Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved to move into confidential session (in accordance with Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 - paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A) to consider this matter.

A report was presented with a recommendation to award £250,000 from Community Infrastructure Levy funds for a project to improve access to the recreation ground at Grange Meadow, Bletchingley. The site in question was owned by the Council.

Arguments for and against the recommended award of CIL funds were put forward. While not disputing the need for the scheme, reservations about the proposal included a view that the works should be funded from the Council’s capital programme (given that the Council owned the site) and that the scope for contributions from other relevant agencies had not yet been fully demonstrated.

Upon being put to the vote, the motion to adopt the recommendation was lost.

            R E S O L V E D – that the CIL application be refused.

Notes:

(i)         In accordance with Standing Order 25(3), Councillor Pursehouse wished it recorded that he abstained from voting.

(ii)      Councillor Black declared a non-pecuniary interest in this matter on the basis that she was the Council’s representative on the Bletchingley Sports Association. She took part in the debate as permitted by the Members’ Code of Conduct.