Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided details of a proposal to extend the South Thames Gateway Building Control Partnership to include Canterbury City Council Council’s building control service.

The report articulated that the proposal had been considered by members of the South Thames Gateway Building Control Joint Committee (The Joint Committee) and that the Committee had instructed that any expansion may only be considered if the result of inclusion was at nil detriment to the existing arrangements both in terms of cost and quality.

The report provided details of the outline Business Case taken to the Joint Committee in June 2017, as set out in the Exempt Appendix to the report, and summarised in paragraph 2.3 to 2.5.

The proposals had been considered by the Joint Committee on 21 September 2017, as set out in an addendum report.

A Diversity Impact Assessment had been carried out on the proposals, as set out in Appendix 1 to the report.

Reasons:

The expansion of the partnership will build in further resilience and provide opportunities for a wider market and broader customer base as well as providing reductions in contributions for the existing three partners.