Decision details

To endorse scope and delivery principles for the Heart of Holbeck Levelling Up Fund programme and to approve delegations for finalisation of design details and legal agreements with Delivery Partners to enable its implementation.

The Director of City Development submitted a report providing detailed proposals of the Levelling Up funded ‘Heart of Holbeck’ programme, with £15.9m of funding having been committed by the previous Government. The report outlined the proposed delivery method, which comprised a mixture of direct Council delivery and the provision of grants to third parties.  The report noted that the programme aimed to tackle deep rooted health, economic and social inequalities in a concentrated area of Holbeck where deprivation and health outcomes were amongst the poorest in the city.

The Executive Member introduced the report and in doing so, provided an overview of the key aspects of the scheme and highlighted the benefits arising from it.

Following consideration of Appendix 2 to the submitted report designated as being exempt from publication under the provisions of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3), which was considered in private at the conclusion of the public part of the meeting, it was

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the scope and delivery principles outlined for the Heart of Holbeck programme, as set out in the submitted report and the draft masterplan as presented at Appendix 3, be endorsed;

(b)  That approval be given for the Director of City Development, in consultation with the Director of Strategy and Resources and the Executive Member for ‘Economy, Transport and Sustainable Development’, to finalise detailed legal agreements with Central Government, Holbeck Together and Leeds Building Society in accordance with the terms as set out in exempt Appendix 2 to the submitted report, subject to subsidy control assessments;

(c)  That it be noted that the Director of City Development, in consultation with the Director of Strategy and Resources, the Director of Communities, Housing and Environment and the Executive Member for ‘Economy, Transport and Sustainable Development’ will finalise designs and enter into construction contracts for the former St Matthew’s Church, Local Centre and Holbeck Moor improvements.

(Further to Minute No. 17 above, Councillor Arif left the meeting room for the duration of the Board’s consideration of this item, returning to the meeting at the conclusion of this item)

Individual project consultations and stakeholder engagement have taken place throughout the programme.

Local community residents and stakeholders, Ward Members, Executive Members, private sector organisations, WYCA, third-parties, businesses, community anchors.