Issue - meetings

Report No:   CAB/SE/15/043 TO FOLLOW

Cabinet Member: Alaric Pugh          Lead Officer: Steven Wood

The Cabinet considered Report No: CAB/SE/15/043 (previously circulated) which presented the recommendations of the Sustainable Development Working Party emanating from its meeting on 18 June 2015.

On 18 June 2015, the Sustainable Development Working Party considered the following substantive items of business:

(1)     Culford Park Management Plan;

(2)     Station Hill Development Area, Bury St Edmunds: Master Plan; and

(3)     West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds: Masterplan.

Councillor Alaric Pugh, Portfolio Holder for Planning and Growth, drew relevant issues to the attention of the Cabinet, including that a detailed discussion had particularly been held by the Working Party on the proposed masterplan for the Station Hill Development Area.  Members of the Working Party had considered that with the three additions provided in Recommendation (2) of Report No: CAB/SE/15/043, these would strengthen the quality and robustness of the masterplan.

In respect of the draft masterplan for West Suffolk Hospital, Members acknowledged that this was an interim masterplan which needed to address five main areas for development on the current hospital site.  It was limited in what it was seeking to set out and the Trust was currently doing a strategic piece of work to understand the cost and advantages of either moving to the western side of Bury St Edmunds or redeveloping their current site, the results of which would be known in early 2016. If the Trust decided to remain on their current site any major redevelopment would require a new masterplan.