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wording and replace with the following:
“A) The Council Notes that:
1)
The Old River Lane regeneration offers the
opportunity to create strong community and arts facilities for
Bishop’s Stortford. The current Old River Lane regeneration
plans agreed by Full Council on Thursday 18th March 2021
are sufficiently flexible to offer the opportunity to work with
third parties to deliver additional community
facilities.
2)
Given the current condition of the URC Hall it is
not practical to repair and refurbish. The Council’s plans
for the Old River Lane generation are compliant with CFLR8 of the
East Herts District Plan 2018, satisfying both conditions (b) and
(c).
B.
Therefore this Council resolves to:
1.
Work with local groups during the planning process
and the pre-development marketing of the available space to provide
additional community facilities as part of the ongoing
re-generation of Old River Lane. These facilities could include a
community hall, community spaces and/or space for the delivery of
community services. The Council will include the URC in this
engagement to explore with them their plans for using the capital
money the Council provided to them through our purchase of the
hall.
2.
Continue work on the Cultural Strategy which was
agreed unanimously by Full Council on 2nd March 2021.
Future workstreams to be undertaken
include taking an inventory of publicly and privately owned
facilities within Bishop’s Stortford which can be used by
community and arts groups; furthermore to discuss with
Hertfordshire County Council to ensure local groups can access
facilities at state schools outside of school hours.
3.
Continue investigations into whether the cinema
spaces within Old River Lane can be designed to allow larger
capacity live performance events to be held on site.
4.
Support the Old River Lane re-generation
plans”