Agenda

Cabinet - Wednesday 7th January 2026 6.00 p.m.

Venue: Parkside Suite - Parkside

Contact: Jo Gresham 

Items
No. Item

1.

To receive apologies for absence

2.

Declarations of Interest

To invite Councillors to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Disclosable Interests they may have in items on the agenda, and to confirm the nature of those interests.

3.

To confirm the accuracy of the minutes of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 19th November 2025 pdf icon PDF 331 KB

4.

Minutes of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Board held on 18th November 2025 pdf icon PDF 305 KB

Any recommendations contained within the minutes of the Overview and Scrutiny Board meeting held on 18th November 2025 were considered at the Cabinet meeting held on 19th November 2025. Therefore, there are no outstanding minutes contained in the minutes included in this agenda pack.

 

If there are any recommendations as a result of the pre-scrutiny of any Cabinet reports due to be considered at the Boards’s meeting on 6th January 2026, these will be published in a supplementary papers pack to this agenda.

5.

Appointments to the Shareholders Committee pdf icon PDF 208 KB

6.

Housing Task Group Final Report pdf icon PDF 733 KB

7.

Cyber Security Update - including WhatsApp Policy and AI Policy pdf icon PDF 20 KB

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8.

Biodiversity First Duty pdf icon PDF 230 KB

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9.

Particulate Monitoring pdf icon PDF 344 KB

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10.

Homelessness Prevention, Rough Sleeper and Domestic Abuse Grants Funding 2027/28 and 2028/29 pdf icon PDF 175 KB

11.

Pay Policy 2026/27 pdf icon PDF 119 KB

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12.

Business Rates Discretionary Rates Relief Policy 2026-2027 pdf icon PDF 146 KB

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13.

Council Tax Base Report 2026/27 pdf icon PDF 131 KB

14.

Council Tax Empty Homes Discounts and Premiums 2026-27 pdf icon PDF 268 KB

15.

Council Tax Support Scheme 2026/27 pdf icon PDF 234 KB

16.

To consider any urgent business, details of which have been notified to the Assistant Director of Legal, Democratic and Procurement Services prior to the commencement of the meeting and which the Chairman, by reason of special circumstances, considers to be of so urgent a nature that it cannot wait until the next meeting

17.

To consider, and if considered appropriate, to pass the following resolution to exclude the public from the meeting during the consideration of item(s) of business containing exempt information:-

"RESOLVED: that under Section 100 I of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, the public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it/they involve(s) the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act, as amended, the relevant paragraph of that part, in each case, being as set out below, and that it is in the public interest to do so:-

 

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18.

Medium Term Financial Plan 2026/27 to 2028/29 including fees and charges, WRS budget recommendations and outcome of budget consultation pdf icon PDF 2 MB

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