Issue - meetings

To endorse the strategy document and agree onward travel to Council

(Item 8 – report of Mr Mike Hill, Cabinet Member for Community and Regulatory Services and Mrs Barbara Cooper, Corporate Director, Growth, Environment and Transport)

Cabinet received a report which set out the shared ambition of all creative partners in Kent. The Strategy would provide a framework for collaborative working and greater focus on innovation, growth, skills and sustainability in Kent’s creative industries over the next ten years.

Mr Mike Hill, OBE Cabinet Member for Community and Regulatory Services stated that the Strategy had been developed by the sector itself following extensive consultation.  The Strategy for the period 2017 to 2027 aimed to support the continued growth of the creative and cultural sector by making effective use of public and partner investment.

It was RESOLVED

To receive a report from the Cabinet Member for Community Services and the Corporate Director Growth, Environment and Transport which asks the Cabinet Committee to consider the draft strategy document and offer comments to the Cabinet Member for Community Services

(1)       Mr Hill (Cabinet Member for Community Services) introduced the report which asked the Cabinet Committee to consider the draft strategy document.

(2)       David Smith (Director of Economic Development) said the draft Cultural Strategy had been subject to extensive stakeholder consultation during 2016 and that the views of the Cabinet Committee were being sought before the final draft strategy was considered by Council in summer 2017.

(3)       Tony Witton (Culture and Creative Economy Manager) circulated some copies of the first design draft to enable the Cabinet Committee to see how the final version would look.  He also said the results of the stakeholder consultation had been generally positive with a number of queries about particular aspects of the strategy

(4)       In response to comments and questions, Mr Witton said: the strategy was a high level document and individual cultural activities and projects would be included in its implementation plan; and that the Cultural Transformation Board intended the strategy to set out a vision for the sector that was supported by specific high level outcomes under three actions of “Create, Innovate and Sustain”.  

(5)       Resolved that the draft strategy document be endorsed.