Decision Taken By: CABINET MEMBER FOR Leisure, Youth and Arts
Decision No: D110034MEM
Date: 1st March 2011
Decision(s) and Reason(s)
Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge
Minutes
The report set out the aims of the Fields in Trust Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge and brought forward proposals for the Borough Council's involvement with the scheme. Mr T Housden, Project Officer of Fields in Trust gave a detailed presentation on the challenge which aimed to protect 2,012 outdoor recreational spaces across the UK as a permanent legacy of Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee and of the London 2012 Olympics.
Following consideration by the Leisure and Arts Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Leisure, Youth and Arts resolved that:
1) the Borough Council supports the Fields in Trust Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge;
2) nominations for sites to enter the Challenge from across the Borough be encouraged; and
3) subject to confirmation by the Legal Services Partnership Manager, four sites in the Council's ownership, as detailed in the report, be nominated for inclusion in the scheme.
Reasons: As set out in the report submitted to the Leisure and Arts Advisory Board of 1 March 2011.
Signed M Coffin (Cabinet Member for Leisure, Youth and Arts)
Signed Leader: M Worrall
Signed Chief Executive: D Hughes
Date of Publication: 04 March 2011
This decision will come into force and may then be implemented on the expiry of 5 working days after publication unless it is called in.