Decision details

Before the Committee was a report by the Director for Digital, Sustainability & Resources, presented by the Cabinet Member for Resources, copies of which had been circulated to all Members and a copy of which is attached to the signed copy of these minutes as Item 8.

The outlined Worthing Council’s approach for supporting and developing the local economy and outlined those activities that would help deliver a new approach.

The key pillars of the Council’s economic approach reflected the vision of the Council:  fair, green and local.  The paper outlined what those meant in economic terms.

The report set out the commitment to make the best use of council assets to deliver excellent quality services for residents together with the wider economic benefits associated with places that people value and enjoy.

A foundation to this economic approach was community wealth building. This was a people-centred approach to local economic development, which redirected wealth back into the local economy, and placed control and benefits into the hands of local people.     

Members welcomed the report and thanked Officers for the significant amount of work that had gone into this area of work.

The recommendations in the report were proposed by Councillor McCabe, seconded by Councillor Silman and unanimously supported.    

Decision

That the Worthing Joint Strategic Sub-Committee agreed

1.    To set up a working group to manage progress which should include officers, members and representatives from the local business and community groups and delegated authority to the Director for Digital, Sustainability and Resources to agree the terms of reference for the working group in consultation with the Leader which would include the requirement to report back to the Committee (at such intervals to be agreed in the terms of reference) with further recommendations to the Committee. 

2.    That the Working Group design and develop outcome measures to be reported to the Committee with agreed outcome measures published every 6 months.

3.    To Initiate a review of identified policies in section 7 in order to embed these principles.

Call-in

The call-in deadline for the decision will be 5.00pm on the 15th December 2022.