Purpose

Weeley Parish Council would like to request S106 money held for improvements to the open space at St Andrews Road, this will be used for the installation of benches and bins and will include accessible picnic benches.

Decision

To release £6,336.45 of Section 106 money for the installation of bins benches and picnic benches on St Andrews open space, Weeley under project 316.

Alternative options considered

Greater Essex is part of the Government’s Devolution Priority Programme which is operating at a timescale that is intended to see:
(a)a Mayoral County Combined Authority established with a new Greater Essex Mayor being elected in May 2026; and
(b)new unitary authorities exercising all the powers currently administered by Essex County Council and the 12 District Councils (and the smaller unitaries of Thurrock and Southend) coming into being on 1 April 2028.
Submissions of proposals for the new unitaries that should be created in (b) above is subject to the deadline of 26 September 2025. Central Government will then make the actual decision on which new unitaries will be created. The Order that will bring into being the new unitary councils will require all existing Councils to prepare for and facilitate the economic, effective, efficient and timely transfer of the existing councils’ functions, property, rights and liabilities during the transitional period to 1 April 2028.