we think that’s a mistake because Cas isn’t going to last forever you’re going to have to still find the money um and we we would

Urge you obviously to be more generous with the transport Levy to wer because they um they need the money they really do and the the transport Lev been frozen for a couple of years now um and that will impact on bus that’s your minute nebor thank you thanks

Christina next up is a statement from the cyest transport Network and rail future 7 side David redwell David you have a minute thank you um so I think we’ve just got to remember this is a public health measure not a transport measure it’s about saving lives it’s about respiratory illness I suffer from

Respirat they killed me four times it’s a serious issue we need to keep the the levels of respirat down in this the city we need to make sure we’ve got clean air to breathe and Asthma can lead to death and you know we’ve got the regional children’s hospitals and Regional

Hospitals right in the heart of our city for the southwest region so I welcome this I welcome the the Clean Air and I welcome uh the moves forward but we’ve got to think about how we go forward it’s not about bringing the private car more and more into Bristol it should be

About reducing the need as Don said for the private car in Bristol so that’s got to be about offering walking cycling sustainable measures of enter in the city the new rail station at um Port Port Bri the new rail station Ashley down Metro West that may ree Champions

Very heavily with Dan Norris um but also about the buses and workingclass people some of the poorest people in this city need to have alternatives to driving uh dirty cars into the City and we’ve got many workingclass Estates without a public bus service only place like this

Is Stoke on Trent we need to get those bus services back Ashton Vil orry Court stepton brislington turn dings all have no public bus services parts of South mward we need to use the cas money but also with the levy and the levy should be added not replaced the levy by law

You collect on behalf of wer not a choice it’s in the wer act but the levy Cass money should be added to make sure this adequate provision to bring buses back to working class communities I stress working class communities who can’t afford to change their cars who

Can’t afford to go forward so I welcome this but we need more work to do here and we’ve got to keep cleaning up Bristol’s ear I say thank you to director of Public Health who’s sitting in the gallery thank you Christine thank thank you David I allowed you way more

Than one minute there um so uh thank you for that so now on to questions there were six public forum questions submitted between five people the first is from suzan Audrey but I don’t see suzan here no uh the second was from Simon hoback I don’t think Simon was coming no um next

Martin F Martin are you here yeah hi Martin please ask your question um I too I’m supporting the Clean Air Zone I’m a 76y old retired academic uh and I still cycle into Bristol uh every day and I congratulate the council and the uh in particular in the results of

The clean a zo so far but before we become too complacent about what has been achieved uh and being very aware of the pitfalls of modeling upon which the clean aone was largely based I’ve had some experience of the pitfalls of modeling and there are two I believe

Interrelated problems with the Clean Air Zone one is the cumber and Basin flyover which actually is a road which is designed to take traffic away from Bristol and the city but which is included in the clean Air Zone with consequent penalties for those who are running businesses in South Liberty

Lane one company paying £1,500 a day to get his law can we just move on to your question please what was your question sorry well the the the question is whether the the mayor and the council are happy that because all five bridges over the Aven are within

The Clean Air Zone it means that all residents with non-compliant cars in south of brist with your wood hartcliffe Etc um are denied access to the north of Bristol unless taking a huge um detour around to S Philips Causeway so in a sense these people who live in the most

Socially and economically deprived areas of Bristol are being deprived of the of access to North Bristol is this something with which the council are happy or should they be re thinking the inclusion of the flyover thank you Don did you want to take that one thank you yeah I mean as a counselor

For Lawrence Weston could I point out that the deprived areas of Bristol aren’t just in the South they are also in the north um regarding uh the modeling the council was mandated by government to implement to Clean Air Zone uh we know that this question about the cand Basin is

Probably the most asked question as far as I’m concerned because many people from my ward were confused by it and didn’t understand it the Cumberland Basin was included uh while some trips do not go into the city center many enter the city from the pimpell bridge uh as do many

Trips that um go from the a30 370 to the portway uh nobody in the city is cut off as n out of 10 Journeys are compliant and for those that are still used non-compliance iant cars the a369 links the north and south of the city however we do encourage people to

Change their vehicle to a compliant one and that’s the whole point of the uh c not that anyone should be cut off but the people should change their vehicle to a compliant one and as you’ve heard we still already do have support available for people who would like to

Make that change the modeling was supplied by jacku The Joint air quality unit I know there was some discussion regarding whether this was entirely necessary and it was at their insistence that it was and of course the whole Clean Air Zone was uh something that we

Were obliged to do by government via the joint air quality unit so that was a discussion that was had we express their own concerns about that particular intervention and but that that wasn’t upheld by Jack do you have a supplementary question um I don’t doubt that there are

Certainly deiv there is in your ward counselor but my point was that a large part of South Bristol is socially and economically deprived when you say that you make you make provision for people to change their cars well for the population in South Bristol those who

Haven’t got them I I find that an extraordinarily naive point of view to take quite frankly do you have a question sorry do you have a question so no I don’t well okay obviously you have total faith in the modeling which I don’t and as I’ve said earlier as a

Retired academic I know pitfalls or modeling okay do you have a question no you don’t have a question okay I mean to to be honest you know we did this is an area where we particularly push back on throughout the process of setting up the clean Ariz Zone in the first place so

It’s something that we’re aware of not massively chuffed a bite but something we’ve had to contend with and hence why we fought for a financial assistance program anyway um the next question is from Dan akroy Dan please ask your question I see you here yeah I will a

Moment I also submitted an urgent question um under epr 5.3 um I realized that I probably need to have your consent to ask the question yeah it’s not about any agenda item on the um cabinet paper so it’s not been admitted I’m afraid but we can take the

Questions that you have on this paper I’m going to ask it anyway the rules don’t say it has to be about an agenda well they they do yeah no so it is quite clear it has to be about an item on the agenda is not present my question is the Urgent

Question I have following the there there’s no point I mean we’re not going to answer the question okay you may submit it submit it by email we can get a we can get a full response from the mayor’s office for you so on the cast paper you had a question

Are you do you intend to ask that one uh so why did the BBC get the paper before um it was published on the on the Bristol Council website thank you Tom yeah I the uh one year of the Clean Air Zone finished on the 28th of

November and there was uh quite a short window then given that was Christmas and New Year in order to bring the report together and then to produce it in a an attractive and presentable manner so that people would like to read it uh it

Was very very tight uh uh and so um so as the general public can find out more about it because it’s not just about informing counselors or people in this meeting uh some headline um figures and uh facts from that report went to the BBC the day before I don’t think that’s

Unusual or particularly controversial actually do you have a supplementary question yeah my supplementary question is related to the other cabinet paper um that was provided for the committee um all the decision for that cabinet paper of where to spend the money oh yeah we’ll come to that one next we can we

Can ask you leads on from the the question about the papers is that I realized that the Clean Air report took a long time to prepare for the actual Financial figures and proposed of where to spend the money um was taken in December so why wasn’t that paper made

Available in proper time yeah thanks that I mean I’ll take that one actually so so the it I guess in order to have a balanced conversation on this we this is a public health intervention and if you launch straight into money you end up in a l ules kind

Of conversation which has happened in London which has been very lacking nuance and uh been well conspiracy theorist driven and and a range of other things that we wanted to avoid which is why we were very keen from the beginning that we published proceeds and clean air

Intervention kind of outputs at the same time so that was the logic behind those two papers coming together thank you um next question is from Council end um thank you uh so this is about um the enforcement so there’s over 93,000 that were written off um I raise this

Aam um the suggestion I had and I’m wondering if the cabinet member for transport agrees that this is a good way forward is to have the write offs split up into maybe three monthly sections so that we can be confident that the numbers of wros have gone down which

Would correspond with the answer that we received as of as of aam earlier in the week we dealing with pcns isn’t something new to us we do with it we do we deal with them all the time because of parking and bus lanes so um there’s nothing unusual here perhaps quite a

Large number but I don’t know why you would advocate for a special particular procedure or something different from anywhere else do you have a supplementary well yeah because if there is if the enforcement is not there why will people pay well exactly that’s why we do have enforcement and we have enforcement for

Parking offenses in car parks on W lines and also bus lanes something that we do we do all the time it’s just business as usual for us so I mean we have a corporate debt policy that follows um an ethical collection of debts in general so is is

Your position that we should stop that and start no this is we you and I I’ve asked you a question about this before hav I councelor Cheney when you wrote off over3 million pounds of penalty charges and if you’re writing this off my question is how is it that that you’re going to

Expect people to pay if there’s huge numbers but of of charges being written off over 93,000 Journeys I’ve just done a quick bit that’s over 250 Journeys a day that are being written off every day that the C has been in existence and the answer we

Got at aam was that there would have been loads at the beginning because the systems were settling down and there were some other reasons that were given as well and what I’ve asked what all I’ve said is why why don’t we have a breakdown of that to check that because

Another 12 months if we’re still how will we know how will you know that that the enforcement that what’s been told by the senior officer is actually the case yeah I mean we’ve got a range of details here I mean the majority were non-uk vehicles that obviously um dvla don’t

Have on their records so that makes it particularly difficult there range of other words we can send you this detailed response if that helps answer your question yeah okay so then so I’m not sure what so you’re asking for the same detail again or different Detail no

The first 3 months or the first couple of months was about the system settling down right so the right offs would have been included because you had a 12 month total and then what aen were told is that next year we should expect those numbers to go down but what I’m

Suggesting is that over the course of 12 months you should be able to evidence those numbers going down anyway if at the beginning of the the system was settled in down and therefore you wrote off more at the beginning we would do that yeah thank

You so do so thank you everyone do we have any cabinet members want to comment Marlene Don your microphone’s still on thank you um yeah I’d really welcome this coming forward really encourag and see how much it’s already cut air pollution particularly outside the B I

Think that was over 27% which is you know really positive it’s also timely to see that these papers are presented when tomorrow we’ve got clean air night which is an educational campaign um from action for cleaner air um that we’re proud to be a part of Clean Air night

Focuses on wood burners which are bad for your wallet bad for our planet and bad for our air as we heard in public forum today domestic burning is the single biggest cause of small particle air pollution in the UK burning Bud accounts for 75% of these emissions more

Than twice as many people burning in WD in the UK live in cities and towns parliamentary research has shown that domestic combustion in the UK produces more particle pollution than the exhaust of all road traffic um and most people who burn wood are in more affluent households only 8% of people burn in

Mood have no alternative heating source and that’s important during the national cost of living crisis but a report prepared for death in 22 2020 found that the largest group of people burning MD were doing so for aesthetic re reasons burning mood is a lifestyle Choice I’m

Sure that there’ll be been a fair few otherwise well-intentioned environmentalists who have been lighting up their wood burners particularly during the during the recent cold snap and in so doing accelerating deforestation chugging out air pollution and contributing more to climate change than to tackling it and we will pay the

Price for that um so over the last 10 years this type of pollution caused by domestic burning has more than doubled while pollution from industry and transport is Fallen burning mood is always more expensive than heating by gas boiler or heat pump by almost 50% more and also releases more carbon

Dioxide than oil or gas so this campaign is about education learning not burning but also comes at a time when the council has strengthened powers to enforce smoke control with fines of up to 300 so just like the C to link it back this is going to be a multi-year

Effort to encourage Behavior change um and something the council’s working to accomplish thanks Marley does anyone else want to comment Ellie yeah I just really want to welcome it um you know it’s a really great report and um it shows that the first year of C has been a resounding success

When it comes to health um nitrogen dioxide is um linked to many serious diseases lung cancer stroke heart disease and with outdoor pollution causing one in 10 cases of lung cancer in the UK this is a really great um achievement um and there be many campaigning groups

Um such as the ones in the gallery and also ones like mums for lungs who will really welcome this and see the benefits for their for themselves and for their children the air that they breathe dayto day um and also I think it’s good to acknowledge you know that this supports

Our health services the NHS this reduces their pressures on them and if we don’t clean our air people will continue to get ill um and so it is really essential for the climate and for People’s Health as well thank you really welcome it thanks ell okay thank you all for your comments and

I’ll now take the decision oh sorry now Don will now take the decision which will be displayed on the screen thanks Greg I’d also um like to thank uh the officers who uh worked so hard some of them uh lived this for a couple of years um but um it’s been a

Tremendous success and I enjoyed being part of the project board as well we had a good time together and I feel we’ve done something really valuable for the city and we will take this on in one form and another um and that clean air will remain and it will get cleaner uh

Maybe not through Cas but through other means that’s certainly something I will be uh Keen to be involved in in the future in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report thanks Don agenda item 13 application of Bristol clean Arizone net

Proceeds I will introduce this one following on from the previous item is important to reiterate that the Clean Air Zone is only about clean air after dft’s 2 p in every 9 P Charge and our own staff and operating costs are taken into account and after funds are added

To reserve to cover the decommissioning of the car when the time comes the net proceeds are set out in this report these net proceeds like those for the six other clean air zones around the country and the ulz in London come at what continues to be a difficult time

For local government almost a decade and a half of national austerity has seen councils pushed to the brink Birmingham and Nottingham are fellow core cities have issued section 114 notices and one fifth of other Council leaders think that they won’t be far behind as a responsible Administration we are proud

To have done this in every year of our time in office the budget papers at this meeting set out the scale of the challenge and how we will continue to balance Bristol’s books this paper sets out our allocation strategy for the estimated net proceeds on the cars which

Will fund the operation of the cars help even more people to travel via active travel and public transport match fund further transport improvements including for bus services and infrastructure through the city region sustainable transport settlement improve and maintain the transport infrastructure that we all use and need enable local neighborhood trans local and

Neighborhood transport schemes the program of this program of investment will further help improve a quality in our city excuse me now on to public forum statements and questions we’ve received one public forum statement which was from Ian qu brist order people’s Forum I don’t see in here no turn into questions there

Were three public forum questions submitted between two people the first was from David rewell David please ask your first question so my first question is about the um uh the money raised and the need to actually uh make sure that goes back into um sustainable and very public

Transport we need to actually get people out of their cars so we clean up the city’s air and continue to do so so my question there is what level of money will go across to the west of England mural combined Authority which is the regional transport authority to improve

The city’s bus and integrated transport Network yeah thanks so uh funding for the transport Levy is based on current contributions but with an additional 4.71 million for supported services from 2025 which represents a 15% increase in the contribution communities that are cut off from access to services employment and learning opportunities

Are being held back we are in continuous discussions with the commod authority about bus services in the city including High Services can be restored and improved Deputy Mayor is um since the um uh meeting I attended over in scrutiny the department for transport and Mark Harper intervened and is now told us to

Rewrite our um bus service improvement plan with North Somerset Council and to resubmit our plan by the 12th of um June therefore my question is what can we do to improve public transport and buses as part of that plan rather than waiting as the officers wish to do for one more

Financial year thanks David I think I’ll probably pass that to Don well obviously the duty of rewriting uh bip um will be um their plan plan will be with wer I I do meet with me wer and I do make it clear to them that are number of

Missing bus service in this city for which we feel that we have already contributed and that as one of the constituent unitary authorities when we set up worker we were very pleased to see that between us we’d received a large amount of bip money and we would look forward to that money supplying

Some of these missing Services already been mentioned in this meeting and we would rather not pay a second time for what we feel uh we have is our due as a city thank you Don uh David I think you had a second question my second question really is about the health measures keep

Reminding everybody this is not about raising money for um for transport measures it’s about saving lives clean air quity uh keeping people out of the BR and sou Hospital in the in the way Christine would wish us to all do so so therefore I wish to understand what

Level of money is going to go forward into walking and cycling and improving accessible uh travel across the city region so people have choices from places like uh South Bristol and the deprived States and I mention Lawrence Western and South media and all of that

Um and not Le in making sure that we have good access uh to the the city center as an alternative to using of a private car yeah thanks the so 25 million of the net proceeds are planned for investment that will enhance walking and cycling in the city including match

Funding for the um City Regional sustainable transport settlement which will unlock hopefully 190 million pound capital investment all of the funding is proposed to support bus walking and cycling in the city but there are no plans to to apply the net proceeds towards rail projects which are funded

By The commin Authority in network RA in cycling um are there going to be some proposals put forward by the west of England M combined Authority joint with North Somerset to make sure that we actually provide those alternative Roots uh to the private car so we continue to

Reduce the air quality and save lives in the city center yeah I mean I’m not in privy today’s conversations Don I presume you would be well our guiding document as a combin Authority is is the um local cycling and walking infrastructure plan uh W are now developing joint local transport plan five

I believe which we hope will be very very ambitious and meanwhile we cons continue as the highway authority to construct and reconstruct um uh walking and cycling facilities like the many bridges we’re currently working on thank you Don okay our next question is from Dan akroy Dan please ask your

Question why is that proposal to spend money on items that were not listed in the brist Clean Air Zone charging order or as specified in the transport act 2000 thanks Dan The Proposal is to apply the net proceeds on items within the 2022 order and in accordance with the

Transport act 2000 having regard for local transport policies in the form of the joint local transport plan the detail program has been prepared because the order describes the outcomes and provides the high level objectives for the use of the net prices but insufficient detail to support formal decision- making about budgets all of

The proposals within the detailed program intend to support and incentivize walking cycling and public transport in the city and are legitimate applications of net proceeds do you have a supplementary question yes how do you expect me to trust that answer when I can see how many odd legal decisions are being made

By this Council uh I I mean yeah I don’t know that there is a direct answer to that question I mean you have an opportunity to vote with the next election I would say if you don’t believe that the things that we say and do what are the things

That we say and do then that’s that’s your decision I believe that we do what we think is right weighing up many complicating factors and you know trying to make leas options often thank you uh that ends public forum have any cabinet members want to comment I will now take the decision

Which will be displayed on screen in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report agenda item 14 residents parking scheme polic policy review I will ask councelor Don Alexander to introduce this one sorry for the delay

Uh the aim of this paper is to bring residents parking schemes into review supporting the velopment of policies for future consideration bringing them up to date after over a decade of remaining largely unchanged without any review RP Zs have proved to be a largely failed attempt at managing our City’s

Limited parking space they do not meet the transport challenges facing a modern city like Bristol in reality they may have the effect of encouraging more short local trips this is because residents are more willing to make a short Journey J by car that they might not make if parking is

Difficult to find this Administration has instead focused on reliable transport options for bristolian creating effective sustainable transport options improving Bristol’s air quality and better managing our crowded streets and congestion we are reducing the attractiveness of short trips by car through treatments such as modal filters through our two livable neighborhood

Pilots codes designed with local residents we have successfully pedestrianized the old city in cottam Hill created brilliant new segregated cycle paths on key travel routes delivered portway Park and Ride Bristol’s first new railway station in almost a century with work well underway now on Ashley down station the proposals that the paper

Will set out include consideration of further development of rpz policies for the future including replacement of visitors permits with a fairer pay and display system immediate reduction in business permits in the Clifton Village era of 10% for those businesses Who currently have over seven customer permits or more removal of Third vehicle

Permits and increasing the cost of a first permit from £56 to £178 thank you thank you Don on to public forum statements and questions on this report we’ve received four public forum statements the first is from Katherine Kane Katherine are you here no okay the second statement is

From Isadora holar I apologize if I mispronounce your name you have one minute thank you hello isidora but they say okay so uh my problem is I’m living in the three streets from here so in great George Street in a flat which is converted from offices to flat and uh this is the

Reason why I cannot even apply for a parking permit because of the close which is in application which is put there maybe 20 years ago so I think this is a good opportunity to rethink uh the situation now uh just to be aware what is the close so they say that uh

Residential Properties which planning consent for new developments and changes to properties were approved or granted after 13th of October 20055 does not have a possibility to get the parking permit so I just want to point that great George Street is becoming more and more residential so there are only two big Office Buildings

Who had the parking space for their own and there is a plenty of parking space and I cannot even apply so my preposition is to maybe remove this change in clouds or what is also I think much more fair to uh redraw the borders of the uh residents parking shim and at

Gror Street and maybe even Charlotte seity or other residential street which are very near to the nearest residential parking sheam which is Clifton wood and hotwells that’s all for me thank you Isadora uh next up we have a statement from Paul boy Paul are you here no

Okay next is from councelor Martin Fodor Martin I see you are here thanks very much um I was hoping there would be uh some some details about the policy review of parking that was first announced in 2019 the officers gave a very detailed list of how parking

Would re be reviewed but nothing has been seen since then it’s been eight years that these schemes have been left in place after the mayor reviewed them all and didn’t uh make any major changes to any of them them and or make any fee revisions over those eight years now

About 8 weeks before he leaves the polit into the political uh process for the next election we’ve had two reports in a few uh weeks the policy confusion is worrying me the lack of coherence the lack of context around parking and most of all the lack of evidence um no new

Schemes have been allowed half my ward has parking managed and you’re proposing to change that half has no parking management and is chaotic you’re not proposing to give any solutions to that um the alone among comparable authorities the mayor here doesn’t think low trffic neighborhoods or livable neighborhoods should actually have

Parking managed in them so that’s a bit of a problem for Bristol I think the original self-funding nature of this scheme is now being abandoned I think you need to to be clear about that and explain that the funding can or will or should go to to the Alternatives because

Most of the issues in this report are not actually going to be pursued there things that might happen Could Happen may be done you’ve got a few very specifics um and and so there doesn’t appear to that’s more than a minute now thank you so I I I hope you will

Actually start putting together a coherent parking policy thank you thank you and apologies I seem to have missed a a statement uh Philippa Walker are you here yes apologies Philippa okay um I sent it in by email so I guess I’ll just read the email so it’s about

Um the uh Central Parking Zone around Portland Square so I’m a resident of Portland Square and along with some other residents um we’d like to make the statement um that uh we would like the St Paul’s residential um parking permit scheme to include residents of Portland Square and neighboring streets currently in the

Central Parking Zone and outside the Clean Air Zone um at the moment um you can’t apply for a parking permit so it’s pretty similar to yours you can’t apply for a parking permit um if you have no allocated parking space SP um and also you cannot apply for any visitors

Permits at all so that means that um if you have any visitors um the first question they ask is where can they Park and they all have to pay on the meter that’s including workers or anybody else coming to visit you family from from away they all have to either pay on the

Parking meter or Park very far away so that’s my statement thank you pH apologies for missing you earlier um we now have three public forum questions submitted between two people the first is from suan wre who who I know is not here uh the next are from coun Fodor Martin your first

Question yeah thank you uh two questions firstly please can the evidence for the outcomes that car use will be replaced by use of lower impact travel Alternatives following the proposed permit increase charges be provided so what is the evidence and can I shall I read the second now so please can the

Evidence for car dependency reduction through not providing parking management schemes on streets just outside resident parking areas where the charges are going to be raised in the areas and nothing is provided in the streets just outside is there any assessment of the effect of the RPS schemes on streets

Just outside the boundary could you provide that thank you thanks Martin th thanks that’s that’s not not a central argument of our approach and we hope that uh the uh some of the money that um proceeds from this will be able to give us some space in terms of

Officer resource to develop parking polic strategy for the city uh which is something uh we really struggle to find the people to do um we’re trying to make uh active travel Journeys and public transport use more appealing through reallocation of Road space and the the paper says where

Applicable there will be reallocation of Highway space to sustainable modes of travel and sustainable Urban Drainage Systems uh SS to mitigate the encouragement of short car Journeys being made by permit holders due to the likely availability of park space parking space upon uh return um interest it increases in Park permit charges are

More likely to bring the them in in line with the increased value of parking space in the city center and to recapture the loss of third car car permits the point is that this is public space and we’re currently renting out for £56 a year £56 a year is a very small amount

Of money when one talks about in terms of the opportunity loss the opportunity loss for cycle hangers the opportunity loss for sustainable drainage incredibly important because a lot of that water that goes into the sewers and then onto our Rivers unfortunately which has become a national Scandal is water from

The streets we need more drainage there opportunity for bike hangers for other um even even for cycling infrastructure itself because that space so often in transport projects that space is taken up with parking spaces and one of the big challenges how do we speak to those people who always Park their car there

And ask them uh and tell them look really we’d like that for a bus lane or really we’d like that for a good segregated cycle Lane what I’m saying is £56 isn’t enough for that and actually when it comes to the whole city why don’t we think more ambitiously why

Don’t we talk about Street space as a resource for all of us not just for those who have cars or use cars yes many people do use cars quite legitimately have no problem with that but many people don’t they want to sign they want to walk and they want to socialize in

The streets and they they want to be able to park their bikes and the planet desperately needs for us to get rid of some of this tat replace it with soil trees Etc just to make it work for us all so why why have you got this kind of

Fetish about turning it into a big car park right across the city and your party has thanks Don Martin I actually asked if there was any evidence for the changes that that are being proposed and I haven’t been given any I’ve just had about things might of evidence you want

Evidence you want proof of a negative do you that uh I asked for evidence for the two things that are in the questions I’m just hoping you would answer those questions I find the questions very very confusing in all honesty if you’re asking for evidence that people have to

Pay more to to rent a piece of public space to park their car on are uh more like to think about not having a car then I would say nobody’s going to fund that kind of academic research because it’s just plain obvious that some people will

Decide that and then that space will be available then for a tree or for some sustainable drainage or for some a bike hanger which is the kind of things that our party wants and sorry the the the the point is there’s quite a lot of evidence on the

Travel West website we paid a public Health researcher to compile it but I don’t see any of it cited here um to describe how modal shift will be do you have a supplement is this a supplementary question or not yeah well um what what guarantees will be given

That in areas outside the parking management schemes there will be any investment in all of these Alternatives or to manage the parking in those areas that isn’t managed at the moment because I don’t think you’re offering any any guarantees to anyone well uh outside well there is the East Bristol liveable

Neighbor hood for instance there’s one example you missed the point of what I put in my question and my statement there are areas just outside parking schemes where it’s not managed there aren’t charges there aren’t permits that’s exact that isn’t that exactly the problem with RP there’s always an area

Just outside uh but they’re generally the poor areas so you’re not that bothered that’s not true I’ve just asked you if you can offer anything to those what what what’s okay let’s leave that thank thank you we can as you say there’s evidence on the Travel website

Which we can back and forth about um I’m not sure that we can get any further with that discussion debate I’m just disappointed I didn’t get answers to the two questions and and you know I’ve even referred to the the actual observable effect of car clubs that reduce car ownership but that wasn’t

Mentioned as something that would be invested in yeah thank thanks Martin so do any cabinet members wish to comment no okay in which case I back to D take decision which I support when I be displayed on the screen uh I’m I’m afraid it couldn’t have we wouldn’t have received it on

Time in order to to meet the agenda okay it’s so you have a one minute statement is that you have you’ve made a statement yes go on for one for one minute yeah thank you very much uh I live about 50 meters away from The aen Gorge Hotel

Uh uh in your uh report you talk about the uni unique nature of Clifton Village uh I would like to make a statement that currently the system doesn’t work for anybody very well in so far as the hotel has 40 visitor permits which it sells to its customers and those permits are used

In the residence area not in the Meed area next to the hotel and so very often residents cannot park because there are Hotel visitors with Hotel permits in our resident area we’ve raised this several times and it’s not been addressed the other point is that Sundays are treated

Very differently and so far as anyone can park anywhere now many parts of Bristol Sundays are quieter than the other six days of the week Clifton is the busiest day of the week and we and anyone can park anywhere around us and very often on a Sunday if anyone goes

Out anywhere we’re parking 300 yards away when we get home and I’d just like those two points particularly the hotel and the Sundays to be addressed if possible thank you very much thank you for for your statement it has been noted uh so thank you Don did

Um you hand over to you I take decision which always support and when I be displayed on the screen thank you thank you we are aware of that problem and actually there is a point in the report where we do address the specific situation of Clifton and some of those

Permits in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report thanks Don on to agenda item 15 which is Bristol Avon flood strategy I will ask councelor Nicola Beach to introduce this report thanks Craig I just pull everything

Together so we’re here today to submit and hopefully amend uh commend sorry the the outline business case for the river Ren flood strategy it’s a major milestone in the development of this significant project for the city’s future resilience and I’m commending this report to be submitted to the environment agency for scrutiny since

Completing the Strategic outline case in March 20121 there’s been a huge amount of work from uh from the teams across the council relevant to this work focusing on refining and updating the existing technical information working with the environment agency and making the case for the economic technical social and stainability outcomes that

The city will benefit from as a result of this significant capital investment there’s been a huge amount of technical work behind the scenes in terms of hydraulic modeling geotechnical assessments environmental appraisals economic assessments which I’ll come back to in a minute and understanding the cost benefit analysis of this

Intervention the headline here is that the outline business case demonstrates the even stronger business case for investment from central government flood defense grant and aid towards the delivery of this scheme today as we as we’re here today we’re in a much stronger position with such a greater degree of confidence in the

Deliverability of this scheme from a cost perspective having achieved a robust funding mix which I’ll come on to there’s still a long way to go and I think in the next Administration as we move forward with the detailed business case for the flood risk you’ll see much

More activity in terms of the planning stages of this project as we try and secure consense to deliver the proposals specific flood defense interventions will become very real very quickly as go through that consultation and public engagement and individual interventions come forward for planning consent as such we’ve embedded the

Project within the draft local plan and it’s just a moment here to to reflect on the speed in which our city is changing and our commitment to Brownfield development we’re running two processes simultaneously we are delivering hopefully our successful local planting inspector and we’re also be designing

Our flood defenses so an appeal to everyone who’s sticking around in the next Administration that it’s absolutely imperative that we work alongside the Regeneration teams the investors and the developers in the city to make sure that we do avoid all regretful decision-making around planning schemes and we secure the allowances that are

Needed to deliver the flood defenses from the private sector if we do this well in the coming five years this would be a phenomenal asset to the city not only protecting us but also providing a green um a green uh pathway through the center of the city providing accessible public transport

As I said the project is embedded within the draft local plan and sets out our expectations and contributions towards the delivery of the scheme from those developers but that will need a continued Focus as we move forward our Focus remains overall at a strategic level on protecting the existing homes

At business and and businesses currently at risk from flooding from the river Aven both now and in a forward projection and also making sure those defenses work all year around not just when the river is in flood we know that when we design these defenses we can

Enhance public space in some of the areas of our city center which are most deprived of green spaces and create better access to the river enhance Our Heritage and improve the transport connections I’ll pause there I look forward to the discussion thanks Greg thanks Nicola uh on this report we have

Received three public forum statements the first is from Ron Curtis I don’t think Ron is here second is from Martin rans I don’t believe Martin is here uh and next name is from Hayden Gil Hayden you have one minute Fab um just to say Obviously year ago I

Made a statement on parking permits um thanks Council Alexander for sort of taking that on board um moving on to flood defenses I’d like to thank the uh the absent mayor for finally making feeder Road safer um half the road now floods when it rains slowing drivers

Down as they give way to oncoming traffic I’m thanking the mayor as he uh flew across the world to talk about climate change the flights made climate change worse making making rain worse creating this traffic calming flood on feda road which weirdly makes it safer so without spending a penny of council

Money and making climate change worse he got stuff done a poem to an end there is still a mayor of Bristol three months until he go gos he flew Long Hall leading to worse rainfall and feder road is now one big puddle thank you uh there were then two questions the

First is also from Hayden Gail um so yeah first question um is just councelor Beach um so obviously we’re building flood defenses um due to the impacts of climate change and fossil fuel companies have impacted hugely to our climate and they’re basically the biggest contributors will Bristol honor

Their contribution to flooding and name the flood defenses after British Petroleum or Royal Dutch Shell um this will put Brit Bristol on the international stage newspapers will love it um and it will definitely make a bit of a statement for fossil fuel companies I mean as the previous Cabinet member

For climate and the current Cabinet member for flood resilience and strategic planning I’d like you to name it the Nicola Beach flood defenses but I suppose I’m going to have to wait for others in the chamber to make that decision I’m afraid Hayden thank you do have a supplementary

Question um we can go straight to question two thank you um and then again um going back to my favorite feeder Road um so obviously it gets flooded regularly even though in the report it says it’ll be flooded um in a severe flood um reported to the council December last year and January

This year um and I’ve been told they’ll have to deal with it as Future Works in the in the area will I have to wait until these 2029 Works um for flooding issues to be fixed or is there a better faster way of getting feeder Road actually used usable for

People I mean this is a highways question rather than a strategic flood RIS question but obviously as part of my brief shared with Don every year we see increased rainfall across the city and we see the constant challenge of Highways protection of course ironically one of the challenges on feda road is

The number of trees and vegetation on the side of the feder canal so you’ve always got these clashes between one in a nature Rich City and also one in the city that drains well I get case workk like this all the time Hayden I use speed the road a lot myself we’ll

Continue to get that looked at and fixed but you know we we see extreme storm events continuing our way I think it’s going to be a constant Challenge on highways when Don brings papers around highways budgets and spend on things like day-to-day maintenance just think

About the feed of Road and come and say you think it’s a great idea do you have a supplementary question thank you the next is from councelor mallister uh thank you very much uh and yeah I welcome the flood strategy it’s an essential piece of work uh I did

Notice in some of the papers what looked to me to be inconsistencies in some of the uh tons of CO2 equivalent uh that would be produced or U mitigated by this proposal so I was wondering if we could get some clarification of which figures are accurate please and I would also

Like to ask if the assessments and appraisals that these figures are all based on could be made available yeah of course um so it’s a good catch think it’s fair to say I’m not sure what your background is Patrick but when you’re moving from kind of an

Outline business case to a full business case is kind of a constraining process that happens as you learn more about the imple the solution and how you’re going to implement it I think the initial projection of 1.54 million tons of carbon was an Wild overestimation As We Now start to look

At constraining that plan so the number that you can see there 55,000 tons of CO2 that is in the is in the report is the accurate report at the point we’re in now as we submit that outline business case you will see that progress as it’ be interesting to see how that

Shows up when we do our planning applications and the individual interventions come through so I’d keep an eye on it but that is as the number that’s there is been robustly tested and as part of this um consideration is the number that you should focus

On thank you very much and I was yeah would the um would the assessments and appraisals be able to be made available please sorry Patrick say that again um are the um the process but C can the uh appraisals and the assessments by which we arrived at these figures be made

Available this this largely personal interest to be honest um I think associate I’m looking at John as one of the key officers I don’t think there’s any reason why you couldn’t have access particularly for the um as I say for the outline sorry for the full business case

That’s coming today um I’m more than happy to connect you with that and get you a briefing on it it’s not a problem thank you very much thank you do any cabinet members want to comment yeah Tom um just to say it’s brilliant to see this piece of work coming forward it’s

Hugely important for existing homes um never mind the homes we also want to to build and bring forward um in the future and it’s usually crucial so I think just um really pleased to see us come for so thank you to you and and the officers

Who’ve worked very hard for a very long time uh to get it to this point thank you Tom uh I’ll now hand back to councelor beach take the decision which I support and will now be displayed on the screen thanks Craig um in terms of the decision to be made

Today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report next up agenda item 16 multi-story car park pay on foot contract than Don Alexander over to you thank you this is a riveting one uh to seek approval to Tender for the installation and maintenance of new

Pay on foot equipment at Tren charge Street and West End multi-story car Parks uh an estimated contract value of up to 1 million pounds for anyone who’s not aware of what pay on foot equipment is uh that’s the entry exit barriers pay stations and the back office software uh to manage the

Systems thank you thanks Don and surprisingly we’ve got no public forum statements or questions on this one do any cabinet members want to comment no in which case I’ll hand back to Don State decision which I support I’m now be displayed on the screen thank you in which case I will I’ve suddenly

Lost my script again apologies in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report thanks Don on to agenda item 17 the mission Net Zero project delivery innovate pathfind replaces program phase two short and snappy title I’ll ask councelor Marley Bennett to introduce

This report thanks Craig the climate emergency calls for transformative action not just incremental change we felt that a mission approach was just what was needed taking a challenge and working together on it with Partners all focused on one objective a mission approach famously put people on the moon

And is increasingly be being used in Innovation from tackling climate change to developing new treatments for cancer hence the name of this this project Mission Net Zero and we are proud to be one of the only two cities in the UK involved in this EU funded Pro program

This project has secured funding from innovate UK to test Innovative you new approaches and collaboration is key to climate action and one of the key principles of our one city climate strategy the project represents a collaboration within Bristol but also with C with cities and towns across the

UK and Europe and it’s been built on the work that the city council and partners have done over recent years so I’d like to put on record my thanks for the officers involved in putting this bid and also for councelor Kai dud who has been key to many of these initiatives

And to the development of the current bid to innovate UK this project will work with three communities to test an approach putting Community priorities at the heart of climate change action it will work with businesses in the Bristol area to help them grow create new Greener jobs and

Provide training which will help more people in Bristol benefit from climate action it will work with investors public and private to accelerate investment in projects in Bristol tackling climate change and we’ll work with our neighboring councils and the combined authority to maximize the generation and use of clean energy in

Bristol and across the whole of the west of England this project comes on top of existing initiatives such as the community climate Action Project run by Bristol Queen green Capital Partnership and the 1.5 million Bristol City leap Community energy fund that is funding community-led projects through a combination of Grants and Loans the

Project Consortium will be starting work next week to deliver the project and one of the first steps with which our partners the center for sustainable energy will be doing is to share information about the project of communities around the city and inviting them to participate later on in this

Meeting I look forward to introducing the just just transition paper this project is an excellent example of putting the principles of the just transition into practice great thanks Marley uh on this report we’ve received no public forum statements or questions do any cabinet members want to comment

K yeah thank thanks Marley thanks Craig yeah I just wanted to um also thank uh the officers for their their hard work on this um uh the team led by Alex Mell has been really successful this year and um um uh gaining grant funding in very

Competitive bids so I think that was um more than about 10 uh biders for this particular part of money and in the end it was just two bids that that won and we part of that and this is on top of the the money that we were successfully

Granted by the EU which is quite amazing really even though we’re not a member anymore that we still winning uh winning bids um and I think the good thing about this is what he’s looking to do is the the ground work to deliver more investment so the work with wer about

Looking across the region about where where poten potential um projects could go like wind turbines solar panels things things like that across the west of England but also with the community climate um Investments plans that hopefully will come out of this process um I think um Lawrence Weston is a good

Example where you had an idea from a community that managed to attract investment and now now they’ve got um the largest wind turbine in England they’re generating money for that Community is about trying to expand that approach across the communities that have carried out th those those plans um

And getting some of the ideas that they have investment ready so they can so they can deliver on the opportunities that that are out there um and also there’s a focus on the supply chain and skills development so we can really take advantage of um the investment that will come and there’s a

Lot of investment coming to Bristol and making sure local people benefit from the the new jobs that are coming down the line thanks Kai any other cabinet members want to comment no in which case I’ll hand back to you Mary to take the decision which I

Support and we now be displayed on the screen thanks Craig in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report thank you very much agenda item 18 cemetery and crematorium Capital program Cy Bristol Cemetery expansion I will ask councelor Edie King to introduce this

Report thank you this paper brings forward the capital investment of 2.4 million needed to deliver the South Bristol cemeter expansion which was recently approved in November of last year at development committee B the council has a responsibility to provide sufficient burial provision in the city and these proposals will ensure we have enough

Plots for the next 25 to 30 years these plans have been developed with stakeholders from equalities groups to ensure that we meet the cultural and religious needs of our diverse communities this also includes new provision for baby burials and we’ll also work to ensure the quality of the

Muslim burial area is brought up to a high standard South Bristol cemetery is the only Cemetery in Bristol which still has the capacity to accept new burials it’s Council owned land and since the 60s it was designated longterm for this purpose the expansion will take place in two

Phases in order to ensure the cattle grazing from utree Farm can continue to do so with minimal disruption with a net reduction of just 4% of the grazing space in the first phase of development as part of the Coles Brook snci ex extensive ecological surveys have been conducted to assess the status

Of the snci and opportunities to enhance important elements have been ident identified for example species Rich grassland restoration by managing the scrub encroachment no development work of significance will take place until the 30-year land Environmental Management plan has been completed as per the planning application stipulation which

Will be done this spring and will and this will involve stakeholder engagement as has every stage of this process I want to acknowledge the strong feelings and opinions expressed about this expansion which there always is when there are competing priorities for land use and which is understandable when considerable changes AFF fo

Sustainable food production continues to be a priority for this Administration clearly demonstrable in the huge amount of collaborative work we’ve done in this area however like DCB I am satisfied that the council has been and continues to work hard to accommodate the needs of the farm and of the snci whilst ensuring

We fulfill our responsibilities with regards to burial provision and I hope that going forward all will engage constructively to ensure we meet the needs of this multi functioning and very special space thank you thank you Alie uh on to public forum statements and questions we have two public forum

Statements the first is from Mark ashin I don’t think Mark is here no the second is from Katherine Withers who is also not here no uh turning to questions there were two public forum questions submitted they’re both from councelor Annie Stafford townend who is here hello welcome please ask your first question

Thank you very much Craig um okay so I’ve had a lot of uh uh contact from uh the Muslim Community concerned about the graves in the Muslim plot and the flooding that is happening there there have been some work to prevent the flooding some pipe work have

Been put in um but I’m told that that drainage has failed and it’s not achieving what it was set out to do so I’m just wondering what work could be carried out at the cemetery to prevent that from being an ongoing issue thank you thanks interest in this

Um so there’s two com there’s two problems with with the Muslim burial area and I think it’s important to say that there’s been a long-standing uh Muslim burial group um who we’ve been Consulting with and continue to work quite closely with and we’ve also had U representations from most of Bristol’s

Mosques up there to talk to about the issue as well um so yeah there’s there are significant drainage issues at the site um at the start of 23 we’re 2024 now at start of 2023 um drainage Works were carried out um and completed um which have been effective in managing

The surface water but however the graves grave subsidence has meant surface water inevitably is collected in the lower areas of depressions where above the graves um and the graves have been collapsing um due to the degradation of the timber that’s used but since then since August of last year there’s now

Been a different um stipulation in the materials and the construction Ive elements that are used to make um uh new Graves so that shouldn’t be an issue for any future grave collapsing um during rest of 2024 we will complete the scheme of burial remediation and um return the Muslim

Burial area to the same standard as the rest of the site um so yeah the the timetable of which um will be weather dependent and also as it’s quite sensitive issue it’ll be about discussing that with the families to make sure that they’re comfortable and happy with um with the

Work that needs to be done and just making sure we take them with us and that they’re very much using the Muslim burial group as a as a way to consult those people as well just to make sure it’s it’s done with everyone’s well-being in mind that’s great thank

You very much um yes I’ve been informed that the pipe work that’s been put in has become blocked already so I don’t know if that’s something that you’re aware of of um something to chase up if you’re not quite sure um I was wondering why this particular issue wasn’t

Included in the strategy documents for the crematorium or in the papers for this cabinet meeting it is referenced in the paper for the cabinet meeting it talks about that as part of the capital money that this paper will bring through that work will be done that’s how it’s going to

Get financed so it is referenced in the paper good so my second question is um is the council footing the bill for this so you’re saying presumably that you are throughout this yep yeah the council will be footing the entire bill for this and making sure that that works done and

And done well this year um and regardless of when this work’s done we’d still run out of space for Muslim burials so um it’s an issue that we need to take very seriously and that’s why South Bristol expansion needs new additional plots and you know it’s a view that I

Hope that other members appreciate and understand and that’s one of the key reasons we need to the expansion thank you yeah um my concern right now is the existing burial plots but I’m sure that the community will be very relieved by your answers thank you very

Much thank you thank you uh do any cabinet members wish to comment no okay in which case I’ll hand back to Ellie to take the decision which I support when I be displayed on the screen um yeah sorry I well just for a quick point you know there was a

Statement to development committee that asked for this to be approved because it would provide more provision for Muslim burials so that that you know that is it’s not just about now it’s about the future and that’s what this paper sees seeks to look to um but in terms of the

Decision to be made today I approve the recommendation as set out in the report thank you Ellie uh on to agenda item 19 the lease holder of residential property insurance for 20124 25 exciting title is obviously for me uh this the report seeks to procure and award Insurance arrangements for our

Leas hold and right to buy scheme almost 2,000 flats and houses for a year and the render in the year after the overall cost of insurance cover has increased because of property valuations change in valuation approach and more properties added to the portfolio in the previous Insurance period the most recent

Valuation indicated an upward movement increasing the valuation from 280 to 480 million is ant it is anticipated that given the current trends insurance premiums are likely to increase further the market for this insurance type is currently challenging with very few suppliers providing this insurance cover currently due to the withdrawal of our

Principal suppliers zor from residential leaseholder Market excuse me in 2023 the market options have been limited so interm Arrangements have been pursued to enable cover we anticipate that the market will improve so that we can conduct a full t in 2026 on this report we’ve received no public form statements or questions any

Cabinet members want to comment no okay uh in which case I will now take the decision which will be displayed on screen in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations I set out in the report agenda item 20 procurement of financial systems including The

Council’s Ledger and ancillary payment system put simply The Proposal involves the procurement and implementation of a new 5-year service agreement for the hosting and support of our current Financial Ledger and Main accounting system The Ledger is a software tool for recording and Reporting Financial transactions and balances a second

Proposal involves procuring a new contract for the council’s current payment system because the current contract expires on the 31st of the 3rd 2024 the aim is to ensure seamless uninterrupted use of The Ledger and to have continued payment functionality in place at all times both these proposals will support our corporate strategy

Principle of good governance helping us to Be an Effective development organization by enabling responsible financial management as ever procurement rules and public contract regulations 2015 must be followed in relation to the procurement process for the new contract underlines how important it is to have a functioning back office program to

Support our processes but also expert professionals to make sure we Source procure and use these systems in the most cost-effective way I recommend it to Cabinet today we’ve had no public forum statements or questions on this one do any cabinet members want to comment no not on the render of The

Ledger no okay fine uh I will I take the decision which will be displayed on the screen in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations are set out in the report agenda item 21 housing revenue account budget proposals 2024 25 I will

Introduce this report this is the ring fence housing revenue account budget there are significant external pressures and investment commitments affecting the 2024 budget the medium-term financial plan and a 30-year business plan the plan allows us to invest in our existing homes energy Improvement of our existing

Homes spend up to spend 100 million up to 23 20 2030 2031 to get homes up to EPC standard c new health and safety regulation focus on damp and mold and new consumer standards and proactive regulation increasing investment in existing homes spend of 258 million over the next 10

Years in landlord compliance related capital and revenue programs in terms of new homes we’re increasing C housing program to 3,082 over the next 5 years to respond to the housing crisis and high level of spend on temporary accommodation this report proposes a 7.7% increase in rent and service

Changes um as at September CPI plus 1% in line with government rent standard to support residents in hardship a hardship fund of £500,000 is included in each year of the business plan for 2425 Council dud has ensure 350,000 is set aside for residents access in the local Crisis Prevention fund with the

Remainder set aside for other schemes this will include a newly introduced cladding removal support scheme to support residents affected by increased energy bills resulting from the removal of eps cladin whil it was replaced with an a-rated cladin system on this report we’ve had no public form statements we’ve had three

Public form questions submitted between two people the first is from katcher counc kater horon welcome please ask your question thank you for that and thank you for the news about the 350 set aside for residents accessing local Crisis Prevention as you know councelor rinon and I have been campaing on behalf

Of Gilton house uh for them to receive some money for financial support for the delays to their repairs as these delays have meant that they’ve had very cold and damp Flats um without insulation driving up their heating bills which they’re very concerned about the question is can you please confirm that

Gilton house residents will be eligible for this financial support yeah thanks catcher I mean without prejudicing the CRI uh the criteria we would expect to get on house residents to be likely to be eligible for the fund um eligibility and further guidance on accessing the fund will be made available shortly

Subject to the 2024 25 budget being approved by full Cil I’m very happy to hear that and the other only thing is just that we make sure that it’s done in a few month in a short space of time because these are people that don’t have

Access to huge savings to pay for things yeah thank you absolutely understood as soon as the budget’s approved by for Council we’ll be able to act on it uh the next two questions are from councelor Tim rippington Tim thanks cig um yeah I welcome the 210 um ,000 being set aside for an

Enhanced damp and mold task force building on our work bringing homes up to a decent standard um please could you provide more details on this task force and how it will work thanks Kai did you want to answer that one yeah I’m I’m

Happy to uh do this one to him so in um in the proposal 2023 24 we’ll be uh we’ve been tring a winter task for force made up of existing staff to respond to damper mold in residents home and and reported primary through the um new web uh web form and the additional

£210,000 uh of money is going to be used to um uh bring in more staff to deal to deal with the issue so um this is what we’re going to do so we’ve got a dedicated uh team manager that’s going to focus on this and um two technical officers that will

Support support the approach but also we’re going to dedicate um some of our in-house trades to obviously dealing and tackling the problem including uh painters plumbers and electricians so that’s what the additional 210,000 will will be um useful for for next year do you have a supplementary

Tim um yeah thanks k um I think there probably problems with damp and mold in Gilton house as well um as the heating issues so um will this task force be able to look into them yeah I mean more with because obviously um it was you know we’re well

Well aware of the issues with guilt and house and obviously we’ve had statements um in in this chamber before from residents there so I mean it was an issue that we’re very keen to try and resolve and obviously we we’ve made sure there’s some money in the the budget

That we hopefully will be used for the Kil and house residents once we’ve once we’ve nailed down the details of how that particular scheme but more generally in terms of our compliance with um I mean there’s a number of we call them the big six in terms of Regulatory Compliance so electrical

Safety fire safety building structure structural safety damp and mold is one of those big big six so we’re you know very much on top of that across across the estate and obviously if there are particular issues at guilt and now that we’re we’re not aware of I’m sure the

Team are the the issues but if we’re not aware of them then let me know and I’ll make sure uh the team deal with that and they’re more than happy to go out and inspect uh properties and flats where they’re um their problems so if there

Are issues that we don’t know about I’m I’m happy to make sure that those inspections take place thanks Tim you got your second question which I think it’s for Tom yeah um I’m also welcoming the proposal to increase the pipeline of new Council homes um 3,000 homers over the next 5

Years uh could the cabinet member of housing delivery share more details about these plans uh yeah thank you Council for I’m really excited um about the proposals it’s been a significant amount of work to look at what the art of the possible was within the housing revenue account

Which obviously a ring fenced fund but one which um doesn’t have the same constraints as the general fund around the ability to borrow um particularly when it comes to building more counter homes or or also Acquisitions and um that’s what we’re going to see so we’re obviously looking to build more homes

Ourselves um through Direct Delivery within the council we’re looking to acquire more units from gorm homes as well that our Council housing company it’s bringing forward on one particular proposal I I’ll I’ll note is is obviously subject to planning um but Baltic Warf we proposing should come

Forward as a 100% Council housing scheme um you know why shouldn’t Council tenants be able to live in nice homes along the Waterfront um as well as other areas of the city on top of that there is um and this has been the big change um is there’s an extensive Acquisitions

Program in there which is going to focus on Street Properties as well as other new build opportunities that might appear um and what what that’s going to look at it’s going to look at X right to buy properties but not exclusively X right to buy properties we look at other

Opportunities in the market and we’ve produced a set of criteria that will further review to look at the types of properties because what we’ll do is we’ll bring in a managing agent to act as a One-Stop shop to AC acquire those properties for us rather than trying you

Know putting further pressure on an already stretched legal department uh for example um so those are some of the plans that that we’re looking at and what we hope is that that will one increase the supply of council housing Mo a lot of that will be for social rent

There’ll be some shared ownership to make sure things stack and but that means we can help to address the housing crisis get more people out of temporary accommodation in what is a worsening situation uh for us you know locally and also nationally so you know I’ve really

Excited about sort of the extent of the plans and we are balancing that with making sure we’re investing in the existing stock as well as has been set out um in the paper so really trying to do everything that that we can to give existing Council ten it’s decent homes

Make sure we can get more Council homes and a r a council housing Renaissance which we’ve not seen in Generations thanks Tim do you have a supplementary yeah can I just um clarify that Tom in with the um X right to buy properties that we’re looking to buy back some of some of those that have gone into the private sector because we know that an enormous amount amount of

Ex-council housing has gone into the um sort of renting sector so we’re we’re now looking to buy some of that back if we can yeah I mean I think it’s four in 10 um former Council House properties have ended up in the private rented sector um so we’ll be looking at

Opportunities and also what we’ve see both me and Council have discussed this before is you you go on right move and another place and you’ll see you know ex Council properties on there and you know we should we should be getting in there to to secure those properties back we’ve

Got a housing crisis and no need to increase our stock by any way we can um the Acquisitions program may take a while to scale up so we’ve sort of got slightly Peg back expectations um in year once it’s a slightly lower number because the other thing we are doing is

Creating a a land acquisition fund as well for other potential opportunities that there might be um to bring sites forward for Council Herms thanks Tom uh do any other cabinet members wish to comment on this paper K yeah just uh I mean I’ve got some general comments but in terms of that um

Buyb of um X right right to buy properties um yeah I think that you know if you go if you go if you go on right move now you’ll probably see about 10 15 x h properties all available for under under 200 Grand some of them are cash

Buyers only um because they’ve got short leases and we’re normally um in terms of the flats they’re normally in our blocks we’re the free holder um we’re going in doing the maintenance any anyway so it kind of makes sense that we we try and buy them I think there’s there’s always

Been an ambition to do that but it’s really lack Focus what we’re doing with the the budget is making sure there’s proper allocated resource to go and do that in a systematic way and it’s probably the cheapest form of housing we can actually we can actually buy back

And bring back into use so I I was very keen on that um and the other thing with the the budget here in terms of what I’m responsible for so very clear um focus on compliance making short as I said before with the big six so if you look

At what we’re spending over 10 years it’s 28 um million on all the compliance issues that we that we have to deal with including the high-profile one fire safety for example with our sprinklers uh program and fire alarms program which is very and and fire door doors program actually which gets less

Less attention and we’ve also got an 83 million pound bathroom replacement which I think is would be welcomed by by many of our tenants because that you know that’s not been dealt with for for years and also the damp and mold as I as I mentioned and also making sure we get um

All our properties up to an EPCC standard in terms of Energy Efficiency by 2030 that’ll be challenging because we we do rely on um grant funding from government to bridge the gap but we’re hoping with a change of government we already you know seen a 28 million pound

A billion pound a year commitment from Ed millerand we hope to get some of that that money in to deal with some of the social housing um um Energy Efficiency issues and of course we’ve got this some 500,000 hardship fund that you know we can deal with many of the issues that

You’ve brought to us today with so yeah really support the budget this year thanks Kai any other cabinet members want to comment no okay uh in which case I’ll take the decision which will now be displayed on screen in terms of of the decision to be made today I

Approve the recommendations as set out in the report agenda item 22 dedicated schools Grant budget proposals 2024 25 I’ll introduce this one the dedicated schools Grant is the ring Fen Grant from government for funding schools and services for pupils this report outlines the four blocks of the DSG the proposed

Use of the DSG and how Associated grants are to be applied during 20242 the DSG is calculated based on four funding blocks the schools block the high needs block the Central Services block and early years the overall headline increases in the 20242 DSG is 28.8 million given a total DSG of

4917 schools Forum has some responsibility to determine a small number of specific budgets and the decis and the decisions on the amount of funding to distribute to schools in early year settings the distribution mechanisms the proposed spend on Central Services and the high kns budgets are matters to be determined by the council

The Bristol scores Forum of been consulted on the use of the DSG and school funding regulations limit the scope for how this funding may be used following consultation with schools the schools Forum agreed the following principles for 2024 25 funding formula the transfer of 0.5% of the schools

Block to the high needs block 2 million top slice of schools block to create the growth fund for 20242 the minimum funding guarantee to be set at % the lump sum to be maximized at 139,140 for both primary and secondary and any remaining funding directed to the additional educational needs factors

Schools Forum agreed to the transfer of nor .5% of the schools blocked to the high needs block at his meeting in November 2023 and the fund needs to be earmarked to support the demand in high needs please note that this is the maximum threshold in any amount Beyond

0.5% would require a secretary of state approval we’ve had no public form statement or questions on this one any cabinet members want to comment a sure yeah just a quick comment I was at the meeting of the schools Forum where um this um they had quite a lengthy

Discussion on this but um um you know they were really confident and supportive of the proposals that were set out so I uh yeah I commend this to you know to I commend this to the schools Forum uh for the work that they did because obviously we had quite a

Lengthy consultation period with them over this and yeah they understand the challenges and went ahead and supported our proposals so thank you thank you great thanks Asher anyone else want to comment no in which case I’ll take the decision which will now be displayed on the screen in terms of the decision to

Be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report agenda item 2023 sorry 20242 budget recommendations and treasury management strategy for eight years running we have tabled a balanced budget meeting that challenge should not be underestimated and while we’ve seen other authorities declare Bank sorry while we’ve seen other authorities

Declare bankr bankruptcy and seek support we’ve been able to balance our budget whilst keeping open all our libraries all our children’s centers and deliver on our promises to the city the budget report Builds on the medium-term financial plan and capital strategy as approved at full Council on the 31st of

October 23 it incorporates decisions relating to the revenue for the 5-year time frame 2425 to 2829 and to capital for the 10-year time frame 2425 through to 20 2033 34 it also sets out the treasury management strategy where appropriate public consultation and equality impact assessments have been undertaken in relation to the budget

Proposals consider and feedback from that process has been taken into account in making these final proposals this report puts forward a general fund net revenue budget for 2425 of 5254 million headline recommendations include a 4.99% increase in council tax for 2425 of which 2% is for the adult social care precept after the

Application of council tax additional same as of 24 million in 2425 rising to 25.7 Million by the close of 2829 our osed and in order to smooth the most significant impact of the business rate review in 2026 27 and 27 28 the temporary support of one-off ccil reserves is also planned these planning

Assumptions combined deliver an annual balance position across the 5-year budget time frame the public health Grant is a ring Fen account intended for use on public health functions it operates on a principle of self-funding so that it seeks to contain additional costs and any new burdens its indicative

Allocation for 2425 is expected to be 36.2 million the capital program budget for 2425 to 20 3334 covers the general fund and the HRA the total combined budget for the 10-year time frame is 2.7 million billion the proposed treasury management strategy incorporates the minimum Revenue policy and credential indicators

And limits finally this report also includes a request for supplementary estimate for the children and education directorate following its quarter 3 period 8 forast in year of 18.5 million pressure so cabinet is asked to recommend to full Council for approval the council tax increase of 4.99% including 2% for social care noting the

Precepts of the police and crime commissioner Raven suers and the A Fire Authority the changes to council tax for empty homes and for second homes the general fund fiveyear net revenue budget which is 5254 million and expenditure allocations as set out in appendix one the capital program for 2425 through to 20

3334 the Strategic Community infrastructure Levy allocations the treasury management M strategy the strategy for flexible use of capital receipts and finally the children education supplementary estimate on this report we’ve received one public forum statement which is from Bristol disability equalities Forum David Rell David you have one

Minute let’s be clear what we are we’re an equalities Forum we we deal with some of the most poorest and dis um distest people in the city and Bristol and in the city region so I think it’s tonight I just want to raise the point again about the need we can’t have communities

And if AG mashton Val were here tonight they were at wer yesterday at the scrutiny on Monday sorry um raising the point about having no public bus services in places like um stapon in places like uh hillfields in places like um parts of brislington St ANS the workingclass suburbs of this city have

No public bus services this Authority and labor Le labor controlled uh west of Inland M combined Authority have a duty to look at providing those Services unfortunately the mayor who I support Dan Norris does not have precepting powers so he’s very reliant on the uh three unry authorities Plus North

Somerset to um pass a transport Levy to that Authority that is fixed at the moment of 10 about 10 million it’s not enough to fund those services or put them back even with working with the bip which I agree with councelor Don Alexander we should do so again I’m

Going to appeal to you tonight on behalf of the most most poorest communities in this city the people who can’t afford taxes who can’t afford to go and get food shopping who really really are pushing you to look at what you do with that Cas money and provide some of it to

The Metro May so we can restore public bus services so people can move around the city what over a minute now David over minute was this and that will say we’ve got revenue coming in from bus shelters and maintenance but uh Deputy Mayor they are not maintaining cleaning

Or repairing the stops and the shelters and making Community safety issues without lighting and I’d ask that issue to be looked at joint wer and Bristol but I do ask the bus services to bek you DAV thank you for your thank you uh we also had two public forum questions they

Were from councelor Steve Paris by Craig councelor Pier is unwell unfortunately but um I can read them out if if if that’s um we’ll provide written responses it’s fine thank you um do any cabinet members want to comment Tom thank you and first my thanks to you

And also to the finance team who do an incredible amount of work um to pull this together every year and it’s no easy task um I was at an emergency meeting of council leaders earlier today um sort of focused on homelessness and temporary accommodation pressure are then obviously the only budgetary

Pressures I’m sure the cabinet members um um know inside out that they’ve had to to contend with um and I think you know it’s a testament to this Council that we are managing to set a five-year budget it’s not without its risks it’s not without its challenges there are

Councils all over the country either serving section 114 notices or on the verge and there are councils R by all political pers equs of administration this isn’t an issue specific to one kind of political party type of um local government Authority what what we do have in common um is we’ve got a

National Tory government which is presiding over an increasing number of local authorities on the verge of going bust and a current Gap of4 billion pound nationally um in local government Finance um that must be addressed um if we’re really going to be able to grip

Some of these issues um I just find it fascinating that when we talk about local housing allowance rates which are going back up to 30th percentile um from April really welcomed but it’s oneof and temporary accommodation and what the subsidy loss we can recover as a council

Was frozen at 2011 rates and which is just obscene and it means you know last year we lost over 11 million pounds in in subsidy loss um that is funding you know that could be going to other services that you know could be bolster our library service or or other

Provisions so you know it’s a hugely challenging time for us and hopefully local government will get a fair funding settlement than the one that’s currently on offer on the table yeah thanks Tom Maser yeah I just wanted to highlight the fact that you know the continuing pressures that we

Are facing in children and education and I go back to the point I was making being at the mercy of the market we are seeing the um level of need uh of children in care um rise exponentially and um we we are doing everything we possibly can to increase the number of

Kind of Foster carees and hence why the Lo Le development is so uh important but we’re not necessarily going to build our way out out of this and I think Bristol isn’t alone um in this situation so um yeah how we manage that will we have to look to government and obviously the

Conversations that are being had with other local authorities across uh the the country on how we uh avoid I I Testament to the finance team to the senior leadership team to your leadership on bringing us to a point where we can present a balanced budget

But it it’s it’s no mean it’s no mean feet and um I want to um give a special shout out to our section 141 officer and I know we’re not allowed to but I’m going to name her Denise Murray she has been Stella over the last seven years um

Helping us um steer and navigate our financial um Financial finances here in the organization so thanks yeah thanks Asher anyone else want to comment I mean 70% of the council’s budget now Goes On Demand L Services once you take out kind of 10% for Capital financing that leaves

20% of our budget to spend on everything that the city thinks the council does beyond deliver and social care really and that is you know that was it was probably 60% 14 years ago so it’s hu people you cannot underestimate how phenomenal scale that challenge is for couns to

Continue to deliver libraries Parks street lights burial plots everything that people would expect from the council bin bin collection across the city whilst losing such a significant amount of funding um and what that means what that means for the council and like you massive than do in for kind of

Balancing the books through this time I would also add as well I think for me uh and it’s all always a conversation that you know me myself in Helen had when it comes to adult and Children Services no one’s ever sitting in the gallery no one’s ever asking any questions no one

That is ever trying to help us find a solution everybody wants to kind of you know throw dirt in our Direction but we’re not you know we can’t stop the need if a child is presented we have to provide uh placement support whatever that costs and that costs seeing us with

An18 million overspend um and we have to get we have to manage that uh and I know that there are some eye watering figures in other local authorities so you know as I said I’m grateful uh that our finance team has been able to help us

Balance the books and and and not go off piece like some of local authorities in the country yeah thanks aser Helen well just to add to what Asher has said I mean what we’ve seen over the time that I’ve had this portfolio is that there’s been um an increase in the

Proportion of the council’s spend that’s gone on adults and there obviously been a a an increase as well in the number of people that we serve although in fact the number of people that we serve are per head we’re a we’re we’re able to reduce that figure by the transformation

Work that we’ve done and to thank again the finance team and the support that we’ve had for the transformation program I think sometimes in the past people have been a bit skeptical about what’s been delivered through through previous transformation programs but this one we get the feeling that it’s it’s really

Corporately owned and we’re working together with housing as well obviously with children’s services for those um transition from Children Services to to Adult Services and um you know we recognize that that’s been hard decisions in in some of the other departments and we don’t want to reduce

To just being a children’s and statutory services provider because we recognize that work in communities work in housing as I’ve said work in transport all of those things are are what keep people well in their own communities and that’s what that’s what we want so um it’s it’s

Been a real hard SLO but we do appreciate the support we’ve had across the piece this time I mean every graph effectively plots a point at which social care cost out strip Council budgets entirely and there is no capacity left to deal with anything else so government at some

Point very soon has to Gras the n on this or I I don’t know where we go it’s an era of defining problem and one that we’re just not dealing with at the moment there was an interesting debate on Radio 4 today actually about um you

Know how how do we fund this problem and is there a private sector solution and the answer seem to be no there’s no insurance company is going to set up a some kind of bond for your you know your care um so it ni to be a National Insurance

Solution thank you does anyone else want to comment da yeah just um to remind the seven years of keeping the council tax reduction scheme going and that’s been an annual and sometimes challenging discussion but I’m very grateful to you Craig and to the mayor and to everyone

Who’s um contributed in the right spirit a very difficult discussion discussion and certainly for the people of my world come out with the the right result so thank you thank thanks Don so after that any more cabinet members want to comment no I just put on record my

Thanks to Denise and the and the finance team um obviously Denise has been with us for the past seven years and has really steered this stirred us through this unbelievably difficult situation that that we are all in and and you look around the country and you see you know

We are in a better position than than the majority um and that is Testament to the one that Denise and her team have done in terms of the decisions to be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report agenda item 24 almost as exciting

As the budget the courtly to Performance progress report uh this report and appendices provide the relevant performance measures from the business plan 2324 as approved by cabinet in March and as approved will be a margin noted by cabinet in April 2023 understanding whether BCC is delivering the priority outcomes for the

Citizens and city as outlined in the annual business plan will ensure organiz organizational efforts can be focused on benefit realization four themes are on schedule for quarter two but with three themes n rated as behind schedule 83% of all business plan actions are currently on track 44% of all business plan

Priority measures are on or better than Target and 53% of All City outcome measures are on or better than Target I’m sure cabinet have read this so um we’re asked just to note the the summary reports and overall performance progress and the measures to address Performance issues to be implemented by the relevant

Services uh we’ve received no public form statements or questions on this do any cabinet members want to comment no okay in which case I will not take the decision which will now be displayed on the screen in terms of the decisions be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the

Report agenda item 25 corporate risk management report quarter 323 24 risk management aims to maximize achievement of the council’s aims and objectives by reducing the risk to those achievements and maximizing possible opportunities that arrive the corporate risk register sets out the critical significant and high rated threats and opportunity risks all other business

Risks reside on the service risk registers the report identifies one critical 25 high and five medium threat risks the details of these and the movement in opportunity and external risks are detailed in the report it also sets out how these are being managed and reduced again I’m sure cabinet have read

This and they’re asked to Just note the current strategic risks and mitigating actions being taken to reduce within tolerance again we’ve received no public forum statements or questions any cabinet members want to comment no in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations are set out in the

Report agenda item 26 Finance outturn report p8 or qu three the finance report for quarter 32324 constitutes a full detailed report on the council’s forecast revenue and capital position for the full year at quarter 3 the council is forecasting to deliver an overspend of 5.5 million at the fouryear against the approved

General fund budget of 4 83.5 million that’s a 1.1% overspend additional risks and opportunities which have the potential to impact the general fund are currently assessed as presenting awaited net risk of 0.6 million the forecast urn includes the planned delivery of 37.3 million of savings except where risk of

Non delivery has been included in the 0.6 million net risk or within forecast pressures with 30.4 5 million of savings considered safe the housing revenue account is forecasting a 0.2 million underspend at the full year against its approved budget any under or overspend will be balanced to H General Reserves

At the fouryear close the dedicated schools Grant is forecasting a mitigated 16.4 million 4year overspend against its 452 million budget this level of overspend will bring the dsg’s carry forward deficit at the close of 2324 to 56.1 million Public Health forecasts no variance to its ring fense annual budget of 35.7 million

The capital program forecasts variance at quarter three of 1.5 million underspend this variance represents a 2.3 million overspend on general fund capital investment and combines with a 3.8 million underspend on the HR Capital program the following decisions are requested firstly to accept and spend £170,000 six-month extension to the

Active travel capability and ambition fund secondly to apply for and thereafter draw down 600k feasibility and development funding from the safe restore deliverable neighborhood fund and to accept a further 670,000 of investment funding for the city region sustainable transport settlement program all three of which are granted by wer

Finally cabinet is asked to authorize the writer of 430,000 of previously approved budget savings initiatives on this report we’ve received no public form of statements or questions so any cabinet members want to comment no uh in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations

I set out in the report agenda item 27 Bristol’s just transition declaration I’ll ask councelor Marley Bennett to introduce this report thank you um so earlier we approved the mission zero at missionet zero paper which is a prime example of how we’re already suppor in the achievements of the just transition

Declaration principles and I want to thank the the citizens who have led on this work with the support of the US Embassy Kirsty Hammond from the heart of bs13 Emma G the disability climate Justice campaigner Rachel muat from Bristol energy Network and Olivia Sweeney a black and green Ambassador

Alumni this declaration Builds on our work since 2016 to deliver social and environmental justice handin hand we have invested more than 100 million in renewable energy and decarbonization secured Bristol City leap which plans on over 600 million pounds of investment into clean energy by 2028 creating a, jobs and cutting 150,000 tons of

Emissions and planting tens and of thousands of new trees and we have supported communities including ambition Lawrence Reston who have built the country’s biggest unsure win turbine power in their Community organization and thousands of homes this paper sets out further practical steps which we will take have endorsed the Declaration

Including ensuring the annual business plan and any new corporate strategy prioritize actions that will actively contribute towards the principles of Bristol’s just transition declaration it will consider in the Declaration in our climate and eological emergency action plans embed a just transition into all our projects and review our progress in

Two years time we recognize the importance of the Declaration but know that actions not words are what matter we will continue to secure further climate investment into our city and ensure that nobody is Left Behind as we keep tackling the environmental and ecological crisis thanks Marley um on this report

We’ve received no public forums statements or questions excuse me do any cabinet members wish to comment a sure yeah yeah I was just I was going through the report and I just wanted to Al um I think one of the things that the just transition this work actually does as

Well and um kudos to the four individuals who brought this work together um but it also helps towards the work that was done by the citizens assembly where we looked at how you know local residents were also asking about how uh we would they were going to

Address the the climate you know how local residents can help towards our our um goals around uh climate emergency so this is yet another kind of COG in that wheel to enable us to uh work with our citizens so that you’re absolutely right the transition is trust is is just but

We also need to make sure that we’re bringing those communities with us so well done to all involved yeah thank s sure I mean I think you probably said it Mar action speak later than words think in the end it’s beholding on us and the next Administration however that looks

To make sure that we deliver a transition to a to a a more carbon neutral economy but that that transition doesn’t leave huge slaves of the community behind which it could easily do if we’re not careful so um I think it’s a really important thing that we’re

Doing here and I’m proud that we’ve done this here in Bristol do any other cabinet members want to comment no which case oh Nicola just to build on asha’s comment of just commending um kind of bringing together for people who’ve got one big thing in common around actually working

In their communities and with their communities to actually try and Tackle something that is pretty overwhelming as a topic um and I think often in across the city north southeast west we all feel a bit overwhelmed by this Challenge and so I’m really proud of the way that as an Administration and

A council we we’re hearing that and we support that and really Empower individuals and uh organizations Charities across the city to Grapple with this issue alongside us rather than a tell it’s a kind of learn together and a develop so I’m really pleased thank you thanks

Nicola okay uh in which case I’ll hand back to you Mary take the decision which I support and will now be displayed on the screen thank you yeah working together isn’t always easy but to ensure something is going to be longterm and sustain stainable it’s the only approach

You have to take so i’ definitely Echo the thanks um um that you that you um made um in terms of the decision to be made today I approve the recommendations and as set out in the report thanks M and now finally agenda item 28 Barton House emergency

Evacuation I’ll ask councelor kid to introduce this report uh thank thank you Craig um just just to note that this decision’s already been taken under the uh the eer Mercy um provisions of the the council and councilors have already been notified of it um just in terms of the

Paper it seeks seeks to confirm the additional spend of 2.7 million adding to the um the existing spend so far of 2.6 million that was um authorized under previous decisions on on the Barton House evacuation so the total spend now is um £ 5.3 million and that includes supporting temporary accommodation needs

Um including the extension of the holiday in contract uh and for all the um remedial Works to Bon house to um enable the residents to return so I wanted to thank um the Barton House residents for their their patience and resilience that they’ve shown so far and

What’s been a very um difficult um situation and experience for them we met the residents on the 9th of January here to update them on the latest situation um the most recent surveys contractors have confirmed that the ties are in place and in good order to provide appropriate support but some additional

Fire proofing is needed to ensure that these tires can do their job effectively the latest latest investigation also confirms that the thickness of the concrete cover is generally good throughout the building and where the cover is at its finished there’s a layer of block work or cement in place adding

Additional um protection so we now have a a greater confidence in the building safety measures than we had in November however we obviously recognize that some work is needed to make the block um safe for residents to return um so we’ve already um started that work um and

We’re we’re in that phase at the moment and I was at at Barton house this afternoon inspecting those Works um so they include the installation of a new Central fire alarm system and introducing new fireproofing measure measures at key key locations around around the uh around the block so we

Also inform residents that we’re aiming for them to move back to Barton House by Friday the 23rd of February um which is obviously contingent on the um the works going to plan and I’m told you know that that progress is being uh you know well

Made at the moment so we expect that uh deadline or date to be to be met so um yeah um obviously just um updating you with that situation and obviously confirming the spend as well thank you yeah thanks K as you say all councel have been notified when that decision

Was taken under the emergency protocols already uh do any cabinet members want to comment no no in which case I’ll hand back to you Kai to take the decision which I support and will now be displayed on screen uh yeah thank you in terms of the

Decision to be made today I approve the recommendations as set out in the report thank you Kai and that is the end of today’s cabinet meeting thank you to everyone for attending um the date of the next cabinet meeting is the 6th of February 201 24 just a few weeks thanks all