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Recommendations on page 190

RESOLVED – that Executive endorses the Delegated Decision DD-062-20-DC as there was an urgent need for the commercial decision.

Executive considered a report of the Portfolio Holder – Corporate Governance which sought Executive’s endorsement of the Delegated Decision (DD-062-20-DC) taken by the Director of Corporate Resources and Head of Paid Service as an urgent commercial decision to establish a new post for a planning apprenticeship within the Planning Enforcement Team.

Moved by Councillor Duncan McGregor and seconded by Councillor Sandra Peake

RESOLVED – that Executive endorses the Delegated Decision DD-062-20-DC as there was an urgent need for the commercial decision.

REASON FOR DECISION:

The proposals allowed the Planning Service to offer a better service to local residents and to do more to protect the quality of the District’s built environment alongside providing a meaningful development opportunity for a member of staff and address capacity issues and succession planning within the Planning Enforcement Team and the Planning Service as a whole.

As the creation of the post required additional funding beyond approved budgets, the decision was taken using the delegated power for urgent commercial decisions due to the need for the funding and post to be confirmed prior to the start of September. The Delegation Scheme required that such decisions be reported to Executive for endorsement.

OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERED:

The alternative option, to do nothing, was rejected as it meant that there would have been a twelve months delay pending next year’s intake of new apprentices in September 2021.