Issue - meetings

(1)

the full business case for the Marine Lake Events Centre project be approved and submitted to Government on behalf of the Town Deal Board;

(2)

the agreement and return of all project documentation to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities be delegated to the Chief Executive and the Executive Director of Corporate Resources and Customer Services, in consultation with the Executive Director - Place and the Cabinet Member - Regeneration and Skills and Cabinet Member - Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services, on behalf of the Town Deal Board and in line with Town Deal funding deadlines;

(3)

the Executive Director - Place in consultation with the Cabinet Member - Regeneration and Skills be authorised to exercise delegated authority to procure a suitable contractor for the capital works via a fully compliant framework;

(4)

the Heads of Terms for the operation and management of the Marine Lake Events Centre as set out in the report and Full Business Case be approved and that the Executive Director - Place in consultation with the Cabinet Member - Regeneration and Skills be authorised to exercise delegated authority to agree the detailed terms;

(5)

it be noted that the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority continue to support the principle of allocating up to £20m to the new Events Centre, from which the first £2.3m has been released to support pre-development work;

(6)

it be noted that a request for a supplementary capital estimate to enable the scheme to be included within the Council’s Capital Programme will be submitted to Cabinet and Council following on from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority final approval and agreements from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities;

(7)

the key risks identified within this report be noted; and

(8)

it be noted that the proposal was a Key Decision but had not been included in the Council's Forward Plan of Key Decisions. Consequently, the Deputy Leader of the Council and the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Regeneration and Skills) had been consulted under Rule 27 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Constitution, to the decision being made by Cabinet as a matter of urgency on the basis that it was impracticable to defer the decision until the commencement of the next Forward Plan.