311 The Future of Regeneration in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole PDF 179 KB
This report summarises the opportunities and the Council’s ambitions for regeneration in the BCP area. It seeks to strengthen the Council’s capacity to deliver, setting out an approach for reviewing and progressing the available options to realise those opportunities and ambitions. The report sets out the options for increasing our regeneration delivery capacity, working with an urban regeneration company and other forms of partnerships as well as sourcing external consultancy input.
Decision:
RESOLVED that Cabinet:-
(a) Authorises the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader and Deputy Leader, to procure and review advice from external consultants and to recommend to Cabinet as appropriate the creation of suitable structures to accelerate the delivery of regeneration projects, including the creation of structures or mechanisms to deliver the development of sites; and
(b) Notes that reports will be brought to future Cabinet and Council meetings as appropriate setting out proposals for the use of the Futures Fund and the process for bringing forward individual sites for development.
Voting: Unanimous
Portfolio Holder: Regeneration, Economy and Strategic Planning
Reason
To enable greater focus and corporate grip on realising opportunities for delivering homes and jobs on sites owned or controlled by the council and increasing the scale and pace of delivery.
The internal management of site delivery is too small in scale to deliver the ambitions set out in the Big Plan which was considered by Cabinet and Council in February.
Minutes:
The Portfolio Holder for Regeneration, Economy and Strategic Planning presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'B' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.
Cabinet was informed that the report summarised the opportunities and the Council’s ambitions for regeneration in the BCP are, and that in relation to this that it sought to strengthen the Council’s capacity to deliver, setting out an approach for reviewing and progressing the available options to realise those opportunities and ambitions. In addition, Cabinet was advised that the report sets out the options for increasing our regeneration delivery capacity, working with an urban regeneration company and other forms of partnerships as well as sourcing external consultancy input.
Several Members spoke in support of the report citing the importance of the delivery mechanism and of bringing future reports through the Cabinet and Council process.
RESOLVED that Cabinet:-
(a) Authorises the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader and Deputy Leader, to procure and review advice from external consultants and to recommend to Cabinet as appropriate the creation of suitable structures to accelerate the delivery of regeneration projects, including the creation of structures or mechanisms to deliver the development of sites; and
(b) Notes that reports will be brought to future Cabinet and Council meetings as appropriate setting out proposals for the use of the Futures Fund and the process for bringing forward individual sites for development.
Voting: Unanimous
Portfolio Holder: Regeneration, Economy and Strategic Planning