Agenda

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 4 June 2025 for signature by the Chair.

To note the following minutes of the Overview and Scrutiny and Select Committees:

Overview and Scrutiny Committee – 10 June 2025

To update Members on the 2024/25 outturn positions for the General Fund (GF), Housing Revenue Account (HRA), Capital, and the Council’s Subsidiary Companies and to seek approval for changes to 2025/26 working revenue budgets.

To consider the implications of and the Council’s approach to meeting new legal and regulatory requirements in respect of housing health and safety hazards.

To consider a report providing a comprehensive overview of the Council’s performance at the end of the 2024/25 financial year and setting out the proposed direction for the year ahead.

To consider a report requesting authority to spend some of the allocated £1.078m funding for 2025/6 to deliver the new and enhanced initiatives, aimed at achieving higher rates of recycling in Stevenage.

To seek endorsement for, the adoption of the Local Area Retrofit Accelerator Strategy (LARA), led by the Hertfordshire Climate Change and Sustainability Partnership, of which the Council is a member.

To consider any Part 1 business accepted by the Chair as urgent.

To consider the following motions –

1.  That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as described in paragraphs1 – 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended by Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.

2.  That Members consider the reasons for the following reports being in Part II and determine whether or not maintaining the exemption from disclosure of the information contained therein outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

To approve as a correct record the Part II section of the Minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 4 June 2025.

To consider writing off Council Tax debt deemed irrecoverable which is properly due to the Council and is more than £10,000.

To consider any Part II business accepted by the Chair as urgent.