Agenda and minutes

The Minutes of the meeting held on 19^th April 2007, having been printed and circulated, were taken as read and signed as a correct record.

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Environment which described the opportunity to review the Masterplan and sought approval to make the changes outlined in the report.

RESOLVED: That

(1)               the Masterplan be reviewed to incorporate the entire site currently owned by Tessenderlo;

(2)               the Masterplan be reviewed to incorporate the areas of land referred to in Plan 6 of the Masterplan as ‘Designated Landscape Corridor’ which are identified within Supplementary Planning Document for 3MG and currently lie outside the physical boundary of the freight park; and

(3)               the revised Masterplan boundary be agreed as a basis for consultation.

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Environment which outlined the progress to date in providing highway access to the HBC Fields site in connection with the 3MG project and sought approval to recommend the route.

Arising from the discussion, the following points were noted:-

·        the factors that may influence adherence to the project programme and consequently the project cost that lie outside of the control of the Authority were noted;

·        the timetable for planning approval and technical approval by Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Network Rail was noted; and

·        the importance of gaining support from Knowsley and Network Rail was noted.

RESOLVED: That

(1)               the preliminary design for highway access to ‘Halton Fields’ from the A562 Speke Road / A5300 Knowsley Expressway junction, as set out on Drawing No: 5013684/HW/AA/GA/017A be approved and detailed design be progressed; and

(2)            planning approval be sought for the development of the highway western access to 3MG as described above.

The Sub-Board considered:

(1)            whether Members of the press and public should be excluded from the meeting of the Board during consideration of the following items of business in accordance with Sub-Section 4 of Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 because it was likely that, in view of the nature of the business to be considered, exempt information would be disclosed, being information defined in Section 100 (1) and paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972; and

(2)            whether the disclosure of information was in the public interest, whether any relevant exemptions were applicable and whether, when applying the public interest test and exemptions, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed that in disclosing the information.

RESOLVED: That as, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, members of the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business in accordance with Sub-Section 4 of section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 because it is likely that, in view of the nature of the business, exempt information will be disclosed, being information defined in Section 100(1) and paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Environment which gave Members an update on the Delivery Strategy from 2004 and sought approval to make the changes as outlined in the report.

RESOLVED: That

(1)               the Delivery Strategy be agreed on the basis of the up to date financial position of the programme; and

(2)       the revised spending profile be recommended to Council for approval.

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Environment which described the process and sought approval to establish a Company for the 3MG – Mersey Multimodal Gateway.

RESOLVED: That 3MG Executive Sub-Board recommend to Executive Board the formation of the Company on the terms set out in the report.

MINUTES ISSUED: 17^th July 2007

CALL IN: 24^th July 2007

Any matter decided by the Executive Board may be called in no later than 24^th July 2007