Issue
Issue - decisions
Growth Point Revenue Expenditure
1.
That the priorities in the order set out below be
agreed as the focus for the Council’s work in supporting
economic prosperity:-
Prioritisation results
|
1
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Creating the right planning
environment
|
2
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Develop Infrastructure - broad
band, public realm etc
|
3
|
Business
Expansion
|
4
|
Inward
Investment
|
5
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Develop Stronger Business
Relationships
|
6
|
Worklessness
|
7
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Improve Skills and
Knowledge
|
8
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Foster the knowledge and
creative industries
|
9
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Business Start
Up
|
10
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Riverside
Regeneration
|
11
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Low Carbon
Economy
|
12
|
Town Centre Regeneration -
including the market
|
2.
That the actions as set out in Appendix 3 of the
report of the Director of Regeneration and Communities be
approved.
3.
That up to £30,000 of uncommitted Growth Point
revenue grant be used to commission a
programme of actions responding to the Council’s priorities,
set out in 1 above, and bringing together and updating the
Council’s Economic Development Strategy 2008, draft Tourism
Strategy and Regeneration Statement 2009 into a single
document.
4.
That the remaining uncommitted Growth Point revenue
grant of £215,000 be used to fund the actions identified in
the single Regeneration and Economic Development Plan, the detail
and recommendations of which will be subject to a further
report.