Issue - meetings

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

The report sets out details of sums received by the Council from developments which have attracted commuted sums for recreational open space and proposes uses for these sums.

The Area Committee is invited to consider the allocation of the following:-

·         £334.62 from development no.1083 (DC050788, 66a The Crescent, Woodsmoor) towards either (a) providing improved safer surfacing at Great Moor Park; or (b) providing a landscaped play area at Highfield Close.

·         £836.55 from development no.1092 (DC050439, land adjacent to 359 Bramhall Lane, Woodsmoor) towards either (a) future play improvements at Parkside play area; or (b) providing improved safer surfacing at Great Moor Park.

Officer contact: Ian Walmsley, 0161 474 4382, ian.walmsley@stockport.gov.uk.

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager submitted a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Area Committee to determine the use of commuted sums for play provision received from local developments in the Area Committee’s area.

RESOLVED – (1) That the currently available commuted sums for play provision for use in the area covered by the Stepping Hill Area Committee be allocated as follows:-

•   £334.62 from development no.1083 (DC050788, 66a The Crescent, Woodsmoor) towards providing improved safer surfacing at Great Moor Park;

•   £836.55 from development no.1092 (DC050439, land adjacent to 359 Bramhall Lane, Woodsmoor) towards providing improved safer surfacing at Great Moor Park.

and that the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration be requested to write to the Chair of the Friends of Great Moor Park to advise him of the availability of these funds.

(2) That the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration be requested to confirm what funds may be available for use in Clarendon Road Park.