Issue - meetings

As per the recommendation.

The Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Enterprise and Leisure introduced a report to inform Members of the outcome of the Flint Masterplanning exercise and secure agreement for the use of the document to inform policy and funding priorities as the basis for regenerating the town.

            The need for a Masterplan, to guide the physical regeneration of Flint, had been identified as part of the Town Action Plan Programme.  Following the Town Centre Healthchecks Study in 2008 the Flint Town Partnership had been established and undertook a range of town centre improvement projects.  Following an agreement by the Partnership in November, 2010 a working group had been set up and DTZ had been commissioned in August 2011 to produce the Masterplan which had been finalised in March, 2012. 

             The Masterplan provided a clear framework for both the regeneration of the town centre and the redevelopment of the maisonette sites and adjacent multi-storey car park.  It would ensure that the redevelopment of the new housing sites was undertaken sensitively and appropriately, given the town centre location, with the objective being to recapture a sense of place that was based on the town’s historic past.  Copies of the Masterplan had been made available in the Members’ Library.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That the contents of the Flint Masterplan be approved;

(b)       That officers be authorised to develop further the project proposals; and

(c)        That the Masterplan be used to inform future Planning Policy development for Flint.