Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration

The report seeks support from the Committee to make a Public Spaces Protection Order to allow a gate to be installed to the alleyway to the rear of / bordered by 58-64 Bloom Street and 1 Freemantle Street, Edgeley, and requests the Committee to agree to contribute a sum of £1500 from the Area Committee Delegated Budget (Edgeley & Cheadle Heath Ward) to allow the gating scheme to be completed.

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A representative of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) seeking support from the Area Committee to make a Public Spaces  Protection Order to allow a gate to be installed to the alleyway to the rear of/bordered by 58-64 Bloom Street and 1 Freemantle Street, Edgeley.

The Area Committee also debated the future of alleygating projects in the light of a budgetary proposal to curtail them.

RESOLVED – (1) That approval be given to a contribution of £1,500 from the Area Committee’s Delegated Budget (Edgeley and Cheadle Heath Ward) in order to allow the gating scheme at 58-64 Bloom Street and 1 Freemantle Street, Edgeley to be completed.

(2) That the Executive Councillors (Corporate, Customer & Community Services) and (Communities & Sustainability) be advised that this Area Committee supports the proposals to make a Public Spaces Protection Order to allow a gate to be erected at 58-64 Bloom Street and 1 Freemantle Street, Edgeley and requests the Executive Councillors to progress the Public Spaces Protection Order.

(3) That, subject to the approval from the Executive Councillors (Corporate, Customer & Community Services) and (Communities & Sustainability) referred to in (2) above:-

·         In the event of there being no representations against the making of the Public Spaces Protection Order, the Order be confirmed.

·         In the event that representations against the making of the Public Spaces Protection Order are received, the matter be referred to the Area Committee.

(4) That the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration be advised that this Area Committee supports the continuation of alleygating projects with the possibility of them being funded from the Area Committee’s Delegated Budget.