Agenda and minutes

Cabinet Member for Prosperity and Economic Regeneration - Monday, 7th January, 2013 10.00 am

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Items
No.	Item
1.	Declarations of Interest View the background to item 1. To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests in any item on the agenda. Minutes: There were no declarations of interest.
2.	Public Speaking Time/Open Session View the background to item 2. In accordance with Procedure Rules Nos.11 and 35 a period of 10 minutes is allocated for members of the public to address the meeting on any matter relating to the work of the body in question. Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes but the Chairman or person presiding will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned where there are a number of speakers. Members of the public are not required to give notice to use this facility. However, as a matter of courtesy, a period of 24 hours’ notice is encouraged. Members of the public wishing to ask a question at the meeting should provide at least three clear working days’ notice in writing and should include the question with that notice. This will enable an informed answer to be given. Minutes: There were no members of the public present.
3.	Grant Funding for Energy Efficiency PDF 77 KB View the background to item 3. View the decision for item 3. To consider a report which outlines the purposes for which an application can be made to the Department of Energy and Climate Change for Local Authority Funds for domestic energy efficiency, and which details an application to be submitted on behalf of Cheshire East Council. Minutes: The Cabinet Member considered a report which outlined the purposes for which an application could be made to the Department of Energy and Climate Change for Local Authority Funds for domestic energy efficiency and gave details of the application submitted by the Council. The Department of Energy and Climate Change had made £40million available for Local Authorities to apply for funding from three specific funds - £25million Food Poverty Fund, £10million Green Deal Pioneer Fund and £5million Cheaper Energy Together Fund. The Council had applied for a total of £449,900 on 30 November 2012, made up of the following: £181,400 bid to the Fuel Poverty Fund for insulation and heating measures for low income and vulnerable households at risk of fuel poverty and cold related ill health living in private sector housing £197,500 bid to the Green Deal Pioneer Fund for activities across Cheshire East to create a portfolio of householders ready to enter into Green Deal plans, with focused activity in urban Macclesfield to test more innovative approaches to marketing the Green Deal £71,000 bid to the Cheaper Energy Together Fund to deliver a collective switching scheme, focusing on encouraging take up amongst low income and vulnerable households to drive down household energy costs. RESOLVED: That (1) the application submitted to the Department of Energy and Climate Change for Local Authority Funds in respect of the Fuel Poverty Fund, Green Deal Pioneer Fund and the Cheaper Energy Together Fund be endorsed; (2) approval “in principle” be given for fully funded Supplementary Revenue and Capital Estimates, in accordance with the Finance and Contract Procedure Rules, should the application for funds be successful.