Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director Environment, which outlined the content and purpose of the Mersey Gateway Regeneration Strategy detailed as follows:

§         the reason for commissioning the Strategy;

§         how the Strategy would be used;

§         the areas covered by the Strategy;

§         outputs and outcomes;

§         how the Strategy evolved;

§         summary of the Strategy’s proposals; and

§         using the Strategy in Council policy documents.

Members were advised that there was a seminar for the Mersey Gateway on the 10^th July 2008 and all Members were welcome to attend.

RESOLVED: That:

(1) the Mersey Gateway Regeneration Strategy be agreed as a document that demonstrates the potential regeneration opportunities arising from the Mersey Gateway Scheme;

(2) the Strategy is used to support the case for the Mersey Gateway Scheme;

(3) the Strategy is used by the Council as Local Planning Authority to judge the potential regeneration benefits that may arise from the Mersey Gateway Scheme in consideration of planning applications made to it and in response to consultation from the Department of Transport; and

(4) authority is given to the Strategic Director Environment, with the  Executive Portfolio Holder for Planning, Transportation, Regeneration and Renewal, to make minor amendments as are necessary before publication.