Issue - meetings

Further to Minute 5 (19 June 2018), the Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Social Housing introduced a report on the proposed allocation of the current year’s Strategic Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding.

The Cabinet Member advised that a total of 18 projects had been submitted for consideration for a share of the £2.64m funding that was available.  Nine had been assessed by officers and the Local Plan Steering Group as meeting the approved criteria and all were recommended for approval.  One of the projects was the Box Up Crime initiative, where a team of volunteers worked with upwards of 600 young people a week from the ages of 7-24 to help them transition from gang and other criminal activities and take up boxing as an alternative, with the funding providing separate male and female changing facilities with accessible showers and toilets.

Cabinet Members expressed their support for the proposals and asked officers to ensure that ward councillors were fully informed of progress on projects within their areas.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree the allocation of Community Infrastructure Levy funding to the following strategic projects:

·  Kingsley Hall refurbishment project - £300,000 (subject to further discussions to agree how the project could best meet identified social infrastructure needs for local faith communities);

·  Box Up Crime refurbishment of premises - £300,000;

·  East End Women’s Museum fitting out premises - £250,000;

·  Becontree Centenary Estate Improvement projects - £774,789 over three years;

·  Tackling litter in parks - £96,000;

·  Barking Riverside Thames Clipper Extension - £600,000;

·  Building a Green Community Infrastructure - £117,800;

·  Safer Parks, Healthier Communities - £84,000 over three years; and

·  Barking and Dagenham Local Football Facility - £160,000.

(ii)  Agree that all awards shall be subject to the Director of Inclusive Growth, in consultation with the relevant Cabinet Member, being satisfied that the intended recipients of Strategic CIL funding operate inclusive access policies in line with the Council’s equalities values.