Decision details

(Item FIP 19/3 referred from Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board minutes of 9 January 2019)

Consideration of recommendations to the Cabinet from the Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board of 9 January 2019.

The Cabinet resolved that:

The recommendations of the Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board be approved as follows:

(1)         in respect of the recovery of legal fees payable by third parties, the Council’s fees continue to follow the Supreme Court guideline hourly rates as set out at paragraph 1.2.1 of the report;

(2)         the proposed scale of fees for local land charges searches and enquiries set out at Annex 1 to the report be adopted with effect from 1 April 2019;

(3)         the current photocopying charges of 10p (inclusive of VAT) for each page of the same document or additional copies of the same page plus postage as appropriate be retained;

(4)         the fee schedule for street naming and numbering set out in section 1.6 of the report be adopted with effect from 1 April 2019; and

(5)         the amount of council tax and business rate Court costs recharged remain as set out at paragraph 1.7.2 of the report for the 2019/20 financial year.

As set out in the report submitted to the Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board of 9 January 2019.