Decision details

To consider the report of the Solicitor to the Council seeking approval for a change in the Constitutional arrangements relating to the Partnership for Urban South Hampshire and approval to the proposed Business Plan 2010-12.

On consideration of the report of the Leader of the Council, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  That a short supplementary legal agreement is entered into in accordance with Appendix 1 to this report.

(ii)  To approve the PUSH Business Plan 2010-12 in accordance with Appendix 2 of this report as a basis for the operations of the PUSH Joint Committee. 

1.  This is to ensure that the constitutional arrangements are fit for purpose and the lead Authority entering into contractual arrangements on behalf of PUSH has appropriate indemnification protection.
2. PUSH is required to produce a Business Plan each year to set out its  proposed actions and priorities, which in turn must be individually approved by the eleven Local Authority partners, to provide the mandate for the Joint Committee to take the necessary decisions and actions to implement the Business Plan.
3. This refresh of the PUSH business plan updates the previous plan (2009-11) incorporating the targets and actions arising from the South Hampshire Agreement signed in July 2008, the recent refresh and taking into account progress made and significant changes in circumstances over the last 12 months. It does not seek to be a comprehensive review of previous plans (which will be undertaken for the plan to be adopted in 2011). Prior to that review PUSH has not sought to revise its short term targets preferring instead to develop a sound evidence base for doing so. Nevertheless, we recognise that the current economic crisis will mean that a number of the current short term targets and outcomes are simply no longer valid or achievable (including a number set out in the South Hampshire Agreement).
4. Those targets considered to be unachievable as a result of the recession are highlighted in the Plan.

None.