Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Portfolio Holder for Assets and Property.

Appendices B, C(a) and (b) associated with this report are set out below at item 21 in the agenda.

(a)       That Council’s commitment and ambition to achieve the outcomes set out within the Memorandum of Understanding agreed with the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DHLUC), be confirmed.

(b)       That ‘A Vision for Weymouth Harbour and Peninsula’ be used to guide progress of the Council’s activities in regenerating Weymouth, be agreed.

(c)        That the development and commencement of a procurement process to obtain a development partner for North Quay in compliance with the relevant applicable public procurement regulations, be approved.

(d)       That the Harbour Advisory Committee be invited to consider and make recommendations regarding how the Levelling Up Fund commitments for the Peninsula site could be delivered in a manner compatible with the Council’s duties as statutory harbour authority and securing the success and future viability of the harbour, including consideration of the potential approach to a new Harbour Revision Order.

(e)       That authority to seek a development partner for Weymouth Bowl in the most appropriate way, be granted.

(f)         That the procurement of the necessary engineering, materials and consultancy services, and a construction contractor for walls F and G on the Peninsula be authorised and that authority be delegated to the Executive Lead for Place in consultation with the Executive Director Corporate Development and the Portfolio Holder for Highways Travel and Environment to award necessary contracts subject to the appropriate budget being identified and allocated.

The Portfolio Holder for Economic Growth and Levelling Up presented the report updating members on the progress made with the Levelling Up Fund (LUF) projects and matters relating to them.  The report also sought the necessary approval to take the next steps toward delivery of development and the LUF commitments in Weymouth.

In presenting the recommendations the Portfolio Holder set out a minor amendment to recommendation (f) which should read as follows: “That the procurement of the necessary engineering, materials and consultancy services, and a construction contractor for walls F and G on the Peninsula be authorised and that authority be delegated to the Executive Lead for Place in consultation with the Executive Director Corporate Development and the Portfolio Holder for Highways Travel and Environment to award necessary contracts subject to the appropriate budget being identified and allocated.

The recommendation as amended was seconded by Cllr R Bryan.

Decision

(a)       That Council’s commitment and ambition to achieve the outcomes set out within the Memorandum of Understanding agreed with the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DHLUC), be confirmed.

(b)       That ‘A Vision for Weymouth Harbour and Peninsula’ be used to guide progress of the Council’s activities in regenerating Weymouth, be agreed.

(c)        That the development and commencement of a procurement process to obtain a development partner for North Quay in compliance with the relevant applicable public procurement regulations, be approved.

(d)       That the Harbour Advisory Committee be invited to consider and make recommendations regarding how the Levelling Up Fund commitments for the Peninsula site could be delivered in a manner compatible with the Council’s duties as statutory harbour authority and securing the success and future viability of the harbour, including consideration of the potential approach to a new Harbour Revision Order.

(e)       That authority to seek a development partner for Weymouth Bowl in the most appropriate way, be granted.

(f)         That the procurement of the necessary engineering, materials and consultancy services, and a construction contractor for walls F and G on the Peninsula be authorised and that authority be delegated to the Executive Lead for Place in consultation with the Executive Director Corporate Development and the Portfolio Holder for Highways Travel and Environment to award necessary contracts subject to the appropriate budget being identified and allocated.

Reason for the decision

To give authority to allow the Council to take the necessary steps to bring forward development on the LUF sites.