Purpose

The
report will examine the suite of place and town-based investment
that has taken place over the past five years to draw out lessons
learned and inform future place and town-based policy and funding.
The report will recommend key principles for how future place-based
funding and policy will be taken forward.

Content

It
was moved by Councillor Taylor, seconded by Councillor Mould,
and
 
RESOLVED:
 
1. 
That the investment of place and town-based funding
over the past 5 years, amounting to more than £142 million,
and the significant outputs and outcomes this has delivered across
Cornwall, be noted.
2. 
That having regard to the lessons learned from the
delivery of this investment and the recommendations made by the
Economic Growth and Development Overview and Scrutiny Committee,
the principles for future place policy and funding outlined in
section 2 of the report be approved.
3. 
That the outlined approach for place-shaping in the
short and medium term through Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF) Year 4
funding for a continuation of the Community Capacity and
Facilitation and the Community Levelling Up Programmes, as well as
the intention to put in place a specific town regeneration resource
within Cornwall Council, be approved.