Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Environmental and Community Health Services seeking approval for the Council’s Play Strategy.

  Approved the contents of the draft Play Strategy for Huntingdonshire and the proposed key elements of the action plan outlined in paragraph 3.3 to 3.6, requested that the associated financial implications be costed and the Head of Environmental and Community Health Services report further to the Cabinet in July 2007 on spending proposals for monies received from the Big Lottery Fund.

By way of a report by the Head of Environmental and Community Health Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) that Cabinet was invited to consider the content of a draft Play Strategy for Huntingdonshire and its proposed submission to the “Big Lottery Fund” in October 2007 for funding to create, improve and develop children and young peoples’ play spaces locally.

Having been advised that the Strategy had been the subject of extensive consultation with interested parties and that the associated Action Plan would address the needs of local groups/individuals with disabilities, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

a)  that the content of the draft Play Strategy for Huntingdonshire be approved;

b)  that the proposed key elements of the Action Plan outlined in paragraph 3.3 to 3.6 be approved and the associated financial implications costed; and

c)  that the Head of Environmental and Community Health Services be requested to report further to the Cabinet on the proposed Action Plan, with costings.