Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk (copy attached).

The Committee considered a report of the Town Clerk presenting the recommendation of City Arts Initiative Group which met on 10 April to discuss five applications to be placed around the City.

Members asked to be reminded where the funding for such art projects came from and whether the Streets and Walkways Committee had been asked for their approval of this report. The Town Clerk responded that applications for public art generally come with funding already attached and that the Streets and Walkways Committee would consider such applications as appropriate.

The Town Clerk stated that the application from Red Ball should be made subject to the City Surveyor being satisfied that there would be no negative impact upon the structure of the bridge.

RESOLVED: - That –

(i)            the Red Ball application be approved subject to the City Surveyor being satisfied that there would be no negative impact upon the structure of the bridge;

(ii)           a reduced scale BT Art Box scheme be approved with ArtBoxes located at New Change, Newgate Street, Bishopsgate (subject to TfL approval), subject to Planning Permission and resolution of technical issue to the satisfaction of the Director of the Built Environment; and

(iii)          the application to place the Pillar of Friendship in the green space at the junction of Little Trinity Lane and Queen Victoria Street be refused