Further to Minute No. 159 of the meeting of the Southport Area Committee held on 31 March 2010, the Cabinet considered the report of the Planning and Economic Development Director on the use of Section 106 resources to provide the match funding required by the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Kings Gardens Improvements Scheme.
RESOLVED: That
(1) the decision of the Southport Area Committee on the allocation of future Section 106 resources to provide the funding match required by the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Kings Gardens Scheme be noted;
(2) the Kings Garden Scheme be included in the Capital Programme with the Council’s contribution being underwritten until sufficient Section 106 resources are generated;
(3) Officers prepare the stage 2 submission to the Heritage Lottery Fund on the basis of the revised terms set out in the report; and
(4) it be noted that the proposal was a Key Decision but, unfortunately, had not been included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions. Consequently, the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Performance and Corporate Services) had been consulted under Rule 15 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Constitution, to the decision being made by the 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 because of the requirement by the Heritage Lottery Fund to receive confirmation of a commitment to allocate future Section 106 resources as funding match in support of its consideration of a stage 2 submission for grant.