Meeting: Town Centre Committee
Meeting Date: Monday 9th February at 7pm.
Meeting Venue: Lower Council Chamber of the Town Council Offices

Public seating will be available. The meeting will be broadcast via Zoom to enable remote public viewing and participation and a video stream will also be broadcast to Facebook. To join the meeting via Zoom, visit https://bit.ly/KTC-Meeting or use meeting ID 821 0560 5574 and password KTC-456189.

1 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive apologies for absence.

 

2 DECLARATIONS OF MEMBERS’ INTERESTS

To receive declarations of personal, prejudicial and pecuniary interests from members relevant to items under discussion at the meeting.

 

3 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

A period of up to 5 minutes for members of the public to ask questions or submit comments.

 

4 CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES

To receive and confirm the minutes of the committee meeting held on 17th November 2025.

Attachment – Minutes of the meeting held 17th November 2025.

 

5 REVIEW OF YEAR TO DATE INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

To consider the committee income and expenditure to date.

Attachment – Income and Expenditure Committee Report 05/02/2026

 

6 TOWN CENTRE MANAGEMENT REPORT

To receive an update report from the Town Centre Manager.

Attachment – Report T-25-18 Town Centre Management Report February 2026

 

7 BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT

To agree a baseline agreement with respect to services delivered by the council within the BID area.

To consider whether to invite the BID Board to nominate a member to sit as a co-opted member of the Town Centre Committee.

Attachments (2) – Report T-25-19 BID Baseline Agreement and Committee Member and Draft Baseline Agreement.

 

8 MARKET HALL CASUAL TRADERS FEE AMENDMENT

To consider revisions to the pricing of casual trader stalls.

Attachment – Report T-25-20 Casual Trader Stall Fees

 

9 UK TOWN OF CULTURE COMPETITION

To consider whether to submit an expression of interest in the UK Town of Culture 2028 competition.

Attachment – Report T-25-21 UK Town of Culture Competition

 

10 TOURISM STRATEGY

To consider approval of a Tourism Strategy Action Plan.

Attachment – Report T-25-22 Tourism Strategy Action Plan

 

11 TOWN CENTRE VISITOR AND FOOTFALL SURVEYS DECEMBER 2025

To consider the output of visitor and footfall surveys in December 2025

Attachment – Report T-25-23 Benchmarking Surveys December 2025

 

12 BUSINESS CHRISTMAS SURVEY

To consider the output of a business survey on Christmas 2025

Attachment – Report T-25-24 Business Christmas Survey 2025

 

13 TOWN CENTRE MASTERPLAN

To receive a verbal update on the development of a Town Centre Masterplan.

 

14 STRATEGIC PLAN

To review progress against current year actions

Attachment – Report T-25-25 Strategic Plan Update

 

15 OUTSTANDING ACTIONS AND PROJECT UPDATES REPORT

To review the outstanding actions log and project updates report.

Attachment – Town Centre Committee Actions and Project Updates Report February 2026

 

16 COMMITTEE WORKPLAN

To note the committee workplan.

Attachment – Town Centre Committee Workplan February 2026

 

17 QUESTIONS TO THE TOWN CLERK

An opportunity for members to raise questions relevant to the work of the committee to the Town Clerk

 

18 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING

To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 13th April 2026 8pm.