Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Executive Councillor (Corporate, Customer and Community Services).

The Executive Councillor (Corporate, Customer & Community Services) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) updating the Council’s Capital Strategy to provide a framework within which investment plans and priorities for the remainder of the decade could be established and implemented.

RESOLVED – (58 for) That approval be given to the Capital Strategy 2014 to 2020 as attached at Appendix One to the report.

The names of those councillors voting on this resolution were recorded as follows:-

Those councillors who voted for the resolution were:-

The Mayor (Councillor Chris Murphy); The Deputy Mayor; Councillors Ben Alexander, Shan Alexander, Sheila Bailey, Brian Bagnall, Paul Bellis, Andrew Bispham, Stuart Bodsworth, Laura Booth, Walter Brett, Peter Burns, Kate Butler, Martin Candler, Richard Coaton, Christine Corris, Stuart Corris, Sue Derbyshire, Kevin Dowling, Dean Fitzpatrick, Colin Foster, Alexander Ganotis, Chris Gordon, Lenny Grice, Tom Grundy, Philip Harding, Daniel Hawthorne, Brian Hendley, Kevin Hogg, Keith Holloway, Linda Holt, Sylvia Humphreys, Pam King, Mags Kirkham, Bryan Leck, Syd Lloyd, Patrick McAuley, Tom McGee, Wendy Meikle, Paul Moss, Adrian Nottingham, Anthony O’Neill, Wendy Orrell, John Pantall, Paul Porgess, Iain Roberts, Maureen Rowles, David Sedgwick, June Somekh, Andrew Verdeille, Alanna Vine, Lisa Walker, Mark Weldon, David White, Wendy Wild, David Wilson, Craig Wright and Suzanne Wyatt.

To consider a report of the Leader of the Council (Policy, Reform & Finance)

The purpose of this report is to review and update the Council’s Capital Strategy to support investment plans and priorities for the remainder of the decade.  The revised Capital Strategy is included at Appendix One and the associated Equalities Impact Assessment is included at Appendix Two.

The Leader’s report considered at the Executive Meeting on 1 October 2013, set out the principles/rationale behind the Investing in Stockport programme, incorporating a number of initiatives to deliver sustainable reform and growth. The capital strategy included in the attached report will provide the framework for developing our investment plans for the remainder of the decade.

The Executive is asked to recommend that the Council Meeting adopts the attached Capital Strategy

(Note: this decision is exempt from call-in)

Officer contact: Andrew Moran, 0161 474 4086, andrew.moran@stockport.gov.uk

A joint report of the Leader of the Council (Policy, Reform & Finance) and the Executive Councillor (Corporate, Customer & Community Services) was submitted (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Executive Meeting to consider an updated Capital Strategy that would provide a framework for developing the investment plans and priorities for the remainder of the decade linked to the ‘Investing in Stockport’ Programme.  An Equalities Impact Assessment had also been submitted.

Executive councillors commended the approach being adopted by the Council to use the facilities available to it to invest in opportunities for jobs and growth for the benefit of the residents of the borough.

RESOLVED – That the Council Meeting be recommended to adopt the updated Capital Strategy.