Decision status: For Determination
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Having considered an open officer report, and a presentation by the Cabinet
Member for Housing, Councillor Paul Bell, the Mayor and Cabinet agreed that:
(1) the Draft Catford Town Centre Framework be endorsed for consultation;
(2) the release of the Draft Catford Town Centre Framework for broadly-based
public consultation be approved and reported back to Mayor and Cabinet in
Spring 2021;
(3) the Executive Director of Housing, Regeneration and Public Realm, be
authorised in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning,
to undertake all steps to progress the public consultation and to progress the
related workstreams set out in this report;
(4) the Phase 1 delivery projects be noted as early and positive investment
projects and consider specific recommendations to advance these as set out
in a separate report on this Mayor and Cabinet agenda;
(5) the Executive Director of Housing, Regeneration and Public Realm, in
consultation with the Executive Director for Corporate Services and with the
Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning, be authorised to undertake all
steps to progress work needed to report back to Mayor and Cabinet on
potential delivery mechanisms – including potential partnership approaches
and approaches to funding and phasing;
(6) the Executive Director of Housing, Regeneration and Public Realm, in
consultation with the Executive Director for Corporate Services and with the
Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning, be authorised to undertake all
steps to progress work needed to report back to Mayor and Cabinet on a
strategy for Civic Accommodation/the Catford Campus;
(7) the Executive Director of Housing, Regeneration and Public Realm, in
consultation with the Executive Director for Corporate Services and with
relevant Cabinet Members be authorised to continue to bid for external
funding opportunities where they arise to support essential investment in
Catford and enable the aims of the draft Framework (within the current
delegation framework); and
(8) the continued development of the scheme be authorised to re-align the
A205 in order to enable the Draft Catford Framework, including working with
TfL to reach agreement on matters of technical detail and with TfL and DfT in
relation to funding
Publication date: 17/09/2020
Date of decision: 16/09/2020
Decided at meeting: 16/09/2020 - Mayor and Cabinet
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