Issue - meetings

To deliver a new year-round destination visitor attraction and local amenities on Southbourne beach featuring:

• Fully accessible public lift from cliff top car park to promenade with viewing & interpretation point
• New restaurant with external dining terrace
• New public toilets and beach office
• 16 Beach Lodges offering short stay holiday accommodation
• Spa treatment room facility for Beach Lodge guests

Delivery will be subject to securing planning consent.

The scheme would be funded via prudential borrowing over 25 years, repaid from new net income from the development.

Three options have been considered:

1. Comprehensive redevelopment (recommended): Results in a budget surplus
2. Do nothing: a budget pressure
3. Demolition and less comprehensive scheme (kiosk and beach huts): a budget pressure

Option of repair to existing facility has been discounted following structural review.

The Portfolio Holder for Tourism, Leisure and Culture presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'C' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

Cabinet were advised that the purpose of the report was to help deliver a new year-round destination visitor attraction and local amenities on Southbourne beach featuring:

·         Fully accessible public lift from cliff top car park to promenade with viewing & interpretation point

·         New restaurant with external dining terrace

·         New public toilets and beach office

·         16 Beach Lodges offering short stay holiday accommodation

• Spa treatment room facility for Beach Lodge guests

Further to this Cabinet were advised that delivery would be subject to securing planning consent, and that the scheme would be funded via prudential borrowing over 25 years, repaid from new net income from the development.

In addition to this Cabinet were informed that three options had been considered:

1.    Comprehensive redevelopment (recommended): Results in a budget surplus

2.    Do nothing: a budget pressure

3. Demolition and less comprehensive scheme (kiosk and beach huts): a budget pressure

And that the option of repair to existing facility has been discounted following structural review.

RECOMMENDED that Full Council are asked to approve full redevelopment scheme option 1, to be funded via prudential borrowing.

Voting: Unanimous

Portfolio Holder: Tourism, Leisure and Communities

The Portfolio Holder for Tourism, Leisure and Culture presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'C' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

Cabinet were advised that the purpose of the report was to help deliver a new year-round destination visitor attraction and local amenities on Southbourne beach featuring:

·         Fully accessible public lift from cliff top car park to promenade with viewing & interpretation point

·         New restaurant with external dining terrace

·         New public toilets and beach office

·         16 Beach Lodges offering short stay holiday accommodation

• Spa treatment room facility for Beach Lodge guests

Further to this Cabinet were advised that delivery would be subject to securing planning consent, and that the scheme would be funded via prudential borrowing over 25 years, repaid from new net income from the development.

In addition to this Cabinet were informed that three options had been considered:

1.    Comprehensive redevelopment (recommended): Results in a budget surplus

2.    Do nothing: a budget pressure

3. Demolition and less comprehensive scheme (kiosk and beach huts): a budget pressure

And that the option of repair to existing facility has been discounted following structural review.

RECOMMENDED that Full Council are asked to approve full redevelopment scheme option 1, to be funded via prudential borrowing.

Voting: Unanimous

Portfolio Holder: Tourism, Leisure and Communities