Issue - meetings

Background:

This Cabinet accepted the report as urgent to enable consideration of the matter at the earliest opportunity to mitigate any delays as the next scheduled Cabinet meeting was due to take place on 20 September 2022.

This report advised the Cabinet of the outcome of consideration of a call-in by the Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 11 August 2022, in relation to Cabinet decisions 89-91/2022 to approve the commencement of consultation on the draft Hoo Development Framework, the continuation of progress on the preparation of applications for all aspects of the Future Hoo Project and to delegate authority to the Director of Place and Deputy Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader of the Council, the Portfolio Holder for Strategic Regeneration, Inward Investment and Partnerships and the Portfolio Holder for Planning, Economic Growth and Regulation, to make any changes considered prudent to appendices 1-5 of the Cabinet report.

The Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee had referred all three decisions to Council for consideration. The Committee had not set out reasons for this referral. The report advised that Full Council would be asked to consider the referral from the Committee and would need to decide whether to take no further action or to refer the decisions back to the Cabinet for reconsideration.

Reasons:

To enable the Cabinet to provide any additional comments to Council for its consideration of the Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s referral.