Issue - meetings

To consider the attached report of the Director of Environment and Corporate Assets.

The Director of Environment and Corporate Assets presented the report on the River Dour Enhancement Work and Repairs to Dolphin House Garages.

It was intended that the enhancement work and repairs would be completed prior to the opening of the St James’s Development in February as the location abutted the westerly edge of the development near a primary route to the town centre.

Members welcomed the enhancement work to the River Dour but questioned whether the repairs to the garages were being used for car parking or commercial storage. In response to the suggestion that given the low rental income generated by the garages their demolition in favour of creating additional car parking would be a better use of the location, the Director of Environment and Corporate Assets advised that there were some issues of access that might make the site difficult to use as a car park.   

RESOLVED: That it be recommended to Cabinet:

(a)       That the business case to carry out the riverside enhancement works be approved.

(b)       That the repairs to the Dolphin House garages not be undertaken in order for the usage (i.e. car parking, commercial storage, etc.) of the garages to be established.

To consider the attached report of the Director of Environment and Corporate Assets.

Responsibility: Portfolio Holder for Property Management and Environmental Health

It was agreed that the business case to carry out riverside enhancement works and repairs to the Dolphin House garages be approved.