Purpose

Brightlingsea Town Council would like to release Section 106 money allocated for open space improvements in Brightlingsea. This will be used to improve pump with in the boating lake/yacht pound along with the surrounding open space.

Decision

To release £8,000 of Section 106 money for the improvements to yacht pond and surrounding open space under project 315 in Brightlingsea.

Alternative options considered

Greater Essex is part of the Government’s Devolution Priority Programme which is operating at a timescale that is intended to see:
(a)a Mayoral County Combined Authority established with a new Greater Essex Mayor being elected in May 2026; and
(b)new unitary authorities exercising all the powers currently administered by Essex County Council and the 12 District Councils (and the smaller unitaries of Thurrock and Southend) coming into being on 1 April 2028.
Submissions of proposals for the new unitaries that should be created in (b) above is subject to the deadline of 26 September 2025. Central Government will then make the actual decision on which new unitaries will be created. The Order that will bring into being the new unitary councils will require all existing Councils to prepare for and facilitate the economic, effective, efficient and timely transfer of the existing councils’ functions, property, rights and liabilities during the transitional period to 1 April 2028.