Decision details

To seek endorsement of the Redditch Economic Development Strategy, which provides a means of delivering the adopted Economic Priorities.

Report.

RECOMMENDED that

1)         subject to the outcome of a separate budget bid, the Redditch Economic Development Strategy as detailed in Appendix A be endorsed;

2)         the video clip for the Redditch Economic Development Strategy as prepared by students of Trinity High School, and as presented at the meeting, be endorsed for inclusion on the Council’s website and other related forums; and

3)         authority be delegated to the Head of Planning and Building Control, in consultation with the relevant Portfolio Holder, to produce final versions of the Executive Summary and Action Plan based on the ideas in the documents prepared by the students of Trinity High School.

(A Member posed a series of questions, as set out below, for consideration at some later date by the students who had attended the meeting to present the Executive Summary and video clip:

i)          what is good about Redditch;

ii)         what is not so good about Redditch; and

iii         in which direction ought the Council go in respect of further economic development in the Borough.)