Decision details

This report updates the Executive with a detailed programme of work and resourcing plan for the progression of the previously agreed Welborne Delivery Strategy.  Additionally, the Executive is advised of proposals arising from an initial review of the existing governance arrangements relating to Welborne.

In February 2016 the Executive approved a Welborne Delivery Strategy and requested that the Executive be subsequently provided with a detailed programme of work and resourcing plan.  Officers are now able to update the Executive on these matters and therefore seek Executive approval to the expenditure for 2016/17 set out in Appendix A to the report.  Indicative costs for the subsequent two years are also provided, together with an update on potential external funding streams.

In February 2016 the Executive also noted that proposals would be developed for new governance arrangements relating to Welborne in the light of the agreed Welborne Delivery Strategy.  An initial review has not been taken and initial proposals to ensure effective community engagement on planning proposals relating to Welborne are now recommended.

Following a response from Bruce Slattery to a question raised by the Executive Leader, an additional recommendation was agreed by the Executive.  

RESOLVED that the Executive:

(a)  notes the detailed programme of work and resourcing plan outlined for the progression of the Welborne Delivery Strategy;

(b)  approves the expenditure for 2016/17 as set out in Appendix A;

(c)  notes the revised community engagement arrangements outlined in paragraphs 16-18 of the Executive Briefing Paper;

(d)  recommends to Council that the Welborne Standing Conference be dissolved;

(e)  recommends to Council that Henry Cleary OBE be thanked for his work as Chairman and the other members also be thanked for their contribution to the work of the Conference over the past four years; and

(f)   instructs officers to seek clarification within 7 days from BST Warehouses Ltd as to which areas of land within the Welborne plan area they currently have full legal control over for the purposes of development.