Agenda item

Report of the Director of the Built Environment (copy attached).

The Committee considered a report of the Director of the Built Environment concerning a revised Area Enhancement Strategy for the Fenchurch and Monument area.

Reference was made to the consideration of the other forthcoming area enhancement strategies. Whilst it was agreed that the larger, more strategic, area enhancement plans such as Bank or Smithfield should also be considered by this Committee with the smaller ones being considered solely by the service committee. A Member highlighted the importance of ensuring that the priorities for each strategic area were joined up and therefore a paper setting out an overall strategy should be produced. The Committee supported this suggestion.

In response to a query about the possibility of widening Great Tower Street, the Director reminded the Committee that the purpose of this report was to give an idea of the overall position and that individual projects referred to within the strategy would be the subject of separate, more detailed, reports and Members would have the opportunity to comment more fully at that point.

RESOLVED – that the draft Fenchurch & Monument Area Enhancement Strategy be adopted and that a paper setting out an overall strategy for the City should be produced and submitted to this Committee and the service committee in due course.