Issue - meetings

This report updates the Executive Member and Advisory Panel on the successful outcome of a recent Contaminated Land Capital Grant Programme (CLCGP) application made to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

(i)      That Option A, to accept the grant funding offered and undertake the detailed investigation, be approved.

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:In order that the Council can investigate the land off Fulford Cross, in accordance with obligations place on the Council by Part IIA.

Members received a report which updated them on the successful outcome of a recent Contaminated Land Capital Grant Programme (CLCGP) application made to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

The report presented the following options for consideration:

a)     To accept the grant funding offered and undertake the detailed investigation

b)     Not to accept the grand funding offered

A plan showing the area of the proposed ground investigation at Fulford Cross was circulated to Members at the meeting. The Assistant Director (Neighbourhoods and Community Safety) advised the meeting that Officers had written to residents in the area to advise them of the proposed work and had not received any adverse comments.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

That Option A, to accept the grant funding offered and undertake the detailed investigation, be approved. ¹

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:In order that the Council can investigate the land off Fulford Cross, in accordance with obligations place on the Council by Part IIA.