Issue - meetings

(i)              to approve the External Funding Plan included at section 4;

(ii)            to approve the allocation of an additional £77,295 to the Queen Street Demolition (29-31 Queen Street) project;

(iii)           to approve the allocation of £48,623 to the Belmont Filmhouse Project;

(iv)           to approve the allocation of £300,000 to the Intelligent Street Lighting project phase 3;

(v)            to approve in principle support for the acquisition of the University of Aberdeen Surface car park on Queen Street, without allocation of funding at this time; and

(vi)           to agree that remaining funds of £58,082 be allocated to any additional costs for existing projects and then to the Queen Street land acquisition.

(vii)         to instruct the Chief Officer – City Growth to report back to the meeting of this Committee on 3 February 2021 with a progress report of allocated projects and to inform the Committee of any uncommitted funding and options of how this may be distributed.

With reference to article 16 of the minute of the previous meeting of 6 February 2020, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – City Growth which provided an update on the external funding priorities for the year ahead and sought approval of the proposed allocation of phase 2 Town Centre Fund to the proposed projects.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      approve the External Funding Plan included at section 4;

(b)      approve the allocation of an additional £77,295 to the Queen Street Demolition (29-31 Queen Street) project;

(c)      approve the allocation of £48,623 to the Belmont Filmhouse Project;

(d)      approve the allocation of £300,000 to the Intelligent Street Lighting project phase 3;

(e)      approve in principle support for the acquisition of the University of Aberdeen Surface car park on Queen Street, without allocation of funding at this time; and

(f)       agree that remaining funds of £58,082 be allocated to any additional costs for existing projects and then to the Queen Street land acquisition.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)              to approve recommendations; and

(ii)            to instruct the Chief Officer – City Growth to report back to the meeting of this Committee on 3 February 2021 with a progress report of allocated projects and to inform the Committee of any uncommitted funding and options of how this may be distributed.