Decision details
Levelling Up Grant Consultation
Decision Maker: Executive Director Place and Communities
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
Bids have been invited by government to bid
for the Levelling Up Fund Round 2 (LUF2). The Fund is jointly
managed by HM Treasury (HMT), the Department for Levelling Up,
Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and the Department for Transport
(DfT).
Local Authorities are able to bid for capital grants that will
enable delivery of a package of projects that focus on the
summarised investment themes listed below:
• Transport investments including public transport, active
travel, bridge works, road improvements, aiming to reduce carbon
emissions and improve air quality;
• Regeneration and town centre investment building on the
Towns Fund framework to upgrade dated infrastructure and
regenerating brown?eld sites;
• Cultural investment maintaining, regenerating, or creatively
repurposing existing cultural, creative, heritage and sporting
assets.
The LUF2 is a competitive capital grant programme administered by
the Government that follows the ?rst round of the fund, which
supported £1.7 billion of projects across more than 100 areas
in the UK.
The Levelling Up Fund will support the Council’s priorities
by enabling access to significant funding to deliver strategic
transport infrastructure projects and support the creation of
quality places that will improve the neighbourhood economy.
The deadline for the submission is Wednesday 6th July 2022 at
12:00hrs.
Decision:
To seek authority to undertake a public
consultation with residents and local businesses for the following
schemes:
1. Farnham Road public realm Shopping Parade, Transport and public
realm improvements;
2. Salt Hill Park and Western Gateway
3. Farnham Road Bus Accessibility
It is recommended that:
The consultation for the proposed schemes is undertaken to seek
feedback from the affected residents, businesses and statutory
consultees.
Letters of support are sought from the key Stakeholders and
Statutory consultees.
Following the consultation process, if the bid is successful,
officers to proceed with the preliminary designs and undertake
another consultation exercise. Once the second stage of the
consultation exercise has been completed, a Significant Decisions
is submitted highlighting the feedback and confirmed
designs.
Alternative options considered:
Option 1 - Consult as per the detail above
(recommended)
Option 2 - Not consult
Interests and Nature of Interests Declared:
None.
Publication date: 13/06/2022
Date of decision: 10/06/2022
Effective from: 21/06/2022