16 Sports Playing Pitch Hub
Report of the Director of Commercial Services enclosed.
Additional documents:
Decision:
Decision made
That the recommendations outlined at paragraphs 2 – 7 of the confidential report be approved.
Minutes:
The Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member (Health, Wellbeing and Leisure) presented a report seeking approval for a number of decisions to progress the
Playing Pitch Hub project.
Decision made
That the recommendations outlined at paragraphs 2 – 7 of the confidential report be approved.
Reasons for decision
The decisions enable the Council to:
Award the two construction contracts;
To continue using the current contractors as projects managers for the contract; and
To vire £275k from the Playing pitch Hub project to support improvements at other Leisure Facilities across the Borough.
Alternative options considered and rejected
Cabinet have always had the option to consider a do-nothing option or to do the project without doing the funding application to the Football Foundation. The do-nothing option would not have realised a recommendation of the formally adopted Playing fields strategy. The do-nothing option would also fail deliver on a key plank of the Council’s newly adopted Leisure Facilities Strategy.