Decision details

The Director of City Development submitted a report which provided an update on the successful bid to the West Yorkshire Business Rate Pool entitled, ‘Transforming Leeds Events’ which looked to secure funding over the next 3 years to provide added value to the curation and provision of major events in Leeds, together with providing support to secure existing events and also for the provision of the ‘Leeds 2023’ initiative.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the successful bid to the Business Rate Pool be noted, with it also being noted that this has secured the World Triathlon Series in Leeds for a further 2 years, in 2019 and 2020;

(b)  That further to resolution (a) above, the necessary authority be delegated to the Chief Officer, Culture and Sport, in order to enable the Chief Officer to enter into an agreement with British Triathlon to this end;

(c)  That the Director of City Development be requested to return to Executive Board next month (November 2018) with details of Leeds’ bid to be a host of the Rugby League World Cup in 2021.