Decisions

Further to the recommendation of the Traffic Management Unit (minute number 4200) to approve for advertising the proposal to introduce no waiting at any time in the Kersal Road/Kersal Vale Road area to alleviate visibility, access and obstruction problems.

An opportunity inviting qualified ‘Economic Operators’ to Quote was placed on the procurement portal, The Chest in accordance with Contract Procedure Rule 4.1 with 3 organisations submitting bids by the required closing date.

Permission to open up Innovation Fund applications to Bury Care Homes to apply for small amounts of money to support activities for residents during lockdown.

This report comes within the remit of Support for Adult Social Care Providers Urgent Decision Form approved on the 8th April 2020. The report sought approval to provide an offer of support during the Covid-19 Pandemic which would ensure provider sustainability and continue to support our most vulnerable adults. The approval of the report allows for the block booking of 11 beds at Gorsey Clough, paying the full cost of the beds as they are vacant at the moment and using the beds for some of our most vulnerable customers, those who are Covid -19 positive and have a cognitive impairment. This will be funded through the Covid-19 NHS award.
The provision of 11 isolation beds for people with a cognitive impairment, or who require nursing care because they have complex needs with an eye to a step up in provision for end of life/ palliative care in some of these beds if the demand does rise to a significant peak which would invoke stage 3 of the end of life care model. We would monitor the situation closely and if end of life care is required we would support the home to access equipment and supplies needed to do this.

Approval to the temporary closure under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, of roads in the Limefield Brow Area, Bury from Monday 20 July 2020 for a period of 3 months to facilitate carriageway surface dressing works (anticipated duration of works 4 weeks). Local diversions will be managed on site by contractor where applicable

Approval to the temporary closure under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, of roads in the Alnwick Drive area, Bury from Monday 20 July 2020 for a period of 3 months to facilitate carriageway surface dressing works (anticipated duration of works approximately 4 weeks). Local diversions will be managed on site by contractor where applicable.

Approval to the temporary closure under Section 14(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, of Back Dumers Lane South, Radcliffe at its junction with Hassall Street on 11/05/20 for a period of 21 days to enable electrical connection works in the carriageway. The diversion route is via Hassall Street, Dumers Lane and vice versa.

Bury Council, along with 334 of the 338 of other Local Authorities is currently a member of the Local Government Association (LGA). The LGA provides a number of benefits including

? the opportunity to influence local government work through membership of boards, commissions, advisory groups or the Councillors' Forum ? access to support and advice for councillors through political group offices ? access to up-to-the-minute news, briefings and daily news headlines on the LGA website through a suite of subscription e-bulletins ? support on national media relations including in times of crisis ? access to a wide range of free or discounted events ? access to legal advice, opinions and guidance on complex issues ? opportunities to join special interest groups, including the District Councils' Network, County Councils' Network or the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities ? use of facilities at 18 Smith Square, including free meeting room hire ? invitations to Royal Garden Parties

The total cost of membership is £34,266.96 which includes a direct debit and loyalty discount totalling £10,863,14. Budget is available through the Council’s corporate management subscriptions budget.

It is proposed that the Council continues to be a member of the Local Government Association.

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION by virtue of Paragraph 3 of part 1 of Schedule 12a of the Local Government Act 1972 – Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

As part of the response to Covid-19, the Government produced guidance on shielding and protecting people defined in medical grounds as extremely vulnerable, which involved GPs identifying individuals that should receive additional support.

This has evolved and the Government has identified all over 70s as having an increased risk of severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19) regardless of whether they have underlying health conditions or not.

In addition, through the GMCA, a ‘keeping well at home’ booklet has been produced for older people, in consultation with the Ageing Hub. The GMCA are contributing towards the first 1500 printed copies of this booklet and Local Authorities can then order additional copies.

It is intended to order 11,900 additional copies, at a cost of £4315.49 and for these to be distributed at various places including supermarkets, GP surgeries, and pharmacies. On request, hard copies will also be posted out.

It is intended to write to residents over 70 outlining the support that is available and to signpost them to the community hubs should they need support with food deliveries, medicine collections, or wanting to have a chat with someone. The total cost for print and postage of the letters is circa £9300. The intention is to use our current supplier Critiqom; the company we use to issue council tax information. Procurement has confirmed that this approach is acceptable to them and the current contract can be used for this purpose.

The government has provided grant funding to support local authorities and CCGs with the additional cost of the COVID crisis. These costs will be met from the grant funding available.

Couples are required by law to give a notice of marriage in the area where they live to allow them to get married in any Register Office, Approved Premise or Non-Conformist Church. A notice of marriage is only valid for 12 months from the date the person gave their notice and therefore the marriage must take place within that 12 month period. Both parties have to give a notice and the statutory fee for this is £35.00 each.
On the 23rd March 2020 the Prime minister announced that all marriage and civil partnerships were to be suspended until further notice.

Bury Register Office have rearranged ceremonies to take place within the Borough of Bury for later this year 2020 and also in to next year 2021 but unfortunately this will mean that there will be notices that were given, which will expire before the marriages take place and therefore new notices will have to be given to allow the postponed ceremonies to take place.

In addition to the ceremonies within the Borough of Bury couples have also given their Notices for ceremonies outside the Borough of Bury and they have also had to rearrange new dates with that particular Register Office which will also require new notices to be given for the new date. Some Councils have cancelled ceremonies till the end of September 2020 forcing couples to rearrange to next year.

All affected couples have completed the legal preliminaries and have also paid the statutory fee to the Council previously.

After consulting with the other Register Offices in Greater Manchester all Councils are waiving the new notice fee for anyone affected by the pandemic this includes Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, Trafford, Stockport, Wigan, Bolton and Salford. It is also appears that most authorities within England and Wales will adapt this approach.

At the time of writing the number of new notices that are required to be given at Bury Register Office is 613.

This number may increase depending upon how long ceremonies are suspended.

In terms of financial implications, although it would appear that income next year will be lower as people have paid up front for the cost of their ceremonies, we are capturing the financial risk of loss of income now and will still be obtaining the fee for each of the ceremonies we perform, this won’t be affected and by waiving the notice fee, there would be no real cost implication to the Council as this fee has already be paid.

To approve Supplementary Technical evidence reports T1-T4, AQ1-AQ3, Analytical Assurance statement, Modelling Assumptions and Consolidated TIRP feedback response in support of the GM Clean Air Plan Outline Business case that are required to be formally submitted to the Government’s Joint Air Quality Unit in response to the Ministers feedback.

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Further to the recommendation of the Traffic Management Unit (minute number 4190) to approve for advertising the proposal for the revocation of No Waiting Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Mon-Sat 8am-12.30pm and introduction of No Waiting at Any time restrictions on Irwell Street and Palatine Street, Ramsbottom. The restrictions are proposed in order to remove obstructive parking and alleviate access issues for HGVs to business service yards.

To facilitate the proper opportunity for consultation, advertisement of the proposals will be postponed until such times that business has returned to normal following the current emergency measures in place to control COVID-19/coronavirus.

Approval to the temporary closure under Section 14(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, of Back Horne Street, Bury from 30/04/20 for a period of 21 days to enable emergency sewer repair works. There is no applicable diversion route.

Approval of proposed opening times and traffic management arrangements as set out in the accompanying report “Reopening of Household Waste Recycling Centres. Highway Mitigation Measures.”

Currently, all Household Waste Recycling Centres are closed to the public as a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown.
Greater Manchester Combined Authority Leaders have decided that some HWRCs in the GM region will reopen to the public and the proposed site for Bury is Cemetery Road, Radcliffe.

The proposed opening date is Saturday, 02 May 2020 and the proposed opening hours are 0900-1500 Mon-Fri and 0800-1800 Sat-Sun.

Whilst Suez will operate the HWRC, Traffic Management plans have been drawn up by Council Engineers to protect the B6292 Ainsworth Road and adjacent residential roads as well as to control the large queues expected and will be installed and operated by a private company.

Costs of the traffic management proposals are in the order of £6,500 per week. These costs are to be met by GMCA.

The situation on site will be assessed on a rolling basis with the opportunity of relaxing mitigation measures should pressures be less than anticipated or strengthening them if required.

Approval to the temporary closure and prohibition of waiting under Section 14(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, on parts of Cemetery Road and Alma Street from Saturday 02 May 2020 for an initial period of 21 days (with the potential for a further period of 21 days) in the interests of highway safety to facilitate the controlled re-opening of the household waste recycling centre. The diversion route is via Ainsworth Road.

Approval to the temporary closure under Section 14(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, of Chester Street, Bury from 23/04/20 for a period of 21 days to enable the repair to a collapse in the carriageway. The diversion route is via Chesham Road, Salford Street, Haslam Street and vice versa .

The request is to use the Brexit funding to pay outstanding invoice. (£39,400.00 excluding VAT – 50% on commencement and 50% upon delivery)

Bury Council appointed Cambridge Econometrics to research existing intelligence, analysis and new intelligence and analysis to prepare evidence based report/s that will inform strategy, policy development and interventions for Bury Council and partner organisations. The evidence will support the development of the Bury Local Industrial Strategy/Economic Strategy and the overarching Bury Strategy 2030.
A sound evidence base will support Bury Council to develop clearly defined set of interventions and a delivery plan/s for taking interventions forward. The evidence base will help inform our response, through the Bury Strategy, to the five foundations set out in the national Industrial Strategy (‘Ideas’, ‘People’, ‘Infrastructure’, ‘Business Environment’ and ‘Places’) plus the four Grand Challenges (AI and Data, Clean Growth, Future of Mobility and Ageing Society).
This request is to allocate the required budget against the invoice for this commissioned work.

Postpone Environmental Health Statutory Nuisance Enforcement action and limit it to remote working practices and informal resolution of complaints. This will reduce unnecessary and avoidable contact with the public and protect the safety of staff during the COVID-19 pandemic Lockdown period.

From the date of the Operational Decision all noise and statutory nuisance complaints will be investigated normally but will include an extended period of monitoring and evidence gathering with enforcement decisions being delayed until after the COVID-19 Lockdown period.

The Neighbourhood Enforcement Team will continue to utilise the existing Noise APP software which allows customers to submit recordings of alleged noise nuisance to support complaints. Officers will now, temporarily restrict activities to reviewing the information received and only providing relevant advice during the extended monitoring period. Affected Customers/Cases expectations will be managed and they will be contacted and informed of the temporary changes to service delivery.

Any enforcement action will be delayed until an appropriate future time after the Lockdown period. These jobs will be reviewed regularl and customers contacted once Environmental Health officers are able to safely visit/serve notice/undertake works in default to remedy complaints effectively.

1. That employees from priority 1 services (or those redeployed into priority 1 services), who have been unable to take leave due to the need to remain in the workplace to provide essential services due to the coronavirus pandemic, to be able to carry over up to 20 days untaken annual leave to be used across the next two annual leave years (2020/2021 and 2021/2022).

2. That 3 days of this leave can be carried over in the normal way in accordance with our local arrangements, with up to 17 more additional days recorded separately to ensure that leave is taken within the 2 year period specified.

3. That the Banking of Leave scheme be ‘suspended’ in order to avoid uncontrollable amounts of stored up leave for longer than the 2 years in these regulations. Employees who currently have ‘banked leave’ will still be able to book and use this leave in the usual way until it is all used.

4. If an employee leaves the Council and has leave carried over due to the coronavirus, this leave be paid for upon termination of employment