Agenda

Members and Officers are invited to make any declaration of pecuniary, personal and/or prejudicial interests that they may have in relation to items on this agenda, and are reminded that they should re-declare their interest before consideration of the items or as soon as the interest becomes apparent.

Members and Officers should make their declaration by stating:

a)             the item they have the interest in

b)             whether it is a pecuniary/personal interest and/or prejudicial interest

c)             the nature of the interest

The Committee will be asked to approve as a correct record the Minutes of the Economy Committee held on 1 February 2024.

To receive questions from the public (for a period of up to 15 minutes)

To advise members of the refreshed Arun Growth Deal 2024-29 and seek their approval.

To update the committee on our progress of Arun’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund allocation.  Outlining year one and year two projects and provide an overview for year three projects coming forward.

The report is to update members on the progress of the project to refurbish the upper floors of the Bognor Regis arcade to provide new residential accommodation.

The purpose of this report is to provide feasibility information to Members in respect of the conversion of the former Brewers Fayre pub into a multi-use public venue.

To consider identified opportunities to introduce additional beach huts in the district.

There are no updates for the meeting.

The Committee are required to note the work programme.

The Committee is asked to consider passing the following resolution: -

          That under Section 100a (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and accredited representatives of newspapers be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part 3 of Schedule 12A of the Act by virtue of the paragraph specified against the item.

This report provides information regarding the terms of a lease and seeks approval for proposed negotiation parameters.

This report gives explanation of the factors affecting the ongoing operation and maintenance of Fitzleet Car Park, and the options available for its future use. It seeks approval for taking forward a 10 year maintenance plan, closing levels 7 and 8, for continuing investigations into the installation of solar PV equipment on those levels, and for offering the space at levels 7 and 8 to the BID for suitable ‘meanwhile’ uses in the interim.