Decision

The
Executive agreed the recommendations as outlined above
namely:
 
1.     
To authorise the Director of Resources to enter into
a Grant Funding Agreement with Homes England (up to the amount of
£90.4m) on behalf of the Council following consultation with
the Leader of the Council, the Chief Executive and the Director of
Strategy and Assistant Chief Executive.

 
2.     
To agree the programme governance structure,
acknowledging Blackpool Council as Accountable Body for
administration of grant funding, that the Shareholder Committee be
delegated with strategic oversight of the programme on behalf of
the Council and to confirm Blackpool Housing Company Limited (BHC)
as the preferred programme delivery agent / partner, being the
Council’s wholly owned housing regeneration
vehicle.

 
3.     
That the updated Terms of Reference of the
Shareholder Committee attached at Appendix 2a, to the Executive
report, be approved.

 
4.     
As set out in paragraph 6.27, to agree in principle
that all asset management, landlord services and back-office
functions currently split between Blackpool Housing Company Limited
and Blackpool Coastal Housing Limited be delivered from one entity
and the Chief Executive be authorised to develop the detail behind
this working with company representatives and a report be brought
back to the Shareholder Committee in due course for it to agree the
next steps. 

 
5.     
To confirm the “Central Intervention
Area”, being an area to the South of the Town Centre broadly
between Chapel Street and Rigby Road, and the Promenade and Central
Drive corridor, as the initial area of focus for detailed scheme
development, community engagement and property acquisitions in
preparation for development. In doing so authorise the Director of
Strategy and Assistant Chief Executive to:

 
•                   
undertake detailed masterplanning;
•                   
prepare for and commence a programme of community
engagement and consultation outlining the spatial extent of the
proposed housing-led regeneration including, when available,
details of a proposed first phase, together with initial ideas of
the form and content of new development and proposals for long-term
transformational change and, for the avoidance of doubt;
•                   
to update proposals for subsequent consideration and
approval by the Council prior to lodging one or more planning
applications.

 
6.     
To authorise the Council to undertake further
masterplanning and scheme preparation as appropriate in the South
Shore and Claremont areas of Inner Blackpool in anticipation of
further capital funding.

 
7.     
To delegate the finalisation of proposals for the
acquisition and management of land and property to the Director of
Strategy and Assistant Chief Executive after consultation with the
Director of Resources.

 
8.     
To agree that, as a matter of principle, the Council
will consider the use of Compulsory Purchase Order powers to
acquire all interests required for the scheme should that become
necessary. Formal consideration of such proposals would be subject
to future consideration and approval by Executive.
 
9.     
To authorise the Head of Legal Services to prepare
and enter into the legal documentation necessary in connection with
the completion and operation of the Grant Funding
Agreement.