Issue - meetings

Developing Communities Fund: allocation of funding

Meeting: 18/07/2019 - Scrutiny Commission (Item 85)

Developing Communities Fund: allocation of funding

To report on the successful completion of schemed from the first phase and request support for the allocation of funding for the second phase.

Minutes:

Members received a report on successful completion of schemes from the first phase of the Developing Communities Fund (DCF) and proposed allocation of funding for the second phase.

 

At this juncture, Councillor Crooks declared a personal interest in the Newbold Verdon application as part of a group working on the project and took no part in the discussion.

 

A member queried the situation in relation to Oddfellows pub, Higham on the Hill and officers agreed to investigate whether a sale had been agreed.

 

In relation to Barwell, officers agreed to continue working with the Barwell Town Team to find a way forward on the project. A member expressed concern that the disrepair of the site known as “top town motors” had led to the town being unwilling to enter Barwell in Bloom and suggested that a solution needed to be found.

 

In response to a member’s question, it was noted that groups could still bid in round two if they had received funding in round one, subject to not exceeding the threshold set. It was, however, explained that the funding for Market Bosworth in round two was actually the same project as that approved for round one, but had been phased.

 

RESOLVED

 

(i)            The proposed allocation of funding be endorsed and RECOMMENDED to the Strategic Leadership Team;

 

(ii)           Work be progressed with the town team in Barwell.