Agenda, decisions and minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor C Cupit, Councillor M Foster and Councillor A Powell.

Members are requested to declare the existence and nature of any disclosable pecuniary interest and/or other interest, not already on their register of interests, in any item on the agenda and withdraw from the meeting at the appropriate time.

There were no Declarations of Interest.

To approve as a correct record and the Leader to sign the attached Minutes of the meeting of Cabinet held on 24 November 2022.

RESOLVED - That the Minutes of the meeting held on 24 November 2022 were approved as a true record.

Report of Councillor J Kenyon, Portfolio Holder for Economy, Transformation and Climate Change

RESOLVED - That Cabinet approved the refreshed North East Derbyshire District Council Climate Change Strategy 2022-30

REASONS FOR DECISION - To inform Cabinet of the work undertaken to refresh the Climate Change Strategy and to endorse the refreshed Strategy for 2022-2030.

OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERED AND REJECTED - Not Applicable

Please note that this is not a Key Decision and so can be implemented by Officers with immediate effect.

The report to Cabinet set out the proposed refresh, or update, to the existing Climate Change Action Plan 2019-2030 and Climate Change Strategy 2022-2030.

Cabinet supported the refreshed Climate Change Strategy, and welcomed the contribution it would make to helping the Council to tackle Climate Change locally. Members were also pleased to see the continuation of the target to install external wall insulation into more than 400 properties in the District.

RESOLVED – That Cabinet approved the refreshed North East Derbyshire District Council Climate Change Strategy 2022-30.

REASONS FOR DECISION – To inform Cabinet of the work undertaken to refresh the Climate Change Strategy and to endorse the refreshed Strategy for 2022-2030.

OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERED AND REJECTED – Not applicable.

To consider any other matter which the Leader is of the opinion should be considered as a matter of urgency, in accordance with the provisions of Statutory Instrument 2012 No 2089, Regulation 11.

None.

The Leader to move:-

That the public be excluded from the meeting during the discussion of the following items of business to avoid the disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, (as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006).  [The category of exempt information is stated after each item].

Private Session

RESOLVED – That the public be excluded from the meeting during the discussion of the following item(s) of business to avoid the disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.

Report of Councillor A Powell, Portfolio Holder for Leisure Communities and Communications

Key Decision                                                                                    Paragraph 3                                                                               

With the agreement of the Chair, the item was not taken.

To consider any other matter which the Leader is of the opinion should be considered as a matter of urgency, in accordance with the provisions of Statutory Instrument 2012 No 2089, Regulations 5 and 11.

None.