Planning and Economic Development Portfolio

To consider report PES/316 of the Head of Economy and Planning which was referred to the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Commission held on 24 June 2019.

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development presented report PES/316 of the Head of Economy and Planning which provided a progress update to Cabinet on the Crawley Growth Programme, to seek Cabinet approval to consult publically on the next tranche of Programme schemes and to allocate further S106 monies to a number of schemes within the Programme.

Councillor Rana presented the Overview and Scrutiny Commission’s comments on the report to the Cabinet following consideration of the matter at its meeting on 24 June 2019. The Commission expressed their support for the working being achieved by the Growth programme, which was noted by the Cabinet.

Councillors Mullins and Irvines spoke as part of the discussion on the report.

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet approves

1.         going out to public consultation on the concept designs, as set out in Appendices A-C of report PES/316 for the next tranche of Crawley Growth Programme schemes :

a)     Manor Royal to Three Bridges cycle route;

b)     Town Centre cycle route improvements;

c)     Bus shelter “super hubs”.

2.         expenditure of up to £783,000 from the existing CBC capital programme – Crawley Growth programme budget on the detailed design phase for the three schemes listed in the previous resolution, subject to consultation.

3.         the allocation of £327,570 of received S106 developer contributions to West Sussex County Council, to be used for one of the Crawley Growth Programme schemes for which they are the Lead Authority

4.         the transfer of Lead Authority for the Town Centre Commercial Space  development project from West Sussex County Council to Crawley Borough Council.

That Full Council be recommended to approve

1.         a further £600,842 of received S106 developer contributions is allocated to the CBC capital programme Crawley Growth programme budget and commit these funds to the specific projects as detailed in 7.2.2 of report PES/316

2.         from within the existing Crawley Growth Programme budget, the allocation of £327,637 of received S106 developer contributions to the project schemes set out in section 7.2.2 of report PES/316

3.         an increase to the overall Crawley Growth programme capital programme allocation of £6 million for the Town Centre Commercial Office Space project within the Crawley Growth programme, to be funded from contributions from existing funding commitments to the Crawley Growth Programme, subject to formal agreement with WSCC of a revised funding protocol.

Reasons for the Recommendations

The recommendations will allow Crawley BC to progress the referenced projects to the next phase.

The report to Cabinet of 4 October 2017 informed Members that the Crawley Growth programme will be part financed by an allocation of £2,481,000 of S106 funding. To date Crawley BC has received from developers £1,946,958 of the intended S106 monies. Of this amount Crawley BC has already allocated £1,018,547 to the Crawley Growth Programme. The purpose of the Full Council recommendations 1 and 2, was therefore to allocate received S106 funds to the Crawley Growth programme budget within the CBC capital programme so these funds can in turn be allocated to specific projects.

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