Decision details

Shared Prosperity Funding, Town Centre Improvements

Decision Maker: Portfolio Holder - Planning and Economy

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

This report confirms the process for allocating and progressing SPF funding which has been identified to support town centre improvements in the district.

Decision:

On 8 September 2023, Cllr Derek Tipp, the Portfolio Holder for Planning and Economy made the following decision:

That the net £211,200 SPF funding for town centre projects will be split in the following way:

• Totton Town Centre - £136,200
• Other district centres - £75,000, with equal amounts to Fordingbridge,
New Milton, Ringwood, Hythe and Marchwood.

Proposals will be worked up with the appropriate Town or Parish Council and will then be considered by the Portfolio Holder for Planning and Economy for endorsement.

Any member of the Council, who is not a Portfolio Holder, who considers that this decision should be reviewed should give notice using the call-in facility at the top of this page on the Council’s intranet / extranet site. Alternatively, notice can be given to the Monitoring Officer (Grainne O’Rourke) (in writing or by e-mail) to be received ON OR BY 5.15 pm on 15 September 2023.

Details of the document the Portfolio Holder considered are attached below.

Reasons for the decision:

See Report

Alternative options considered:

See Report

Declarations of Interest(s): None

Contact: Clive Tritton, Interim Assistant Director, Place and Development Email: clive.tritton@nfdc.gov.uk.

Publication date: 08/09/2023

Date of decision: 15/09/2023

Effective from: 16/09/2023

This decision has been called in by:

  • Cllr Barry Dunning who writes Owing to the omission of Lymington & Pennington in the list of Towns chosen to benefit from Shared Prosperity Funding, I am obliged to call this decision in. With a population of 15,832 I do feel that Lymington & Pennington is, once again, being overlooked."
  • Cllr Jack Davies who writes I wish to call in the decision because the proposal does not include the town of Lymington and Pennington within the list of allocations."
  • Cllr Colm McCarthy who writes "I would like to join my colleagues in calling in the portfolio holder decision to allocate the shared prosperity fund in the way that he did."

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