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Formal offer of Historic Buildings Grant to Greenlight Youth Club
Meeting: 21/04/2021 - Grants Determination (Cabinet) Sub-Committee (Item 6)
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Decision:
Anna Zucchelli (Heritage at Risk Projects Officer, Place) presented the report. This sought authorisation to issue a formal offer of grant of £12,000 from the Historic Buildings Grant budget, at the request of the Green Light Youth Club for works to the building. The youth club had been closed. It had also experienced break ins. The building is in need of joinery repairs to its front elevation due to the deteriorating condition of the timber. Works now will prevent large scale repairs in the future and further loss of historic fabric.
Only external works that are of public benefit are eligible for the Council’s Historic Buildings Grant, therefore security works do not form part of this grant application.
The building is monitored as “vulnerable” by Historic England’s Heritage at Risk team. Whilst the building is not currently on the Heritage at Risk register, if the condition and occupancy of the building does not improve in the near future, it may be added to the list. Grants were normally allocated to buildings on this register. However no applications for this had been received for this financial year. Therefore, it was considered appropriate to allocate grant funding for the building to prevent the building from being added to this list.
In response, the Committee felt that the works were necessary and supported the recommendations.
RESOLVED:
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1. Authorise the Corporate Director Place to issue a formal offer of grant to Greenlight Youth Club to a maximum of £12,000 towards the cost of timber repairs to the first-floor bay windows, shutters and front door.
2. Authorise the Corporate Director Place to enter into the grant agreement and any such other agreements required to affect the grant and the use of the grant as detailed in paragraph 1.
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Minutes:
Anna Zucchelli (Heritage at Risk Projects Officer, Place) presented the report. This sought authorisation to issue a formal offer of grant of £12,000 from the Historic Buildings Grant budget, at the request of the Green Light Youth Club for works to the building. The youth club had been closed. It had also experienced break ins. The building is in need of joinery repairs to its front elevation due to the deteriorating condition of the timber. Works now will prevent large scale repairs in the future and further loss of historic fabric.
Only external works that are of public benefit are eligible for the Council’s Historic Buildings Grant, therefore security works do not form part of this grant application.
The building is monitored as “vulnerable” by Historic England’s Heritage at Risk team. Whilst the building is not currently on the Heritage at Risk register, if the condition and occupancy of the building does not improve in the near future, it may be added to the list. Grants were normally allocated to buildings on this register. However no applications for this had been received for this financial year. Therefore, it was considered appropriate to allocate grant funding for the building to prevent the building from being added to this list.
In response, the Committee felt that the works were necessary and supported the recommendations.
RESOLVED:
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1. Authorise the Corporate Director Place to issue a formal offer of grant to Greenlight Youth Club to a maximum of £12,000 towards the cost of timber repairs to the first-floor bay windows, shutters and front door.
2. Authorise the Corporate Director Place to enter into the grant agreement and any such other agreements required to affect the grant and the use of the grant as detailed in paragraph 1.
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