Recreation & Leisure Committee

SHREWSBURY TOWN COUNCIL
Livesey House
7 St Johns Hill
Shrewsbury
SY1 1JD

(Please note this meeting is not recorded)

To Members of the Recreation & Leisure Committee

Councillors Phil Gillam (Chair),Bernie Bentick, Mary Davies, Chris Lemon, Kevin Pardy, Elisabeth Addams, Alex Wagner & Becky Wall.

All other members of the Council for information

Dear Councillor

You are hereby summoned to attend the meeting of the Town Council’s Recreation & Leisure Committee scheduled to take place on Wednesday 15 January 2025 at 6.00pm at St Johns Hill, Committee Room in order to transact the following business.

Helen Ball
Town Clerk

Meeting Agenda Items

• 1APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

  To recieve and accept apologies for absence

• 2DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

  To receive Declarations of Pecuniary Interest in accordance with the Code of Conduct

• 3MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING

  To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 6 November 2024.

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 3 - Recreation_Leisure Minutes 24.11.06

• 4MATTERS ARISING FROM THE PREVIOUS MEETING

  To consider any matters arising from previous meetings

• 5BUDGET – 2025/26

  (i) To consider the Fees & Charges for 2025/26;

  (ii) To consider any items to be recommended to the Finance & General Purposes Committee for consideration of the 2025/26 budget

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 5(i) - Scale of Charges 25-26

• 6CAPITAL PROGRAMME

  To receive an update on the current status of the main Capital Programme.

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 6 - 2022-23 Capital Projects Action Plan

• 7FISHERIES

  To receive an update on Shrewsbury Town Fisheries

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 7 - Fisheries Report

• 8TEAM SHREWSBURY

  (i) To receive an update on the work of Team Shrewsbury and any operational impacts from crime & anti-social behaviour

  (ii) Policing Charter – To receive an update on the Policing Priorities.

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 8 (i) - Team Shrewsbury
  • Agenda 8 (ii) - Team Shrewsbury - Local Policing Charter

• 9QUARRY

  (i) To receive an update on the Quarry Events Programme for 2025
  (ii) To consider the purchase of Hostile Vehicle Mitigation Barriers

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 9(i) - Quarry events update Jan 2025
  • Agenda 9(ii) - Hostile Vehicle Mitigation

• 10RECREATION GROUND MATTERS

  (i) To receive a general update on Grounds Maintenance
  (ii) To receive an update on work in progress at Greenfields Recreation Ground

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 10(i) - Grounds Maintenance update

• 11ST CHADS CHURCH – SCROOGE GRAVESTONE

  To receive an update on emergency works to Scrooge’s gravestone

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 11 - Scrooge's Gravestone

• 12SHREWSBURY IN BLOOM

  To consider outline plans for Britain in Bloom Campaign 2025

• 13COMMUTED SUMS

  To receive an update on outstanding developer discussions/negotiations:

  (i) Copthorne Barracks Play and Open Space – offsite contributions to play (£30,498 – £20498 for Shorncliffe Drive & £10000 for Silks Meadow – to be paid on 75% occupancy) and open space (£115,000 for sports pitches & associated facilities at County Ground – paid on 50% occupancy) – funds in relation to landscaping at the County Ground have been drawn down

  (ii) Barratt Homes/Bovis Homes – Mytton Oak Road – Phase 1 adopted; Snagging Phase 2/3 commenced. No identified date for transfer

  (iii) Shrewsbury South Urban
  1. Sutton Grange site – ongoing – likely transfer in 2024/25 – recent meeting with Taylor Wimpey to discuss logistics for transfer
  2. Bellway Homes site – discussion on land adoption and adoption of acoustic fencing
  3. Galliers site – early discussions on land adoption
  4. Community Centre – location on the site

  (iv) Radbrook College site – Open space adoption – officers met with Floreat Homes on site – likely adoption once all phases are complete

  (v) Weir Hill – Agreements to adopt the land at a future time have been signed -meeting with Taylor Wimpey looking at the possibility of the countryside land to be transferred ahead of the POS on the development site