Issue - meetings

To receive details on the current status of the Transforming Cities Fund Programme and to consider the entering the projects within the programme onto the Kirklees Capital Plan.

Wards affected: Newsome, Cleckheaton, Liversedge and Gomersal, Heckmondwike, Batley West, Batley East, Dewsbury East

Contact: Robert Stanley, Major Projects – Economy and Skills

1)    That the Transforming Cities Fund projects and current budgets be noted.

2)    That approval be given to the projects being entered into the Kirklees Capital Plan.

3)    That authority be delegated to the Strategic Director (Economy and Infrastructure) to negotiate and agree the terms of any agreement with West Yorkshire Combined Authority that is for the purpose of providing funding for the development of business cases for Transforming Cities Fund projects, the carrying out of public consultation and the development and working up of designs for Transforming Cities Fund Projects.

4)    That authority be delegated to the Service Director (Legal, Governance and Commissioning) the authority to enter into any funding agreement with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority as referred to in para. 6.1.3.