Issue - meetings

To consider a report detailing proposed options for Town Centre Landscape Improvements (including Church Green).

(Report attached)

The Committee considered a report which provided information on potential landscape improvements that could be undertaken within the Town Centre.

Members were informed that there were five areas that were being considered for improvement and that the area in question on this occasion was the northern edge of Church Green. The bandstand and the fountain were to remain in situ but the work was intended to make the area more attractive, accessible and usable. Capital money had already been set aside to carry out this work. Amended recommendations were tabled which included proposals for a further, final period of consultation on the plans for this part of Church Green.

Members welcomed the proposals and noted the reasons for the additional consultation. It was explained that this consultation would take place in the New Year.

RESOLVED that

the proposed spend of a proportion of the agreed budget and the intended timescales for the phasing of the project be endorsed, subject to;

i)          a 4 week consultation period being undertaken with regard to the Bandstand element of the project (such consultation to make it clear that the Bandstand will remain in current location); and

ii)         the results of the consultation being discussed with the appropriate Portfolio Holder and Ward Councillors and, if significant, reported back to the Executive Committee.