Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Portfolio Holder for Communities & Culture and the Director of Culture, Leisure and Tourism.

Agreed:

RECOMMENDED that Council:-

(1)        withdraw recommendation 2.2 of the report that went to Executive on 12 January 2021 and that the application for listed building consent for relocation and the formal consultation now not take place; and

(2)        approve all the other recommendations in the 12 January 2021 report, which remain unchanged.

Reason for Decision: As set out in the report.

The Executive received an updated report on the General Buller statue, an earlier report having been presented to the Executive on 12 January 2021 (minute reference 5/21 Refers) . Recommendation 2.2 of the 12 January report had read “that without prejudice to a final decision on the matter, an application be made for listed building consent for the relocation of the statue to an alternative location. This will provide an opportunity for public consultation on the proposed recommendation by the Task and Finish Group prior to a final determination of the matter by Council”

The updated report requested Members to withdraw their support for recommendation 2.2 in the 12 January report, following a subsequent announcement by The Rt. Hon Robert Jenrick MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, about legislation to ‘call in’ and potentially overturn any such formal planning decision about a statue.

Members noted that it was not therefore the intention to remove the statue.

RECOMMENDED that Council:-

(1)        withdraw recommendation 2.2 of the report that went to Executive on 12 January 2021 and that the application for listed building consent for relocation and the formal consultation now not take place; and

(2)        approve all the other recommendations in the 12 January 2021 report, which remain unchanged.