Issue - meetings

Report by Executive Director with Responsibility for Development and Infrastructure Services

The Committee gave consideration to a report providing a full business case to progress with the proposed extension of the existing Tarbert Harbour Authority Car Park.

Decision

The Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands Area Committee noted and endorsed the contents of the report and recommended to the Policy and Resources Committee:

1.    the approval of the full business case;

2.    the release of grant funding up to a maximum of £105,000 from the Tarbert and Lochgilphead Regeneration Fund subject to:

a)    Tarbert Harbour Authority providing evidence of final tender costs and final confirmation that all match funding is in place;

b)    a grant agreement between Argyll and Bute Council and Tarbert Harbour Authority with funding only being released on the basis that expenditure can be evidenced;

c)    following completion of the new car park Tarbert Harbour Authority are not permitted to charge users for parking on the site;

d)    the new car park cannot be sold for a period of ten years from the date of completion of the project; and

3.    that delegated authority be afforded to the Executive Director with responsibility for Development and Economic Growth to confirm the details of the grant agreement. 

(Ref:  Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Development and Economic Growth, dated 4 December 2019, submitted)