Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Planning Policy Manager recommending changes to the criteria and allocation of the Historic Building Grants Scheme.

Approved proposed amendments to the Historic Buildings Grant Scheme outlined in paragraph 3.3 of the report and requested the Director of Operational Services to circulate further information to Executive Members on the Scheme’s implementation.

With the assistance of a report by the Planning Policy Manager (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) the Cabinet was acquainted with the outcomes of a review of the Council’s Historic Buildings Grant Scheme.  

In discussing proposals to amend the scheme to make funding more widely available and responsive to those buildings on the Huntingdonshire Buildings at Risk Register 2007, Members expressed apprehension with regard to the proposed relaxation of the condition requiring repayment of grant where properties were disposed of by developers within 3 years of the completion of the works, but having received assurances from the Director of Operational Services that the changes had been designed to make more effective use of the grant budget, the Cabinet 

RESOLVED

(a)  that the proposed amendments to the Historic Buildings Grant Scheme outlined in the report now submitted be approved; and

(b)  that the Director of Operational Services be requested to circulate to Executive Members a note addressing the areas of concern now referred to.