Decision details

The Deputy Chief Executive submitted a report which presented the context and outlined the options available with respect to improving the provision of the Council’s main public meeting space within Civic Hall. The report highlighted the inadequacies of the current provisions for large public meetings in the Civic Hall and as such, the report sought authority to spend £550,000 for the redevelopment of the new Committee Room from the Civic Hall Backlog Maintenance/ Adaptations scheme in the Capital Programme, which would enable these works to be carried out as part of the larger programme to redevelop the 1st Floor West Wing of Civic Hall.

Larger scale versions of the plans appended to the submitted report had been circulated to Board members prior to the meeting for their consideration.

Responding to concerns raised by a Member, it was highlighted that the proposals looked to address the inadequacies of the current public meeting facilities within Civic Hall, address the concerns from members of the public which had been raised and would form part of the broader Changing the Workplace initiative.

RESOLVED – That authority to spend £550,000 for the redevelopment of the new Committee Room from the Civic Hall Backlog Maintenance/ Adaptations scheme in the Capital Programme be approved, which will enable these works to be carried out as part of the larger programme of Changing the Workplace works to redevelop the 1st Floor West Wing of Civic Hall.

(Under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 16.5, Councillor Golton required it to be recorded that he voted against the decisions referred to within this minute)