Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Development & Regeneration.

The report provides an update on delivering Marple District Centre Action Plan including recent successes and priorities for the next 6 months.

The Area Committee is asked to:-

a)    Note the progress made in delivering projects and events.

b)    Provide feedback on initial ideas for priority projects to allocate the £5,000 UKSPF which will be discussed with Marple Vision Group.

Officer contact: Richard Daniels, richard.daniels@stockport.gov.uk

Richard Daniels attended the meeting to provide an update on delivering the Marple District Centre Action Plan including recent successes and priorities for the next 6 months.

The following comments were made/issues raised: -

·       Members expressed thanks for work that had already been undertaken and the positive relationships that had been developed with local businesses.

·       A new logo had been launched for the Marple Vision Group.

·       The availability of public toilets and expanding the scheme into High Lane.

·       Raising public awareness of the ‘voluntary scheme’ locally and plans to develop a physical map of Marple to put on public display and to upload to social media.

·       Members enquired as to whether there were limits on the uses for the UKSPF. In response, it was stated that funding was to be used for events and small-scale improvements.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.