Issue - meetings

Report of the Planning and Economic Development Director

Further to Minute No. 208 of the meeting of the Planning Committee held on 7 April 2010, the Cabinet considered the report of the Planning and Economic Development Director on the selection process undertaken for the appointment of the Council’s retained retail consultants.

This was a Key Decision and was included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions.

RESOLVED:            That

(1)       WYG be appointed as retained retail consultants to the Council for the period 2010/11 to 2014/15; and

(2)       it be noted that the proposal was a Key Decision but, unfortunately, had not been included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions.  Consequently, the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Performance and Corporate Services) had been consulted under Rule 15 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Constitution, to the decision being made by the Cabinet as a matter of urgency on the basis that it was impracticable to defer the decision until the commencement of the next Forward Plan because of the need to have continuity of advice on retail matters with regard to planning applications and enquiries.

Report of the Planning and Economic Development Director

Further to Minute No. 17 of 16 December 2009, the Committee considered report of the Planning and Economic Development Director seeking approval for the appointment of new retail consultants for the period to the end of 2014/15.

RESOLVED:

That Cabinet be recommended to appoint WYG as retained Retail Consultants to the Council for the period 2010/11 to 2014/15.