Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy seeking to secure Members’ approval to set up a governance body to administer expenditure of the Neighbourhood Fund element of Community Infrastructure Levy receipts and to obtain Members’ views on the preferred approach to the allocation of the Neighbourhood Fund.

RESOLVED that:

(1)          the establishment of a Member led Task and Finish Group be approved to establish the criteria for allocating the Neighbourhood Funding element of Community Infrastructure Levy to be chaired by the Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy, and

(2)          authority be delegated to the Head of Place in consultation with the Head of Communities and the Cabinet Members for Planning and Housing Strategy, and Communities and Neighbourhoods to approve individual allocations in accordance with the criteria identified at (1) above.

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy that sought to secure Members’ approval to set up a governance body to administer expenditure of the Neighbourhood Fund element of Community Infrastructure Levy receipts and to obtain Members’ views on the preferred approach to the allocation of the Neighbourhood Fund.

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy advised Members that Gloucester would be the first of the 3 Joint Core Strategy authorities to bring forward plans to allocate the funding in question.  He summarised the key features of the report and made clear the need for a flexible approach to the allocation criteria so as not to restrict opportunities for community groups and to properly address the social sustainability pillar underpinning Gloucester’s Social Value Policy (appendix 2).  The Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure reiterated the importance of flexibility given the uncertainty of future events.

RESOLVED that:

(1)          the establishment of a Member led Task and Finish Group be approved to establish the criteria for allocating the Neighbourhood Funding element of Community Infrastructure Levy to be chaired by the Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy, and

(2)          authority be delegated to the Head of Place in consultation with the Head of Communities and the Cabinet Members for Planning and Housing Strategy, and Communities and Neighbourhoods to approve individual allocations in accordance with the criteria identified at (1) above.