Purpose

The decision sought is to:

i)  approve the injection of £865,000 of development funds from Transforming Cities Funds (TCF) into Leeds City Council’s (LCC) Capital Programme. The injection of these funds will enable further work to progress and conclude preliminary design and Outline Business Case tasks;

ii)  give approval to spend the additional development funding of £865,000,

iii)  agree to a Deed of Variation being signed and sealed by LCC to amend the existing funding agreement with WYCA to cover the additional development funding (taking the total approval to £1.395m).

Decision

The Chief Officer (Highways & Transportation):

a)  approved the injection of £865,000 of development funds from Transforming Cities Funds (TCF) into Leeds City Council’s (LCC) Capital Programme. The injection of these funds will enable further work to progress and conclude preliminary design and Outline Business Case tasks;

b)  gave approval to spend the development funding of £865,000,

c)  agreed to enter into a Deed of Variation to amend the existing funding agreement with WYCA.