Agendas, reports and minutes

A meeting of the Redesign Board will be held in the Council Chamber, Council Headquarters, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness on Friday, 18 February 2022 at 2.00pm.

Webcast Notice: This meeting will be filmed and broadcast over the Internet on the Highland Council website and will be archived and available for viewing for 12 months thereafter.

You are invited to attend the meeting and a note of the business to be considered is attached.

Yours faithfully

Stewart Fraser
Head of Corporate Governance 

BUSINESS

1. Apologies for Absence 
Leisgeulan

2. Declarations of Interest
Foillseachaidhean Com-pàirt

Members are asked to consider whether they have an interest to declare in relation to any item on the agenda for this meeting.  Any Member making a declaration of interest should provide some information on the nature of the interest and leave the meeting at the appropriate time.  Advice may be sought from officers prior to the meeting taking place.

3. Minutes     
Geàrr-chunntas                       

There are circulated for approval the minutes of the meeting held on 8 November 2021.

4. Roads Project
Pròiseact Rathaidean    

There is circulated Report No RDB/01/22 dated 3 February 2022 by the Executive Chief Officer, Infrastructure, Environment & Economy

Members are asked to consider and approve the Roads Project Brief.

5. Asset Rationalisation Project
Pròiseact Cuibhreannachadh So-mhaoin 

There is circulated Report No RDB/02/22 dated 28 January 2022 by the Executive Chief Officer, Property & Housing.

Members are asked to:

i. consider and approve the updates to the strategic approach (section 4.7 and 4.7.1) to the review and rationalisation of the Council’s Office Portfolio as set out in this report;

ii. permit strategic oversight of the Strategic Outline Business Cases (section 5.1) for each target property to be provided by the Redesign embedded Members (as a means of speeding up progress); and

iii. consider the alternative approaches identified in section 6 for accelerating the pace of delivering the expected benefits and revenue savings.  The Project recommended approach is to adopt the holistic approach outlined in section 6.3.