Decisions and Recommendations

The Committee received RBBC Limited’s Accounts for the year ended 30 September 2021 as shareholder representative for the Council. The accounts were set out in Annex 1.

As set out in the report to the Committee, RBBC Limited is 100 per cent owned by the Council and since its incorporation has been entirely inactive. Due to this inactivity the Accounts were prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 small companies’ regime.

A Visiting Member asked whether there were current or future potential commercial activities planned for the company. He asked if Project Baseball (the previously proposed crematorium service) was completed and closed.

Councillor Archer confirmed that RBBC Limited was a placeholder company. The name was retained in case there were future activities that may want to use the company name. That decision was not related to Project Baseball. He noted that comment was made on this project as part of the Reigate & Banstead 2025 Annual Report 2021/22 (Agenda Item 4 at Executive which had its meeting following this Executive Sub-Committee meeting).

RESOLVED:

1)     That the Commercial Ventures Executive Sub-Committee as shareholder representative for RBBC Limited, a company 100 per cent owned by Reigate & Banstead Borough Council, receive RBBC Limited’s Directors’ Report and Unaudited Financial Statements for the year ended 30 September 2021 as set out in Annex 1.

RESOLVED:

That the Executive:

1)     Agreed to appoint representatives Councillors J. King, Kulka and Ritter to serve on the outside bodies listed within the schedule of nominations for contested vacancies set out in Annex 1 for Earlswood Common Management Steering Committee and to appoint Councillor Bray to the YMCA East Surrey Housing Advisory Group for Municipal Year 2022/23.

To agree the Council’s Energy Supply Contract for gas energy supplies from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023.

RESOLVED:

That the Executive:

1.      Agreed the appointment of Corona Energy as the provider of gas energy supplies for Council properties from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023.

RESOLVED:

That the Executive:

1)     Noted the motion as presented to Full Council on 7 April 2022.

2)     Agreed the importance of retrofitting insulation to domestic properties in the borough, both because of the reductions in carbon emissions that this brings and its ability to improve living conditions and reduce energy bills for residents.

3)     Noted the work that is currently underway by officers in relation to domestic retrofit (including in relation to areas of activity covered in the Council motion) and the progress that has been made to date, but also the scale of the challenge associated with domestic retrofit, and the need for Government action to help enable activity to be scale up both nationally and locally to achieve carbon reduction targets.

4)     Agreed that the Leader of the Council write to the Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and COP26 President requested government support to address the domestic retrofit challenges faced by local government generally and in Reigate & Banstead specifically.

5)     Requested that the Head of Corporate Policy keeps the need for a local retrofit task force and local training and delivery partnerships under review and that any additional actions required are proposed via the annual Environmental Sustainability Strategy progress report.

To agree publication of the annual report on the Council's Reigate & Banstead 2025 Corporate Plan for 2021/22 and the Equality Objectives Progress report for 2021/22.

RESOLVED:

That the Executive:

1.     Agreed the Reigate & Banstead 2025 Annual Report for 2021/22 for publication, and

2.     Agreed the Equality Objectives Progress Report for 2021/22 for publication.

RESOLVED:

That the Executive:

1.     Noted the Key Performance Indicator performance for Q4 2021/22 as detailed in the report and Annex 1.

2.     Noted the Revenue Budget outturn for 2021/22 as detailed in the report and at Annex 2 and approved the recommended budget carry-forwards to 2022/23.

3.      Noted the Capital Programme outturn for 2021/22 as detailed in the report and at Annex 3.

RESOLVED:

That the Executive:

1.     Noted the Q4 2021 update on risk management provided by the report.

2.     Approved the closure of the following strategic risks in accordance with the reasoning set out in the report and in Annex 1:

·        SR6 – ‘Reliance on the welfare system’

·        SR9 – ‘Marketfield Way’

3.      Agreed that as part of Q1 reporting, officers consider the appropriateness of maintaining two separate strategic risks on challenging economic conditions, with an update brought to the Audit Committee and Executive in September.

Response to the motion on the roll-out of recycling submitted to Council on the 29 July 2021.

RESOLVED:

That the Executive:

1.     Noted the positive progress that has been made in relation to rolling out the full recycling service to flats such that in excess of 90% of properties in the borough have access to the service.

2.     Agreed the importance of continuing the rollout of a full kerbside recycling service to flats and properties with communal bin stores to maximise the amount of good quality recycling collected and to reduce the amount of waste sent for disposal.

3.     Noted the motion as presented to Full Council on 29 July 2021, and in response:

(a)  Agreed that the Waste & Recycling Team continues to work with landowners, landlords and occupiers to enable the introduction of full kerbside services wherever possible; and

(b)  Agreed to continue to work with Surrey Environment Partnership to deliver both local and countryside waste and recycling objectives

(c)   Rejects other elements of the motion.