Purpose

 

 To be submitted to

democraticservices@northnorthants.gov.uk within two working days (by
12 noon) of the decision having been taken.

 

Record of
Delegated Decision

 

Decision made
by

Kerry Purnell – Assistant
Director of Communities and Leisure

Decision
Title

Appointment of a Leisure
Consultant

Date of
decision (same as date form signed)

14.1.26

Key
Decision

No

Decision

To tender and appoint a Leisure
Consultant to support modelling and costing of future leisure
management options

Reason/s for
Decision

Sovereign Leisure Contracts come
to an end in 2027/28 therefore the council needs to develop options
and models of how a future leisure services could be managed.
Expert industry knowledge is required to undertake this work and
develop models that the Executive can make informed decisions on
future management. The Leisure market has changed over the last few
years so current industry knowledge is required, there is not
capacity within the existing team to undertake this work on top of
day-to-day workloads.

Alternative
options considered and rejected

Work to be undertaken in house
– this has not been progressed as the team does not have
capacity and knowledge of existing leisure markets.

Legal
implications

The procurement of the consultant
is being done through the Sport England framework – the team
is liaising with legal as the SE framework documents will be
used.

 

 
 

Financial
implications

Financial resource has been
previously identified so there is provision to fund this
work.

Other
implications

Procurement – the team have
liaised with procurement and agreed to progress through the Sport
England framework

Background
papers considered

N/A

Declarations/conflict of
interest?

None

Consultation

None

Exempt
Decision?

No

Officer/
Executive member

Jane Bethea – Director of
Public health

Cllr Brian Benneyworth –
Exec Member for Health and Leisure

Julie Cardwell – Head of
Leisure Services

12/01/26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annex 1
 
Key Decisions
 
1.1. The definition of a Key Decision is set
out in The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements)(Access to
Information)(England) Regulations 2000 and is defined
as;
 
1.2. An executive decision, which is
likely
 
 

i.                    
to result in the relevant local
authority incurring expenditure which is, or the making of savings
which are, significant; or
 

ii.                  
to be significant in terms of its
effects on communities living or working in an area comprising two
or more wards or electoral divisions.

 

1.3.          
The council has decided that
significant expenditure or savings are those amounting to above
£500,000.

1.4.          
All Key Decisions must be
published on the website 28 days in advance of them being made
unless they are urgent in which case there are processes to follow
which include seeking the notification/approval of the Chair of the
relevant Scrutiny Committee. The Forward Plan enables the public
and all members to understand the key decisions that are going to
be taken and make representations in advance.

1.5.          
Key Decisions must be published
within 2 clear working days of being made and will be published on
the website.

1.6.          
Scrutiny Committees have the
ability to call in Key Decisions and any other decisions which have
been included on the Forward Plan and have 5 clear working days to
call in the decision following their publication on the website (in
accordance with the Scrutiny Procedure Rules).

 
 

Annex 2
 
Descriptions of Exempt
Information
 
Exempt information means information falling
within the following categories (subject to any
qualification):
 
1) Information relating to any
individual.
 
2) Information which is likely to reveal the
identity of an individual.
 
3) Information relating to the financial or
business affairs of any particular person (including the authority
holding that information).
 
4) Information relating to any consultations
or negotiations, or contemplated consultations or negotiations, in
connection with any labour relations matter arising between the
authority or a Minister of the Crown and employees of, or office
holders under, the authority.
 
5) Information in respect of which a claim of
legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal
proceedings.
 
6) Information which reveals that the
authority proposes:
 

(a) 
to give under any enactment a
notice under or by virtue of which requirements are imposed on a
person; or

(b) 
to make an order or direction
under any enactment.
 
7) Information relating to any action taken or
to be taken in connection with the prevention, investigation or
prosecution of crime.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Qualifications
 
Information falling within the above
descriptions is not exempt information if it is required to be
registered under:
 

(a) 
the Companies Acts (as defined in
section 2 of the Companies Act 2006);
 

(b) 
the Friendly Societies Act
1974;
 

(c)   
the Friendly Societies Act
1992;

(d)  
the Co-operative and Community
Benefit Societies Act 2014;

(e)  
the Building Societies Act 1986;
or

(f)    
the Charities Act 2011

 

 

Information is not exempt
information if it relates to proposed development for which the
local planning authority may grant itself planning permission or
permission in principle pursuant to regulation 3 of the Town and
Country Planning General Regulations 1992.

 

Information which falls within any
of the descriptions above; and is not prevented from being exempt
by the previous two qualifications is exempt information if and so
long, as in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest
in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in
disclosing the information.