Issue - meetings

Planning and Economic Development Portfolio

To consider report PES/298 of the Head of Economic and Environmental Services,  which was referred to the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Commission held on 25 June 2018.

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development presented report PES/298 of the Head of Economic and Environmental Services, which provided an update on the Crawley Growth Programme. The report detailed that two significant projects which were part of the Growth Programme, namely the Three Bridges Station Improvement scheme and the Queensway – the Pavement scheme, had currently separate budget codes. It was proposed that to enable an improved budget and project management, along with associated auditing processes, that those two project budgets needed to be under the wider Growth Programme budget header. Members noted that the report also sought a number of funding allocations from the Growth Programme’s capital budget to previously agreed schemes and a proposal to increase the current S106 funding to the Crawley Growth Programme, by approximately £580,000.

Councillor Cheshire presented the Overview and Scrutiny Commission’s comments on the report to the Cabinet following consideration of the matter at its meeting on 25 June 2018. The Cabinet noted the Commission’s comments.

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet approves

1.            the addition of the existing Three Bridges Station Improvement scheme and the Queensway – the Pavement scheme to the ‘Crawley Growth programme’ budget header.

2.            the allocation of £2,620,000 from the existing Crawley Growth programme capital programme monies to the individual schemes as outlined in section 7.7 of report PES/298.

3.            an increase to the overall Crawley Growth programme capital programme allocation of £587,595 of received S106 monies, as set out above and in section 7.5 of report PES/298.

4.            the addition of the Station Gateway scheme to the Crawley Growth Programme budget and an allocation of £100,000 to the scheme, as set out in section 7.3 report PES/298.

Reasons for Recommendations

To ensure that identified schemes were added to the Crawley Growth programme budget header within the CBC capital programme and to allocate the remaining £587,595 S106 funding the Crawley Growth programme.