Decision details

This report seeks to update the Executive on the progress of the Fareham Park initiative over the last six months and to briefly outline future activities planned for the area.

As an important corporate priority, the Fareham Park Project meets a number of the Council’s corporate objectives. This report reviews the progress of the Fareham Park Project; an Officer and Member Steering Group which is tasked with identifying solutions and taking a co-ordinated approach to tackling the multiple issues associated with deprivation and poverty in the Fareham Park area of the Borough.

RESOLVED that the Executive:

(a)  approves the matched funding of £5,000 from the Fareham Park Development budget, towards the ‘Clued Up 2 Go’ initiative;

(b)  notes the progress of the Fareham Park Project;

(c)  supports the new priority selected by the Steering Group;

(d)  receives an annual update on the progress of the project, with the next report being April 2015; and

(e)  requests that the Executive Leader sends a strongly worded letter to Hampshire County Council to request that the land owned by the County, at 96 Highlands Road, be developed for community use as a matter of priority.