Committee Minutes - Article

X COMMUNITY REGENERATION PARTNERSHIP 2025/2026

 

There was submitted Joint Report No 114-2025 by Executive Directors of City Development and Corporate Services, providing an update on the £20 million funding awarded to Dundee City Council by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) for the Levelling Up Partnership (now renamed the Community Regeneration Partnership CRP) in 2025/26 and seeking approval to delegate authority to the Executive Director of City Development and Executive Director of Corporate Services, as the Section 95 Officer, to deliver the programme.

 

The Committee agreed:-

 

(i) to welcome the investment of £20 million into the city and noted the projects that would be delivered through the Programme;

 

(ii) to remit the Executive Directors of City Development and Corporate Services to work with relevant city stakeholders and partners to progress the compliant development and delivery of the Community Regeneration Partnership Programme;

 

(iii) to delegate authority to the Executive Directors of City Development and Corporate Services to award grants following conclusion of the three challenge funds that would shortly open for applications upon approval of the Report;

 

(iv) to recognise that the delivery of the Programme within the required timescale would be a significant challenge and to delegate authority to the to the Executive Directors of City Development and Corporate Services to agree with MHCLG timescales and phasing of the CRP Programme and the potential reallocation of funding should this become necessary; and

 

(v) to note that officers would deliver Member briefings on the Programme at appropriate stages.