P& R wants recovery plan to include seafront enhancement
PROPOSALS to set up a committee to oversea the long-term development of the east coast could be replaced, if the States approves an amendment laid by the committee that proposed them in the first place.
Policy & Resources has proposal before the Assembly this week attached to a report it published in March, giving an update on the work on the seafront enhancement area programme.
Its proposals in that report asks members to approve forming a seafront enhancement committee, which would be an investigation and advisory committee.
This committee would be directed to come back to the Assembly by the end of next year with a report detailing the long-term SEA development strategy.
The amendment from president Gavin St Pier and seconded by vice-president Lyndon Trott, has been placed in the light of the Covid-19 recovery plan
It wants P&R to be instructed to ‘develop proposals for the political governance structure under which the programmes and projects identified in the recovery action plans will be brought before the States of Deliberation for approval concurrent with the details of the plans.’
Having done this, P&R would come back with a long-term east coast development strategy, no later than December 2021.
The third part of the amendment proposes the approval, in principle, of a new body, the Guernsey Development and Regeneration Corporation.
This would be responsible for the operational delivery of the SEA long-term development strategy.
P&R proposes to come back as soon as possible, but no later than March next year, with details of how this body would be made up, funded and involved in the project.
Deputies St Pier and Trott said their amendment proposes an interim solution for the SEA programme, ‘to bridge the period until the new Assembly is in a position to consider the recovery action plans’.
‘Rather than establish a new committee, the proposals now retain the existing steering group to ensure no momentum is lost, and will allow the next Assembly to consider the direction of the SEA programme, and identify the most appropriate governance structure to deliver this direction, in the context of the work of the States as a whole, post-Covid.’
