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Minutes:
The Committee received a report from the Urban Growth Project Manager.
The report outlined that in 2012, the council devolved to area
committees decision-making over the use of particular types of S106 contributions,
which were collected to address the impact of development. The first two
priority setting rounds took place in 2012/13 and 2013/14.
The current
(third) priority-setting round was focussed on S106 grant funding to community
groups to enable them to make improvements to their community or sports
facilities, which would benefit local communities. The Officer’s report focused
on two grant applications relating to community facilities received from local
groups in the South Area.
A fourth
priority-setting round would take place later in 2015. Proposals and/or grant
applications will be invited in the early summer, with a view to committee
reports & priority-setting decisions in the autumn.
The Urban Growth Project
Manager said there was a typographical error in paragraph 4.3 of his report.
Cherry Hinton Recreation Ground pavilion would receive £180,000 not £80,000 of
funding as listed.
The Urban Growth
Project Manager revised recommendations in his report:
The South Area
Committee is recommended to:
2.1 [NO
CHANGE] defer making a decision on the grant proposal for the Memorial and
Meeting Hall on Cherry Hinton Road, to allow an updated application to be
considered in the next S106 priority-setting round later in 2015;
2.2 [REVISED]
recommend a grant of £121,000 for the Cherry Hinton Baptist Church Family
Centre improvement scheme as currently proposed, subject to (i) project
appraisal approval, (ii) community use agreement and (iii) a clear
understanding that no further S106 funding will be required for the delivery of
this project. This is in place of earlier allocations of S106 contributions to
this project by the South Area Committee.
The recommendations were revised in light of late information received from
Cherry Hinton Baptist Church. If the Applicant was not able to use the
allocated funding, it would go back into the pot for the fourth spending round.
The Cherry Hinton Baptist Church Pastor made the following comments in
response to the report:
i.
The
Church had applied for circa £61,500 of funding from various sources towards
its project in addition to s106 monies. Thus the project would not be wholly
reliant on s106.
ii.
It
was hoped that work would start in August 2015.
In response to Members’ questions the Urban Growth Project Manager said
the following:
i.
To
receive community grants, Applicants have to raise some of their own project
funding so they are not solely reliant on s106.
ii.
There
should be sufficient funding for Cherry Hinton Recreation Ground pavilion and
Nightingale Avenue Recreation Ground pavilion in the fourth spending round if
SAC went with Officer recommendations at tonight’s meeting (2 February 2015).
iii.
S106
funding was finite and the available pot would reduce in future. If SAC
supported Officer recommendations at tonight’s meeting, there would be less
funding available for future projects.
Following discussion, Members resolved:
i.
(By 8 votes to 0 with 1 abstention) to
defer making a decision on the grant proposal for the Memorial and Meeting Hall
on Cherry Hinton Road, to allow an updated application to be considered in the
next S106 priority-setting round later in 2015.
ii.
(Unanimously) to recommend a grant of
£121,000 for the Cherry Hinton Baptist Church Family Centre improvement scheme
as currently proposed, subject to (a) project appraisal approval, (b) community
use agreement and (c) a clear understanding that no further S106 funding will
be required for the delivery of this project. This is in place of earlier
allocations of S106 contributions to this project by the South Area Committee.
Councillor Pippas did not participate in the vote on (i) due to his
declaration of interest.