Report No.92/2019

Report No.92/2019 was received from the Chief Executive.

Mrs Briggs, the Chief Executive, introduced the report the purpose of which was to provide Cabinet with a progress report on the St Georges Barrack’s project further to the report of March 2018.

During discussion the following points were noted:

·         The HIF bid had been submitted and there had been weekly dialogue between the project team and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), to clarify any queries. At this point in time, Homes England were not able to indicate when a grant offer might be forthcoming.

·         A Project board sub-group had been created to look at design to take this aspect forward.

·         Although there had been a hiatus while the two elections had taken place the next meeting of the Officers Mess Project Board would decide whether to take the project forward as was initially proposed.

·         The Chief Executive had discussed the submission to the Garden Communities Programme with the Rutland MP, Sir Alan Duncan, and the Council were waiting to see whether it had been successful.

DECISION:

Cabinet NOTED the report.