Issue - meetings

That:

(a)  Cabinet notes progress made to date on the development of the Chatterley Valley Industrial Park proposals with the landowner, Harworth, Staffordshire County Council and the Borough Council to get the project from an unviable situation to one where the scheme is ready to start on site.

(b)  The Executive Director – Commercial Development and Economic Growth, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder, Finance, Town Centres and Growth be authorised to take such actions and enter such agreements with Harworth and Staffordshire County Council and associated end users of the development to invest into the project, via retained business rate investment.

Cabinet considered a report on progress with Chatterley Valley, a 100 acre (42 ha) site in private ownership located to the west of the Stoke-Manchester railway line, currently undeveloped.  The Borough had successfully bid for Town Deal funding and the Kidsgrove Town Deal programme included a sum of £3.6 million to cover the costs of constructing a new site access into Chatterley Valley and diversion of a Severn Trent Water main.

Resolved: that:

(a)  Cabinet notes progress made to date on the development of the Chatterley Valley Industrial Park proposals with the landowner, Harworth, Staffordshire County Council and the Borough Council to get the project from an unviable situation to one where the scheme is ready to start on site.

(b)  The Executive Director – Commercial Development and Economic Growth, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder, Finance, Town Centres and Growth be authorised to take such actions and enter such agreements with Harworth and Staffordshire County Council and associated end users of the development to invest into the project, via retained business rate investment.

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