Fenland District Council has been granted £1.5 million from the Government’s Pride in Place Impact Fund to support the enhancement of community facilities. Members have expressed a preference that this spend be allocated to open spaces, facilities and play areas across the district in line with the Fenland Inspire! project aims
As Portfolio Holder for this Fenland Inspire! Project I am contacting you to request ideas of specific locations where the funding should be spent. There are significant constraints set by Government on how this grant money may be spent – FDC Members suggesting that money in their area should be spent on schemes other than play areas should carefully check that any such alternative spending falls within the Government’s criteria. Schemes generally must also be deliverable relatively quickly to as to satisfy the Government’s timing criteria for spend to be completed.
In the interests of fairness across the District, an indicative split of spend shall be that £250,000 shall be spent in each of the four Towns, whilst £500,000 shall be spent in the Parishes and areas outside the boundaries of the four Fenland Towns. It is appreciated that this precise split will not be able to be achieved because of the discreet individual cost of each selected scheme, but this split is an initial guide to assist in creating a fair allocation across the District.
Please liaise in the first instance with Sam Hoy (Wisbech); Jan French (March); Pete Murphy (Chatteris); Jason Mockett (Whittlesey) or Chris Seaton (Parishes) so that area suggestions may be consolidated.
Regards,
Cllr Sidney Imafidon.
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