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Meeting: 06/10/2025 - Cabinet Member for Finance Decision Meeting (Item 7.)

Decision

The Cabinet Member will verbally confirm the decision stating whether they

  • Accept the recommendations of the officer,
  • Decide to take a different decision contrary to the officer’s recommendation, or
  • Decide to refer the decision to a meeting of Cabinet.

 

The Cabinet Member must inform the Democratic Services Officer of the reason for the decision, which will be officially recorded on the Decision Notice.

 

Additional documents:

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).

 

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