Decision details

a)     Having regard to the views of the Corporate Management Committee, as set out in the report, Cabinet selects Option 3 - Basic Rationalisation, as its preferred option for office transformation;

b)     subject to a) above and approval of the 2017/18 budget by full Council in February 2017, the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Enforcement and Community Safety, be delegated to enact the development of a business case and all aspects of the implementation of Cabinet’s preferred option if the business case delivers annual on-going revenue savings of at least £0.100m and can be delivered within the specific capital budgets included within the 2017/18 estimates and forecast for 2018/19;

c)     Cabinet requests that the office transformation works should deal with the maintenance backlog and that any remaining maintenance backlog be dealt with as a matter of priority; and

d)     Cabinet further requests that Officers review the potential for the disposal of the freehold of the Westleigh House site as part of the project.