Issue - meetings

Report of Head of Strategic Planning and the Economy

Summary

To consider a proposed submission by Cherwell District Council to the Heseltine Review.

Recommendations

The Executive is recommended:

(1)               To report on the proposed CDC draft response.

(2)               To consider the views of the Executive and adopt the attached draft CDC response.

Resolved

(1)      That the proposed Cherwell District Council draft response to the Heseltine Review be adopted.

The Head of Strategic Planning and the Economy submitted a report which sought consideration of a proposed submission by Cherwell District Council to the Heseltine Review.

In introducing the report, the Lead Member for Estates and the Economy explained that in autumn 2011 the Chancellor and Secretary of State for Business asked Lord Heseltine to undertake an independent review of how spending Departments and other relevant public sector bodies interacted with the private sector and to assess their capacity to deliver pro-growth policies.

The submission from Cherwell District Council focussed around two of the 4 themes being examined by the Review: the capacity of departments to deliver pro-growth policies and how departments interact with the private sector.

Resolved

(1)               That the proposed Cherwell District Council draft response to the Heseltine Review be adopted.

Reasons

This was an opportunity to submit observations to the Heseltine Review from a Cherwell District Council perspective.

This was an opportunity to build a dialogue with the Review Team to secure policy changes of benefit to the Cherwell District.

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