Decisions

In August 2017 the Leader approved the Crawley Growth Programme LDR04 17.18 and following approval of the business case by the West Sussex Local Enterprise Partnership, delegated authority to the Executive Director Economy, Infrastructure and Environment (now the Director of Place Services) to progress the projects.  Redevelopment of the County Buildings site in Crawley, currently within West Sussex County Council ownership, is central to achieving committed outcomes in both the Crawley Growth Programme and the One Public Estate Programme. Initial viability work has identified the opportunity to deliver up to 195 homes and 4,780sqm of commercial space on the site offering an annual yield of over £1m and a significant capital receipt.  Much of the site is empty, has been dormant for a number of years and was declared surplus to county council requirements in January 2018 FR17 17.18.  A few services remain on the site and work in underway to relocate these.

The Cabinet Member has approved:

a)  The progression of plans to re-locate remaining occupiers in the property owned by the County Council at County Buildings in Crawley

b)  The allocation of £0.857m of funding in the Capital Programme to enable the demolition of the property owned by the County Council at County Buildings in Crawley: and to

c)   Delegate to the Executive Director Place Services the authority to award the demolition contract and progress the proposals to re-develop the County Buildings, Crawley site.   Additional key decisions will be published as appropriate.

Outside bodies are external organisations, including formal or informal partnerships to which the County Council is a party, which have requested that the County Council appoints an Elected Member or a representative to them or to which the Council expects to make appointments. 

Outside bodies are external organisations, including formal or informal partnerships to which the County Council is a party, which have requested that the County Council appoints an Elected Member or a representative to them or to which the Council expects to make appointments. 

Vacancies have arisen on the Council of Governors for the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust and Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which are outside bodies that the Cabinet Member for Adults and Health is responsible for making Member appointments to.

The Cabinet Member for Adults and Health has approved the following appointments to outside bodies vacancies until the end of the Council term (May 2021) as follows:

• Mrs Anne Jones to the Council of Governors for the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust;
• Mrs Joy Dennis to the Council of Governors for the Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; and
• Mrs Jacky Pendleton to the Council of Governors for the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

In November 2018 Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Service (HMICFRS) inspected West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service (WSFRS). The report was published on 20^th June 2019. The report judges the service to require improvement in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency and to be inadequate in relation to people.

WSFRS has developed an improvement plan to respond to the recommendations of the report and to ensure the Council can provide residents and communities with confidence in its actions.

The Cabinet Member for Safer, Stronger Communities has:

(1)         endorsed the Improvement Plan attached as appendix 1 to this report, subject to such changes as may be made as the Plan is further developed and delegates to the Chief Fire Officer authority to take such decisions as are required to implement the Plan; and

(2)         agreed to secure and commit the resources needed to meet the requirements of the Improvement Plan and for these to be available to the Chief Fire Officer for the implementation of the Plan.