Issue - meetings

By way of a report by the Head of Environmental & Community Services, to consider a proposal to fund the development of a skate park in Stukeley Meadows.

Agreed to release up to £20,000 from the capital programme, prior to approval of the Council’s Medium Term Plan, to enable a scheme to develop a skate park in Stukeley Meadows, Huntingdon to proceed; and that Huntingdon Town Council be approached to consider meeting the running costs of the scheme estimated at £10k per annum.

By way of a report by the Head of Environmental and Community Health Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) the Cabinet considered a request for the release of funding for the development of a skate park in Stukeley Meadows which had been identified for inclusion in 2008/2013 Medium Term Plan. 

Whilst noting that the scheme had been successful in securing £160,000 from external sources, Executive Councillors referred to the absence of any funding thus far Huntingdon Town Council particularly given the benefits of the proposals for the town.  In that respect Members suggested that the Town Council be approached with a view to meeting the running costs of the facility, estimated at £10k per annum. In noting the time restrictions placed on some of the designated funding and the resultant need to commission work on the scheme by the end of the year, the Cabinet 

RESOLVED

a)  that up to £20,000 be released from the capital programme, prior to approval of the Council’s Medium Term Plan to enable a scheme to develop a skate park in Stukeley Meadows, Huntingdon to proceed; and

b)  that Huntingdon Town Council be approached to consider meeting the running costs of the scheme estimated at £10k per annum.