Decisions

The Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration has agreed to an additional £1.409m being allocated for maintenance and improvement priorities following the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s autumn budget statement.

It was decided to allocate for work from the £1,409m for maintenance and improvement priorities to the following schemes:

Goyt Valley area cycle scheme £125,000
Woodford Roundabout (pedestrian access and lighting) £10,000
Newby Rd – Rutters Lane footpath £25,000
TOTAL £160,000

These schemes were selected as priorities for this type of work.

The Cabinet Member for Education has confirmed the following person to the governing board vacancy at the school indicated below.

Leighton Reed             Valley School

Lesley Geill                  Great Moor Junior

Andrew Frazer             Cheadle Primary

Cllr Christine Corris      Werneth School

The Council Meeting has approved and adopted the Youth Justice Plan 2018/19.

The Council Meeting has given approval to the following in respect of the Council Tax and Business rates Discounts and Exemptions:-

(1)       the Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) Top-up scheme be continued for the year 2019/20, enabling CASCs to achieve 100% relief from Non-Domestic Rates, provided they met the qualifying criteria at Appendix 2;

(2)       the Charity Relief remain limited to the 80% Mandatory Relief for the year 2019/20;

(3)       the Rural Rate Relief continue to be limited to 50% Mandatory Relief for the year 2019/20 and should any village shops be established in the future then additional discretionary relief should be awarded up to 100%;

(4)       Stockport’s scheme for Discretionary Business Rate Relief post revaluation be maintained for year three and calculated as 15% of the increase in rates payable;

(5)       the 50% discount and qualifying criteria for Not for Profit organisations be maintained for the year 2019/20;

(6)       the local scheme for large businesses which were new to the Borough or those undergoing significant expansion in the Borough be continued for 2019/20;

(7)       the continuation of a case by case approach for Business Rates discounts where exceptional circumstances exist be continued for 2019/20 (it was unlikely that Exceptional Circumstances Relief would be awarded to an organisation which was in receipt of support from the Council, either grant funded or commissioned);

(8)       the local Council Tax Discount scheme be amended to reduce discounts to nil for properties that were empty & unfurnished (Class C) and those that were undergoing or having undergone, major repair work or structural alteration (Class D);

(9)       the premium charge added to Council Tax liability where a property has been unoccupied and unfurnished for more than two years is increased from 50% to 100% from 2019/20; 

(10)    any Council Tax liability for care leavers up to the age of 25 be reduced to zero for 2019/20;

(11)    Stockport’s Council Tax Support scheme is maintained for 2019/20 as detailed at Appendix 7;

(12)    DWP Universal Credit data sharing documents be treated as a claim for Council Tax Support;

(13)    new Council Tax Support claims following a break in entitlement to Universal Credit or Council Tax Support of up to six months were treated as being made on the date on which entitlement to Universal Credit resumed (or falls to a level at which CTS was payable) or six months before the day on which the claim was received, whichever was the later.

(14)    the Council Tax discretionary fund be refreshed to £100k for 2019/20, supporting customers facing financial difficulty, with no alternative means, with a further £100k being added to the fund per annum bringing the total to £200k; and

(15)    the setting of the Council’s 2019/20 Council Tax Taxbase at 95,100.8 Band D equivalent dwellings be noted.

The Cabinet Member of Economy & Regeneration has approved the use of £200,000 for the Cheadle Lane Culvert and watercourse improvements (Under Manchester Road).

The Cabinet Member of Economy & Regeneration has approved the use of a further £50,000 of the £197,000 unallocated maintenance funding for street lighting improvements in Abney Hall Park.

Stockport Council was awarded an additional £1.409m following the autumn budget statement for maintenance and improvement priorities.

The Executive Councillor for Economy and Regeneration approved the following spending:

From this funding £200,000 of it is utilised for the Marketplace Area improvements.

The Cabinet Member for Economy & Regeneration has approved the following carriageway schemes from the maintenance and improvement priorities funding to be made:

London Road £126,000

Longford Road West £123,000

TOTAL £249,000.00

The Cabinet Member for Economy & Regeneration has approved the following carriageway schemes:

Carriageway works from the £197k unallocated maintenance programme:

Carriageway works from the £297k pothole programme:

Stockport has had several pothole allocations for £2018/19 including separate allocations of £279k, and £197k unallocated maintenance.  The Executive Councillor for Economy and Regeneration approved the following footway/PROW schemes to be funded from these allocations:

Table of the proposed allocation for greenspace footway work from the £197k unallocated maintenance programme:

Table of the proposed allocation for footway work from the £297k pothole programme:

Table of the proposed allocation for Greenspace and PROW work from the £297k pothole programme:

The Cabinet Member for Economy & Regeneration has approved that £250,000 from the autumn budget statement for maintenance and improvement priorities to be utilized for the investigations and repairs to strategic culverts.

Stockport Council was awarded an additional £1.409m following the autumn budget statement for maintenance and improvement priorities.  The following drainage schemes were approved by the Executive Councillor Economy and Regeneration:

Belmont Way £50,000

Queens Road/Moseley Road £50,000

TOTAL £100,000

The Cabinet Member for Economy & Regeneration has approved the following allocation for improvement work from the maintenance and improvement priorities funding to be made:

Station Road Cheadle Hulme Centre Improvements £110,000

Underbank Area Improvement      £140,000

TOTAL            £250,000

Stockport Council was awarded an additional £1.409m following the autumn budget statement for maintenance and improvement priorities.  The following programme of works was approved by the Executive Councillor Economy and Regeneration:

Goyt Valley area cycle scheme £125,000

Woodford Roundabout (pedestrian access and lighting) £10,000

Newby Road – Rutters Lane footpath £25,000

TOTAL £160,000