Issue - meetings

Cabinet received a report on the "Re-Imagining the Harris" project, a partnership between Lancashire County Council and Preston City Council started in 2015 with the aim of repositioning the Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library, and securing major investment to redevelop the building and the services it offers.

Resolved: That

  i.  support be given to a further funding application to the Heritage Lottery Fund in November 2018.

  ii.  the County Council makes a contribution of £45,000 to the cost of preparing the further funding application to the Heritage Lottery Fund

  iii.  the revenue costs for the Re-Imagining the Harris project, currently committed until August 2018, be extended until June 2019 and the position be reviewed in light of the application outcome.