Issue - meetings

That:

1)        s106 funding and funding from the Wokingham Town Centre Regeneration Project up to a maximum of £1.5m be released subject to the receipt of at least an equivalent match funding sum from Wokingham Town Council; and

2)        all decisions necessary to implement the scheme be delegated to the Director of Environment in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Highways and the Executive Member for Regeneration and Communities.

(Councillors Julian McGhee-Sumner and Philip Mirfin declared personal interests in this item)

The Executive considered a report regarding Phase One of the Wokingham Town Centre Environmental Improvement Programme which was a joint project with Wokingham Town Council. 

The Deputy Executive Member for Planning and Highways highlighted that Phase One of the project would focus on the main public space around the Market Place and the Town Hall.  Funding was required to progress the project and the project was being developed by a Joint Officer Group comprising representatives from both Councils.  The proposal required the release of s106 funding which would be matched funded by the Town Council.

Councillor Mirfin confirmed, in his role as the Mayor of Wokingham Town Council, that the Town Council had agreed at a recent meeting to support up to a maximum of £1.5m for the project on a matched funding basis.

RESOLVED that:

1)        s106 funding and funding from the Wokingham Town Centre Regeneration Project up to a maximum of £1.5m be released subject to the receipt of at least an equivalent match funding sum from Wokingham Town council; and

2)        all decisions necessary to implement the scheme be delegated to the Director of Environment in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Highways and the Executive Member for Regeneration and Communities.