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Hampshire County Council

 

Executive Member - Recreation and Heritage Item 5

 

15 November 2007

 

Basing House Ruins - Heritage Lottery Fund grant aid

Report of the Director of Recreation and Heritage

 

Contact: Russell Cleaver ext. 6883 e-mail: [email protected]

 

1. Summary

1.1 The following decisions are sought:

    i) That Hampshire County Council's Recreation & Heritage Department accepts the offer from the Heritage Lottery Fund of a Stage 1 grant of £53,300 towards the development of the Basing House and Grange Farm site at Old Basing (collectively known as `Basing House Ruins').

    ii) That Hampshire County Council enters into a contract with the National Heritage Memorial Fund for the express purpose of delivering the objectives defined in HCC's application to the HLF.

    iii) That it be a recommendation to Cabinet that £93,000 be added to the Recreation and Heritage Capital Programme for the development phase.

2. Reason

2.1 Basing House Ruins are of great historic importance - locally, regionally and nationally. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and contains a number of Listed Buildings. The HLF grant, together with match funding from HCC (including the capital receipt from the former sale of Grange Farm house), will enable the County Council to both safeguard the physical remains for the future and to bring the site to the attention of the much wider audience it deserves.

    2.2 The Decision will link to the Corporate Aims:

      · "Safer and more secure for all" - Link through provision of:

        Lifelong Learning; Access, Inclusion & Participation; Economic Benefit

      · "Maximising wellbeing" - Link through provision of :

      Lifelong Learning; Economic Benefit; Sense of Place

      · "Enhancing our quality of place" - Link through provision of:

      Stewardship; Access Inclusion & Participation; Sense of Place

3. Other Options Considered and Rejected.

 

3.1 A range of options was considered, from `do nothing' through `essential maintenance & basic conservation with small scale improvements to visitor facilities, like toilets to `long term conservation programme with improvements to access, interpretation, education and visitor services and audience development'. The HLF award provides the opportunity for HCC to realise the latter.

 

4. Conflicts of interest declared by the decision maker or other Executive Member consulted.

 

    None.

   

5. Dispensation by the Standards Committee

 

    Not applicable.

  

6. Reasons for the matter being dealt with if urgent.

 

    Not applicable.

   

Approved by: Date:

 

 

 

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Councillor Mrs. M. Snaith