Decision details

(1)        That the Hillhouse Master Plan, produced by Essex Housing and JTP Consultants on behalf of the Council, Essex County Council and NHS England (available as a Background Paper and summarised in the Concept Illustrative Master Plan in the Appendix attached to the report) be endorsed;

(2)        That approval be given to the Council being a party to the submission of an Outline Planning Application by Essex Housing, on behalf of the Council, Essex County Council and NHS England, and to the Council’s expenditure for its share of the costs of preparing the Outline Planning Application;

(3)        That approval be given to the Council contributing an appropriate amount, through the Council’s new Leisure Management contractor, towards the overall financial contribution required from the three key partners towards the provision of alternative sports/recreation facilities elsewhere in Waltham Abbey, in order to compensate for the loss of informal recreation space at Hillhouse and to enable the proposed development to proceed; and

(4)        That the Portfolio Holder Advisory Group on Leisure Management be authorised to include a provision, and to determine an appropriate specified amount, within the Invitation to Tender for the Council’s Leisure Management Contract, requiring the new Leisure Management contractor to provide the Council’s share of the required financial contribution, referred to in Decision (3) above.