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Hastings Borough Council

Corporate Plan & Budget 2017 / 2018

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• Played part in the re-opening of Hastings Pier (CPO and grant funding)
• Restored White Rock Baths as The Source
• Introduced the Selective Licensing Scheme
• Restored Bottle Alley
• Seafront improvements including new kiosks, palm trees and Pelham

roundabout

• Installed free seafront wi-fi
• Established the Social Lettings Agency
• Curated and ran the ROOT1066 International Cultural Festival
• Built a new factory for BD Foods, generating income and creating 50 new

jobs

• Began a programme of property acquisition with the Dunelm retail park
• Achieved FLAG 2 funding
• Major programme of transformational change
• Launched new website with ‘channel shift’
• Achieved major bathing water quality improvements and Blue Flag status
• Grotbusted 50+ properties and issued CPOs on 60+ empty homes.

What we’ve done this year …

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Challenges We Face

• 50% plus cut in government grant 2010- 2017;
• Income volatility – business rates, factory/shop rents,

development control, low interest rates;

• Increased pressure on council services – for example,

homelessness;

• Increased costs – salaries, inflation;
• We continue transition to a different council, doing

different things, funded in different ways.

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Financial Headlines 2017/18

• Settlement Funding Assessment (SFA) down (11.5%

reduction from previous year);

• Actual Revenue Support Grant (RSG) down 28.1%

(down £797,000 to £2.038m);

• New Homes Bonus down 27.3% (down £379,000 to

£1.009m);

• £5 p.a. (2.04%) increase in Band D Council Tax

proposed (borough element taking it to £250.33);

• 1% on Council Tax raises £62,800.

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Revenue Support Grant – Government projection

Year RSG Decrease Percentage Change (Annual) Decrease (Cumulative) Percentage Change (Cumulative)

2015/16 £3,727K 2016/17 £2,835K

• £891K
• 23.9%
• £891K
• 23.9%

2017/18 (Est) £2,038K

• £797K
• 28.1%
• £1,689K
• 45.3%

2018/19 (Est) £1,542K

• £496K
• 24.3%
• £2,185K
• 58.6%

2019/20 (Est) £988K

• £554K
• 35.9%
• £2,739K
• 73.5%

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Corporate Plan Headlines

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Income Generation

What happened in 2016?

• Muriel Matters House purchase:

Net savings £170k in 16/17, £75k in 17/18;

• Town Hall:

Rental income and service charges - £89k in 16/17, £94k in17/18;

• Commercial properties:

BD Foods factory, retail park, new kiosk. Net income £200k.

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Income Generation

What will we be doing next?

• Commercial property investment;
• Housing acquisition and development (both housing and

commercial property);

• Sustainable energy generation;
• Expanding seafront assets (beach huts and kiosks);
• New events in council-owned parks and open spaces;
• Bids to external competitive funds.
• Review fees and charges

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Driving Economic Growth

What happened in 2016?

• New Source BMX Park;
• ROOT1066 international cultural festival;
• Hastings Pier re-opened;
• New commercial premises (BD Foods creates 50 new

jobs);

• Successful BID in the town centre.

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What will we be doing next?

• Building on the legacy of ROOT1066 and continue to promote

Hastings as a creative and cultural centre;

• Continuing to lobby for improved road and rail links;
• Seeking new investment in Hastings;
• Developing an Area Action Plan for the Town Centre and

White Rock, and redeveloping White Rock Gardens;

• Looking at new options for higher education provision;
• Improving sports and leisure facilities;
• Working in the most deprived communities to improve

education, skills, training and job prospects (via CLLD).

Driving Economic Growth

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Cleaner and Safer

What will we be doing?

• Improve the cleanliness of the town;
• Tackling anti-social behaviour and street drinking by

using Public Space Protection Orders and ‘escalating enforcement’;

• Continuing the Grotbusting programme and CPO of

empty properties;

• More rigorous enforcement against enviro-crime.

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Meeting Housing Needs and Delivering Support

What will we be doing?

• Supporting local people affected by welfare changes,

including Universal Credit;

• Licencing and proactive enforcement activity to improve

private rented housing;

• Developing council owned housing land;
• Housing regeneration through the Coastal Space

Programme;

• ‘Working with developers and Housing Associations to

improve the supply of new affordable homes’.

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Transforming the way we work

What will we be doing?

• Reviewing our services, activities and contracts;
• Completing our ‘transformational change’

programme;

• Using Business Process Mapping to work more

efficiently;

• Fully implementing the ‘Digital by Design’

programme, getting all our transactional services

• nline.

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2017/18 Budget (1)

• Proposed savings this year (for consultation):

– Closure of Harold Place toilets (£64k); – Closure of Ore Village Centre toilets (£14k); – Seasonal closures at Alexandra Park, Rock a Nore, Falaise Rd (£2k); – Removal of council tax exemption for properties undergoing major repair work or structural alteration (HBC share £17k); – Community Partnership Fund reduced by £42k fixed for 2 years; – Digital by Design – service transformation (£155k); – Staff reductions – some 9 FTE (posts);

• Proposed Growth
• Cultural Development Officer £65,000

(+ one-off £20k to make Coastal Currents festival self-sustaining).

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2017/18 Budget (2)

• Additional expenditure:

Homelessness (predicted) £63,000 Apprenticeship Levy £35,000 Development Control £67,000 Cliffs (17/18 only) £150,000 Waste and Street Cleaning £54,000

• Car Parking Charges (various increases)
• Clinical Commissioning Group (NHS)

£1.090m;

• EU grants (SHINE, CAN, FLAG)

£2.3m;

• Other externally-funded initiatives;
• Government yet to confirm Disabled Facility Grants and

Discretionary Housing Payments

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Capital Programme – 2016/17

Includes:

• New factory unit (Castleham)

£1.4m

• Purchase of Muriel Matters House

£4.2m

• Purchase of retail park

£7.3m

• Disabled Facility Grants

£1.4m*

• Public Realm

£50,000

• CPO Empty Properties

£70,000

• Kiosk above Bottle Alley

£79,000

• Pelham Arcade and upper road

£165,000

* = externally funded

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Capital Programme –2017/18

Includes:

• Pelham Arcade and upper road

£327,000*

• Coastal Space

£875,000

• Country Park

£161,000

• Disabled Facilities Grant

£1.4m (tbc) *

• Public Realm

£50,000

• CPO Empty Properties

£70,000

• Coastal Defence / Groynes

£2.4m* * = fully or partly externally funded

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What we said in February 2016: £881k in 2016/17 (to be funded from reserves) £1.49m in 2017/18 £2.481m in 2018/19 £3.5m in 2019/20. What we are saying now: £271k in 2016/17 (reduced call on reserves) £606k in 2017/18 (still a big call on reserves) £1.7m in 2018/19 £2.1m in 2019/20.

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In conclusion…

We need to:

• Increase the income we generate ourselves;
• Continue to make additional savings and

efficiencies;

• Bid into external funds wherever possible
• Continue to extend and improve services.

But … There’s still a £2.1m deficit to close.

Draft Corporate Plan and Budget available: www.hastings.gov.uk Email responses to: consultation@hastings.gov.uk By close on 10th February 2017