T24/001 PRESENT

Councillors Gray, Johnson, Banks, Coan, Hartley, McCulloch, Robertson and Wood.

A Keppel-Green (Town Clerk) and S Curties (Town Centre Manager)

 

T24/002 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Apologies were received from Cllr Russell (health)

 

T24/003 DECLARATIONS OF MEMBERS’ INTERESTS

No member declared an interest in any item.

 

T24/004 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

No members of the public were present.

 

T24/005 COMMITTEE TERMS OF REFERENCE

The committee terms of reference were noted.

 

T24/006 CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES

It was RESOLVED to confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 22nd April.

 

T24/007 REVIEW OF YEAR-TO-DATE INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

The year-to-date income and expenditure reports were noted.

 

T24/008 TOWN CENTRE MANAGEMENT REPORT

The Town Centre Manager joined the meeting and took questions from the committee on the report. The report was noted.

 

T24/009 BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT FEASIBILITY REPORT

It was RESOLVED that a Knutsford BID should continue to be explored.

It was RESOLVED to tender the development stage to ascertain the exact costs and to lobby the MP for Tatton for government funding to be made available for the same.

 

T24/010GINNEL LIGHTING / NAMING

It was RESOLVED that the four identified ginnels should be lit.

It was RESOLVED to establish a Ginnels working group comprising Cllrs Coan, Gray, Johnson and McCulloch to assess the ginnels and produce recommendations to the next meeting as to how they should be improved.

It was RESOLVED that the working group should consider the naming and signage of the ginnels as part of its investigations.

 

T24/011 TOWN CENTRE MASTERPLAN WORKING GROUP

It was RESOLVED to appoint Cllrs Gray, Hartley, Johnson, McCulloch and Wood to the working group.

 

T24/012 STRATEGIC PLAN

The idea of a jobs fair to support local employers was raised, the Town Centre Manager advised this had been discussed previously with a local business owner but at present there was not capacity to deliver an event.

 

T24/013 OUTSTANDING MATTERS LOG

The log was noted.

 

T24/014 QUESTIONS TO THE TOWN CLERK

The poor condition of the road surface at Haig Road was raised and it was noted that Borough Cllr Dean has requested that it be resurfaced. The Town Clerk responded to a question explaining that the council was awaiting data from Cheshire East Council to enable it to explore the asset transfer of the bus station and that consequentially it was not pushing the borough council for progress on coach parking so as to avoid wasted effort should the asset transfer to the town council.

 

T24/015 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING

It was noted that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 16th September.