This Council recognises Northampton Racecourse as one of the most important parks in the town.

Further this Council:

• Acknowledges that recent occurrences of anti-social behaviour and crime on the park have led to concerns about the safety of the environment on the park.

• Welcomes the initiative by the Chronicle & Echo in its ‘Reclaim the Racecourse’ campaign the recent summit held jointly with Friends of Northampton Racecourse.

• Welcomes the ‘healthy living hub’ initiative as a possible way of levering funds and resources to create a new public facility on the park.

• Notes that it passed policy in 2003 to draw up a rolling 5 year plan for the park and that this has not happened

This Council resolves to:

·        Work with all stakeholders and partners to draw up a masterplan for the park.

·        Support the idea of the healthy living hub to seek funding for plans to improve the park and develop new public facilities

·        Set up a Racecourse Action Team headed by a NBC manager that draws together all NBC stakeholders and external partners.

·        Actively seek external funding opportunities for improvements to the park

Proposed: Cllr Andrew Simpson

The Council also approved these further resolutions:-