Issue - meetings

Further to Minute 71 (12 December 2017), the Cabinet Member for Finance, Performance and Core Services introduced a report on the proposed allocation of Strategic Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding.

The Cabinet Member advised that three projects had been submitted for consideration and had passed through the assessment route previously agreed by Cabinet.  All three bids related to the implementation of strategic projects that formed part of the Council’s Parks and Open Spaces Strategy, including the ‘Parklife’ project referred to in the earlier item on the agenda.

In response to a request for consideration to be given to new children’s play facilities in the Becontree ward, the Leader encouraged all Councillors to consider potential initiatives within their wards that could be supported by either Strategic or Neighbourhood CIL funding in the future and to pass on their ideas to the relevant officers.

The Cabinet resolved that Community Infrastructure Levy funding be allocated to the following strategic projects:

·  Parsloes Park ‘Parklife’ project - £600,000;

·  Children’s Play Spaces and Facilities - £275,000 over five years;

·  Parks and Open Spaces Strategy 2017 Implementation - £500,000 over five years.