Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Economy, Skills and Culture Overview and Scrutiny Committee
7 Apr 2026 - 14:00 to 16:00
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests
  • Webcast

Documents

Agenda

Public Agenda
1 Notice of Recording/Webcast

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Public-I microsite (please click this linkand that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

 

 

2 Apologies
To receive any apologies.
3 Declarations of Interests

Members are reminded they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and other registerable interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting.

 

If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.

 

If other registerable interests are declared a Member may speak on the matter only if members of the public are allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.    

 

If it is a ‘sensitive interest’, Members do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that they have an interest.

 

Information on the Local Government Association's Model Councillor Code of Conduct is set out via http://bit.ly/3WtGQnN. This includes, at Appendix 1, an interests flowchart which provides a simple guide to declaring interests at meetings.

 

 

 

4 Exempt Information – Possible Exclusion of the Press and Public

a) To highlight reports or appendices which officers have identified as containing exempt information within the meaning of Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972, and where officers consider that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons outlined in the report.
b) To formally pass the following resolution:-

RESOLVED – That, in accordance with Regulation 4 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of those parts of the agenda designated as exempt on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information.


To consider the "Requests for Call-in" (the portfolio holder, Councillor Sharon Thompson, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Economy and Skills and relevant officers will be attending the meeting).
The following documents are attached:
1. Cover Report
2. Appendix A – Call-In Procedure and Criteria Briefing Note
Sale of Land at Fox Street, Birmingham, B5 5AD (March 2026)
1. Appendix B – Executive Decision Record
2. Appendix C - Exempt – Request for Call-In (Councillor Ewan Mackey and Councillor Robert Alden)
3. Appendix D – Cabinet Committee Property Report
4. Appendices D1 to D7 (including exempt appendix)

 

 

  1. pdf Request for Call-in Report - Sale of Land at Fox Street Cover Report v2 (165Kb)
    1. pdf Appendix A Call In Procedure & Criteria Briefing Note_FINAL (152Kb)
    2. pdf Appendix B _Executive Decision Record Sale of Land at Fox Street (56Kb)
    3. pdf Appendix C Call-in form Fox Street final signed REDACTED (312Kb)
    4. Appendix C EXEMPT 170326 Call-in Form Sale of Land at Fox Street
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
    5. pdf Appendix D - Cabinet Committee Property Report Fox Street, Birmingham (169Kb)
    6. pdf Appendix D1 - APPENDIX 1 ETNA St FOX St SITE PLAN (360Kb)
    7. Appendix D2 -Exempt Appendix 2 -Final - Fox Street, Birmingham
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
    8. Appendix D3 - Exempt Appendix 3 - Final Fox Street Disposal Strategy & Recommendation Report F
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
    9. Appendix D4 - Exempt Appendix 4 -Final- Fox Street - HoTs
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
    10. Appendix D5 - Exempt Appendix 5 - Valuation Report - Fox St Birmingham
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
    11. Appendix D6 - Exempt Appendix 6 - Ward Member Notification Response
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
    12. pdf Appendix D7 - Appendix 7 - EIA000381_Sale of vacant Land at Fox Street Birmingham. (488Kb)
6 Date and Time of Next Meeting
To agree a date and time, if required. 

Attendance

Apologies
NameReason for Sending Apology
Councillor Ziaul IslamWard meeting
Councillor Shafique Shah 
Absent
NameReason for Absence
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
Councillor Robert Alden Council appointed Director at Birmingham Museums Trust Non-PecuniaryNoted.

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

Richard Lawrence, Executive Director, Place, Prosperity & Sustainability (online)

David Harris, Director, Property & Regeneration

Sushil Thobhani, Head of Service (Law)


___ Members of public expressed a desire to address the meeting.

Webcast



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