Issue - meetings

Executive Board considered the attached report.

RECOMMENDED: That Council amend the Capital Programme to include £46,000 for the Murdishaw Estate Regeneration Programme to provide the Council’s contribution to the actions and activities outlined in the report, to be funded from the Capital Receipt received for the Jolly Brewer Pub.

          The Council considered a report of the Strategic Director, Enterprise, Community and Resources, on an amendment to the Capital Programme to allow for funding for the improvement of the Murdishaw area of Runcorn.

RESOLVED: That the amendment to the Capital Programme to include £46,000 for the Murdishaw Estate Regeneration programme to provide the Council’s contribution to the actions and activities outlined in the report, to be funded from the Capital Receipt received for the Jolly Brewer Pub, be approved.

          The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Enterprise, Community and Resources, on an amendment to the Capital Programme to allow for funding for the improvement of the Murdishaw area of Runcorn.

          The Board was advised that, since the closure and subsequent demolition of the former Jolly Brewer Public House, the Council had been working closely with local partners to reinvigorate Murdishaw local centre. It was noted that the Council had sold the former Jolly Brewer site to Liverpool Housing Trust (LHT), who had agreed to deliver 18 new homes and a new re-located car park to the front of the local centre retail units. The car park element would be completed by November 2017.

          It was reported that in October 2016, Mott Macdonald were appointed as an independent consultant to drive forward the visioning process for the wider regeneration of the Murdishaw area. Two pieces of work had been completed – the Visioning Framework and a housing market analysis -  and in conjunction with this, it was proposed that a series of small scale projects be delivered which targeted areas of most need. A Steering Group would oversee the development of the options, and lead on resident engagement as proposals emerged.

          RESOLVED: That Council be recommended to amend the Capital Programme to include £46,000 for the Murdishaw Estate Regeneration Programme to provide the Council’s contribution to the actions and activities outlined in the report, to be funded from the Capital Receipt received for the Jolly Brewer Pub.