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10.1

The Executive Director Neighbourhood Services
submitted a report on the future use of the steel containers from
the former Fargate Container park project for approval, in line with
the decision made at Strategy and Resources Committee on 24 January
2023.
 
This report sets out the process used to
determine their future use. It describes how individual
organisations bidding for their use have been selected as preferred
recipients of the eight containers, and notes that the Executive
Director for Neighbourhood Services will, following approval of the
uses, proceed to confirm those recipients.

 

 

10.2

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY: That
Strategy and Resources Policy Committee:-

 

 
(a) notes and approves the future uses of the
containers, described in the report; and
 
(b) notes that the Executive Director for
Neighbourhood Services enter into agreements to provide containers
for reuse, with:
• Friends of Glen Howe Park
• Hallam and Redmire Rangers FC
• Hillsborough Arena
• Sheffield Wednesday Football Club
Community Programme
• St Wilfred’s Centre
• Wisewood Juniors FC

 

 

10.3

Reasons for
Decision

 

 

10.3.1

An assessment panel made up of professional
officers with experience in dealing with community and construction
projects, as well as Councillors from the Communities, Parks and Leisure Policy Committee, came to the
conclusion that the six preferred projects most closely met the
desired outcomes defined by the published criteria. The six
projects chosen will help support the community organisations
develop and grow their offers for the local community. All the
preferred projects will be deliverable construction projects that
can be funded by the organisations bidding for them. Overall, the
risk of the container projects not being successful was low.

 

 

10.4

Alternatives
Considered and Rejected

 

 

10.4.1

There were five expressions of interest that
weren’t selected. The overall scoring for the six preferred
projects was higher. Selecting the lower scoring projects would
have resulted in an unfair process and a perception the Council
weren’t being transparent in their decision making.

 

 

10.4.2

If the preferred uses are not deemed suitable
by the committee, the council could choose to re-run the expression
of interest process with a different set of criteria, however it is
unknown whether this would generate any different outcomes to the
type of projects which have come forward already, as the
distribution of the opportunities was extensively communicated.