To award Young People’s Grants, Community Area Grants and Local Highway and Footway Improvement Group (LHFIG) funding in relation to Calne Area Boardas follows:
Community Area Grants
ABG1511 – Calne Men’s Shed - £500 for the purchase of an of an oscillating cutting tool, drill and impact driver kit.
ABG1529 - Calne Tennis Club - £2,885 towards Court refurbishment.
Young People’s Grants
ABG1532 – Calne Wordfest - £565 towards Youth Tale Trail Storytelling
ABG1568 – The Open Blue Trust - £2,098 towards the Open Blue Bus in Calne
LHFIG
1) To allocate funding to Issues already on the Priority Schemes List:
• 3-23-3 Foxham Speed Limit £9,800
• 3-23-8 Sandy Lane Gates & Signs £3,150
• 3-23-12 Studley Village Speed Limit Review £2,030
2) To add the following Issues to the Priority Schemes List with funding:
• 3-23-14 Hilmarton & Goatacre SID Posts £1,050
• 3-23-16 Tytherton Lucas Warning Signs £500
• 3-23-22 Stockley & Broads Green Speed Limit review £2,030
3) To close the following Issues:
• Active Travel Calne Silver St
• 3-23-4 Bremhill Parish Village Gates
• 3-23-17 Calne London Road Crossing
• 3-23-20 East Tytherington Maud Heath Causeway
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 21/02/2024
Decision due: Not before 29 Feb 2024 by Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Military-Civilian Integration, Health and Wellbeing, Economic Development, Arts, Heritage, and Tourism
Lead member: Cllr Richard Clewer, Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Military-Civilian Integration, Health and Wellbeing, Economic Development, Heritage, Arts, and Tourism richard.clewer@wiltshire.gov.uk
Lead director: David Redfern (Director - Leisure, Culture & Communities)
Contact: Matthew Hitch, 01225 718059, Email: matthew.hitch@wiltshire.gov.uk.
Consultation process
The four local Members of Calne Area Board are in agreement with the proposed grants. Members of the public may give their views to the proposed decision in this report. Although it was not at a properly constituted meeting, the grant applications were discussed at Calne Area Board on 6 February 2024 where the public and the Members present had the opportunity to give their views.
Following the by-election for the vacant seat on the Board, the new Member has confirmed their support for the proposals.