Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Place Management.

The report provides the details relating to an event application received from Marple Area Poppy Appeal to finish their Ride of Remembrance within Marple Memorial Park. The event will take place on Sunday 27 October 2024 between 1.00pm and 4.00pm, permission has been requested to use the park from 1.00pm until 4.30pm to enable event set up and close of the event. There will be a First Aid Tent. The Ride pf Remembrance will involve 100 motorbikes riding through the town. Each rider will carry one of the large street poppies with the name of one of the fallen men from the Marple area. Once in the park, the poppies carried by the riders will be transferred onto the Wall of Remembrance.

The Area Committee is asked to grant the application subject to the event organiser obtaining and providing the relevant paperwork at least 2 weeks prior to the event, including any necessary licences, health and safety documentation, insurance certificates, a satisfactory traffic management plan and the payment of agreed fees and charges.

Officer contact: Jonathan Headlam, 0161 474 3142, jonathan.headlam@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Assistant Director for Legal & Democratic Governance submitted a report of the Director of Place Management (copies of which had been circulated) for an event application from Marple Area Poppy Appeal to finish their Ride of Remembrance within Marple Memorial Park. The event will take place on Sunday 27 October 2024 between 1.00pm and 4.00pm, permission has been requested to use the park from 1.00pm until 4.30pm to enable event set up and close of the event. There will be a First Aid Tent. The Ride of Remembrance will involve 100 motorbikes riding through the town. Each rider will carry one of the large street poppies with the name of one of the fallen men from the Marple area. Once in the park, the poppies carried by the riders will be transferred onto the Wall of Remembrance.

RESOLVED – That approval be given to an application received from Marple Area Poppy Appeal to finish their Ride of Remembrance within Marple Memorial Park on Sunday 27 October 2024 between 1.00pm and 4.00pm, accessing the site from 1.00pm until 4.30pm to enable event set up and close of the event subject to the event organiser obtaining and providing the relevant paperwork at least 2 weeks prior to the event, including any necessary licences, health and safety documentation, insurance certificates, a satisfactory traffic management plan and the payment of agreed fees and charges.