Issue - meetings
Recommendations for the allocation of developer contributions for enhancement of recreation and community infrastructure provision in Dorchester
Meeting: 08/12/2020 - Cabinet (Item 64)
PDF 119 KBTo consider a report of the Portfolio Holder for Planning.
Decision:
The Portfolio Holder presented a report on the
Developer contributions that had been collected by Dorset Council and its
predecessor councils for the area of Dorchester. A reformed officer/member
panel recommended the Great Field project should continue to be funded and proposed
that the council support the Arts in Dorchester/Thomas Hardye
School joint venture receive the £1m funding previously committed to the
Maltings Arts project.
Dorchester local members welcomed the
recommendation
Decision
(a) Great Field Poundbury
– new recreation facilities, £455,786.00
(b) Arts
in Dorchester Project – improvements to Municipal Buildings and Thomas Hardye
School Theatre to provide enhanced performance space and associated facilities,
£1million. Payment subject to the submission of a comprehensive business case
to be approved by the Executive Director for Place in consultation with the
Portfolio holder for Planning.
Reason for
Recommendation:
To enable the award of developer contributions in
Dorchester to local projects for the enhancement of community infrastructure.
Minutes:
The Portfolio Holder presented a report on the
Developer contributions that had been collected by Dorset Council and its
predecessor councils for the area of Dorchester. A reformed officer/member
panel recommended the Great Field project should continue to be funded. It was further proposed that the council
support the Arts in Dorchester/Thomas Hardye School
joint venture to receive the £1m funding
that had previously been committed to the Maltings Arts project.
Dorchester local members spoke in support of the recommendation.
Decision
(a) Great Field Poundbury
– new recreation facilities, £455,786.00
(b) Arts
in Dorchester Project – improvements to Municipal Buildings and Thomas Hardye School
Theatre to provide enhanced performance space and associated facilities,
£1million. Payment subject to the submission of a comprehensive business case
to be approved by the Executive Director for Place in consultation with the
Portfolio holder for Planning.
Reason for
Recommendation:
To enable the award of developer contributions in
Dorchester to local projects for the enhancement of community infrastructure.