Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Cabinet
3 Mar 2026 - 18:00 to 19:35
Occurred
Conference Room, Riverside
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  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda

Meeting Details
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Members are invited to a Meeting of the Cabinet

to be held in the Conference Room, Riverside, Lowestoft

on Tuesday, 3 March 2026 at 6.00pm

 

Agenda updated on 27 February 2026, to include the minutes of the previous meeting.

 

 This meeting will be broadcast to the public via the East Suffolk YouTube Channel at https://youtube.com/live/DXO13k_WxkE?feature=share

Open To The Public
1 Apologies for Absence

To receive apologies for absence, if any.

2 Declarations of Interest

Members and Officers are invited to make any declarations of interests, and the nature of that interest, that they may have in relation to items on the Agenda and are also reminded to make any declarations at any stage during the Meeting if it becomes apparent that this may be required when a particular item or issue is considered.

3 Announcements
To receive any announcements.
4 Minutes
To agree as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 3 February 2026.
pdf Minutes (221Kb)
5 Referrals from the Overview and Scrutiny Committee
To consider any matters referred from the Overview and Scrutiny Committee
KEY DECISIONS
6 Thorpeness – Coastal Erosion Short-Term Options
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Planning and Coastal Management
7 Resilience and Emergency Response Fund
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money 
8 Award of contract/s under the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Grant allocation
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Housing
9 Housing Revenue Account Asset Management Strategy 2026-2030
Report of the Cabinet Member with Responsibility for Housing 
10 Request for variation of a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) – Felixstowe carparks leading from Viewpoint to Cliff Road, and surrounding area
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Community Safety
NON-KEY DECISIONS
11 2025/26 Quarter 3 Financial Performance Report
Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Resources and Value for Money
12 Ports & Marine Facilities Safety Code Compliance Exercise
Report of the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member with responsibility for Corporate Services - Digital, Customer Services, HR and Assets
13 Exempt/Confidential Items

It is recommended that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act.     

Exempt/Confidential
14 Minutes
To agree as a correct record the exempt minutes of the meeting held on 3 February 2026.
Minutes
KEY DECISIONS
15 Renewal of Microsoft 365 Subscription services
  • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
  1. ES-2726 Renewal of Microsoft 365 Subscription services
    • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
16 Proposed Surrender of four long leases on Hamilton Road, Lowestoft and the regrant of a new lease.
  • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
  1. ES-2725 Proposed Surrender of four long leases on Hamilton Road, Lowestoft
    • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    1. ES-2725 Appendix A
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
    2. ES-2725 Appendix B
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

Attendance

Apologies
NameReason for Sending Apology
Councillor Sarah Whitelock 
Absent
NameReason for Absence
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Visitors

Officers present: Pip Alder (Democratic Services Officer), Chris Bally (Chief Executive), Chris Bing (Head of Legal and Democratic Services), Kerry Blair (Strategic Director), Michelle Burdett (Strategic Director), Mark Chambers (Operational Lead – Property Data, Contracts & Support), Duncan Colman (Estates Manager), Nick Denny (Head of Property and Place), Heather Fisk (Head of Housing), Lorraine Fitch (Democratic Services Manager), Martyn Fulcher (Head of Energy Planning and Coastal Management), Phil Harris (Head of Communications and Marketing), Nick Khan (Strategic Director), Chloe Lee (East Suffolk Communities Officer), Sandra Lewis (Head of Digital, Programme Management and Customer Services), Fern Lincoln (Strategic Lead – Housing Needs), Isobel Rolfe  (Political Group Support Officer (GLI)), Lorraine Rogers (Chief Finance Officer), Charlie Smith (Resilience Co-ordinator), Karen Thomas (Coastal Management and Adaptation Manager)

 

Others present: Monty Smedley (External Consultant)





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