Purpose

The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling
race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across
Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time.
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) have agreed to
host a stage of the Men’s 2024 Tour of Britain.
This will be in collaboration with all four South Yorkshire Local
Authority districts with the event taking place on Thursday 5th
September 2024 with a planned route of starting in Sheffield,
passing into Rotherham, Doncaster and then finishing in
Barnsley.
SYMCA have agreed to pay the hosting right fee to host the event
with British Cycling but all operational costs for the event are to
be covered by all four Local Authorities.
The £30k maximum budget will be used for traffic management
fees, operational management costs, stewarding and
communications.
City of Doncaster are currently finalising plans with SYMCA and
British Cycling, and therefore unable to give an actual working
budget required.
Due to our history and experience of hosting major cycling events,
we have based our estimate of cost on this experience and a
£30k budget would be required.
The cost is based on the complexity of a route that enters the
borough via Tickhill and then passes through the following
communities of Wadworth, Conisbrough, Denaby, Cadeby, Scawsby,
Brodsworth, Hooton Pagnell before leaving the borough via
Clayton.
Due to tight timescales of Doncaster being informed and chosen as a
host city, this ODR is an indicative working budget to allow
approval to minimise delays moving forward. Upon receipt of the
contractual agreements for City of Doncaster Council, we will then
have more clarity on all parties roles and responsibilities for the
event.
If the £40k working budget is rejected, Doncaster
wouldn’t be able to host the event in the borough.

Content

To allocate a maximum of budget £30k to
manage and operationally coordinate the Doncaster’s Stage of
the Tour of Britain on the 5th September 2024.

Alternative options considered

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