Issue - meetings

To consider the attached report of the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial).

The Strategic Delivery Manager (Infrastructure) presented the report on Public Realm Improvements Project – Market Square, Dover.

Members welcomed the project as a way of boosting tourism in Dover and supporting the Council’s tourism strategy.

Councillor L A Keen questioned the current lack of cycle racks in Market Square given its position at the end of the Dour cycle route.

RESOLVED: That it be recommended to the Cabinet:

(a)  That the project be approved in principle, and the Council be permitted to receive the grant of £2.44 million and to act as the accountable body to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in relation to the grant.

(b)  That the expenditure of £350,000 allocated within the current capital programme be approved as match funding for the project.

(c)   That the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial) be authorised, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Transport and Licensing, to: (i) Enter into any agreements necessary to deliver the project; (ii) Take all necessary steps to work with Kent County Council to deliver the highways elements of the project; and (iii) Expend the grant for the purpose of delivering public realm improvements at the Market Square, Dover.

(Councillor T A Bond declared a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest by reason of his position as a director of Dover Town Team and withdrew from the meeting for the consideration of this item of business.)

To consider the attached report of the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial).

Responsibility: Portfolio Holder for Transport and Licensing

It was agreed:

(a)  That the project be approved in principle, and the Council be permitted to receive the grant of £2.44 million and to act as the accountable body to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in relation to the grant.

(b)  That the expenditure of £350,000 allocated within the current capital programme be approved as match funding for the project.

(c)   That the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial) be authorised, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Transport and Licensing, to: (i) Enter into any agreements necessary to deliver the project; (ii) Take all necessary steps to work with Kent County Council to deliver the highways elements of the project; and (iii) Expend the grant for the purpose of delivering public realm improvements at the Market Square, Dover.