Portsmouth City Borough Council Cabinet Member - the Leader Meeting

There were no apologies for absence.

There were no declarations of members' interests.

The Leader advised that owing to the special urgency of this item, it was a Forward Plan omission. He advised that the Chair of the City Council's Scrutiny Management Panel had been notified of and agreed to the decision being made in accordance with the City Council's Constitution (General Exceptions, Section 15) and (Special Urgency, Section 16). As the decision had to be taken by such a date that it is impracticable to defer the decision until it had been included in the next Forward Plan, this decision will not be subject to call-in. Neither had it been possible in view of the urgency to meet the usual notice period provisions. 

The omission from the Forward Plan and the publication of an omission notice was noted.

The Leader decided that under the provisions of Section 100A of the Local Government Act, 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act, 1985, the press and public be excluded for the consideration of the following item:-appendix A of item 5, on the grounds that the appendix contains information defined as exempt in Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act, 1972.

An agreement was reached that the meeting would continue in open session for as long as nobody wished to discuss the exempt items.

DECISION:

The confidentiality of Appendix A- Acquisition of Land at Mile End, Kettering Terrace, Portsmouth

was upheld

(TAKE IN REPORT)

Tom Southall introduced the report explaining that its purpose was to seek authorisation to complete a land acquisition supporting the new requirements for construction of a Border Control Post at Portsmouth International Port.

DECISION:

The Leader approved and authorised;

2.1 The Freehold acquisition of the land identified in Exempt Appendix A by Portsmouth City Council.

2.2 The City Solicitor to complete the necessary documentation to complete 2.1 above.