Issue - meetings

To receive the Performance Dashboards for the Economy & Assets area for the previous quarter.

The Group were presented with, and NOTED, a slide * showing performance information in the Economy & Assets area under the General Fund.

Since the Dashboard was last presented to this meeting, work had been ongoing to create a glossary. This contained all the measures used as part of the Dashboards and provided a definition for each. The definitions aimed to provide a fuller understanding of what was being measured and how. This was available on the Council’s website.

There was one red measure and that was Capital Slippage of Projects. There were 5 projects slipping either fully or partially into 2025/26 the largest of which was the Cullompton Relief Road but this had recently received full funding approval.

Discussion took place with regard to:

·       What was being done to support struggling small businesses given the number of empty properties was shown as 224? It was explained that this would depend on which ones were owned by the Council and a more thorough analysis of the Business Rates data would be needed to fully answer that question where it was possible.

·       The Tiverton Pannier Market Strategy would be reviewed in the near future and the Council would work closely with the traders in order to do this.

·       It was hoped the new glossary which had been circulated through the Members Weekly Information Sheet and on the website would help Members better understand the Dashboards.

·       There was a full expectation that developers would continue to financially contribute to the infrastructure needed to support the Culm Garden Village.

·       There was no further news on Cullompton Railway Station at this stage other than to say that its delivery was vital to the successful outcome of the other projects taking place in Cullompton. Interventions should be seen as interdependent rather than as individual projects.

Note: * Slide previously circulated.