Agenda

To elect a Chair of the Economy & Assets Policy Development Group for the municipal year 2025/2026.

To elect a Vice Chair of the Economy & Assets Policy Development Group for the municipal year 2025/2026.

To receive any apologies for absence and notice of appointment of substitutes.

To receive any questions from members of the public and replies thereto.

To record any interests on agenda matters.

To consider whether to approve the minutes as a correct record of the meeting held on 6^th March 2025.

To receive any announcements that the Chairman may wish to make.

To agree a start time for the remainder of the meetings for the municipal year 2025/2026.

To receive and discuss the quarter 4 Performance Dashboard information for the Economy & Assets Policy Development Group area.

To receive a report from the Head of People, Performance and Waste & the Environment & Enforcement Manager presenting the views of the car park consultative group and requests that the PDG considers these alongside any recommendations it may choose to make to Cabinet about the structure of fees from 2026/27 onwards.

To receive a presentation regarding the recent Business Survey from the Economic Development Team.

To receive a report from the Director of Place and Economy updating Members on projects and activities undertaken by the Growth, Economy and Delivery Team during the last couple of months.

To discuss the work programme of the Policy Development Group for the next 12 months. To aid discussion, a draft work programme and a slide presented to the Group at their last meeting entitled ‘Emerging Themes’ will be used to provide a list of the key priorities for the Team in the coming year.  

Members are asked to note that the following items are already identified in the work programme for the next meeting:

·         Performance Dashboard Q1

·         Asset Management Plan (tbc)

·         Destination Management Plan (tbc)

·         Economic Development Strategy

·         Draft General Fund Budget for 2026/27 (version 1)

·         Economic Development Team Update Report

Note: This item is limited to 10 minutes. There should be no discussion on the items raised.