That the decision in respect of ‘Funding for the Torbay Leisure Centre and Riviera International Conference Centre’, as set out in the exempt Cabinet minute 72, be approved.

That the Cabinet recommend to Council:

(i)      that Personal Allowances and Premiums, used to calculate Council Tax Support, are uprated from 1 April 2020 in line with the prescribed Pensioner scheme and national working-age benefits, which are both set by the Government; and

(ii)     that the Chief Finance Officer be given delegated authority, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Corporate and Community Services, to make any further adjustments required to the Exceptional Hardship Policy and fund.

That the Cabinet recommend to Council:

(i)         That the responses received to the second phase consultation on the Community Governance Review of Torbay be noted as set out in Appendix 1 to the submitted report.

(ii)        That the Cabinet recommendations of the community governance review be that there shall be no change to existing community governance arrangements in Torbay and specifically:

(a)          That no new parishes be constituted in the area under review;

(b)          That no existing parishes in the area under review be abolished and that the name and area of Brixham parish and the electoral arrangements of Brixham Town Council remain unaltered.

(c)       That unless the community strongly calls for the establishment of further town councils, there shall be no further community governance reviews during this term of office.

(iii)       That the Director of Corporate Services publish the final recommendations and take steps to secure that persons who may be interested in the review are informed of them; and

(iv)       That the Council be recommended to give effect to the final recommendations set out at (ii) above.