GLCCA - Business and Infrastructure Board - 1 October 2025

Agenda

1. Election of Vice Chairman
2. Apologies and Substitutions
3. Declarations of Interest
4. Minutes of the Meeting of the Business and Infrastructure Board held on 25 June 2025
5. Public Question Time (To receive questions from the public to the Mayor, Authority Members and Board Chairs in accordance with Combined County Authority Procedure Rule 20. The total time set aside for questions and answers will be limited to 30 minutes with no extension of time. Questions not dealt with within this time will be dealt with by written response).
6. Chair's Announcements
7. Business and Infrastructure Board Terms of Reference (To receive a report from Lisa Tremble, Monitoring Officer, which provides an opportunity for the Board to agree its terms of reference).
8. Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production Fusion (STEP) (To receive a report from Lee Sirdifield, Interim Chief Operating Officer, which introduces the opportunities that Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production Fusion (STEP) offers to the Greater Lincolnshire economy).
9. Mayoral Enhanced Water Partnership (To receive a report from Halina Davies, Strategic Lead Infrastructure and Economic Vision, which proposes the establishment of a new Enhanced Water Partnership (EWP) in Greater Lincolnshire).
10. The Greater Lincolnshire Innovation Strategy (To receive a report from Lee Sirdifield, Interim Chief Operating Officer, which presents a Greater Lincolnshire innovation Strategy for adoption by the Authority)
11. Preparing a Greater Lincolnshire Spatial Development Strategy (To receive a report from Ruth Carver, Interim Deputy Director, which presents the potential duty of CCA’s to prepare a Spatial Development Strategy to the Board and seek approval for the commencement of preparatory activity).
12. GLCCA Emerging Housing Strategy Preparations for Strategic Place Partnership (To receive a report from Halina Davies, Strategic Lead Infrastructure and Economic Vision, which seeks approval to commence sifting of pipeline sites in line with agreed objectives and investment principles)

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Information about this meeting

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Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority, c/o County Offices, Newland, Lincoln LN1 1YL