Agenda item

The Chairman has agreed to accept the attached item of urgent business:

The City of London Corporation’s Sport and Physical Activity Strategy for 2019-23 (for information)

The Chairman had agreed to accept an item of urgent business in respect of the City of London Corporation’s Sport and Physical Activity Strategy for 2019-23.  Members noted that the Strategy was due to be presented to a number of Committees, for comment, before being presented to the Policy and Resources Committee, in its final form, for decision on 4^th July 2019.   As the report had been circulated late, the Chairman invited Members to forward any additional comments to the Town Clerk.  During the discussion, the following points were noted.

·       The report should mention Hampstead Heath and Wanstead Park and the national and local events they supported.

·        The Strategy offered good opportunities to make use of open spaces for community activities. Therefore, the Open Spaces Committees ought to sign-off on the strategy, rather than just be consulted.

• Circulation should include Planning and Transportation Committee and the Streets and Walkways Sub Committee, which approve events on our roads.

• Whilst commending a joined up approach, in order to ensure smooth governance and monitoring, it would be helpful to see who was going to deliver the different aspects of the strategy.

• The current version was fairly high level and would benefit from more detail.

• It should provide activities for older people to help with fall prevention and it would be helpful to focus on how the different age groups would be targeted.

RESOLVED, that – the report be noted