Decision Maker: Corporate Director of Environment
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Further to Decision Record dated 24 January
2023 (BES 15/23) it is recommended:
i. to authorise the spend of £99,029 of funding from
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Local
Investment in Natural Capital grant to deliver the Yorkshire
Wildlife Trust, Cayton & Flixton Carrs Lowland Peatland
Project
ii. to delegate authority to the Assistant Director for
Environmental Services and Climate Change in consultation with the
Executive Member for Managing our Environment to award grant funds,
oversee the implementation of the fund, and to make minor changes
to the programme spend under delegated powers.
To allow the spend of the DEFRA grant money to
deliver a series of pilot demonstration projects, which is a
required output of the North Yorkshire Local Investment in Natural
Capital (LINC) programme
The only other alternative is not to deliver
this pilot project however this would not assist in the development
of an Investment Plan in Natural Capital for North Yorkshire which
is a requirement of the grant conditions.
Publication date: 17/04/2024
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