Agenda item

Members considered a report of the Director of Open Spaces on the 2018/19 business plan for the Open Spaces Department. The report summarised the key objectives and outcomes for the Department and how Business Plan assisted with the successful delivery of the outcomes referenced in the Corporate Plan 2018 – 2023.

Members queried some of the figures associated with Tower Bridge in Appendix 1, noting that the stated income seemed to be incorrect. Officers undertook to clarify this outside of the meeting and amend the figure accordingly.

Members sought further detail as to how ecological conditions at the various open spaces would be measured. The Director of Open Spaces agreed that a uniform system of measurement would be neither appropriate nor practical, observing that individual metrics would need to be developed for each site which paid due regard to the context of each space. Members noted that further detail would come back to the Committee in due course.

RESOLVED: That the Open Spaces Department’s Business Plan for 2018 – 19 be approved.