Agenda item

To receive a report from the Director of Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and Director of Finance, Resources and Customer Services regarding the development of a Joint Service Centre.    (Report No.241)

Please note Report No.243 on the Part 2 agenda also refers.

Members are asked to note that the recommendations in the report were approved by Cabinet on 25 April 2012.  Council is only being asked to approve the addition of the scheme to the Council’s Capital Programme, which has been included as an issue within the Part 2 report referred to above.  The Part 1 report has therefore only been attached for information, as background to the recommendation made to Council.(Key decision – Reference 3488

Councillor Charalambous moved and Councillor Brett seconded the joint report from the Director of Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and Director of Finance, Resources and Customer Services (No.241) regarding the development of a Joint Service Centre.

NOTED

1.      The recommendations in Report No.241 had been approved by Cabinet on 25 April 2012.  The item was accompanied by a separate Part 2 report (No.243), which had also been approved by Cabinet on 25 April 2012 and contained a recommendation to Council seeking approval for the addition of the scheme to the Council’s Capital Programme.

2.      In view of 1.above members were advised that Report No.241 had only been included on the Council agenda for information, as background to the recommendation made to Council.

3.      The development of the proposal, following its initial consideration by the Health Scrutiny Panel in 2010, to include not only the delivery of improved primary care facilities in the form of a new GP practice but also a new dental practice and improved facilities for the current Ordnance Road Library and Kettering Hall.

4.      The concerns expressed by the Opposition Group at the natural synergy of the services proposed and location of the proposed site.

5.      The outcome of the feasibility study undertaken in relation to each site, as detailed in section 3 of the report, along with the fact that further public consultation on the preferred option would be undertaken following approval of the outline business case.

In view of the concerns identified Councillor Rye moved and Councillor Headley seconded an amendment to recommendation 2.1 in the report requiring that public consultation be undertaken on the location of the new GP and dental practice prior to any approval being given to proceed further with development of the Joint Service Centre.

The Assistant Director Corporate Governance advised Council that the recommendations in Report No.241 (on which the amendment had been moved) had already been approved by Cabinet.  He reminded members that the report had only been included on the Council agenda for information, as background to the recommendation to Council contained in Report No.243 on the Part 2 agenda.  For this reason, the proposed amendment was ruled out.

The debate then continued before Councillor Lavender moved and Councillor Lamprecht seconded that the report be put to the vote.  This procedural motion was put to the vote, with the following result:

For: 26

Against: 31

Abstention: 0

The motion was not agreed.

Following a further period of debate, Councillor Lavender again moved and Councillor Lamprecht seconded that the report be put to the vote.  This procedural motion was put to the vote, with the following result:

For: 23

Against: 33

Abstention: 0

The motion was not therefore agreed and the debate continued on the report.

At the conclusion of the debate, Council was asked to note (as background information to the recommended addition of the scheme to the Council’s Capital Programme contained in the Report No.243 on the Part 2 agenda) the recommendations that had been approved by Cabinet on 25 April 2012.  This was agreed without a vote

AGREED that Council note the decisions taken by Cabinet on 25 April 2012, as detailed in sections 2.1 – 2.4 of the report.