Issue - meetings
CDC/OCC Signage Agency Agreement
Meeting: 03/06/2019 - Executive (Item 7)
7 CDC/OCC Signage Agency Agreement 
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Report of Assistant Director: Environmental Services
Purpose of report
To gain the support of the Executive to go into agency agreements with Oxfordshire County Council regarding unauthorised signs, sponsorship of roundabouts and maintenance of the roundabouts outside Bicester Village.
Recommendations
The Executive is recommended:
1.1 To note the progress on partnership working with Oxfordshire County Council.
1.2 To recommend to the Council entering into Section 101 agreements with Oxfordshire County Council.
Additional documents:
Decision:
Resolved
(1) That the progress on partnership working with Oxfordshire County Council be noted.
(2) That Full Council be recommend to agree to the Council entering into Section 101 agreements with Oxfordshire County Council.
Minutes:
The Assistant Director: Environmental Services submitted a report to gain the support of the Executive to go into agency agreements with Oxfordshire County Council regarding unauthorised signs, sponsorship of roundabouts and maintenance of the roundabouts outside Bicester Village.
Resolved
(1) That the progress on partnership working with Oxfordshire County Council be noted.
(2) That Full Council be recommended to agree to the Council entering into Section 101 agreements with Oxfordshire County Council.
Reasons
Entering into Section 101 agreements with Oxfordshire County Council will transfer the responsibility for the removal of unauthorised signs and the landscape maintenance of the roundabouts outside Bicester Village to this Council. In addition the existing sponsorship of roundabouts will be incorporated into an agency agreement.
These are low risk agreements which will improve service levels.
Alternative options
Option 1: To support the adoption of the Section 101 agreements.
Option 2: To reject the Section 101 agreements and ask officers to reconsider the strategy.