Agenda and decisions

That apologies be received and noted from Geoff Little (Bury), Pam Smith (Stockport Council) and Joanne Roney (Manchester City Council).

There were no Chairs announcements or items of urgent business.

To receive declarations of interest in any item for discussion at the meeting. A blank form for declaring interests has been circulated with the agenda; please ensure that this is returned to the Governance & Scrutiny Officer at the start of the meeting.

There were no declarations of interests received.

To consider the approval the minutes of the AGMA Executive Board held on 11 December 2020.

That the minutes of the meeting held on 11 December 2020 be approved as a correct record.

Report of Councillor David Molyneux, Portfolio Lead for Resources.

1.             That the report and the current AGMA revenue outturn forecast for 2020/21, which showed a breakeven position be noted,.

2.             That the budget relating to AGMA functions in 2021/22, as set out in section 2 of the report, be approved.

3.             That the charges to the GM District Councils in support of the AGMA functions for 2021/22 of £634,000, as set out in Appendix 1 to the report, be approved, noting that this excluded items billed directly from lead districts.

4.             That the forecast position of reserves in 2021/22, as detailed in section 3 of the report, be noted.

Report of Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett, Portfolio Lead for Housing, Homelessness and Infrastructure.

1.      That it be noted that Each full Council will be requested to:

i.      Approve the making of an agreement with the other 8 Greater Manchester councils (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan * delete as appropriate) to prepare a joint development plan document to cover strategic policies including housing and employment land requirements and, as appropriate, strategic site allocations and Green Belt boundary amendments and associated infrastructure across the nine districts.

ii.     Agree the district lead Member for the joint committee and a nominated deputy to attend and vote as necessary.

iii.    Note that the [Council’s Executive / Cabinet] will be asked to delegate the formulation and preparation of the draft joint development plan document to a joint committee of the nine GM authorities.

iv.   Note that a further report will be brought to full Council seeking approval to submit the joint development plan document to the Secretary of State for independent examination.

2.     That it be noted that each Executive / cabinet/ leader/ the City Mayor (depending on each Council’s own arrangements and in the event that the Councils have approved the above recommendations):

i.      Note that full Council has approved the making of an agreement with the other 8 Greater Manchester councils [state] to prepare a joint development plan document to cover strategic policies including housing and employment land requirements and, as appropriate, strategic site allocations and Green Belt boundary amendments and associated infrastructure across the nine districts.

ii.     Delegate to the joint committee of the nine Greater Manchester councils the formulation and preparation of the joint development plan document to cover housing and employment land requirements including, as appropriate, strategic site allocations and Green Belt boundary amendments and associated infrastructure across the nine Greater Manchester districts insofar as such matters are executive functions.

iii.    Note that the following are the sole responsibility of full Council:

·        Responsibility for giving of instructions to the executive to reconsider the draft plan submitted by the executive for the authority’s consideration.

·        The amendment of the draft joint development plan document submitted by the executive for the full Council’s consideration

·        The approval of the joint development plan document for the purposes of submission to the Secretary of State for independent examination.

·        The adoption of the joint development plan document.