Agenda and draft minutes

Apologies of absence were received from:

·       Dwayne Johnson

·       Marion Atkinson

·       Michell Brabner

Chair noted Alex Hatchman was resigning from the Board and requested thanks be sent to Alex on behalf of the Town Deal Board and requested thanks be sent to her on behalf of the Board. 

Declarations of interest were received from

·       Mark Lawler – Enterprise Arcade - item 4

The minutes of the previous meeting were approved.

Enterprise Arcade – Draft Business Case.

A copy of the draft Business Case was sent out in advance of the meeting to the Board. A Treasury Green Book compliant Business Case needs to be submitted for each project seeking to draw down, Town Deal funding. This needs to be submitted by the end of March 2022 to meet the terms of the Town Deal funding agreement.

Officers gave a presentation to support the Enterprise Arcade Business Case circulated.

Town Deal Board agreed to the support Enterprise Arcade Business Case for submission.

Les Transformations de Southport

SW updated the Board following discussion at the last Board meeting in this project and first phase of which is seeking Town Deal funding. Detailed business case in development and consultation about to start and run into March.  Findings will form part of Business case justification.

The Town Deal allocation for this project would fund Phase 1 of a larger, phased programme – phases of which would follow, further to securing funding for these phases to be developed and linking to the Town Deal delivery programme.

as funding becomes available.

•       Public realm around market – King St, Market Street

•       Links to Enterprise Arcade – Eastbank St

•       Chapel St and railway station entrance

•       Wayfinding strategy

•       Delivered through Town Fund allocation (£2.5m)

•       Demonstrate ‘fast track’ delivery and spend of Town Fund allocation

•       Focus on deliverability and areas needing improvement

•       Responds to issues raised in public consultation and subsequent engagement

Questions and discussion points from the Board

·       Southport Access for Everyone involved and proposals positive and impactful in terms of access.

·       proposals

·       Very important Town Deal Board support this project and logic of approach – strategic approach to consolidate investment

·       No either/ or whole programme still a direction of travel - Part of consultation process will be to assess this.

None raised.

DATE AND TIME OF NEXT MEETINGS:

28^th February – 3.30-5.30pm

15^th March 2022 - 08:30pm