Issue - decisions

Proposed Community Arena at Charter Street

01/09/2014 - Proposed Community Arena at Charter Street

That subject to formal confirmation of proposed funding from Sport England, Leicester College and the Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP), the City Mayor approves:

 

i)              the principle of the development of a Community Arena at the Charter Street site;

 

ii)             the grant of a 125 year lease of the site to the Leicester Community Sports Arena Ltd on terms as outlined in the report;

 

iii)            a capital grant of £1.5m to the Leicester Community Sports Arena Ltd to facilitate the development, which will generate some £2.7m of external partnership investment in the City; and

 

iv)           the addition of the £1.5m grant to the capital programme, funded by resources set aside for the Economic Action Plan.