During September 2020, a bid was submitted to South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP) for funding towards a new Covered Market and Managed Workspace facility at Jaywick Sands. In November 2020 the Council were notified by the SELEP as administering body for the Government’s ‘Get Building Fund’ (GBF), that its bid for funding to the value of £1.97m, had been successful.
Due to some of the SELEP GBF projects not being able to deliver £3.2m additional GBF funding became available for all GBF projects to bid for. Therefore, in September 2022 Tendring District Council (TDC) submitted a further bid for £410,000 which included funding for unforeseen contamination and underground obstructions costs as well as the possibility of funding omitted items removed from the project to reduce costs.
In November 2022 the Accountability Board of SELEP awarded TDC a reduced amount of £300,879 with the possibility of further funding at a later date. Then in January 2023 TDC were informed that the SELEP Accountability Board had allocated the remaining £118,181 requested in the application.

To accept the additional funding from SELEP's Get Building Fund Scheme for the Sunspot (Jaywick workspace) project.

A concurrence has been received from Cllr. Ivan Henderson, Portfolio Holder for Economic Growth, Regeneration and Tourism.

Option 1 - to not accept the funding.
Option 2 -
Option 3 -