Issue - meetings

To consider St Peter’s Gardens scheme and associated grant funding.

Wards affected: Newsome

Contact: Isabel Whitworth – Project Manager for Town Centres Regeneration

RESOLVED –

1)    That approval be given to grant to St Peter’s Church £121,900 to deliver a multi-use event space in St Peter’s Gardens.

2)    That approval be given to grant to St Peter’s Church £350,000 from Kirklees’ UKSPF programme to deliver a multi-use event space in St Peter’s Gardens.

3)    That approval be given for the capital allocation of £45,000 from the Golden Routes Capital Programme to fund the delivery of highway improvement works on Byram Street as detail in section 2.4 of the considered report.

4)    That authority be delegated to the Strategic Director, Growth and Regeneration, in consultation with the Service Director, Legal Governance and Commissioning, to agree the grant agreement and other documentation necessary to enable the project to proceed and for the Service Director Legal, Governance and Commissioning to enter into the aforementioned documentation on behalf of the Council.