Purpose

To allocate generic and site specific S106 Developer Contributions if needed to relevant projects around the City for delivery of improvements to community and sports projects from either local groups or linked to Strategic delivery of Sporting infrastructure across the City.

Content

Matter for Decision

In 2023/24,
officers presented a range of projects submitted through two previous S106
funding rounds for investment in local community and sports facilities. These
rounds had identified 30 projects with allocations of over £500,000 of S106
contributions that were approved by the (then) Executive Councillors for
improving equipment and/or storage at a range of sports venues or community
facilities across Cambridge.

 

Many of
these projects had now been completed or are in the process of being delivered.
This latest follow-up round (also being referred to as the ‘third phase’) drew
on on-going dialogue with community groups and sports clubs, schools and other
partner organisations. It picked up some sports projects that were not quite
ready or developed enough for submission before now. The report also recommends
S106 funding for strategic sports projects and investment in the light of
further assessments of City Council facilities and new community and sports
facilities coming on board this coming year.

 

The
Officer’s report recommended allocating £360,000 of S106 funds to fourteen
proposals relating to the community facilities, outdoor/indoor sports and
swimming pool facilities contribution types. This was mostly about making
timely use of those remaining generic S106 contributions that need to be
contractually committed or spent, particularly within the next year. Officers
envisaged that the projects proposed in this report could be delivered within
six months, albeit that the implementation start dates may need to be phased.

 

Decision
of Executive Councillor for Community Safety, Homelessness and Wellbeing

     
i.         
Noted that £73,276 of outdoor sports S106 funds
and £28,935 of community facilities S106 funds had been deallocated from
projects to which they were previously assigned and were now available for
allocating to relevant new projects (see paragraph 3.7 of the Officer’s
report); and

    
ii.         
Allocated generic S106 funding from the relevant
S106 contribution types, subject to business case approval and community use
agreements (as appropriate), to the following project proposals (see Section 4
of the Officer’s report and the Appendix):

 

 



Project
proposals



Amount



S106 type






A



Grant to Chesterton Indoor Bowls
Club: Indoor sports equipment



£7,000



Indoor Sports





B



Grant to Cambridge Gymnastics
Academy for new gym training equipment



£20,000



Indoor Sports





C



Abbey Leisure Complex: sports
changing room upgrades



£20,000



Indoor Sports





D



Grant to Kelsey Kerridge Sports
Centre: new gym equipment



£35,000



Indoor Sports





E



Grant to CamSkate for indoor
skate equipment at RailPen sites at Newmarket Road Retail Park



£45,000



Indoor Sports





F



Pickleball markings at tennis
courts in South, East & West/Central areas



£10,000



Outdoor Sports





G



Nightingale Recreation Ground:
upgrade tennis courts



£65,000



Outdoor Sports





H



Nightingale Recreation Ground:
playing pitch improvements



£30,000



Outdoor Sports





I



Abbey Astroturf
pitch: new benches and team shelters around the new 3G pitch



£20,000



Outdoor Sports





J



Coldham’s Common:
new Gaelic football posts



£3,000



Outdoor Sports





K



Additional tables and chairs at
four Bowls Clubs within Cambridge



£10,000



Outdoor Sports





L



Jesus Green skate park: flood
lighting and CCTV coverage



£20,000



Outdoor Sports





M



New community meeting room at
Abbey Leisure Complex (related to a joint project funding with NHS England
for mental health space)



£50,000



Community Facilities





N



Kings Hedges Learner Pool: light
& sound equipment for pool users



£25,000



Swimming Pool

 

Reason for the Decision

As set out in the Officer’s report.

 

Any Alternative Options Considered and Rejected

Not applicable.

 

Scrutiny Considerations

The Committee received a report from the Community, Sport
& Recreation Manager.

 

The Community, Sport & Recreation Manager said the
following in response to Members’ questions:

      i.         
Officers evaluated the community benefit of
projects. If funding went to ‘closed clubs’ 
then community access agreements would be put in places so facilities
were available to all.

     ii.         
Jesus Green Association and local councillors
were consulted on the CCTV and lighting installed at Jesus Green.

   iii.         
Undertook to update Councillor Swift about
Donkey Common skate ramps after the meeting.

 

The Committee unanimously resolved to endorse the
recommendations.

 

The Executive Councillor approved the recommendations.

 

Conflicts
of Interest Declared by the Executive Councillor (and any Dispensations
Granted)

No
conflicts of interest were declared by the Executive Councillor.