Public Spaces & Assets Committee
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Public Spaces & Assets Committee

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Terms of Reference:

  1. To have oversight on the use, maintenance, improvement, development and good management of all council owned or leased buildings/assets, including:
  • Civic Centre
  • Allotments sites
  • Town Centre planters, including barrier baskets and hanging baskets
  • Town Council owned benches, including Memorial benches
  • Boundary Signs and Noticeboards
  • Damens Nature Trail and Orchards
  • Town Hall Square planting and maintenance regime
  • Tree Maintenance
  • Festive lights
  • Cenotaph and Ingrow War Memorial
  • Grit Bins
  • Speed Indicator Devices
  • CCTV Cameras
  • Any Town Council vehicles
  • Any other buildings adopted or leased by the Town Council in the future.
  • Any other Assets adopted by council
  1. To act as responsible landlords for sites owned by the Town Council and leased to other organisations/individuals. Reviewing leases and any other terms of agreement between the Council and the lessees or other parties and receive requests from them for developments or changes to council owned buildings and assets.
  2. To review fees and charges as and when required.
  3. To act as liaison for and to project manage any developments or changes to council owned or leased buildings and assets as defined above.
  4. To appoint sub-committees, small working parties, project management groups to oversee and report back to the committee on any of the above areas deemed necessary by the council or committee.
    These sub-committees, small working parties, project management groups will undertake their oversight functions according to the requirements of the role, the requirements of the committee and through the best and most efficient means possible, in consultation with the relevant officers and other stakeholders and partners.
    They will report back to the Public Spaces & Assets committee to an agreed reporting schedule and their reports will form substantive points of the committee’s agenda
  5. To determine the overall strategic asset management priorities on a medium term basis by maintaining an asset management plan.
  6. To consider asset transfers and make recommendations to Full Council.
  7. The Committee has authority to spend up to £10,000 per item from earmarked capital reserves on any remedial repair or maintenance required to the council’s assets. This expenditure is subject to the council’s financial regulations regarding the awarding of contracts etc.
  8. To be responsible for the implementation of any actions allocated to the committee in the Town Plan 2023-2027.