Issue - meetings
Use of Future High Streets Fund Revenue Grant
Meeting: 08/06/2020 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 148)
148 USE OF FUTURE HIGH STREETS FUND REVENUE GRANT 
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To consider the attached report of the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial).
Minutes:
The Strategic Delivery Manager (Infrastructure) presented the report on the Use of Future High Streets Fund Revenue Grant.
Members were advised that on 27 August 2019 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) awarded the Council £150,000 to develop a business case for submission to the Future High Streets Fund. The Council engaged WSP to prepare a draft business case that was submitted to MHCLG on 16 March and feedback on the draft business had been received. The Cabinet had been requested to authorise using the remainder of the revenue funding to appoint WSP to develop the work further so that the Council could develop a detailed business case for submission before the deadline of 31 July 2020.
Members welcomed the proposals set out in the report.
RESOLVED: That it be recommended to Cabinet:
(a) That the receipt and expenditure of a grant of £150,000 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government be approved.
(b) That the appointment of WSP to investigate a range of project options and develop a grant funding business case that meets the criteria required by the Future High Streets Fund be approved.
(c) That the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial) be authorised, in consultation with the Leader of the Council, to identify a set of projects that could deliver transformational change and submit a business case to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Meeting: 01/06/2020 - Cabinet (Item 11)
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To consider the attached report of the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial).
Responsibility: Leader of the Council
Minutes:
It was agreed:
(a) That the receipt and expenditure of a grant of £150,000 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government be approved.
(b) That the appointment of WSP to investigate a range of project options and develop a grant funding business case that meets the criteria required by the Future High Streets Fund be approved.
(c) That the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial) be authorised, in consultation with the Leader of the Council, to identify a set of projects that could deliver transformational change and submit a business case to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.