Agenda and minutes

The Chair, Cllr Kevin Guy, welcomed everyone to the meeting and made the following statement:

“This meeting is being held as part of the contingency arrangements put in place, recognising the need to remain cautious. For this reason, there is only a quorum of Cabinet Members in the Chamber for this meeting. A virtual ‘informal’ meeting of the full Cabinet took place last night to inform voting at this meeting. That meeting is available to view on the Council’s YouTube channel.”

The Chair will draw attention to the emergency evacuation procedure as set out in the Notes

The Democratic Services Officer read out the emergency evacuation procedure.

At this point in the meeting declarations of interest are received from Members in any of the agenda items under consideration at the meeting. Members are asked to indicate:

(a) The agenda item number in which they have an interest to declare.

(b) The nature of their interest.

(c) Whether their interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or an other interest,  (as defined in Part 2, A and B of the Code of Conduct and Rules for Registration of Interests)

Any Member who needs to clarify any matters relating to the declaration of interests is recommended to seek advice from the Council’s Monitoring Officeror a member of his staff before the meeting to expedite dealing with the item during the meeting.

There were no declarations of interest.

There was no urgent business.

Councillors and members of the public may register their intention to make a statement if they notify the subject matter of their statement before the deadline.  Statements are limited to 3 minutes each.  The speaker may then be asked by Cabinet members to answer factual questions arising out of their statement.

The Chair explained that members of the public and Councillors who wished to make a statement did so at the virtual meeting held on 26 January 2022.  Their statements, where provided, are attached as appendices to the minutes of this meeting.

Bath and North East Somerset Council is asked to consider the final West of England Combined Authority (WECA) Strategic Outline Case to the Department of Transport (DfT) on the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement.

The Cabinet is asked to approve the elements of the West of England City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement that relate to activity in Bath and North East Somerset for inclusion in the submission to the Department of Transport.

On a motion from Councillor Sarah Warren, seconded by Councillor Manda Rigby, it was:

RESOLVED (unanimously):

(1)  To approve the elements of the West of England City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement that relate to activity in Bath and North East Somerset for inclusion in the submission to the Department for Transport.

(2)  To support the recommendations made in the WECA Committee paper.