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Performance Management 2017 / 18: Quarter 1

Sustainable Development Committee Director of Development

Business Performance: Cultural and Information Services: Heritage

• all Business Plan actions and KPIs to target
• 16,196 visitors to both Museum nan Eilean sites in Q1
• Lews Castle Museum exceeded targets for first year (14 July 2017)
• “Fossil Hunters” exhibition opened in partnership with NMS
• loans from British Museum, British Library and V&A finalised for

Colin Mackenzie Exhibition

• Community Archives Conference held at Lews Castle
• Economic Impact Assessment of Archaeology commissioned
• successful expression of interest to HLF’s “Great Place Scheme”

Business Performance: Planning and Building Standards

• all Business Plan actions and KPIs to target
• Local Development Plan: consultation concluded and

representations being assessed

• preparatory actions and strategic approach to Marine Planning

being prepared

Business Performance Economic Development

• all Business Plan actions and KPIs to target

Capital Projects

• Lews Castle Museum and Archive
• Phase 3 and 4 main works completed
• snagging on-going
• visitor accommodation opened in April
• Castle Grounds Regeneration Programme
• tender documents completed and issued
• disappointing tender return in August
• procurement approach being re-evaluated for retender in Q3

Business Performance Economic Development

Regeneration Capital Grant Fund

• Round 1 (South Uist and Barra Regeneration Programme)
• Vatersay Community Hub - 100% complete
• Castlebay Business Units - 100% complete
• Cothrom Restore Ltd - 100% complete
• Eriskay Shop - 100% complete
• West Harris Trust - 100% complete
• Round 2 (Uist Heritage Regeneration Programme)
• Kildonan Museum - 100% complete
• Uist Wool building - 100% complete
• Rounds 1 and 2: Total Project Cost: £6.1m
• Comhairle investment of £610k levering in RCGF of £1.35m

Business Performance Economic Development

Regeneration Capital Grant Fund

• Round 3 (Harris Marina and Balivanich Business Units)
• projects proceeding as planned
• Harris Marina: construction started
• Balivanich Units: construction start in early 2018
• Round 4 (Lewis Heritage Programme and Castlebay Harbour)
• projects proceeding as planned;
• Castlebay Harbour Initiative: complete by early 2018;
• Isle of Lewis Heritage Regeneration Programme: start in 2018
• Round 5
• stage one submissions invited in August
• two submissions: Ceolas and Stornoway Regeneration, Phase 1

Business Performance Economic Development

• Community Capital Grant Fund (CCGF)
• funding rounds completed in 2016
• 26 community economic development projects supported
• total project value = £10.5m / Comhairle investment = £1.5m
• external leverage of 1:6 achieved
• on-going officer support for project delivery within timescales
• LEADER and European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
• two projects to the value of £247k approved in Q1
• LEADER applications criteria reviewed in Q1
• potential ‘final’ project applications deadline 11th October 2017
• three EMFF projects approved by FLAG (£103k)
• positive ScotGov LEADER audit - retention of ‘green’ status

Business Performance Economic Development

Busi sine ness ss Gatew eway ay Q1 YTD new business start-ups 14 14 businesses supported to achieve growth 4 4 FTE jobs created / safeguarded 25 25 young people supported through PTYBS 3 3 Business Enterprise Skills Workshops delivered 22 22

Business Performance Energy Unit

Business Plan Progress

• all Business Plan actions and KPIs to target

Energy Supply Company (ESCo)

• Supply Partner procurement exercise complete
• negotiations underway with ‘Our Power’
• ‘Our Power’: a not-for-profit Energy Supply Company established

by Scottish Social Housing Providers

• bespoke ‘Hebrides Energy’ tariff to be offered
• rising wholesale electricity prices pushing tariffs across the board
• Smart Meters to be offered

Business Performance Energy Unit

European Energy Projects

• WISE and BEAST projects successfully concluded
• ‘Power2People’ (P2P) application: 36 month Horizon 2020 project
• development of shared ownership options in commercial

generation and establishment of licenced Community ESCo

• P2P partners: Germany, Spain, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Italy,

France, Portugal, Macedonia and Slovenia

• Comhairle is sole representative from the UK
• some deliverables contracted to Community Energy Scotland
• P2P decision anticipated November 2017

Business Performance Energy Unit

Oil and Gas Decommissioning

• industry-led decommissioning / energy group operational with

contributions from senior industry figures with island connections

• onshore decommissioning opportunities limited, but on-going

industry liaison

• group has identified a niché for storage and local re-use of

recyclables from decommissioned installations

• group also engaged around local infrastructure
• significant and effective contribution to the ‘Remote Island Wind’

debate

Risk Management

Operational Risks

• perational risk register reviewed quarterly
• risks relate to ensuring financial and staff resources are in place to

deliver statutory and business plan requirements Business Continuity Plan

• critical services have been identified and are covered by an up-to-

date Business Continuity Plan for 2017 / 18

Financial Performance: Development Department

Serv rvic ice Tota tal l Budget £k £k Actu tual l Spend £k £k Fore recast Out- turn rn £k

Economic Development 1,225 702 1,225 Energy Unit 155 97 155 Planning Development 840 217 840 Cultural & Information Services 487 426 487

Tota tal l Contr troll llable le Costs ts

2,707 1,442 2,707

Other Issues

External Factors

• on-going engagement with SSEN / OFGEM / BEIS / developers
• Islands Renewables Ministerial meeting
• Spaceport 1
• Islands Deal
• Stornoway Masterplan
• Scotland’s Towns Partnership “Digital Towns Pilot” application
• Student Accommodation
• Castle Grounds Regeneration Project

Self Assessment

• no complaints in the quarter

Priorities for Next Quarter

• Spaceport 1 consortium activity
• Islands Deal project prioritisation
• RCGF Round 5
• second stage bid to HLF Great Place Scheme
• submit Local Development Plan for Examination
• conclude and submit Planning Performance Framework
• secure agreement on strategic approach to Marine Planning
• ‘final’ LEADER and EMFF project application
• deliver Community Electricity Tariff in partnership with Our Power
• respond to issues around ‘Non Mainland GB Onshore Wind’
• prepare for launch of P2P HORIZON 2020 project
• pursue Energy Group outputs around decommissioning