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Decision details
Combe Valley Community Interest Company
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
Draft Articles of the CVCIC , Business plan & Service Level agreement with Groundworks
Decisions:
The Environment and Natural Resources Manager presented the report of the Head of Amenities, Resorts and Leisure which recommended that the council join Rother District Council (RDC) and East Sussex County Council in forming a community interest company for the Combe Valley Countryside Park.
Groundwork South had been commissioned by the council and RDC to develop proposals for a community interest company (CIC) which would replace the previous management board in overseeing the strategic direction and management of Combe Valley Countryside Park. An interim shadow management board had been formed in February 2014, to oversee the implementation of S106 funds held for the Combe Valley Country Park and the formation of a CIC.
A CIC would ensure the countryside park could be managed effectively and expand the scope of opportunities to secure funding to improve the park environment and facilities. The council would retain full control over its land and the CIC would have the remit that its assets may only be used for the public benefit. The CIC would be governed by a board of Directors, together with a separate advisory group.
Following the meeting of Cabinet, Groundwork South would convene a meeting of the shadow management board, and following registration with Companies’ House, it was anticipated that the CIC board would be operational by the end of the current financial year.
Councillor Poole moved approval of the recommendations to the report, which was seconded by Councillor Hodges.
RESOLVED (unanimously) that: -
1) Members agree to the formation of a community interest company in partnership with Rother District Council and East Sussex County Council, and;
2) Agree that Groundwork South undertake the necessary steps to form the community interest company
The reason for this decision was:
Following the withdrawal of local authority funding for the Combe Valley Countryside Park, the management board was dissolved in February 2014. The local authority partners commissioned Groundwork South to develop an alternative governance structure for the Combe Valley Countryside Park for 2015/16 and beyond.
The formation of a Community Interest Company is considered to be the most realistic and sustainable model for future governance and one that has been approved by the partners who made up the previous Combe Valley Countryside Park Management Board.
Report author: Virginia Gilbert
Publication date: 03/12/2014
Date of decision: 01/12/2014
Decided at meeting: 01/12/2014 - Cabinet
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