Issue - meetings

Report of Assistant Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer)

Purpose of report

To report to the committee the council’s performance, risk, and financial positions at the end of the financial year 2024-2025.

Recommendations

The Budget Planning Committee resolves:

1.1       To note the contents of this report.  

Resolved

(1)        That the report be noted.

The Assistant Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer) submitted a report to report to the Committee the council’s financial positions at the end of the financial year 2024-2025.

In introducing the report, the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Property and Regeneration advised the Committee that the Council’s outturn position for 2024/25 was currently an overspend of £0.248m. The forecasted overspend was due to variations across Legal, Democratic and Elections and Procurement, Planning and Development, Property and Environmental. The Portfolio Holder for Finance, Property and Regeneration advised that the Corporate Leadership Team had agreed that a budget oversight group would meet with service managers each month to agree in year mitigation plans and further strengthen budget management and forecasting.

In response to a question from the Committee regarding the costs of planning appeals that the Council may incur as a result of losing a planning appeal and occurring costs from the appellant, the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Property and Regeneration advised that the Planning Committee made decisions on applications within it’s terms of reference at committee meetings,  however officers would  work with Planning Committee members and give training so decisions made at Planning Committee were less likely to incur costs at appeals.

Resolved

(1)      That the report be noted.