Issue - meetings

The Corporate Director for Children, Education & Communities and the Corporate Director of Health, Housing & Adult Social Care to present a report which seeks consent to invest in improved sports facilities at the former Burnholme Community College site, continuing plans to create a Health and Wellbeing campus.

Resolved:           (i)      That a net investment of £2.45m should be made to deliver improved sports facilities at the Burnholme Health and Wellbeing campus and further enabling works to facilitate the delivery of sports, health and housing on the site, and that an application for planning permission be prepared and submitted for these works.

(ii)      That approval be given to extend the Greenwich Leisure Ltd. (GLL) leisure facilities operation service contract , dated 16 November 2017, to cover the Burnholme Sports provision, on the terms described in the report and for the term of that contract.

(iii)     That, for the term of the contract, existing regular users of the current facility can continue to have the same access times and cost arrangements, subject to annual price increases in line with inflation.         

(iv)    That approval be given to use the Venture Fund to manage the early years deficits on the Burnholme operations, up to a total of £0.2m, to be funded from the surpluses due in the later years.

Reason:     So that improved sports and active leisure facilities are made available for the benefit of the citizens of York.

Note: Cllr Ayre, having declared an interest, left the room during consideration of the above item and took no part in the debate or decisions thereon.

[See also under Part B]

The Strategic Services Manager and the Public Health Programme Manager presented a report which sought approval to invest in improved sports facilities at the former Burnholme Community College site, continuing plans to create a Health and Wellbeing Campus.

The report explained how the project would complement the growing range of sports facilities across the city by focusing on offering local opportunities for residents, in line with the city’s Health & Wellbeing Strategy and the business case agreed in May 2016.  Officers had been working with Greenwich Leisure Ltd. (GLL), who had managed the council’s leisure facilities since December 2017, to deliver the vision for sport outlined in the report.  Approval was sought to extend the contract with GLL to enable them to take over the operation of the Burnholme site from 2019/20, after redevelopment work.  The redeveloped facilities would be the York hub for GLL’s Healthwise programme, complementing the work of the Health Hub on the site.

Plans for the site would be shared at a community engagement event at Burnholme before submission of a planning application later this year, with an anticipated completion date in late 2019.  Officers confirmed that protecting arrangements for groups currently using the facilities on a regular basis was something that could be managed within the contract with GLL.

Resolved:           (i)      That a net investment of £2.45m should be made to deliver improved sports facilities at the Burnholme Health and Wellbeing campus and further enabling works to facilitate the delivery of sports, health and housing on the site, and that an application for planning permission be prepared and submitted for these works.

(ii)      That approval be given to extend the Greenwich Leisure Ltd. (GLL) leisure facilities operation service contract , dated 16 November 2017, to cover the Burnholme Sports provision, on the terms described in the report and for the term of that contract.

(iii)     That, for the term of the contract, existing regular users of the current facility can continue to have the same access times and cost arrangements, subject to annual price increases in line with inflation.

(iv)    That approval be given to use the Venture Fund to manage the early years deficits on the Burnholme operations, up to a total of £0.2m, to be funded from the surpluses due in the later years.

Reason:     So that improved sports and active leisure facilities are made available for the benefit of the citizens of York.