Issue - meetings

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

The report details commuted sums received by the Council from housing developers toward the cost of play provision. The Area Committee’s approval is sought for the allocation of these sums.

The report also sets out the criteria that must be used in allocating sums for play provision.

That the Area Committee approve the allocation of the commuted sums for play provision as follows:-

·         £49,691.07 from development no.1164 (DC050793, Former Dialstone Centre , Offerton) to Half Moon Lane Play Area

·         £45,518.04 from development no.1194 (DC050984, Former Cherry Tree Hospital, Cherry Tree Lane) to both Boothby Street Play Area (£15,000) and Great Moor Park (£30,018.04)

·         £334.62 from development no.1210 (DC052209, 107 London Road, Hazel Grove) to Great Moor Park

·         £1,003.92 from development no.1230 (DC047211) to Great Moor Park.

·         £669.24 from development no.1231 (DC59857, 285 Dialstone Lane) to Great Moor Park

·         £501.93 from development no.1197 (DC057193, The Dialstone Centre, Lisburne Lane) to Half Moon Lane

·         £2,509.65 from development no.1025 ( 127 Cavendish Road) to Torkington Play Area.

Officer contact: Richard Booker, 0161 474 4829, richard.booker@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) detailing proposals for the use of commuted sums for play provision in the Stepping Hill area and locations of the play areas where those sums were proposed to be spent.

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager provided the following verbal update to the report:-

·         Planning reference in paragraph 3.2 to read DC048027

·         Remove paragraph 3.3 as this planning application was refused

·         Insert reference ‘DC060396 (1 Maple Close, Heavily)’ into paragraph 3.5.

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager also reported that the proposal at paragraph 3.5 would also be considered by the Central Stockport Area Committee as the planning application was within the boundaries of that Area Committee.

RESOLVED – That approval be given to the following allocations of commuted sums for the Stepping Hill Area Committee area:-

·         the use of £45,518.04 from development no.1194 (DC050984, Former Cherry Tree Hospital, Cherry Tree Lane) allocated to Boothby Street Play Area (£15,000) and Great Moor Park (£30,018.04)

·         the use of £669.24 from development no.1231 (DC59857, 285 Dialstone Lane) to Great Moor Park

·         the use £1,003.92 from development no.1230 (DC060396 (1 Maple Close, Heavily) to Great Moor Park, subject to the agreement of the Central Stockport Area Committee

·         the reallocate of £2,509.65 from development no.1025 (127 Cavendish Road) to Torkington Play Area.

(2) That the use of the sums from development no.1164 (DC048027, Former Dialstone Centre, Offerton) and no.1197 (DC057193, The Dialstone Centre, Lisburne Lane) be deferred and the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration be requested to report back to the next meeting with further details on the proposed use of the sums at either Half Moon Lane play area and Blackstone Field play area.