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Decision

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Finance Decision Meeting

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To make recommendations for the use of funds collected from the Rissington Road Car Parking Tourism Levy in Bourton-on-the- Water for 2025/26.

Decision:

The Cabinet Member for Finance considered the recommendations within the report and noted to approve the recommendations in the interests of economic community success.

The Cabinet Member resolved to approve the funding of the following Projects, listed in order of preference resulting from the 2025 public consultation process in relation to the use of funds from the Bourton-on-the-Water Tourism Parking Levy:

  1. Commissioning of a Visitor Traffic Management Strategy (estimated cost £35,000),
  2. Installation of rubber matting for the Melville and Naight play areas (estimated cost £860),
  3. Provision of additional Parking Enforcement between Christmas and New Year (estimated cost £530),
  4. Set up and removal of Village Green railings for protection of the Green from November to March (estimated cost £900),
  5. Engineering works on the footpath adjacent to Jubilee Orchard, to improve drainage (estimated cost £8,000),
  6. Repainting of the benches in the Village centre (estimated cost £4,000),
  7. Repair of the paths around the Village Green (estimated cost £5,000),
  8. Resurfacing of the bonded area underneath circular benches on the Village Green (estimated cost £7,500), and
  9. Purchase of materials for volunteers to use to make gravel footpath improvements; particularly the Conigers and Manor Field footpaths (estimated cost £3,000).

The Cabinet Member for Finance approved the funding of the recurring annual expenditure from the Bourton-on-the-Water 2025/26 Tourism Parking Levy receipts:

  1. The cost of employing the Village Warden (£20,444),
  2. The cost of providing the Village Warden with a Small Projects budget (£500),
  3. Joint (50%) funding of the annual refresh of the Village Green (£9,957), and

Joint (50%) funding of the provision of additional Parking Enforcement (£8,832).

Publication date: 06/10/2025

Date of decision: 06/10/2025

Decided at meeting: 06/10/2025 - Cabinet Member for Finance Decision Meeting

Effective from: 15/10/2025

 

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