Issue - meetings

Joint report of the Housing Services Manager and Community Property Manager

The Committee gave consideration to the report and appendices (at pages 18 - 51) as delivered and summarised by the Head of Planning, Development and Regeneration which should be read together with these minutes as a composite document.

In respect of the Chartwell House telecommunications equipment lease, the Committee was advised that one of the two leasehold operators, Orange, had since served notice to discontinue their lease from July 2019. All other operations run by EE were said to continue and were still subject to ongoing negotiations.

In respect of the Lightbulb Project update, the Committee raised serious concerns over Members’ ability to fulfil their governance role over the project’s delivery due to the lack of information available to them. As such, the Committee concluded that at this time, it would not be able to sign-off on the Regulatory Reform Order.

Members were informed that, from recent correspondence with the Strategic Director at Blaby District Council, no representative from the Lightbulb Project was in attendance as the newly-appointed Lead Officer had only been in post for 2 weeks and all other Officers were otherwise unavailable to attend the meeting.

It was requested by Members that a report was to be provided in the next 14 days and was to include details as to outcomes, expenditure and demand. Thereafter, it requested that information be reported back to the Committee every quarter.

It was moved by Councillor J W Boyce, seconded by and Councillor K J Loydall and

UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED THAT:

(i)       The contents of the report be noted by Members; and

(ii)     The sign-off of the Regulatory Reform Order be deferred until the next meeting of the Committee.