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Decision Maker: Executive Councillor for Open Spaces and City Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision of: Councillor Alex Collis, Executive Councillor for
Open Spaces, Food Justice, and Community Development.
Reference: 23/URGENCY/E&C/01
Date of decision: 20/12/22 Date
Published on website: 21/12/22
Decision Type: Non-Key
Matter for Decision: To approve the allocation of funding to
new Environmental Improvements Programme (EIP) applications for 2022-23
following consideration by Area Committees.
Why the Decision had to be made (and any alternative
options):
Following a further review of EIP during 2021-22 a further
round of project applications was invited in Autumn 2022. Some 70 viable submissions were received and
8 nonviable, not all the viable projects were affordable within the capital
funding available – so a mechanism for prioritisation was needed and officers
gave an indicative guide on a red/amber/green scale. When EIP applications were last sought in
2019/20 (prior to the Covid pandemic) Area Committees were able to approve the
local area programmes, since they met in person. With meetings now continuing to take place
digitally that is no longer possible, with the decisions required to be taken
by the appropriate Executive Councillor (Open Spaces, Food Justice, and
Community Development). The views of all
local ward councillors were sought through the Area Committees where they were
asked to consider project submissions within their areas and asked to indicate
area-based lists of priority projects for consideration by the Executive
Councillor for approval decision, the Executive Councillor approved these
priority projects.
The Executive Councillor’s decision:
To approve for development and delivery the local area and
strategic environmental improvement programme projects as listed in the Appendix
A below.
Reason for the decision: As Area Committees are currently
not meeting in person the Executive Councillor for Open Spaces, Food Justice,
and Community Development is needed to approve the local area and strategic
allocation EIP project programmes.
Scrutiny Consideration: The Chair and Spokesperson of
Environment and Community Scrutiny Committee were consulted prior to the action
being authorised.
Report: The attached addended at Appendix A, identifies the
prioritised projects within the Area and Strategic Environmental Improvement
Programmes, these are to be developed subject to budgets, resource
availability, the outcomes of local consultation, and any further processes and
approvals required.
Conflict of interest: None.
Comments: The City Council has a budget of £170,000
(£100,000 for local area and £70,000 for strategic city-wide projects) for Environmental
Improvements during 2022/23. Since not
all areas had received sufficient project requests to fully utilise the
available area funding, the Executive Councillor has redistributed any
uncommitted funds to other parts of the city to enable the greatest number of
improvements to be delivered.
Appendix A
|
Project Number |
Scheme Title |
Approved Value £ |
|
N1 - 2023 |
Logan’s Meadow noticeboard
improvement |
1,500 |
|
N2 - 2023 |
Jubilee Gardens establishing the
space as a Green Asset - through the installation of additional benches. |
3,500 |
|
N4 - 2023 |
Biodiversity and Social Interaction
Improvements to Green End Road Park |
5,000 |
|
N5 - 2023 |
Community Noticeboard Mayfield Area |
1,500 |
|
N17 - 2023 |
Community Planting on Campkin Road |
500 |
|
N18 - 2023 |
Community Planting in Minerva
Way/Kings Hedges Rec |
950 |
|
N19 - 2023 |
Making the most of small spaces in
King’s Hedges |
800 |
|
N20 - 2023 |
Create a community haven on Green End
Road, East Chesterton |
5,000 |
|
N22 - 2023 |
Moving Forward – Arbury Court
Community Garden Project. |
3,000 |
|
N3 - 2023 |
Hazelwood Close - Seating
installation |
1,500 |
|
N21 - 2023 |
Benches - Scotland Rd Rec |
1,500 |
|
N13 - 2023 |
Restore benches at the 'Cyclops'
junction on Histon Road |
2,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL NORTH AREA EIP |
26,750 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
WC6 - 2023 |
Display boards for the Ascension
Burial Ground |
2,500 |
|
WC14 - 2023 |
Planting to screen Lammas Land from
traffic and reduce air pollution in the park |
5,000 |
|
WC15 - 2023 |
Improve a bench in Newnham |
2,000 |
|
WC17 - 2023 |
Improvements to shared use paths on
Midsummer Common |
3,000 |
|
WC2 - 2023 |
Biodiversity Improvements - Woodlark
Rd, Hoadley Rd, Sherlock Rd & Eachard Rd |
5,000 |
|
WC13 - 2023 |
Bins around Gough Way |
1,000 |
|
WC16 - 2023 |
Christs’ Pieces - Provision of places
for unsightly bins improving environment |
3,000 |
|
WC1 - 2023 |
Tree Protection at the end of Skaters
Meadow Roadway |
2,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL WEST CENTRAL AREA EIP |
23,500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
S1 - 2023 |
Installation of drinking fountains -
Hobsons Square, Trumpington |
2,500 |
|
S2 - 2023 |
Safe Access and Entry to a LEAP |
2,000 |
|
S3 - 2023 |
Reduce yearly Christmas tree cutting
and disposal by installing lights in tree. |
3,000 |
|
S4 - 2023 |
Information Board for Cherry Hinton
Recreation Ground |
2,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL SOUTH AREA EIP |
9,500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
E15 - 2023 |
Making Rustat
Road/Corrie Road cut through and green space safer |
3,500 |
|
E16 - 2023 |
A memorial to a forgotten
abolitionist |
3,000 |
|
E18 - 2023 |
Two bench seats for Petersfield Green |
2,200 |
|
E19 - 2023 |
Picnic benches on Romsey Rec |
3,000 |
|
E21 - 2023 |
Community bench and biodiversity in
Jack Warren Green |
3,000 |
|
E22 - 2023 |
Wildflowers on the corner of Rawlyn Road/Stanesfield Road |
1,000 |
|
E26 - 2023 |
Wildflower and/or bulbs along the
outside of the Coleridge Rec fence planting |
2,000 |
|
E2 - 2023 |
Gwydir Street Seating |
3,000 |
|
E3 - 2023 |
Green the Streets |
1,000 |
|
E12 - 2022 |
Biodiversity & Social Interaction
Improvements, Maple Tree Area, St Matthews Str |
3,000 |
|
E14 - 2023 |
Increase biodiversity in Headly Street and Eagle Street with planting. |
3,000 |
|
E27 - 2023 |
A community garden on Peverel Road |
3,500 |
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL EAST AREA EIP |
31,200 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reserve |
|
|
|
WC9 - 2023 |
Community Noticeboards in Newnham,
Castle and Market to promote community Cohesion. |
4,500 |
|
E4 - 2023 |
Improving Biodiversity - East Road
Housing Area |
5,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL RESERVE AREA EIP |
9,500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL OVERALL AREA FUNDED EIP
PROJECTS |
100,450 |
|
|
Strategic Schemes |
||
|
Project Number |
Scheme Title |
Approved Value £ |
|
sN7- 2023 |
Improving Biodiversity on Carisbrooke
Road's central greenspace |
10,000 |
|
sN12 - 2023 |
Bee Balconies! Pollinator-friendly
planting for flats |
3,000 |
|
City 1 |
Citywide Community Engagement led
Biodiversity and Habitat Improvement Projects |
15,000 |
|
sE1 - 2023 |
St Matthew’s Piece - Improving
Biodiversity |
10,000 |
|
sE13- 2023 |
Increase biodiversity and public
wellbeing on Barnwell Road |
5,000 |
|
sE24 - 2023 |
Create community gardens, increase
biodiversity and beautify Tiverton Estate |
10,000 |
|
sWC7 - 2023 |
Planting on existing pavement
islands, Norwich Street |
3,000 |
|
sE8 - 2023 |
Increasing biodiversity in our street
(Sedgwick Street) |
2,500 |
|
sE23 - 2023 |
Improve tree cover in Hobart Road |
10,000 |
|
TOTAL OVERALL STRATEGIC EIP PROJECTS |
68,500 |
|
Publication date: 30/12/2022
Date of decision: 21/12/2022
