Issue - meetings

This report recommends the annual increase to the home ground agreement charges coming into effect from 1 April 2023.

Following consideration, the Committee resolved (3 votes for, 3 votes against, the Chair not using his first vote, and exercising his casting vote in favour of the recommendation) to:

(1)          Agree the increase to the charge for home ground agreements as set out in appendix 1 of the report.

The Committee received a report recommending the annual increase to the home ground agreement charges coming into effect from 1 April 2023.

The Committee considered the following matters:

a)            A Member queried the disparity between the increase to charges for Football/Cricket pitches and for Bowls greens. The Streetcare Manager explained that, following the pandemic, a lot of Bowls Club members terminated their memberships due to cost, and that the Clubs were experiencing difficulty replacing lost members – the lower increase for Bowls greens was in the interest of survival of Bowls in the Borough. The Chair explained that Bowls greens are very costly to bring back once gone, as compared with Football/Cricket pitches.

Following consideration, the Committee resolved (3 votes for, 3 votes against, and the Chair exercising his casting vote in favour of the recommendation) to:

(1)          Agree the increase to the charge for home ground agreements as set out in appendix 1 of the report.