Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk.

The Committee received a report of the Town Clerk outlining the Terms of Reference for the Committee. Members’ attention was drawn to the one proposed amendment to the Committee’s Terms of Reference. This arose from the review of the Corporation’s grant-giving activities, which the Committee considered in July 2015. The Committee agreed to set up a joint Open Spaces Grants Review Working Party to determine how to best allocate open spaces grants.

Members noted that the Working Party agreed that the most suitable approach would be for the Open Spaces and City Gardens Committee to take responsibility for awarding open spaces grants, with the Epping Forest and Commons Committee, West Ham Park Committee or Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood and Queen’s Park Committee providing comments and recommendations on any grant requests relating to their areas.

Resolved – that the amended Terms of Reference be agreed with the amendment to item (d) “to express views or make recommendations to the Open Spaces and City Gardens Committee for that Committee’s allocation of grants which have relation to Epping Forest and Commons”.