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(i)
Audit and Governance Committee
Meeting held on 22 November 2022
(ii)
Development Management & Licensing
Committee
Meeting held on 8 November 2022
Meeting held on 13 December 2022
Meeting held on 24 January 2023
Recommendation to agree:
DM&L.39 Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Policy
– Proposal to Delay Implementation of the Euro NCAP Safety
Rating Standard
RECOMMENDED
That Council be RECOMMENDED to adopt the amended
draft Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Policy (as presented to the
Development Management & Licensing Committee
Meeting).
(iii)
Hub Committee
Meeting held on 13 December 2022
Recommendation to agree:
HC.64/22 Draft Revenue and Capital Budget Proposals
2023/24
RECOMMENDED
vii) That Council be RECOMMENDED that West Devon
Borough Council continue to be part of the Devon Business Rates
Pool for 2023/24, subject to there being no announcements within
the Finance Settlement (expected to be announced in mid-December),
which in the opinion of the S151 Officer (in consultation with the
Leader of the Council and the Hub Committee Member for Resources),
would change this recommendation.
Meeting held on 31 January 2023
Recommendation to agree:
HC.75/22 Draft Revenue And
Capital Budget Proposals For
2023/24
i) to increase Council Tax for
2023/24 by £7.37 (a 2.99% increase) (This would equate
to a Band D council tax of £254.00 for 2023/24, an increase
of 14 pence per week or £7.37 per year);
ii) to approve the financial pressures
(as shown in Appendix A of the presented agenda report) of
£1,928,800;
iii) to approve the net contributions to/(from)
Earmarked Reserves of £(45,567) (as shown in Appendix A of
the published agenda report), including the proposed use of
£150,000 from the Business Rates Retention Earmarked Reserve
(as set out in paragraph 3.17 of the presented agenda
report);
iv) to use £150,000 of New Homes Bonus
funding in 2023/24 to fund the Revenue Base Budget (as set out in
paragraph 3.22 of the presented agenda report) and to allocate
£78,500 of New Homes Bonus funding to the Dartmoor National
Park Authority (as set out in paragraph 3.23 of the presented
agenda report), with the proviso that this
Funding be used to ensure that the Visitor Centre at Princetown is
kept open until at least 30 September 2023;
v)
to approve the savings of £1,110,500 (as set out
at Appendix A of the presented agenda report);
vi)
to approve the Overview & Scrutiny Committee’s
recommendation on the increase in the garden waste subscription
charge from April 2023, (for the sum of £52.00 per annum) as
set out in paragraph 5.3 and Appendix F of the presented agenda
report;
vii)
to approve the proposed Capital Programme Proposals for 2023/24 of
£910,000 and the proposed financing of the Capital Programme
(as set out in Appendix D of the published agenda report) (being
£700,000 from the Better Care Fund funding from Devon County
Council, £160,000 from New Homes Bonus funding and
£50,000 revenue funding from the Vehicles and Plant Earmarked
Reserve);
viii)
that Unearmarked Reserves should continue to have a minimum level
of £900,000 (as set in the Medium Term Financial Strategy in
September 2022), but an operating level of a minimum of
£1.25million; and
ix)
that, with effect from 31 March 2023, the Servaco dormant
company (which the Council jointly owns with South Hams District
Council), be closed down.
HC.77/22
Council Tax Reduction Scheme
2023-24 And Other Council Tax Discounts And Premiums
2. to approve a local
Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2023/24 that as
follows:
- Makes no changes
to Band 1 of the current banded scheme;
- Uplifts Bands 2,
3 and 4 by 20% (above current inflation) to take into account the
Cost of Living crisis;
- Replaces the
current range of earnings disregards with a single £25.00
disregard; and
- Makes changes to
the Minimum Income Floor by adjusting the income calculation for
self-employed claimants who receive carer’s allowance,
personal independence payments or disability living
allowance.
3. that delegated
authority be given to the Director of Strategic Finance, in
consultation with the Lead Member for Benefits and the Head of
Revenues and Benefits, to agree the uprating of working age
regulations incorporated into the local Council Tax Reduction
Scheme in line with those announced by the Department for Work and
Pensions;
4. that officers be
instructed to take immediate steps to apply the £25.00
Council Tax Support Fund payment to the 2023/24 council tax bills
of eligible council taxpayers, as announced by the Government on 19
December 2022, and bring forward proposals for a discretionary
scheme in late spring 2023;
5. to adopt the Council
Tax discounts as follows (with effect from 1 April
2023):
(a)
The discount for
unoccupied and substantially unfurnished properties is 100% for a
maximum period of 1 month;
(b)
The discount for
unoccupied and substantially unfurnished properties for 1 month to
2 years is zero;
(c) The discount for properties
which are vacant and require major repair work to render them
habitable is 50% for maximum period of 12 months;
(d)
The discount for
unoccupied furnished properties (second homes) is zero;
(e)
An empty homes premium
of an additional 100% is levied on properties that have remained
unoccupied and substantially unfurnished for at least two years,
but less than five years;
(f) An empty homes premium of
an additional 200% is levied on properties that have remained
unoccupied and substantially unfurnished for at least five years,
but less than ten years;
(g)
An empty homes premium
of an additional 300% is levied on properties that have remained
unoccupied and substantially unfurnished for at least ten years or
more; and
6. That, in principle,
the following additional council tax premiums be applied from 1
April 2024, or earlier if allowed, subject to the required
legislation being in place:
- 100% premium for
properties which have been unoccupied and substantially unfurnished
for a period of between 1 and 2 years; and
- 100% premium for
second homes.
(iv)
Overview & Scrutiny Committee
Meeting held on 15 November 2022
Meeting held on 17 January 2023
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