West Yorkshire Combined Authority - Thursday 27 July 2023, 11:00am - West Yorkshire Combined Authority Webcasting

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Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:00:00
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:00:01
on their way. before we start the meeting and there are a couple of updates that I'd like to provide members, the first relates to councillor should be a panda who resigned as leader of Coakley's council with immediate effect last night,
can I take this opportunity to thank should be a Pandor for his support over the last two years that I've been mayor for his role in securing devolution to the region, he's been a champion for Coakley's and West Yorkshire, including through his leadership on inclusivity and let's not forget he was one of the few. only, I think, are good charity, leaders of a council of that size, and he took that responsibility to
talk about III and to champion inclusivity
across everything you did and also his leadership on economic growth. He also led the Council during a really difficult time through the pandemic and difficult economic circumstances, but, as they say, my old profession, the show must go on, and Coakley's will be now selecting a new leader, who I look forward to working with, as we continue to work towards creating a West Yorkshire that works for all. The Deputy Leader, Councillor Cathy Scott, is focused on local issues in Coakley's this morning and is unable to join us today and the second update I wanted to provide members about the legal challenge to the proposal of closures of ticket officers by train operating companies ticket office and station staff are essential if we want our railways to be accessible to everyone, they offer advice the offer guidance, sometimes simply just that friendly, face to people who may be socially excluded and vulnerable, the current plans will impact the most vulnerable in society including disabled and older people, with many ticket machines at train stations outside of London not being accessible as they are cashless. of the 467 Northern Rail stations, 449 have cashless ticket machines, and that's why I'm determined to challenge these proposals any way we can from 19 ticket officers that are going to be stuffed, we will end up with only three, and that will be Huddersfield, Bradford and Leeds
the Combined Authority members were kept informed of a decision taken under delegated authority by Ben still our Chief Exec, but I want to take the opportunity to put this on record.
we've joined with other mayoral combined authorities in Greater Manchester, Liverpool City region, South Yorkshire and Cambridge and Peterborough, to challenge the lawfulness of consultations on ticket office closures. on the advice of King's Council, we've written a pre-election protocol letter to seven train operating companies, including transparent unexpressed Northern trains limited, and all n e are setting out our belief that this type of consultation that they are using is inappropriate for changes of this scale and sets out further course of legal action if the consultation is not halted. we have seen an extension of the consultation to September, but that is not
what we're looking for. This consultation should be scrapped. The rail delivery group, on behalf of the train operators companies announced that extension to the 1st of September. It's unclear whether this extension will allow for the proper legal process. We think the operators should have followed to take place. So of course we're waiting for. Further details were yet to receive a substantive response from the train operating companies to our pre-action letter. We've been told to expect this early August. Obviously, we'll need to see their full response before deciding whether to pursue the next steps of the legal challenge alongside other mayoral combined authorities and as ever, I will keep CM members informed of the next steps between meetings
OK dot, let's move on to the meeting itself, so,

1 Apologies for Absence

Ian can you confirm any apologies please
yeah, so we have apologies from Councillor Jeffery and Councillor Holdsworth Councillor Golton is attending for Councillor Hollingsworth and I believe we are expecting Councillor Molly, who is not here yet,
we've also had apologies from Councillor Pandor Councillor Scott Amanda again, thank
you so much, Ian may I also take this opportunity, please, to welcome Phoenix, Comey and profile our new director of inclusive economy, skills and culture, and it's your first see a meeting so you are very, very welcome and everybody be kind to Felix is his first meeting.

2 Declarations of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests

so thank you so much and we waited a long time for you, but I'm so delighted you're now in post, thank you, so item 2 declarations of interest to any Members have any interests they wish to declare in any item going forward, no thank you

3 Exempt Information - Possible Exclusion of the Press and Public

4 Minutes of the Meeting of the Combined Authority held on 22 June 2023

item 3. Exclusion of press and public have not been made aware there are any exempt items today item 4 minutes of 22 of June 2023 any comments or questions on those minutes

For Decision

5 West Yorkshire Investment Strategy Review

were happy to confirm their an accurate record, thank you super moving on to Item 5. This report notes the revisions made to the West Yorkshire investment strategy through the annual review process and that's attached Appendix 1. The investment strategy is one of our key documents that helps us prioritise our investments. It's important that this document continues to reflect the current economic climate and align with our new plans. So the documents reflect the missions in our newly published West Yorkshire Plan 2040 and continue to provide us with flexibility to invest well in those things that will help us drive forward our economy. The report doesn't seek funding approvals for any individual projects and are concerned only with investment strategies. So may I invite Angela Taylor, our Director of Finance and Commercial Services, to add any further information, and then, if members have any comments, they'd like to raised all questions for Angela, thank you, Angela,
Angela Taylor - 0:06:00
thank you, Mayor, yes, very thorough introduction there to it, as you said, this is something we've had in place since 2021. it has been updated once before, so you, you're saying it again, off on a further occasion, it has had some minor updates to reflect the change in the last years with refreshed and updated to recognise some of the changes in year to broaden out a little bit some of the investment strategy some of the investment priority definitions to ensure that we're able to respond to the issues that have been.
being considered by the Combined Authority over the last year paragraph 2 10 onwards summarises those changes, there is a bit more of an emphasis on equity, diversity, inclusion and including a new focus on ensuring that there's an equality impact assessment at the first stage of the assurance framework for any projects coming through to us
paragraph 2 17 summarises the investment priorities as they now sit. and as the mayor explained, we're not looking to allocate funding at this stage, that's a separate process, but this is just about ensuring everybody is comfortable with the 6 investment priorities which have been
agreed in the HRA originally by this, this committee recognising and the Mayor's priorities and the priorities of our local partners.
probably leave it there if there are any questions
I said, I hope that the changes are marked up in the in the appendix for you to see, but I have to take any questions,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:07:26
thank you, thank you so much. I am also pleased to see the focus on health outcomes. Health inequality is too wide across West Yorkshire and working with our inclusivity champion as well. We're hoping to tackle that
as much as we can. through investment in skills, jobs and training and
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 0:07:49
so on, so any comments yes Councillor Lamb and then Councillor Golton.
yeah, thank you full introduction just I'd like some reassurance and comments about how we make sure the voice of children are captured through these astronomers' church scrutiny and leads for quite a few years.
it's important it adds value and colour and richness to the decision making.
there's nothing specific in here, but perhaps if it could be addressed through the equality impact assessment, I'd make sure actually really focusing on capturing the voice of children as part of the decision-making,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:08:21
thank you so much great suggestion, let's take that away, Councillor Golton,
thanks Mayor.
Cllr Stewart Golton - 0:08:27
two things. I'm really
concerned that as a board, we're here to make sure that we're reviewing and and
making sure that policies are offered rigour in our assessment of them. So it concerns me when the messaging gets changed to something which I find is difficult to measure, so
we were spooked. We were building a better West Yorkshire before which I think a lot of people can associate with making sure that we're delivering on housing and physical infrastructure. The new catchline is a brighter West Yorkshire that works for all
and I'm just wondering how we
tangibly measure brightness when we're measuring our success in delivering that as a priority for West Yorkshire,
because I am having difficulty myself thinking about how that's done and then, secondly, I just wanted to endorse what the mayor was talking about in terms of the health outcomes being really important for us and I'll I'll bring it up a little bit later on because in some of the decisions that we make in our investment programme we might actually have potentially an adverse effect on people's health through,
the schemes that we introduce infrastructure, wife.
but it also indicates that we might want to, as a Combined Authority, seek to take on extra powers in this area, as has happened in Greater Manchester, so I would be interested to know if we are working towards them.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:10:06
thank you very much Councillor Golton, brighter, you'll see from the West Yorkshire Plan there are
targets in place for 2020 40. It's really clear and detailed, and there are strategies underneath each of these missions, so I'm very happy to share more detail that's already in place. So the public can be very clear and hold us to account on what brighter means, a brighter, happier their emotions, but they're absolutely backed by rigour and data and when it comes to adverse impact on health. Nobody wants to do that and if you have examples of where you feel that's gonna happen, please do raise those with me
and regarding deeper devolution, we are currently not.

6 UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)

asking government for health devolution. We have our bid to be a trailblazer we are working in lockstep, as leaders across the region and the single funding settlement is absolutely our priority, because that's where we're going to make a difference. I don't know if Angela or Alan would like to pick up any of those points. No lovely thank you. So are we happy to approve the revisions to the West Yorkshire investment plan? Lovely, thank you. Let's move on to the UK shared prosperity fund
item 6 on the agenda. This provides a further update on the progress made on implementing a West Yorkshire UK SDF local investment plans since the spring and this includes core SDF, multiply programme, you'll know that's about maths and.
or and it has been a challenge, and the Rural Fund,
or, as I say, multiply, has to has been a top-down programme directly from the Treasury. We know the intentions are good, but obviously we want our citizens to be more numerous, but the design and the management of the programme has been poor from the outset. Despite this, we've been successfully improving 2000 people's maths skills across the region, but sadly we've had to return some funding back to the Treasury, despite repeated requests to allow us to roll over funding and to work with MPs to get them to supporters in a letter and still government have asked for it back. We want to improve the skills of the people of West Yorkshire. We know how to do, it, give us better timescales and we can deliver. There was slow that the government was slow to get funding to us, and the management is exactly the sort of Whitehall control that we need to move away from will strive to make a success of the programme in the coming years and remain committed to developing new and innovative solutions to address this longstanding challenge of mastering maths. This paper also seeks authorisation for the Chief Executive to progress work undertaken on the final UK SDF pillar 3, which is long-awaited to support people and skills in West Yorkshire. It seeks approval of the themed areas for investment, so officers can finalise an invitation to bid to be published by the end of September in consultation with myself and the Chair of the employment and skills committee, but I would say that one of the concerns that have been raised with me about this process of UK sp F is that it's clunky, it's true it's hard to navigate
it's hard for community, particularly that have no resources for the bidding process I we absolutely need to ensure that smaller organisations are and excluded because of minimum bid requirements, et cetera, that are set out this money needs to go to the right places, government have made it incredibly complicated and hard and I've been challenging officers to make it easier and to have another look at how we do this, so I'm gonna hand over to Alan reasonable further details and maybe you can address that point in particular before opening up the discussion.
absolutely. Thank you very much ma, so
Alan Reiss - 0:13:55
we've made a good progress in terms of contracting the overall allocation. So roughly 60% of the 68 million has already been contracted. And if we could just update on where we're at with Puerto before I come on to pillar 3, so the pillar 2 invitation to bid, which is the business support piece worth nearly 12 million pounds. We have run the process for organisations to bid into that and those applications are going to be considered by the local partnership group, which contains representatives from councils and a range of regional stakeholders next week before bringing those back to the Combined Authority for approval in September. That leaves the final strand, which is pillar 3, which is people and skills, and just remind
the Committee, first of all, as is all this, is defined by government,
so we have previously the combined authorities previously agreed that we would allocate 14 million pounds to the people and skills call, and the government in under the rules of the UK ESPN previously have required that we can only allocate money to that pillar for one year for 24 25 which of course creates some delivery challenges because where we will be seeking to contract with a range of providers and for them to then deliver in a 12 month period. So we are working hard to
get in place that bidding process so that we're able to contract with the providers in good time for them to start delivery next April. So what's proposed? And this has all been discussed with the employment and skills committee and aligned with both the investment priorities that are set out within the investment strategy and with our overall employment and skills programmes, is for that skills and that skills money to be allocated. Firstly, to Ward's employment, West Yorkshire, which is a programme that's already underway running, working with the five
through the five councils
and then there are three areas where we would seek to enable other organisations to come in and deliver for us, so the first is the Work and Health programme which would be to help people in households and to remove or barriers to work created by poor health. The second is the community grants programme, which would be to support those furthest from the labour market, and I'll just come back to that point in a moment to address the the the question the Mayor raised and the third is on youth unemployment and which will be to secure a provider who can help work with partners to support.
our work with the Department for Work and Pensions
for youth hubs across West Yorkshire
and, as I say there is, there is a significant delivery challenge with this, given that we only have 12 months, and that relates to the point the mayor raised about the constraints that are, placed on us by government with this fund. So there are some challenges which we are in discussion with government on about this and are also working through solutions with
officers across the region. In terms of the question about the the the
the accessibility of the funds to smaller organisations, absolutely this is a challenge we should recognise and I'm just gonna say a few words about how we're dealing with it, so we're trying to strike a balance
here between the delivery of larger regional programmes
and supported by a number of smaller local programmes, and in particular, it's worth reminding the Combined Authority that nearly half of UK SDF has been one allocated to each of the five local authorities to run hyperlocal programmes and there are significant opportunities in that funding for small local community groups to, to access money,
that said, you know there is less on the UK's PFM that used to be under ESIF and there are some difficult choices to be to be made, so
so there are opportunities for smaller organisations in the communities in place pillar which is run by the five local authorities
in terms of the people and skills pillar.
we're seeking overall agreement today to the the shape of those those four areas that I described earlier. It's worth mentioning the Community Grants pillar 4 million pounds where our approach to that would not be for the combined authority to run the bidding process, but for us to contract with a grant provider who would then run it for us and we would we and the the the kind of the rules around that, including the minimum amounts have not been nailed down. We would look to do that in the next stage, taking on board the feedback that has been received from stakeholders across the region, so we would seek through that process to address the issue around accessibility for for smaller organisations.
so hopefully that answers the point but very happy to try and answer questions.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:18:44
I think also the challenge is about making sure that people know this money exists and that that these opportunities are there for them, is there any work we can do to make sure that the call goes more widely or and not to our usual channels,
Alan Reiss - 0:18:58
so we are we have a the development of a website underway which will help, although clearly development of website is quite a common answer to How are you communicating and not necessarily. the most effective we have a, we have a distribution list of hundreds of stakeholders across the region, people who've previously access to European money, for instance, that we regularly send these calls out to and we can certainly look to try and extend extend that, and my understanding is that over the last year or two it has grown to over 1,000, actually so we are pushing out to lots of lots of organisations across the region and clearly the local authorities are doing the same thing in their areas as well
and and always happy to have further organisations added to it,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:19:45
I think also the people that have been delivering the mayor's cost of living.
crisis money, they should know as well the deadlines and and identify people who need support to bid,
and also Fatima Khan Shah, the inclusivity champion, should be given these details to say at every opportunity that this is this is for you.
absolutely and of course, the community grants programme
Alan Reiss - 0:20:10
that will be launched under skills under the skills pillar isn't open yet so at the point at which we do, we will will absolutely use those use, those channels and whether our existing channels through, for instance, the local authority, run funding under the communities in place pillar.
We are pulling together all of the information about how to access those funds so that it can all be communicated out comprehensively.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:20:36
Thank you, because the last thing we want to do is give money back to government and that we can use here, and I'd I do know that the multiply scheme was so tricky because there was people so far away from even getting into a classroom to learn about numeracy, that they need, that support. That could be six months to a year support
moving through programmes and so on, so very, very frustrating time for us when we could use that money, OK, Doak any questions, Councillor Golton.
Alan Reiss - 0:23:00
I think it's really I think it's a really good, really good point, and we will build that point into the invitation to bid as a requirement.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:23:10
but certainly that a lot of them are well, as you know, our focus is absolutely on those areas of furthest away from opportunities getting support to access opportunities, so that's why
ensuring that we have a decent bus network is one of my priorities because the only way you can thicken the labour market is through skills and good transport so those two together will help our communities we have this money, we must make the most of it and why do not the offer Councillor Paulson,
Cllr Alan Lamb - 0:23:43
thank you mate, just another one on the on the rural fund, there's a bit of a theme here,
it says into 10 you're working with a small number of key rural
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 0:23:52
partners to try and promote this further. Would you be able to send us round or let us know who the rural partners are and is there a link that you could send to members on the boards that we can share it out in our communities as well, so we can make sure it's out as much as possible and on the the multiply
really concerned that, over 1.4 million is being taken from the West Yorkshire going back to government on this, when obviously there is a lot of people need literacy, skill or numeracy skills.
what's even more concerning is it's sort of saying that one of the reasons for the for the delays and the problems is the the lack of the local authorities?
having relationships with schools, which seems a bit crazy because I was so our local authorities worked very closely with our schools and our academies across the dice across our district, so I don't think we got a few of the leaders here were they aware that there was a problem having relationships with the schools and have they been dealt with on individual authority levels or
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:24:59
Councillor falsely if I just may say it's not about the relationship with schools, this is parents put aside to put in parents you have to build the trust in order. As I said, they are the furthest away from going to a numeracy class, so it's it's building opportunities, for example, to do a cooking class where there is some numeracy in that cooking class to then move through to another class. There might then be a multiply, so this isn't about the poor relationship with local authorities. This is absolutely about the timescales given to us by government. They give us the money late. We add a year to deliver it and to deliver a particular standards when, in the outreach work we're doing all we can flat out trying to identify people who could benefit from this money. And let me tell you, I am absolutely sick to the back teeth, that we had to give this money back and we lobbied and lobbied and lobbied to keep it and extend the tie the timeframe. We know we can use it. We know there are people that need it, and at government said we want that money back at our local MPs. Cross-party wrote a letter, they advocated for us, and I am hopefully that you might write a letter and said this is absolutely wrong, and it's mad that we know we can. we can use this money in West Yorkshire, I don't know if
Cllr Alan Lamb - 0:26:14
anyone else wants to come in Alan
Alan Reiss - 0:26:18
thank you very much on the on the first, on the first point, absolutely on on the rural fund, so we're working with organisations like the National farmers Union, the Yorkshire food and farming rural network et cetera and we will absolutely send round that list of rural stakeholders and and sends information about the opportunity to all members of the all members of the Combined Authority, and just to build on slightly what the mayor, what the Mayor said yeah multiply landed in the middle of the school, we are very difficult to engage.
apparently asked us teachers to then work with parents halfway through the school year, it was, so there were, there were a number of challenges to do with the the the timing.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:26:59
thank you so much and Councillor Skelton.
thank you.
Cllr Jane Scullion - 0:27:04
I'm disappointed in the shared prosperity fund so far and we were very grateful to have it, but certainly Calderdale is 60% of the European moneys that we had and we're making the better and, as the mayor said, it came late,
you know mean waiting and waiting kept asking where is this money shared prosperity fund where was it you know and we've been left with? a part year basically, in order to try and get things up running out of the door and sadly the timing meant in Calderdale and certainly the some projects had to close because there was no guarantee projects were absolutely in the right area and needed that funding had to close because there was no guarantee of the new funding stream so there were some I'm sure unintended consequences of that. I just wanted to
to say that actually, in terms of the rural work.
I think only Wakefield has actually been allocated, I think only one application has gone through so far, there are quite a lot of others,
I think, lining up.
in terms of the rural funds would be good to see a future report how that's working across the across the borrowers
but really really please really pleased to see it, I think my main point mayor, though coming back to the initial point is capacity the capacity of the community organisations who are making this work on the ground and organisations like schools and so on at very short notice to put these things in place, the capacity of us as local authorities to try and manage that and the capacity then of the combined authority to to manage some flexibility in terms of light touch and proportionality in terms of the some of them, some of the
the rules for coal. Today I think it's just over 2 million for pillar 1 actually, and I know that it's a lot of money, but nonetheless proportionately in terms of other schemes. It is a relatively small amount of money within this particular landscape and so understanding our capacity to to manage some of that.
I think we've already had the discussions about making sure it's appropriate, really the future.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:29:22
Thank you, Councillor Scullion, and it deepens my resolve to get further deeper devolution because this does not make sense, its app is taking capacity out. It's
dancing to a tune, we don't necessarily get the best outcomes and we give money back and it makes no sense. We know how to do this stuff give us the powers and money to just get on with it. Thank you OK Duke, so we happy to note progress.
lovely and can Members note the recommendations of the U K S P F Local Partnership Group from its meeting on 15th June 2023,
and just while I am on that point, I want to thank the members of that group who have to wade through pages and pages of phonebook size of paperwork and they do it for the love and the dedication for West Yorkshire, so thank them for their hard work and diligence. And thirdly, come members confirmed they approved the funding envelope, so the four calls and authorise the Chief Executive to finalise the invitation to bid document in consultant in consultation with myself, the Chair of the employment and skills committee, so we can then get it published by mid September. Thank you all so much brilliant

7 Appointment of Combined Authority Returning Officer

right, moving on to Item 7, approval of Combined Authority returning officer, and this is preparation for the 2024 election. I can't believe it's coming round again. it's it's absolutely flown by, and the proposal is to mirror the admin arrangements are put in place for the 2021 election Tom Riordan, the local returning officer for Leeds City Council, thank you is in the chairs on the side, thank you for agreeing kindly to take on the important role of the Combined Authority returning Officer with support from Ben Steele as one of his deputies Ben anything for further to add.
I don't think so.
Griffin Members were content to approve. Thank
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:31:14
you. Are we all happy to agree terms appointment as the returning officer?
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:31:18
That

8 Project Approvals

8 a) Investment Priority 3: Creating Great Places and Accelerated Infrastructure

s is a sad day for Tom, I'm afraid, but you're going to be our returning officer and I obviously Ben as Deputy, thank you all so much terrific okay. Moving on to Item 8 8, investment priority, 3, creating great places and accelerated infrastructure. Now this report provides details of two schemes that are recommended for progression through the assurance process, and can I invite Liz Hunter director of policing environment in place to I outline excuse me, the two scheme schemes for consideration.
Liz Hunter - 0:31:52
Thank you, Mayor sorry, to start with the employment land accelerator fund, this is 2 million pounds for us to really get into the employment sites pipeline across the across the region. So what does that mean? That means that we want to work with our District partners and others to identify employment sites and that we really think need investment or or detailed work to help bring them forward. We've already talked actually or earlier about good jobs and employment sites create, hopefully, good jobs. So what we'd like to be able to do is use this fund, like I say to you, to work with partners to develop out a list of which employment sites to work with, and it's been really great to work with the Place Housing and Regeneration Committee. They provided input into the criteria for that, so we're using that to to to determine the sites and then we also use the funding to do things like feasibility studies, site assessments, master planning and kind of market analysis to really help think about what the sites need to bring them forward, hopefully for the private sector, to invest in, or at least for them to be ready, and if there's any other funding which might be needed set to help bring them forward. That's the employment land accelerator fund. The second scheme also in this paper is the lightweight enterprise zone in Wakefield,
and what we're seeking for for your agreement today is funding to basically enable us to bring forward that side, so it's a site that the Combined Authority already owns and the money that we are looking for your approval today would help us to buy the land to build the road, build the road and do the site remediation and to then enable us to to continue to progress that site thereafter. Thank you,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:33:31
thank you any comments, Councillor Lamb, Councillor Golton
yeah, thank you
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 0:33:37
on the first item on the economic case, it shows the scheme is expected to deliver good value for money. which is excellent, but how is it going to do that and what are we measuring,
thank you, Liz.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:33:49
great. Thank you. It's great. It's quite difficult to look at
Liz Hunter - 0:33:53
the early stages of site development. Your your right and particularly when we're not giving you a list of what those sites are. I think what we're looking and have based the assessment on is thinking about evaluation of other over the other things. We've done so when we look at the economic potential of these sites and I can say what we've we've agreed the criteria with Place Committee. So the strategic sites they can, whether location will be et cetera, is then recognising that if we can unlock them, the potential that that has sorry, for example, thinking about the jobs that might be created,
the the cannot be added CVA to two places when we all look sites, but it's fairly difficult to do at this early stage, so that's why the assessment doesn't get into much more detail than that.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:34:41
thank you, because at Councillor Lamb,
thank you ma.
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 0:34:45
yeah, so, J it's sort of a wider point, and I'm I'm quite new, although I note that the mayor didn't ask anyone to be kind to me when
Cllr Alan Lamb - 0:34:51
it was my first meeting,
the the wider points when when do these things come back to the Board so we can measure success to see what's going well and we should do more of and what's not going well
because there's an awful lot of money being. handed out here for some very good projects and good outcomes, hopefully but surely one of our duties is to make sure it's actually delivering, and when we say it's gonna be good value for money that we measure and challenge whether it was or not and we should do more of
this.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:35:23
and yet meagre points say we've had something similar on on housing,
Liz Hunter - 0:35:27
they've had a housing revenue fund and we're just doing the evaluation of that at the moment, so we'll then bring the results of that and we'll look to do something similar with this fund so that we can measure it. It is something new that we're doing as a combined authority, so some of this is to test it and trial it and see, and then, as you rightly say, whether it's something that you want us to continue with or not will depend on that evaluation, so happy to mean that Batman.
Thank you, Ben
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:35:47
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:35:51
and Councillor, I'm just to kind of add to to to Lisa's answer in in the papers, for each projects and programme that's taken forward, and I'm just looking at page 99 of the pack, there's what's called an assurance pathway, and that tells you what the proposal is for how the project gets taken through in the decision, the accountability in the decision making for that project. So if at any point your you, you want somebody to come back to the Combined Authority, the point is to challenge that element there, because that's where the delegations are made to committees or to officers, and I mean it wouldn't come back to the Combined Authority unless it exceeded certain tolerances.
however, it helps
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:36:28
thank you always brilliant on the technicalities and very helpful thank you, Councillor Golton,
Cllr Stewart Golton - 0:36:32
thanks me.
I am interested in the criteria that you were talking about, that the
Sub-Committee had put together
because
the priorities called creating great places and accelerated infrastructure, and I just want to make sure.
given that the one distinct scheme, which is highlighted here is predicated on, actually being owned by the Combined Authority, and I assume, is one which is gonna be fed by people arriving to work in a car
as opposed to by public transport.
is the criteria actually associated with particular places,
or is it just associated with?
an asset management exercise whereby local councils identify the bits of spare land they have and then hope that through investment, jobs might be created, as opposed to people being encouraged to live and work in a particular community and therefore are small scale.
accelerated projects. going to be introduced, and how do places ii communities
get to put their hand up and say, or we'd like you to consider a scheme that we've thought up, as opposed to council economic development officers?
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:38:05
well, Liz, that's quite a question,
it's maybe a bit more theoretical and at potentially needs a longer answer than a committee about place and sense of belonging and ownership of investments, and so on.
I hope that you could be reassured that the place committee are absolutely focused on not just job creation but making sure that places are great places to be to start a business, to raise a family, but Liz, I don't know if you want to come in on any of that. Thank you.
Cllr Stewart Golton - 0:38:40
So the place committee have looked at the criteria and they are interested in our special priority areas, which is something that the Combined Authority has agreed at previous meetings. we're interested in probably larger sites, so not necessarily some the claimed pockets of small sites, but again, thinking visit at a regional level and the value that we can bring thinking about scale and size, but just to reassure you, in terms of location, we are really interested in sites that are located close close to transport infrastructure, such as where our mass transit corridors are ma am for major rail infrastructure,
and so that is definitely part of the key concrete criteria that the Place Committee had. And if, just on the on the length wait, I recognise that the site the last time I visited, I did go by a train and and then walk from the train station, so it is possible
I got Councillor moist.
taking all the jargon and everything Council report. We're talking about all our poorest communities in our in West Yorkshire that there's never actually got over the 1980 s and the bits close in we talked about a lot of pit villages, their cellphones or South Kirby
Cllr Matthew Morley - 0:39:46
Upton Emsworth where we have massive employment and I do welcome this Andrew welcomes investment comes this area which deprived area, and that you are right, I ask for some very good. Connectivity in that area needs to be better, as we all know, needs to be better value. At the end of the day, are looking for a much-needed
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:40:07
and certainly on that site, the backstage academy has been incredibly valuable resource for local young people going into the music industry and fantastic outcomes for industry into jobs, and some of them don't even complete the course because they're snaffled by people coming from all over the world and then taking them on tour. So it is an amazing training scheme there,
Oak haddock, so are we happy for the two schemes outlined to progress through the
assurance process
where, yes were agreed and the addictive prep approvals for the combined authorities funding contribution, full approval of the combined authorities, funding contribution for delivering development costs and approval of future assurance pathways and approval routes,
and the recommendations set out in the report. Happy to agree. Yes, thank you

10 a) Investment Priority 5: Delivering Sustainable, Inclusive and Affordable Transport

so much fantastic, thank you very much. Liz. So, moving on to investment priority 5, delivering sustainable, inclusive and affordable transport. This provides details of five schemes recommended to the CA for progression, and I do like to invite Councillor Hinchcliffe as Chair of the West Yorkshire Transport Committee, and then Melanie Corcoran, Director of Transport Policy and delivery, to outline
the schemes for consideration. Thank you, Councillor Hinchcliffe, I am
Alan Reiss - 0:41:22
just going to pass over to manage for the detail of that, so why not? Thank you Melanie,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:41:26
Melanie Corcoran - 0:41:29
thank you. So the first scheme is Levi Oliver, so this is the local electric vehicle infrastructure scheme. We've been awarded funding by government over three different term funding pots of three different schemes. One is a pilot scheme, one is to then do a phase 2 and the other is to look at capacity funding, and that's within the Combined Authority and the local authority partners to be able to deliver this work. So in total the grant award is over 17 million
the aim of the project is to target areas that do not have
off street parking
so that we can look at EV charge points in those areas that are less profitable potentially to the the private sector. So while we are looking to utilise the 17.1 4 2 million from government, we are also attracting a private sector element to the scheme as well, when we contract with suppliers and provide us, and therefore we expect the total scheme costs to be at least 20.6 million, but it could be as much as 32.6 million, depending on the the level of investment from the private sector, and we are proposing at this stage to approve this strategic outline case and then each project will come forward with the detailed business case and in the meantime, we propose to allocate the capacity funding across the Combined Authority and the partner councils so that we can start working up these business cases and start deliver the the programmes
just on that, thank you Melanie,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:43:10
I think there's something really useful about devolution, that when we get this amount of resource and investment, that we can try and squeeze as much out of it as possible, so I've tasked the teams to look at how we can set up skills training for maintenance of these EV charging points because there will be a job opportunities there and also the companies that are bidding
into this scheme for the money to build them. Are they paying the real living wage? So can we can we make the most of this investment to make sure that our young people are ready for the job opportunities and that those employers are helping us with our inclusive growth ambitions? Yes, Councillor Golton,
thanks mate.
I wanted to understand better
Cllr Stewart Golton - 0:44:01
what the criteria for success is here. because it is recognised that
the majority of households still cannot afford to buy an electric car because they are
more expensive than a standard vehicle, however, you want to put your investment for electric vehicle charging into the areas where you hope it will deliver the greatest modal change from petrol to electric vehicle charging.
that would indicate that it's less likely to happen in
poorer inner-city areas, but more likely to happen in outer areas where income is higher,
so
it's a difficulty for us as a Combined Authority, because you want your investment to be inclusive and therefore encouraging as much as possible those people with two or less of to achieve the benefits that we hope everybody can have in a brighter West Yorkshire.
but if you want to get the maximum number of electric vehicles delivered, this might end up getting delivered in
richer areas, what are we doing to encourage, for instance, access to electric vehicles through things like car clubs, which might enable those with more limited incomes to enjoy the use of electric vehicle,
thank you, car clubs are part of our plan.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:45:30
sorry, Jane Cherry was like Yes, they hope.
Thank you, Jake
and Melanie. I don't know if you want to address those points, but certainly if you have no Dr, you are not going to think about charging, you are thinking about an EV vehicle.
This is why it's for communities that have no drives it's on-street charging. That's really important Melanie
Melanie Corcoran - 0:45:58
yeah, I mean the the intention is this? This would address some of those issues in more deprived areas where they don't have their own driveway, but I do accept that there are some areas that are more affluent, that still don't have off-street parking either
so the schemes will be developed with the local authorities will look at making the the maximum impact there in those deprived communities, but at the end of the day, this funding is not to give a financial incentive to help people to buy electric vehicles. I think in terms of car pooling we are looking at that and that is is one of the projects that that were developing at the moment in terms of of helping with our wider offer to encourage people to use an electric vehicle.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:46:42
Thank you and let's not forget, government have also banned, they're gonna be banning petrol vehicles by 2030, so we've got to make sure that all communities are ready for the change. Councillor Murray
Cllr Claire Douglas - 0:46:56
have you got points from future-proofing in there that we always complain about that, we don't believe the structures in place to start with, and that to me that's what we're doing, we have massive areas in
Cllr Matthew Morley - 0:47:05
Wakefield Castleford Stanley Outwood that do have don't have any off-street parking, so a refugee welcome this quadruple that will get the funding that is helpful, we will lose the petrol and diesel cuts.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:47:19
and and it's just for clarification, it is the sale of petrol cars for from from 2020 40 from 30 30 2030, sorry, sorry, I only madrasas to read at that distance, sorry, Councillor Paulsen and then Councillor Golton and Councillor.
Cllr Alan Lamb - 0:47:37
thank you just a few bits. Do we have a better starting point? Are we working with the local authorities on on the numbers here you know the ballpark, the number of residential properties that don't have off street
drives etc that they could install charges on, so we know where we're starting from and it is some of the funding going to be looking at different ways to actually bring it in different pilot schemes. I've seen of sit all local government conference and things different organisations with very different solutions to this.
because I know a lot of people talk about streetlights and we'll just plug them all into streetlights well. Yeah, if you've only got two street lights in a very long street, it's just not going to work for everybody that so I'll be looking at different solutions and maybe piloting this as part of this, the funding and and exactly I presume, the capacity and the capability funding is the same thing. They're not different things and exactly what are the local properties going to be doing with that funding?
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:48:40
Thank you to reassure you where data-led organisation, so we will have the data to drive on our decision-making about where these go but Melanie
yeah. So we are working with local authority partners to
Melanie Corcoran - 0:48:51
set that baseline
what are the areas that we're targeting, where will we get the the the schemes to stack up and we are we we have one and a half million that's been awarded as pilot funding to look at different ways of doing this, so we will utilise that before we start the first two schemes and and look at the results of that
so that is it's very important.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:49:15
Thank you yeah so Councillor Lamb,
thank you, yeah, I just
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 0:49:22
I feel there's a lack of detail and I think the aim and objective the money is welcome, the goal is welcome, but it's just understanding how this is compatible with other strategies and priorities, so for example in city centres we're trying to discourage people from using cars at all.
Cllr Alan Lamb - 0:49:38
or are we gonna be targeting those localities and how does this work in places where there are conservation areas, heritage assets, does it apply whether unadopted highways, and that's the barrier for
for people to be able to use electric vehicles that there's quite a common saying around West Yorkshire
it just I am not I think they give the aim and the amount of money potentially is enormous. I'm just not really clear what the strategic objective is and how we make sure it's compatible with without other conflicting priorities,
thank
you, Mali.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:50:14
yeah, so in in terms of the strategic overview, we are currently
Melanie Corcoran - 0:50:19
revising the Local Transport Plan, which will set out the higher level strategy and and the all looking all of those levers around electric vehicles around parking on all of that so so that is coming. We are currently waiting for for government guidance to be issued so that we can then produce our Local Transport Plan, so there is definitely that strategic overview in terms of the detail, this is at what we call a strategic outline, business case, so it is high level and by its nature
this was what was put together to release the funding from government we've then been able to do the initial assessment on that strategic level, but what we're proposing here is that then each of the business cases that comes forward for each of the projects within this programme comes comes forward with more detail, so there will be more detail that that comes along.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:51:13
Thank you so much brilliant at Councillor Golton
yes, thank you, Chair.
Cllr Stewart Golton - 0:51:18
the question is being asked now because you are setting the criteria for how are you going out to the private sector, I'm assuming the private sector would want to invest in a street where they might potentially get five customers as opposed to one customer
so therefore
if we're not enabling people to access electric vehicles in poorer areas through things like car sharing, then those streets aren't going to end up getting chosen or they are going to get chosen, but the infrastructure isn't going to match the demand and we need to think about what is our role in West Yorkshire in creating a market whereby the price of electric vehicles reduces because we enable the demand to go up and that might mean,
that the street, with five potential customers, needs to be prioritised in the first instance, to enable the price to come down people in other areas to access those vehicles as well, so I just think it's very interesting, given our inclusive
commitment, that we look at that and recognise that
as we make decisions,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:52:26
thank you for that comment, I appreciated Ben.
let me tell you to come back,
if I may, to Councillor potions earlier question, because I I don't
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:52:35
think I don't think the paper as it stands does include the context of how many charging points we feel are needed across the whole of West Yorkshire
and indeed considerations around the the grids ability to supply electricity to those areas where it's needed. So I'll ask Beverley through this comment, to just provide a bit of a note round so that we can provide that context because I know it does exist, and indeed Transport for the North has done some work across the whole of the North mapping, EV requirements
and the challenges there. Can the grid cope well? We need to
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:53:05
understand that a little bit more about that, Dudley aikido, so are we happy to approve the five schemes outlined above or through the assurance process?
We are agreed great stuff. Thank you so much Melanie moving on
that was just leave, I was sorry, apologies, let's approve Levi, we've not had yet, that was a quite swift, wasn't it the item Melanie's on to the next item OK, so the
Melanie Corcoran - 0:53:30
the next one is the Highways Asset Management and enhancement programme we've also linked in with that the of highway walking and cycling network and there's also a further government award that includes pothole actions fund so we've tied all that together. this is a five-year programme that is primarily funded through CSF SDS, which is the sustainable transport settlement, and this is for funding for the rest of year, 2, which is this current year and year 3 and the intervention, the types of interventions that you will see as set out in paragraph 4.5 0. so
and and there's outputs. There are 4.4 9, so it's things like carriageway improvements, footway improvements, highways, drainage improvements, street furniture of highways, walking and cycling and streetlighting improvements, so that the things that you would expect to see as part of the Highways Maintenance block previously, which is now part of that new transport settlement. So we're proposing that the funding that we enter into funding agreements, as identified in the recommendations section with each of the five local authorities to deliver these activities.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:54:45
Thank you and I know that it is very much needed from all our local authorities. Potholes is
recurring issue for so many of our citizens, yes, Councillor Golton.
Cllr Stewart Golton - 0:54:57
posture, it's very quick 1 0 in terms of our modelling that we discuss with the different constituent authorities, how much do we take into consideration
parking and the dangers of pavement parking in terms of schemes which come forward, because in an era where we're encouraging people to leave their car at home as much as possible so they can access cycling or walking or public transport, we need to ensure that our streets have the capacity
to deliver
the level of parking which that requires so it is not something that we're encouraging local authorities to come forward with.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:55:37
I think in the interventions that we're delivering
Melanie Corcoran - 0:55:41
in the other funding programmes like the the transforming cities fund, the Transport Fund and the the new schemes within CSG, yes, we would be looking to do that within those schemes so you create a better environment upon that street are along that corridor, this is is primarily aimed at highways maintenance, so this isn't particularly addressing that that issue, but we would expect to see that coming through in new scheme design
so it is tackled but in a different way
Councillor Lamb,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:56:11
thank you,
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 0:56:14
more money for Highways is always welcome and how it improvement
my question is, do we have the capacity to deliver?
the improvements and our my fear is, we end up doing this instead of doing something that was going to be done when I talked to our Highways officers in Leeds where the 18 years behind schedule on
Cllr Alan Lamb - 0:56:35
highways maintenance, they tell me money is not the issue capacity is the issue and you could give them all the money to fix all the roads. They wouldn't that 18 years wouldn't come down very quickly because they don't have the people the resources to actually deliver
sorry, it's great that we've got more money going in, what is the actual impact gonna be, and are we gonna find that schemes that were going to happen are now delayed because these get prioritised? Instead,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:57:02
we absolutely need to focus on skills as well. That's why skills and deep further devolution skills is a priority money.
Melanie Corcoran - 0:57:11
Yes, my understanding is we we don't have capacity issues with delivering the Highways Maintenance. We do potentially have capacity issues in designing new schemes and then bidding for new funding and delivering some of those schemes,
but as far as I'm aware, the capacity issues are not part of the highways maintenance work, that we have separate teams, that within our local authorities that will lead on this.
Thank you Ben.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:57:34
It was only to respond to Councillor Golton's point about pavement parking, so you're probably aware that the government has recently run
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:57:41
a consultation on pavement parking, and I guess we wait to see what they're going to say because it is a tricky issue and that, because of the variety of road spaces, a variety of things, et cetera,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:57:52
thank you appreciated
Cllr Stewart Golton - 0:57:55
on that point there can I ask, has the Combined Authority taken a position on whether you'd like to have pavement parking
outlawed for our area as it is in London?
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:58:06
well, you will know how nuanced it is in some communities where you can't get the bus through unless somebody goes on the pavement.
it doesn't work, so I think
wow we're not gonna take our position, we're gonna wait for government and see what they say, and then I'll deal with each community as it comes up. but
I guess I was going to give a more cautious answer in that, or I'll just check whether we did respond to the consultation or I do I don't recall a cue, a response, primarily because we're not the highway
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 0:58:31
authority but we'll just check with our teams.
OK, OK, thank you so, moving on to safer roads, I am really pleased
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:58:41
that this is on the agenda, this vision Zero has been a priority for me to try and
lower the numbers of seriously injured and die or deaths on our roads, this investment will make a difference hopefully Melanie.
yes, thank you ma
Melanie Corcoran - 0:58:56
yeah, we've we've got a five-year programme here with 25 million over the five years, and and as you say, we're looking to address the emerging action plan that is coming out of the vision 0 discussions the types of things that will we'll be doing in terms of the interventions are traffic calming schemes, junction improvements, traffic management schemes, pedestrian crossings,
average speed cameras,
Speed Management schemes, cycle infrastructure, in some cases 20 miles per hour limits, and also looking at some of the signage as well, so the typical things that you would expect to see, but targeted within each local authority area. So the local authorities are working together to develop the strategic outline case, and then they will have their own list of of priorities that they are then delivering on on their patch, but collectively it's the strategic outline case for years, 2 and 3, which is this year and next year.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 0:59:52
Thank you, and I'm pleased that we've given some money to the organisation Brake to support those people who have been hurt in traffic instances, because for some your life falls apart after being hit by a car on who is there to support you. So I'm pleased that we've been able to work with them to try and support those victims and survivors of or harm on our roads,
yes, Councillor Lamb,
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 1:00:18
thank you or adapted single culture.
whether you tell me someone had to
do something on this road, is there the opportunity, within the scheme, to be proactive and look at preventative measures rather than just in isolation, focusing on action and reduce reduction as a justification?
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:00:43
many, we
will work with each local authority area and they will identify
Melanie Corcoran - 1:00:47
priorities, so there is the potential to look at that and and will take priorities as as put forward by the local authorities. So we will work closely with them,
as Kathleen's Cliff,
Alan Reiss - 1:00:59
as was the mum on behalf, the more you can get down that list because you obviously have to go to the ones that are most dangerous first before it can actually go to the ones that don't have any accidents at all, so I suppose the more money we have from government and can generate through the Combined Authority, then the more we can do that. I think we'd all applaud that,
Councillor Lamb,
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 1:01:18
I I think it would be very helpful to have a steer from you as the Mayor to say, actually you would welcome that opportunity to give
Cllr Alan Lamb - 1:01:25
communities a bigger say
in how money is spent in their areas and to adapt and to actually support the priorities they identify locally. I am sure many of us have had that frustration, where we can see an accident is going to happen if something's not done, but it's not prioritised, and it's not. It's about what you do with what you've got, not just always say we'll wait for more money. I think it would be very good to know that we have that steer that with this fund is clear, there's the opportunity to be proactive.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:01:57
Thank you, Councillor Lamb. I hope that you are an hour encouraged by my steer to make safety on the roads a priority, and it's in so much as asking my deputy mayor to chair the board and actually reinvigorate
vision Zero across the region, and that is my steer for the strategic vision, but of course local authorities and councillors are the ones that deliver on the ground. Thank you OK dog were happy to approve.
lovely thank you for moving on to active travel Fund Otley Road.
Melanie Corcoran - 1:02:29
thank you. Yes, this is active travel Fund tranche 3. It's the Essex 60 Otley Road, and there are interventions here from St Marks Road, which is close to the university through to Shaw Lane in Headingley there are further projects that are along the Essex 60 corridor, but I think the further out from from Shaolin in in Headingley,
so initially there were temporary cycle ways and
temporary interventions that were made as part of the active travel tranche 1 and 2 that were made during COVID, and the proposal here is to make some of those permanent and to also make further improvements along that particular route. So we're looking at 5.00 kilometers of segregated cycleway, that's two and a half kilometres on each side of the of the main road.
It's too obviously encouraged cycle trips and walking trips. It's to have the injuries that over a five-year period after completion it's a particular hotspot which we'd just been talking about.
Reduce car collisions, increase the healthiest ST score, so it's not just about the number of of accidents, it's about some of that proactive stuff as well.
Five major intersection changes that design out conflict between general traffic and vulnerable road users will be looked at a district or additional pedestrian crossings. 22 side road treatments that give priority to pedestrians and cyclists, so quite intensive activity along that stretch to to promote cycling and walking and to encourage people to use the bus. So there'll be the removing of some bus stops and consolidation of others so that it makes it easier for people to get on the bus when there's a cycle track there as well.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:04:21
thank you, yes, Councillor Golton.
thank Stuart can I refer.
Melanie Corcoran - 1:04:25
members to page 1 5 6 4 8 1 0 4,
which is to do with the appraisal summary
it's a very.
very heavy paragraphs which I had great difficulty understanding,
and it's basically saying.
while our methodology is a bit outdated
and we don't know that the benefits that we hope to get will actually be got, but actually we think they probably will be.
which is not entirely reassuring.
especially given that this has been a very controversial
proposal, it represents something like two thirds of Leeds his entire
spending on active travel infrastructure, and it's also thought to associated with another very controversial scheme further up the same transport corridor.
and there are some assumptions made around safety, and I'm I'm referring back to my earlier statement Ma around, I hope we don't ultimately affect people's health.
in inadvertently through trying to improve the infrastructure we put in, so, for instance, the big concerns around the cyclists being segregated from motor traffic, which makes a cyclist safer. However, there are many points where bus stops are. The cyclists are then mingled with pedestrians and with all of the problems that we've had very recently around E bikes and safety. There is a PR and potential here that we will be putting off pedestrians from actually walking down that transport corridor
and sorry in enabling cyclists who might be disabling another section of the active travel community, and I just wondered if it was worth
Cllr Stewart Golton - 1:06:31
re-evaluating before this goes further forward to to make sure that
cycling investment isn't actually undermining another part of our priorities as a Combined Authority to get people out of their cars, and it also potentially might discriminate against buses. because they are still co-mingled with the traffic, and it's only when they get to a junction that they're actually able to go further forward, so
there are problems with it, I just thought I'd mentioned that because I know there's a very what's the word a very active resident.
concern in the area text met
Melanie.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:07:06
Melanie Corcoran - 1:07:10
yeah, just just on the economic appraisal, there are quite strict methods that we need to use to to make the economic case.
the the data is imperfect because we've got a model that was working pre covered, and obviously now the whole world has changed.
the that was partly the purpose of introducing active travel rounds 1 and 2 to introduce some temporary changes to see how they worked and and look at us now, we don't have we can, we can factor that in in the economic case, but we are currently waiting for an updated Leeds transport model and we don't have that and we've we've made some temporary improvements that we have reviewed and measured that have made a positive impacts, and that there is a choice between do you make that permanent now and and make the improvements at the junction so that it's easier for pedestrians, as well as cyclists,
what it actually says further on in in the paragraph is that, the disbenefits to bus users are not considered to be applicable at this stage, are not considered to be significant enough to hold the scheme of public work.
So we have considered that we are still waiting for the model, but we'd have to wait some time longer and pause the whole thing. As we know, we've got inflation pressures, so once you've got a scheme designed, if you're able to go, you will be able to get that scheme costing less now, whereas if you postpone it for two or three years it will cost more, so it is weighing up all these things, which is why it's in the report. It is part of the appraisal summary and it was something that was taken into account and still felt that we should recommend this scheme for approval, taking all of that into account
and often some of our challenges that we don't we are too slow
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:09:02
enacting, and I think sometimes you have to take a view that it's better to get on with it and then you wanted to come in.
Thank you just to add to Melody's point that there isn't a national
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:09:16
body now called active travel England, who essentially are providing engineering standards and advice on these kinds of schemes and my understanding, many of the criteria for got this wrong is that this scheme was on a number of this active travel round that part of that threshold. So they are kind of are actually travel. England approved
and
actually, Eleanor would say that that means they'd adhere to the current standards, but, as Melody says, and the Mirror said, there was still a lot of learning as to the impact of these schemes and the the the appraisal system. mitigate against them, so we haven't had work in that context as well.
just say, active travel England are very impressed with the work that
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:09:57
we've been doing in our region in this space, so
it's good to get their endorsement as well, Councillor Lamb,
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 1:10:03
thank you ma forgive me if I have missed it as I get used to the papers but what consultation has been done.
many.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:10:10
yeah, I mean the consultation on the scheme will be done by the scheme
Melanie Corcoran - 1:10:14
sponsor, so the consultation will will be done by Leeds City Council, it may have been during the temporary arrangements it may have been more recently,
I'm not aware of the detail, but Leeds officers should be able to provide that information
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:10:27
will will send you a note, I guess, Councillor Golton
on that note, where
Cllr Stewart Golton - 1:10:34
the whole value of devolution is that you don't just get endorsement from national organisations, you also get endorsement from the community that's meant to benefit because they're meant to have fed into it, so that's the reason why I raised the concern here, because it feels like this that the situation has progressed faster than the scheme has and it needs to catch up to reality.
Councillor Lewis.
Cllr James Lewis - 1:11:02
Thank you happy to give you a note on the consultation that was done by Howarth and elegantly online in person in paper and things like that, but I'm happy to get you a note on those details.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:11:11
Thank you so much, Councillor Lamb,
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 1:11:14
thank you going forward. Can we try and make sure those things are included in the the agenda packs and I mean I have to say I cannot support the scheme. I think it's a mistake. I think, if you ask the people of Headingley and Leeds how they'd like 10 and a half million pounds spending to improve active travel opportunities, they'd come up with 100 better ideas than this and I I would support going back to the drawing board, doing some good consultation and more than happy to be proved wrong. If the people of headings have overwhelmingly said, this is what they want. I'm very familiar with that community. I'll be very surprised if it is
as I think I think
this is a mistake,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:11:52
thank you, Councillor Lamb, let's we'll take a vote on it who were happy to approve the scheme.
and abstentions.
and against thank you it's passed, thank you OK, moving on to 0 Moshin emissions boss, regional area Melanie, yes, thank
Melanie Corcoran - 1:12:11
you, it's zebra shot, which is which is a lot easier to say.
so basically this is a change request to allow additional funding into our programme from government
it we currently
have an approval, through Zebra to introduce 111 0 emission buses across West Yorkshire, and this change request is to introduce an additional 25 electric buses, so that brings 1 3 6 to West Yorkshire from next March.
it's all such a support, some electric charging infrastructure for zips as well.
and there's some carbon output benefits so we're looking to remove 50 50 plus tonnes of nitrogen oxides a year and over 7,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by changing the buses from diesel to electric
and we'd be phasing out the older model buses the way the funding works is that government will pay the funding to bus operators to top up the difference in the cost between the diesel and the electric and that's the the mechanism for drawing down the funding, so this proposal is to work with First Group to introduce these additional buses through the Bromley Dipper in Leeds.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:13:34
thank you, and it is pleasing to see those extra numbers happy to approve
good stuff, thank you, OK, donkey so the further two schemes are represented through the agreed delegation to Transport Committee at its meeting 7th July for progression through the assurance process and approval for funding and presented in this report just for information that the active travel fund transform capability fund and Dewsbury Cleckheaton sustainable travel corridor, thank you all so much moving swiftly on to the next item.
and nearly there.

15 a) Investment Priority 6: Culture and Creative Industries, Sport and Physical Activities

ITEM 8 c investment priority, 6 culture and the creative industries, sports and physical activity. This report provides details of two schemes recommended to the CA for progression through the assurance process. It's yet another investment into my quota of new deal for West Yorkshire, and it's called you can make it here scheme and provide training and support to get people into the creative industries in our region and provide help to individuals and businesses with a bespoke range of initiatives including training, accelerators and mentorships. And I'm really delighted. This support is being put into already growing sector. Almost 48,000 creative culture and sport roles were advertised in West Yorkshire in the last 12 months, up to June 2023, a 17% rise on the previous year, three times greater than the national annual increase of 6%. So our focus on the creative industries is translating into jobs. The success we're seeing across our creative industries is just to start with this investment, cementing my ambition to give everyone a chance to gain the skills they need to progress to those well-paid jobs that they can love the support we're providing is key to creating a greater and more diverse pool of talent and opportunities to help to drive further growth and innovation throughout the sector, and I'd like to invite Phoenix director of inclusive economy skills and culture to outline the schemes for consideration. Thank you feelings
Felix Kumi-Ampofo - 1:15:45
thank you very much.
we've got through schemes presented in the paper in front of you, as the Minister said, the first one
refers to Bradford City of culture 2 to 25, seeking some funding from the Combined Authority to do two things, really the first is to support the development of a business case which will then come back
and it's at that point that we will know how much
funding is required from the Combined Authority and other partners to make this happen, so some of this funding will go towards the development of the business case that our partners in Bradford will be leading. the second part of this will be to build capacity ahead of a year of culture, this capacity funding and
board members today have spoken a fair bit about how important it is to build capacity in some of our key and will cover some of our key partners. will focus on a small charitable and community organisations to ensure they have the capacity to play a full part and to contribute to the city of culture 325, so that is what this first funding application is focusing on.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:17:10
Thank you for your legs. We'll just take that on there and brilliant news for Bradford City of culture with the money that they recently announced from DCMS's and heritage funds and so on, so great fundraisers, you've gotten the team, so congratulations and, as Finn said, this will unlock the next phase. Yes, Councillor Golton,
Felix Kumi-Ampofo - 1:17:29
thanks mate.
as you will appreciate, the performing arts is a specialist I'm sorry, I and other artistic
areas
is a specialist area and artists travel.
Cllr Stewart Golton - 1:17:45
and when we're looking at things like city of culture and a capital of culture and Minella, you find that they also have specialists which travel from one festival to the next, what are we doing to ensure that the support we give to the creative industries isn't just attracting people from outside our region to come and live here and it's actually enabling jobs for people who already live here?
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:18:14
my mission and my commitment to investing in the years of culture and you will know there are five, is an assessment of the workforce that roll into the next one, so you could start in lies, 2023
as an intern, and then by the time you've rolled through all the years of culture you could be a producer of Bradford for city of culture and then get a job at Channel 4, so absolutely this is about home-grown, and that's why the next project will come to is about that. Seed funding, that support for local people to make sure that they know that this sector is for them. So I spoke for you, Felix, but I am the Chair of that Committee, so I did feel like I had some skin in that game. Philip w anything you'd like to add
you said it all know
Felix Kumi-Ampofo - 1:19:03
we will, as the projects are developed and the business case has come through, we will get a lot more detail at that point and I'm sure all of this will be tested, there are and I don't want to go into
too much technical stuff but they are means by which we can estimate.
the extent to which people from outside the area might take part might benefit my contribute, excellent Russell, I'm sure, through the business case process will be able to tease that out a bit more.
Thank you, Councillor Hinchcliffe
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:19:35
yeah, I think it's true it's worth reflecting as an ally that you know
Felix Kumi-Ampofo - 1:19:39
Alan Reiss - 1:19:42
the cultural investment we do, we all love it, it is great but it does lead to jobs. So I was I I bumped into somebody the other week in Bradford
a young guy who has travelled far in Leeds, he's now got a commission
Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe - 1:19:55
which I'll for now, if Channel 4 O'Regan anywhere else in the country would've had the opportunity, probably not actually, so you know that all that work we did and we ought we've done Channel 4 now is here so we all get used to it, however, it has long lasting impact on our residents and opportunities for our residents and and that's what and what the UK City of culture for Bradford to be as well, actually providing real opportunities for our residents, on their doorstep opportunities and obviously for the wider West Yorkshire as well, and I think you know, it's gonna be a really fantastic year of celebration and opportunity for it, particularly for our young people in Bradford. So we were looking forward
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:20:30
to it. It is an incredibly good news story today, those numbers about the employment being three times more than anywhere else in the country. Councillor Poulsen,
Cllr Alan Lamb - 1:20:40
thank you. I'm sure this is something Councillor Hitch could deny he agree on
on the on the City of culture, but just on on the grant funding, just
Cllr Rebecca Poulsen - 1:20:47
some clarification. Will the grant-funding be decided by the Combined Authority, or is it going to be the 25 to add into their pot for the existing grants that are being looked at
thanks.
Felix Kumi-Ampofo - 1:21:03
I do my best to answer and, if I forget a rung or call my specialist.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:21:08
said no tricky questions, then
so this.
Felix Kumi-Ampofo - 1:21:12
the
the two parts of this process, which saw the first part, is about the duty of contract or supporting small organisations.
with some sort of some grant to build the capacity, the second part
then focuses on how how we build capacity in somewhat detailed organisation, the detailed business case when it comes through, will, I'm sure, tease out that it is for Bradford City Council to actually determine how they do that.
and the detail behind that and who has access is not a crept,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:21:47
thank you so much, unless Susan wants to add anything further
Felix Kumi-Ampofo - 1:21:52
or also enlarged, it goes to the trust because that's the city cow,
Alan Reiss - 1:21:54
then that's where the pot of money is to commission the whole year so we're all trying to get as much in there as possible to make it a fantastic year.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:22:02
thank you OK, Derek, moving on to.
the scheme you can make it here skills and business support for culture Phoenix,
thank you very much more,
Felix Kumi-Ampofo - 1:22:10
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:22:14
we're sorry, we didn't approve that my mistake, we're happy to approve the money for Bradford brilliant, thank you, sorry, if you'll expect to you
Felix Kumi-Ampofo - 1:22:24
thank you. this funding application focuses on a raft of projects wandered within this programme under the banner you can't make it here and it's for skills, skills and business support in the creative industries it focuses on a set of things, as you can see, set-up set out in the paper,
a couple of them that I might tease out right now for this conversation. Some of the funding will go towards improving accessibility for events and venues to make sure all our residents are able to take part, and this is to support skills training as well. To make sure these venues are ready to support some of these everybody who comes it's also focusing on freelancers and micro businesses. These are really really important members of their community or by sector, and who often are valued when funding opportunities come through and don't often have the capacity to take part. So there is a specific focus on freelancers here. The MA screen diversity programme will also benefit from this. We know that is already quite a successful project and we're looking to make sure we can support that. And finally, a tease out that knowledge exchange a bit of this, a lot of the time when we work through this
maybe external consultants or others might come in and take their knowledge away. This is to ensure that proper knowledge exchange happens. There's some fancy words, the Italians at escalators and others, but this is to make sure we can actually retain as much of their knowledge as possible
to improve how the sector operates, so that that's what that's what this funding scheme is about. Thank you.
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:24:05
Thank you, Philip, and we know that freelancers in particular have been hit hard during COVID and trying to support them going forward and and they don't often always have those networks, so that's something that's really important and accessibility to venues. The Bruton all do a brilliant job,
but we need more venues across the across the piece, but also a screen diversity programme has been really really successful in getting people into work from black, Asian and minority ethnic Bath backgrounds that people with disability working-class youngsters really impactful, and we're looking to see how we can widen it to writers, and writing, because intellectual property is is how you, if you just think about everyone's talking, about Jamie that's a young boy's story that tended to are
a theatre piece that then became an international movie. We need to own our stories, so let's wow we're looking at how we can widen out that opportunity as well. Are we happy to approve? we are lovely, thank you all so much thank you Phoenix
the rites of of passage that is the first announcement to the see, a thank you so, moving on to Item 9 governance, governance arrangements.

17 Governance Arrangements

so this provides Members with an update on the process to seek new private sector members for the LEP Board, these appointments form part of the process to integrate the LEP into the CA and maintain that strong public private sector partnership we've developed at the June LEP Board meeting the board had several private sector member vacancies, so a recruitment campaign started and,
we were looking for individuals, particularly who would reflect the diverse communities, businesses and geography of West Yorkshire, and I am delighted that the appointments were recommending cement the diversity of the board of the private sector member boards, we've got 10 women and three men.
and the appointments panel met with candidates last week and propose the following appointments to the LEP Board, subject to completion of reference checks. Aron Holt, who works for Holsten limited based in Coakley's, and yet Joseph M B, who works for diverse and equal based in Leeds Jane Atkinson CB, who works for in Finham, UK limited based in Wakefield, Lisa Johnson who works with starship technologies based in Leeds, Natalie Sykes, who works for James, will be based in Wakefield Sharon Matthews, who works for a tech limited based in Leeds, and in addition, there are three existing private sector members
who have successfully applied to be members of the LEP Board. The first is Farrow Barton existing private sector member of the business committee.
A furniture manufacturer, Nike, Chance, Thompson who is currently a co, opted member of the Board and is made permanent. You'll know, Nicky, from the pupil and asthma, Iqbal brilliant lawyer, who currently, as a co-opted member of the Board, also made permanent and is our inclusivity champion on the board. Can I ask Ben to add any further info
and
helpful maybe going forward about the business adviser
more of an update yeah, thank you, sir, so the only thing I would add is that
Ben Still, Chief Executive (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) - 1:27:18
if there was a lack of I just make absolutely clear, so so the mayor is making these appointments as on his allegation from the previous meeting of the Local Enterprise Partnership back in June.
so these that the names that the Mayor has read out they will feel fully expecting it this morning, so there's no surprises with those with those individuals.
and that now brings the that the private sector continue to the leopard up to up to full strength,
and we'll be looking to seek a meeting of those of those members later in the in the summer so they can begin to and I understand their role and the the process you'll be aware there's a parallel process in terms of the
the the Mayor's business advisor who is also the lecturer, and that process is still is still live and will report back on further details on that, as I have been doing keeping you in touch through e-mail correspondence to all SACRE members and will continue to do that through the summer,
Mayor Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire - 1:28:15
thank you, thank you and it was very reassuring.
and uplifting to see that so many business leaders want to be part of the journey for the Combined Authority and want to use their experience to add value and to give something back, so it was really great to see and we have a fantastic.
wow it isn't a lep, any more, is it, we were struggling with a the business committee or an opportunity border, we were going, it needs a new tidal, I think, but I'm really pleased to see that diversity as well and we are happy to note and approve great stuff. Thank you very much.

For Information

18 Minutes for Information

Uchida so we have the minutes for information,
you have them in the pack, thank you, everyone for attending today, can I wish you all a restful, peaceful summer because it's going to be quite interesting when we get back from September potentially obviously my election may be a general election next year and going to the next steps for bus franchising mass transit, et cetera, it's gonna be a really exciting place to live, thank you all for coming and the next meeting of the 7th of September 2023. Thank you.
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