Whats coming up - The Council Forward Plan

A very useful document is The Forward Plan of the Council (URL is
below) which has some interesting items:

9. Kimpton Project - Disposal of Land for Industrial Development, Strategy Committee 10th Jul 2006
I assume a specific proposal is on the table for some of the Council owned land (note some if owned by Tesco). This will be subject to a further full planning application, though many of the main decisions were covered in the outline application.

10. Policy for the Operation of the Re-use and Recycling Centre, Strategy Committee 10th Jul 2006
Is this about the management of the site or is it about the way it currently operates as there has been some criticism in the local papers.

13. Future Procurement of Waste Services, Strategy Committee, 10th Jul 2006
An important issue as we are likely to see a long-term contract by a number of south-west London boroughs including Sutton. I assume the newly formed SCAG will consider this in more detail.

14. Hackbridge Supplementary Planning Document, Strategy Committee, 10th Jul 2006
The broad outlines for the likely redevelopment of the Felnex industrial estate.

15. Local Development Scheme - Recommendations for Review, Strategy Committee, 10th Jul 2006
An important document setting out the likely levels of development in the borough. Local residents enjoying the fruits of high house prices combined with low retail prices (thanks China), must also recognise the collective downside that it adds a premium of up to £60,000 on the value of an average Sutton house, if it is sold with redevelopment rights. Does anybody wish to speculate as to how many local Councillors will be selling their houses for redevelopment over the coming 4 years?

17. Draft Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document, Strategy Committee 10th Jul 2006
I saw an early draft of this and it looked ok. The key thing is to aim for parity of esteem in any mixed development.

18. Review of Day Services for Older People, Strategy Committee 11th Sep 2006
My views on this at this stage is that there should be continued direct provision of older people day care provision and grant funding of voluntary day care. Council policy should be based on the following approach:
a) accessible services, distributed across the borough.
b) Early intervention rather than a service led by eligibility criteria which means a resident is only dealt with when their health is already poor, rather than seeking to delay this.
c) A mixed economy of provision (ie we provide some of the day centres and also commission or fund the voluntary and private charged sector).
This would not prevent our own current direct provision being part of the integrated health and social care and managed at "Arms Length" by the Care Partnerships.

19. Roundshaw Stock Transfer, Strategy Committee, 11th Sep 2006
In view of this item, I would assume that the Council is likely to hold the ballot within the next month or so. Have they told the new ward Councillors - I wonder?

For more details go to: http://sutton.moderngov.co.uk/mgListPlanItems.asp?PlanId=111&J=10