Issue - meetings

Report of the Strategic Director of Place

Presented by the Community Services Portfolio Holder

The Community Services Portfolio Holder presented the report to Members.

She advised that the Working Party continued to have a positive impact on the Coalville area and its residents due to the ongoing proactive work it had delivered and since their last meeting the Working Party had reviewed their Terms of Reference, which Cabinet were being asked approve, and that Music and Picnic in the Park had been extremely popular and successful again. She highlighted that the Working Party were proposing that next year’s events were to be held on 22 and 23 June.

She informed Cabinet, that whilst it was disappointing that the application to the Bardon Community Fund for the commemorative artwork in Memorial Square had been unsuccessful, it was pleasing that the project was still on track and had the full support of the Whitwick Branch of the Royal British Legion. She stated that the Working Party had requested that Cabinet approved an additional £3,000 be allocated from balances to Melrose Road Play Hub to cover potential legal fees in order to allow a footpath to be installed and that she was pleased to report that funding applications to Bardon Community Fund had been successful for 50% of the amounts requested for improvements to Coalville Park in order to help achieve Green Flag status, and improvements to London Road Cemetery.

She commended the efforts of the Working Party in trying to improve the Coalville area in line with the Council priorities and urged Members to support the recommendations to allocate £1,100 from balances to allow additional grass cutting to take place at Phoenix Green and along both Bardon and Ashby Roads. She highlighted that work to remove the MUGA from Lillehammer Drive had commenced and that the Working Party would be considering how the Section 106 funding associated with the project could be used to enhance facilities for residents within that vicinity.

It was moved by Councillor A V Smith, seconded by Councillor T Gillard and

RESOLVED THAT:

The recommendations made by the Coalville Special Expenses Working Party as detailed within the minutes be noted and the recommendations as summarised at 3.0 be approved.

Reason for decision: To progress Coalville Special Expenses projects and programmes.