Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Head of Leisure and Health.

Executive Councillor: J M Palmer.

The Cabinet approve the recommendation as submitted in the exempt report on the proviso that the feasibility study for phase 2 of the site project proposals be submitted to the Cabinet by the end of December 2019.

That support be provided by the District Council to facilitate the development and accommodation of the squash club elsewhere in Huntingdonshire.

Councillor J D Ablewhite, Ward Member for St Ives East, was in attendance for this item.

With the aid of an exempt report by the Head of Leisure and Health (a copy of which is appended in the Annex to the Minute Book) the Cabinet gave consideration to proposals to repurpose the squash courts at One Leisure St Ives Outdoor Centre. The proposals had been drawn up to redress the operational deficit at the Centre.

Executive Members received a detailed introduction by the One Leisure Business and Operations Manager outlining the background to the proposals. Councillor J D Ablewhite, Ward Member for St Ives East, was then permitted to speak.

The Cabinet fully debated the matter and received responses to questions raised. The comments of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Customers and Partnerships) and their proposed recommendation were received and noted.

Having been advised of plans to commission a feasibility study for phase 2 of the site project proposals and following a suggestion made by the Executive Councillor for Housing, Planning and Economic Development to facilitate the development and accommodation of the local Squash Club, it was

RESOLVED

a)  that the recommendation as submitted in the exempt report now submitted be approved;

b)  that the feasibility study for phase 2 of the site project proposals be submitted to the Cabinet by the end of December 2019; and

c)  that support be provided by the District Council to facilitate the development and accommodation of the squash club elsewhere in Huntingdonshire.