Purpose

1.1       The s106 for the
development on ‘Land at Dark Lane, Alrewas’ (Planning
reference 13/01175/OUTM), includes an ‘Indoor Sports
Contribution’ for £86,545 ‘To be used for the
provision of indoor sporting facilities at Friary Grange Leisure
Centre, Lichfield’.   Crest
Nicholson Ltd paid the Council this on the 14th of February
2024.
 
1.2       In October 2020
Cabinet selected Stychbrook Park as its
preferred site for a new leisure centre, which signalled the end of
the use of Friary Grange Leisure Centre as a public facility for
residents.   Due to this, the
Section 106 agreement has been negotiated with developer Crest
Nicholson Ltd to enable the £86,545 could be used towards the
development of the new leisure centre instead of Friary
Grange.
 
1.3       The Indoor Sports
Contribution definition in the s106 will be changed from ‘To
be used for the provision of indoor sporting facilities at Friary
Grange Leisure Centre, Lichfield’ to ‘to be used for
the provision of indoor sporting facilities at Friary Grange
Leisure Centre, Lichfield and/or a new Leisure Centre development
situated at Stychbrook Park,
Lichfield’.
 
1.4       Crest Nicholson have
agreed through legal discussions to the Deed of Variation; for the
full signing of documents to take place we must pay the legal fees
for Crest Nicholson of £2000 to DAC Beachcroft
LLC.         

Decision

That £86,545 received from Crest
Nicholson Ltd to Lichfield District Council against an s106
agreement linked to ‘Land at Dark Lane, Alrewas’ is
allocated to the new Leisure Centre development at Stychbrook Park.
 
This is following a ‘Deed of
Variation’ to the agreement changing the covenant from
‘To be used for the provision of indoor sporting facilities
at Friary Grange Leisure Centre, Lichfield’ to ‘to be
used for the provision of indoor sporting facilities at Friary
Grange Leisure Centre, Lichfield and/or a new Leisure Centre
development situated at Stychbrook
Park, Lichfield’.
 
The £2000 legal fees for this to be
actioned to be paid from approved budgets.