Dear Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, A18/A180 Link Road Following Receipt of Your Full
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx LTFGD Division Zone 2/15 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Great Minster House Director of Economy & Growth, 33 Horseferry Road London North East Lincolnshire Council SW1P 4DR Municipal Offices Town Hall Square Direct Line: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Grimsby GTN No: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx North East Lincolnshire [email protected] DN31 1HU Web Site: www.dft.gov.uk 13 February 2015 Dear xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, A18/A180 Link Road Following receipt of your Full Approval submission for the above scheme, this letter confirms that Ministers have agreed to grant the scheme Full Approval. As part of this approval the Department will provide a maximum capped funding contribution of £4.911m towards an estimated total scheme cost of £6.266m. North East Lincolnshire Council is solely responsible for meeting any expenditure over and above this maximum amount. Funding will be paid as capital grant under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003. I will write to your Chief Finance Officer shortly with a formal letter of grant under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003. For the above scheme the Department is prepared to make available the following funding profile: 2014/15 - £2.715m 2015/16 - £2.196m Every effort should be made to avoid slippage in 2014/15 as the new funding arrangements for funding schemes through the Local Growth Fund will make it very difficult for us to increase our contribution in 2015/16 and beyond. However, if there is any possibility of adjusting profiles to increase spend in 2014/15 (with a corresponding reduction in future years), we would be happy to consider this. We expect you to keep us closely informed of progress with, and expenditure on, the scheme - the simplest way to deal with this is for you to complete and return the quarterly monitoring reports by the due dates and to keep us informed of other significant developments as soon as they occur. The Government’s contribution to the scheme should be advertised in any publicity information that you produce. Ministers want to see all major local schemes which have been built or are being built, where a contribution from the Department is being provided, to display the Department for Transport’s corporate logo. A copy of the logo is attached. Please could you use this on any signs and promotional material for the scheme. For your information, the colour on the DfT logo is coded from the Pantone Matching System as PMS 3298. In addition we are looking at how to incorporate positive messages in any publicity for DfT sponsored schemes showing what the disruption will eventually bring - “improved access, new facilities” etc - and would hope you would be able to do this for this scheme. Please provide written confirmation that your Council agrees to the terms of this letter, including certification from your Section 151 Officer that the Council accepts the above terms. I look forward to seeing progress in constructing the scheme and to its subsequent completion. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx LTFGD Division Zone 2/15 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Great Minster House Network Implementation Manager 33 Horseferry Road London Transport/Highways/Environment SW1P 4DR Division Places Directorate Direct Line: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council GTN No: xxxxxxxxxxxxx P.O. Box 19 [email protected] Council House Solihull B91 3QT Web Site: www.dft.gov.uk 18 August 2014 Dear xxxxxxxxxxxx A45 SOUTH BRIDGE REPLACEMENT SCHEME – FULL APPROVAL Following receipt of your Full Approval submission for the above scheme, this letter confirms that Ministers have agreed to grant the scheme Full Approval. As part of this approval the Department will provide a maximum capped funding contribution of £8.334m towards an estimated total scheme cost of £11.948m. Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is solely responsible for meeting any expenditure over and above this maximum amount. Funding will be paid as capital grant under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003. We will write to you shortly with a formal letter of grant under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003. As a result of the 2013 Spending Review the DfT funding contribution for local authority major schemes in 2015/16 and beyond will be included within the Local Growth Fund (LGF). From April 2015 all major schemes funding will flow through the LGF. Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) will be granted funding for each specific scheme in their area which has an expenditure ‘tail’. This will be in addition to the confirmed LGF allocations announced in July and any competitive allocations agreed as part of Growth Deals. The provision of ‘tail’ funding will of course be dependent on the approved scheme going ahead. For the above scheme the Department is prepared to make available the following funding profile: 2014/15 - £2.4m 2015/16 - £5.3m 2016/17 - £0.634m Every effort should therefore be made to avoid slippage in 2014/15. As explained above, we will not be able to increase our contribution in 2015/16 and beyond if there is any slippage in 2014/15. We expect you to keep us closely informed of progress with, and expenditure on, the scheme - the simplest way to deal with this is for you to complete and return the quarterly monitoring reports by the due dates and to keep us informed of other significant developments as soon as they occur. The Government’s contribution to the scheme should be advertised in any publicity information that you produce. Ministers want to see all major local schemes which have been built or are being built, where a contribution from the Department is being provided, to display the Department for Transport’s corporate logo. A copy of the logo is attached. Please could you use this on any signs and promotional material for the scheme. For your information, the colour on the DfT logo is coded from the Pantone Matching System as PMS 3298. In addition we are looking at how to incorporate positive messages in any publicity for DfT sponsored schemes showing what the disruption will eventually bring - “improved access, new facilities” etc - and would hope you would be able to do this for this scheme. Please provide written confirmation that Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council agrees to the terms of this letter, including certification from your Section 151 Office that the Council accepts the above terms. I look forward to seeing progress in constructing the scheme and to its subsequent completion. xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Policy Advisor Department for Transport Zone 2/15 Great Minster House 33 Horseferry Road London xxxxxxxxxxxxxx SW1P 4DR Design Development Manager Direct Line: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Birmingham City Council e-mail: [email protected] 1 Lancaster Circus Web Site: www.dft.gov.uk Queensway Birmingham 24 October 2013 B4 7DJ Dear xxxxxxxxxxxxx, A452 Chester Road Improvements - Full Approval Following receipt of your Full Approval submission for the above scheme, this letter confirms that Ministers have agreed to grant the scheme Full Approval. As part of this approval the Department will provide a maximum capped funding contribution of £8.328m towards an estimated total scheme cost of £11.703m. Birmingham City Council is solely responsible for meeting any expenditure over and above this maximum amount. Funding will be paid as capital grant under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003. I will write to you shortly with a formal letter of grant under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003. We expect you to keep us closely informed of progress with, and expenditure on, the scheme. The simplest way to do this is for you to complete and return the quarterly monitoring reports by the due dates and to keep us informed of other significant developments as soon as they occur. The Government’s contribution to the scheme should be advertised in any publicity information that you produce. Ministers want to see all major local schemes which have been built or are being built, where a contribution from the Department is being provided, to display the Department for Transport’s corporate logo. A copy of the logo is attached. May I suggest that this is used on any signs and promotional material for the scheme. For your information, the colour on the DfT logo is coded from the Pantone Matching System as PMS 3298. Please provide written confirmation that Birmingham City Council agrees to the terms of this letter, including certification from your Section 151 Office that the Council accepts the above terms. I look forward to seeing progress in constructing the scheme and to its subsequent completion. Yours sincerely, xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx LTFGD Division Zone 2/15 xxxxxxxxxx, Great Minster House Programme Manager, 33 Horseferry Road London Coventry City Council SW1P 4DR by e-mail Direct Line: xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx GTN No: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [email protected] Web Site: www.dft.gov.uk 3 April 2014 Dear xxxxxxx Coventry-Nuneaton Rail Improvement Scheme Phase 1 Following receipt of your Full Approval submission for the above scheme, this letter confirms that Ministers have agreed to grant the scheme Full Approval. As part of this approval the Department will provide a maximum capped funding contribution of £4.75m towards an estimated total scheme cost of £13.633m. Coventry City Council is solely responsible for meeting any expenditure over and above this maximum amount. Funding will be paid as capital grant under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003. We will write to you shortly with a formal letter of grant under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003. As a result of the 2013 Spending Review the DfT funding contribution for local authority major schemes in 2015/16 and beyond will be included within the Local Growth Fund (LGF).