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Meeting Details

Economic Development Committee
17 Jul 2017 - 18:30 to 19:10
Scheduled
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda

Standard Items
1 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
To receive any apologies for absence. 


1

 

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Reynolds, Pratt and Stenhouse.

 

 

2 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

You have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter to be discussed if it relates to something on your Register of Interests form. You must declare the interest and leave the room while the matter is dealt with.

You have a Personal Interest in a matter to be discussed if it affects
•    your well being or financial position
•    that of your family or close friends
•    that of a club or society in which you have a management role
•    that of another public body of which you are a member to a greater extent than others in your ward.
You must declare a personal interest but can speak and vote on the matter.

Whenever you declare an interest you must say why the interest arises, so that it can be included in the minutes. 

2

 

There were no Declarations of Interest declared at the meeting.

 

 

3 pdf MINUTES (59Kb)

 

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on the 5 June 2017.

 

 

3

 

The minutes of the meeting held on the 5 June 2017 were confirmed.

 

 

4 pdf FORWARD PLAN (12Kb)

 

Report attached.

 

 

4

 

The Committee received and noted the contents within the Forward Plan.

 

The Chairman reported that the Town Centre Events Update item had been deferred from the Committee meeting due to the need for further investigation work.

 

The Chairman requested an additional item 'Ice Rink' be added to the Forward Plan to be considered at the September meeting of the Committee.

 

Resolved :

 

(1) The addition of an item entitled 'ice rink' be added to the Committee's Forward Plan to be considered at it's meeting in September.

 

(2) That the Committee note the contents within the Forward Plan.

 

 

 

Report attached.

 

 

5

 

The Committee received and considered the Executive Director of Community and Environmental Services, Norfolk County Council report which set out progress on the development and delivery of Sustainable Transport schemes for Great Yarmouth funded from the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (NALEP) Growth Fund.

 

The Development Director reported that following a meeting of the Great Yarmouth Transport and Infrastructure Steering Group that afternoon, Members had agreed to endorse the first 2 years of the Sustainable Transport Priorities.

 

The Chairman commented that there was a need to ensure that there was a significant link between the Sustainable Transport Priorities Scheme and the Town Centre Masterplan. This was confirmed by the Director of Development.

 

A Member asked whether the £2.89m funding in respect of the Sustainable Transport Schemes had been allocated and secured, and it was advised that this funding had been secured.

 

A Member stated their disappointment that there had been no inclusion of Roman Place, Great Yarmouth within the Public realm scheme.

 

A Member asked when the projects would commence, the Development Director advised that he would raise this matter with Norfolk County Council and it was agreed that further details would be brought back to the next Committee meeting.

 

A Member raised concern in relation to improvements to cycle provisions, as it was felt that the provisions already offered were not used correctly.

 

RESOLVED :

 

That the Committee endorse the first 2 years of the Sustainable Transport Priorities set out in the Executive Director of Community and Environmental Services report.

 

 

 

Report attached.

 

 

6

 

The Committee considered the Economic Development Officer's report which asked Members to note the availability of grants and support for Great Yarmouth businesses and the work of the Economic Development Unit to assist this.

 

The Development Director reported that the report detailed the local take up of New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (NALEP) administered grants and outlined how the Economic Development Unit (EDU) works to support businesses to access financial assistance.

 

A Member commented that he had recently attended a meeting of the Economic Reference Group where the matter of small Business Grants had been discussed and concern had been raised in relation to the lack of grant take up in Great Yarmouth when it was pointed out that there were a vast number of small businesses within the town. Members agreed that there needed to be more awareness raised of the grants that are available for businesses in Great Yarmouth. It was suggested that information in respect of grants available be sent at the time businesses receive paperwork in relation to Business Rates from the Borough Council.

 

The Development Director reported that Glenn Moore of (NALEP) would be giving a presentation to the Great Yarmouth Tourism and Business Improvement Area to promote the scheme. A Member asked if Hemsby Business Owner's could be invited to attend the presentation to raise awareness of what schemes were available, it was suggested that the GYBID Board hold a general meeting for all bid payers to attend.

 

It was suggested that information in respect of Small Business Grants be sent to all Members to raise awareness of grants available.

 

Resolved :

 

That the Committee note the availability of grants and support for Great Yarmouth businesses and the work of the Economic Development Unit to assist this.

 

 

 

Report attached.

 

 

7

 

The Committee received and considered the Director of Development's report which asked Members to note the Economic Development element of the Annual performance Report for 2016/17 which had been approved by the Policy and Resources Committee at its meeting on the 13 June 2017.

 

Concern was raised in relation to performance measure ED10 - Number of new homes built in that applications were being granted, however developers were not developing once permission had been granted.

 

Resolved :

 

That the Committee note the Economic Development element of the annual performance report for 2016/17.

 

 

8 ANY OTHER BUSINESS
To consider any other business as may be determined by the Chairman of the meeting as being of sufficient urgency to warrant consideration.

9 EXCLUSION OF PUBLIC
In the event of the Committee wishing to exclude the public from the meeting, the following resolution will be moved:-

"That under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 12(A) of the said Act."

Attendance

Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
NameReason for Sending ApologySubstituted By
Sylvia Pratt  
Charles Reynolds James Bensly
Katy Stenhouse Alan Grey
NameReason for AbsenceSubstituted By
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Visitors

 

Councillor B Coleman (in the Chair); Councillors Grant, K Grey, Hammond, Hanton, Jeal, Thirtle, Wainwright, Walch and Walker.

 

Councillor A Grey attended as substitute for Councillor Stenhouse 

 

Councillor Bensly attended as substitute for Councillor Reynolds

 

Also in attendance :-

 

Mr D Glason (Director of Development), Mrs M Burdett (Project and Programme Manager) and Mrs S Wintle (Member Services Officer).

 

 

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