Decision details

(i)        to note the policy panel’s second annual report;

(ii)       to instruct the Chief Officer - City Growth, following consultation with the Panel, to undertake a review of the second annual report with a view to identifying scope for the future development of the report;

(iii)      to note the Economic Policy Panel has recommended that the city develops its own strategy for net zero transition and further notes that over half of all Scottish jobs in energy are located in Aberdeen and the north east;

(iv)      to note that the Council is close to completing the delivery of the Strategic Infrastructure Plan agreed in 2013;

(v)       therefore agrees:-

•        that a place-based strategy is produced, supported by a framework of supporting delivery actions;

•        to develop a new prioritised Strategic Infrastructure Plan and develop a Net Zero Transition Plan that can be used to support the business case for any future bids to anticipated investment funding from the UK Government and the Scottish Government;

•        to approve expenditure of up to £150k from existing corporate budgets to provide support to prepare the strategy and infrastructure plan; and

•        instructs the Director of Resources to procure the necessary work and thereafter provide a report to Committee on the outcome of those works; and

(vi)      to note all other recommendations of the policy panel and approves the officers proposed response to each recommendation as outlined in 3.6 of the report.