Councillor Rich Michalowski
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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The Gloucester Road proposal was put forward by the Harlequin Support Group was circulated prior to the ONS meeting earlier in the month, and yet in this paper there's very little detail on why it was discounted or was being discounted. I'd like to understand a little bit more why that is.
It's good to see there's a £30,000 proposal for a fund as a grant-giving fund for use of the Harlequin. Is that a one-off fund? Because I struggle to understand whether it is an annual allocation we're looking to. And also perhaps if officers could tell us what has already happened in terms of helping existing users.
The service budget for the Harlequin of £360,000, I'm keen to understand whether that might include the arts development role that's also discussed or has been discussed?
Councillor Smith.
Councillor Collins. When speaking to these other groups, have they indicated to you that they prefer an all-year-round temporary venue or a seasonal temporary venue?
I just wanted to quickly ask, is there a difference in cost of ramifications when you compare replacement to remediation or rectification of the rack? So is it easier to repair or is it easier to replace or is it just extremely variable?
Was there money set aside to cover this element of planned maintenance? We were aware about it previously. Is that covered? So we have referred to planned maintenance budget possibly being used and being brought forward to use on the Harlequin for repairs. Is this sort of part of that whole discussion or is there something separate?
Do we have any of this budgeted beforehand? Do we have an idea of how much this would have cost and therefore how much money we would have had to pay anyway?
Are you actually ruling out that the interim facility won't be a year-round community facility? It depends on the facility.
We are not ruling out a temporary performance space which is going to meet up to 500. Can you get clarification on that as well?
Councillor Ashford. for a fact that the library next door, which is all part of the same construction, has already been, there have been reports on the works necessary and work has already started with a view to the exterior work and repairs being done in the next couple of months with the interior fully fitted out and refurbished by August 2025. Given that we're over a year now on just discussing
the Harlequin, what lessons have we got that we can learn and what information have we got from the refurbishment of the library that will help to bring some of these timescales that are being asked for into some sort of reality?
What could we do? What could we learn? And what could we learn about the financing from that?
Councillor Blacker, I was fortunate enough via the leader to have a team's meeting with the structural engineers and surveyors who were about to carry out the, or had started the report on the Harley Quinn. And the one thing that I noted was that rack concrete or the rack planks are aerated, which means they're full of holes, which makes them lighter.
But it also makes them extremely vulnerable to water penetration. And the one thing that came out of that meeting was that our roof covering appears to be sound and not leaking. So I think that should give us a better chance of not having to do a complete roof replacement. Bearing that in mind, we've got a 10 million figure that's been bandied about.
But I note that there is a community infrastructure levy amount of money 1,748,000. So is that figure... included in the £10 million, or is it above it? Is it extra to it?
Councillor Pagani.
It's been 15 months till we got the survey for the rack for the Harley Quinn. How long, like, it's going to take? Because then you're going to look for the bill, like, whoever going to take the walk. So we are not having for another three years any place, temporary place for how many people will you have it? Do you think three years we are not going to have any art centre?
Councillor Chester.
My concern is that if we don't have a large-scale provision over that time frame, there'll be nothing left of our arts community for us to build a theatre for. There's also a very significant cost, not just financially, but community-based as well, and the wider extended community.
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