New Anglia Investment Appraisal Committee
Meeting Minutes (Unconfirmed)
13 November 2018, Telephone Meeting
Present:
Committee Members
Lindsey Rix (LR)
Aviva
John Griffiths
St Edmundsbury Borough Council
Dominic Keen (DK)
High Growth Robotics
Cllr David Ellesmere (DE)
Ipswich Borough Council
Sandy Ruddock
Scarlet and Mustard
In Attendance
Chris Starkie (CS)
New Anglia LEP
Rosanne Wijnberg (RW)
New Anglia LEP
Chris Dashper (CD)
New Anglia LEP
Mike Dowdall
New Anglia LEP
Tanya Nelson
New Anglia LEP
1
Welcome from the Chair
Lindsey Rix (LR) welcomed everyone to the meeting.
2
Apologies
Apologies were received from Tim Whitley, Alan Waters and Mark Bee (substituted for John Griffiths at
the October meeting).
3
Declarations of Interest
Full declarations of interest can be found at http://www.newanglia.co.uk/about-us/the-board/.
Declarations relevant to this meeting: John Griffiths, MSF Technologies
4
Minutes of previous meeting
The committee agreed the minutes of the previous meeting were a true account of the meeting held on
18 October 2018.
Matters arising from previous meeting: None
5
Horizon Projects Table - Confidential
Chris Dashper (CD) explained the contents of the paper and noted that three applications, Southwold
Hospital (grant), Hawk and Owl Trust (grant) and Alchemie (loan) would be presented at the next meeting
on 21 November for discussion. There were no questions on the Horizon report from attendees.
Items for discussion
6
Nar Ouse Enterprise Zone Investment
The Nar Ouse paper was advanced from item 7 in the agenda.
Chris Starkie (CS) provided a summary of the updated paper (from 18 October 2018) for the
Investment Appraisal Committee and how the issues raised at the October meeting had
been addressed by the paper, including:
The committee agreed to recommend to the LEP Board that the recommendation in
the paper should be supported, being a co-investment in a capital build with match
funding in the same amount by the Borough Council of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk,
subject to obtaining State Aid advice on the proposal.
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