Decision details

Cleveland Pools Trust Capital Grant

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member - Finance and Efficiency

Decision status: Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To enable Cleveland Pools project to proceed to next stage by slight revision of terms of grant already fully approved.

Decision:

The Cabinet Member agrees that a further £50K grant, which was allocated in the February 2014 Budget report, be approved for immediate release to the Cleveland Pools Trust.

 

In addition the Cabinet Member agrees the remaining £50K of this original allocation should be set aside to fund the Council’s due diligence work (to support the further grant of £200K, which at this stage has only provisional approval pending the Trust completing its business case and securing sufficient other external funding).

Reasons for the decision:

The grant will enable the Trust to secure £4.5M of external funding to restore this important building and bring it back into effective use.

Alternative options considered:

None.

Publication date: 05/06/2017

Date of decision: 02/06/2017

Effective from: 13/06/2017

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