Purpose

Minute 44 of 25 July 2025’s meeting of
Cabinet authorised as follows:

“the Corporate Director (Place and Wellbeing) be authorised
to approve variations of the Plan for Neighbourhoods (including
Long Term Plan for Towns) capacity payments, upon receipt of
minuted approval by the Clacton Town Board, and following
consultation with the Council’s Section 151
Officer.”

The programme referred to in the above decision is now entitled
‘Pride in Place’. The programme though is exactly the
same.

The Section 151 Officer has been consulted on this proposed
decision as recorded by his approval in the attachment.

To support the delivery of the Clacton Town Board’s 10-Year
Vision and 4-Year Investment Plan in pursuance of the published
decision of the Leader on 3 December 2025 to support ‘in
principle’ the measures set out in that Vision and that
Investment Plan.

The decisions in (2) and (3) above are within the “allocation
of £450,000. as proposed by the Clacton Town Board”
that was approved by Cabinet at Minute 44 of the meeting held on 25
July 2025.

Content

In accordance with Minute 99 of the Clacton
Town Board on 7 November 2025, to:
(1) accept the funding identified from the Pride in Place Capacity
Funding for Clacton-on-Sea to deliver the establishment and
recruitment stated:
a. The funding of £54,000 for the establishment and
recruitment of a Full Time (37 hours per week) Town Centre Manager
(Pride in Place) for one year in 2026 (with £3,000 being
applied to recruitment expenses for the role);
b. The funding of £78,000 for the establishment and
recruitment of a Full Time (37 hours per week) Programme Manager
(Pride in Place) for one year in 2026;
(2) allocate £8,800 from the approved
‘Engagement’ budget of £58,625 (from the Pride in
Place Capacity Funding) in respect of the Clacton Town
Board’s Visitor Survey commissioned by Essex County Council
and, as such, enable the authorisation of payment of an invoice for
this sum; and
(3) allocate £40,000 from the approved ‘Surveys,
project preparation’ budget line, £4,536.25 from the
approved ‘Engagement budget and £1,300 from the
approved ‘Contingency’ budget in respect of the work
undertaken by We Made That (the appointed consultant) in respect of
the preparation work for the Board’s Vision, the youth
engagement activity and attendance at a Clacton Councillors
stakeholders meeting on 15 October 2025 and, as such, enable
authorisation of payment of an invoice in the sum of
£45,836.25.

Alternative options considered

Not applicable