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Draft Leisure Strategy

Meeting: 25/03/2021 - Executive (Item 115)

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Additional documents:

Decision:

That:

 

1)              the principles and content of the draft Leisure Strategy be endorsed;

 

2)              the draft Strategy be approved for consultation with residents and stakeholders;

 

3)              the results of the consultation and any resulting changes to the draft Strategy to be considered at a future meeting of the Executive;

 

4)              it be noted that an initial Action Plan for implementing the Strategy will be presented alongside the consultation feedback to the Executive.

Minutes:

The Executive considered a report setting out a draft Leisure Strategy which if approved would be consulted upon with residents and stakeholders.

 

The Executive Member for Environment and Leisure advised the meeting that the Council was committed to supporting and improving the health and wellbeing of its residents and the draft Leisure Strategy demonstrated the dedication to provide the best leisure provision and outdoor spaces to make Wokingham Borough the healthiest place to live in the country.

 

Councillor Batth advised that the Strategy set out plans for residents’ physical and emotional wellbeing through the Council’s leisure offering and partnership with a wide range of other organisations, including proposals to establish a new Active Wokingham Partnership to support connective efforts to ensure that high quality facilities and opportunities remain affordable, accessible, and sustainable.  Councillor Batth highlighted the various investment leisure projects across the Borough, as set out in the report, that had either been invested in or committed to, amounting to over £50m e.g., Bulmershe Leisure Centre, Ryiesh Green and Arborfield leisure facilities etc.

 

In response to a query Councillor Batth confirmed that in order to ensure that the action plan met residents’ needs it would be developed once responses were received to the public consultation and would be brought back to a future Executive.

 

RECOMMENDATION that:

 

1)              the principles and content of the draft Leisure Strategy be endorsed;

 

2)              the draft Strategy be approved for consultation with residents and stakeholders;

 

3)              the results of the consultation and any resulting changes to the draft Strategy to be considered at a future meeting of the Executive;

 

4)              it be noted that an initial Action Plan for implementing the Strategy will be presented alongside the consultation feedback to the Executive.