Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment updating Members on the significant number of open space and play area improvements implemented by the City Council since 2016 using s106 payments.

RESOLVED that progress made in developing new and improving existing open space and play area provision within the City by the successful use of s106 payment is noted.

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment that updated Members on the significant number of open space and play area improvements implemented by the City Council since 2016 using section 106 payments.

The Cabinet Member for Environment drew Members’ attention to the ten new play areas created and eighteen open spaces upgraded with £1.7 million of section 106 funds (3.4) as well as the £100,000 made available to clubs playing on council owned sports fields to assist with improving the quality of their pitches (3.6).  He further reassured them that he intended this level of funding to be sustained.  The Cabinet Member for Performance and Resources thanked the Open Spaces Officer for pressing forward the improvements throughout the city, not least at the new Field Court Drive Play Area where she had personally observed families benefiting from the facilities in lockdown when they are most needed.  The Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure commented on his own experience seeing the hard work of the Open Spaces Officer including where his use of a relatively modest sum of money had created the new Lasborough Drive Play Area.

RESOLVED that progress made in developing new and improving existing open space and play area provision within the City by the successful use of s106 payment is noted.