Issue - meetings

To receive the report of the Arts and Heritage Manager, attached.

The Committee received a report of the Service Lead, Arts and Heritage highlighting the key activities of the Art Gallery and Chipperfield Advisory Committee during 2016/17 with a look forward to the next 12 months. 

In particular the Committee discussed options for an alternative approach to the development of the Art Gallery in order to submit a subsequent HLF bid following the unsuccessful Flagship Galleries Network Partnership bid in June this year. 

The Committee to be consulted on the content of the consultation process to be employed to find out what the public want and how we can include the Library and the Art Gallery in the bid. 

Agreed that the Committee would be involved in the consultation process at an earlier stage that previously.