Issue - meetings

To update Members on the numbers of “Expressions of Interest” expressed to the Council at the first stage.

(Report to follow)

RESOLVED that

1)                 progress on the scheme be noted; and

RECOMMENDED that

2)                 additional revenue funding of £2,360 be approved to progress the scheme for the year 2009/10 up to and including reporting on the outcomes of the market testing exercise.

Members considered a report which gave an update on the progress of the scheme to redevelop the Churchill District Centre and to request additional funding to enable the completion of the market testing process.

Officers reported that a notice had been placed in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) on 12th October 2009 with the requirement that developers who wished to express an interest should complete a Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) to be returned to the Council by noon on 18th November 2009.  Additional marketing had also commenced on 17th October 2009 with the same deadline for the return of the PQQ.

Members were informed that four PQQs had been received and a full report on the suitability of those developers would be presented to Council on 7th December 2009.  This report would set out the financial implications of proceeding with the project and would ask whether the Council would want to proceed to the next stage.

RESOLVED that

1)                 progress on the scheme be noted; and

RECOMMENDED that

2)                 additional revenue funding of £2,360 be approved to progress the scheme for the year 2009/10 up to and including reporting on the outcomes of the market testing exercise.