Issue - meetings

To consider Report No. RP2005 (copy attached), which sets out the next steps in relation to the delivery of the Council’s Union Street scheme in Aldershot town centre and seeks authority to submit necessary planning applications.

The Cabinet considered Report No. RP2005, which provided an update on the next steps in relation to the delivery of the Union Street regeneration scheme in Aldershot and sought permission to submit the necessary planning applications in this regard.

Members were informed that a proposed mixed use scheme for the site had been the subject of a public consultation exercise in January and February, 2020. The consultation had attracted a good response and 85% of respondents had expressed support for the proposals. Subject to agreement by the Cabinet, a planning application would be submitted in early March in order to comply with the milestones attached to a successful funding bid to Home England’s Housing Infrastructure Fund Marginal Viability Fund (HIF) and further external funding from the Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership.

The Cabinet RESOLVED that

(i)           the Executive Head of Regeneration and Property be authorised to submit planning applications and secure the appropriate permissions as required to enable the Union Street regeneration scheme in Aldershot town centre, as set out in Report No. RP2005; and

(ii)          the proposed decision making process for the implementation of the scheme, as set out in Section 3 of the Report, be noted.