Issue - meetings

The Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods submitted a report providing information on the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Scheme, the principal objectives of it and the associated nomination process. In addition, the report detailed the opportunities within the Parks and Countryside service to develop volunteering, highlighted the positive impacts of such volunteering and detailed the growth in corporate volunteering facilitated by the service. The report also sought approval to submit nominations for a selection of sites vested within Leeds City Council for inclusion within the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Scheme.

A request was made that consideration be given to the utilisation of the LDF Core Strategy as a means of ensuring that all playing fields held by the Council were designated as having a similar protected status.  In addition, responding to a Member’s enquiry regarding the proposed boundaries for the West Park playing fields application, officers undertook to look into the matter as to whether the boundaries could be extended to incorporate the greenspace immediately next to the centre.

RESOLVED - That the content of the submitted report be noted, and that the nomination of the selected sites for inclusion within the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Trust Scheme be approved, subject to the outcomes of the further consideration to be given to the West Park application, as discussed during the meeting.

(The matters referred to within this minute were not eligible for Call In, as the deadline for nominations to the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Trust scheme was the 31st December 2012. Therefore, the decision relating to this matter was considered to be urgent, as any delay would seriously prejudice the Council’s ability to successfully nominate the sites)