Decision details

Local Investment in Natural Capital Programme - Grant award to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for delivery of the Cayton and Flixton Carrs Lowland Peatland Project

Decision Maker: Corporate Director of Environment

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

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.

Reasons for the decision:

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

Alternative options considered:

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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