Issue - meetings
Management of Mile End Park
Meeting: 04/10/2016 - King George's Field Charity Board (Item 3)
3 Update on Mile End Park PDF 102 KB
To provide an update on activities in Mile End Park, management planning for the parkand Mile End Friends’ Group.
Additional documents:
Decision:
A change was proposed to the recommendation and subsequently agreed, as follows:
RESOLVED
1. That a small working party consisting of Board members be convened to consider the Mile End Park Management Plan 2015-2020; and
2. That the working party will report to a future meeting of the Board.
Action by:
CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND ACTING CORPORATE DIRECTOR, COMMUNITIES, LOCALITIES AND CULTURE (W. TUCKLEY)
(Service Head, Culture, Learning and Leisure (S. Hussain)
Minutes:
Penny Smith, Head of Parks introduced the report.
The Board discussed the projected income from pavilion bookings in 2016/17. Whilst it stressed the need to strike an appropriate balance between the financial needs of the Park and the wellbeing of residents in the immediate vicinity (for example by preventing noise nuisance and littering), it suggested there may be capacity to raise additional income by increasing private pavilion bookings.
The Board noted the background paper to the report ‘Mile End Park Management Plan 2015-2020, New Challenges 2016-2017 Update’ had been circulated late and advised it would like more time to consider the management plan in greater detail. It was suggested a small working party be convened, to be chaired by Councillor Asma Begum, Cabinet Member for Culture, to review the management plan and report its findings to a future Cabinet meeting.
A change was proposed to the recommendation and subsequently agreed by the Mayor, as follows:
RESOLVED
1. That a small working party consisting of Board members be convened to consider the Mile End Park Management Plan 2015-2020; and
2. That the working party will report to a future meeting of the Board.