Issue - meetings

To consider and discuss the Car Parking Strategy to enable future development in the town centre.

The report for this item is public. However Appendices 8c and 8d contain information regarding the negotiations and the proposed or potential courses of action and are currently exempt from publication by virtue of Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. It is considered on balance that the public interest would not be served by publishing the information as it could prejudice the proposed development.

The Executive resolved as follows:

1. To agree that Appendix 8c Assessment of Town Centre Car Parking Options and Appendix 8d Financial and Legal Considerations, to the Executive report, are not for publication by virtue of Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

2. To agree to the principal of providing the additional car parking spaces servicing the town centre to accommodate the demand identified in this report.

3. To authorise expenditure to the sum of up to £16,000,000 to deliver the additional town centre parking provision identified in the report and in the indicative designs attached at Appendix 8c, to the Executive report.

4. To delegate authority to the Chief Executive to authorise expenditure and contracts to deliver the most appropriate option within the financial limits in this report to the Executive.