Government Investment - Towns Fund

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Dear North East Lincolnshire Council,

On behalf of DB3 Architecture we would like to congratulate you on having been selected to put forward your proposals & bid to Government as part of the £3.6bn investment into the Towns Fund.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, we would be grateful if you could provide us with some details regarding this so as to ascertain if we can be of help:-

1. The name of the person/people who has/have been nominated to develop this Towns
business plan.
2. An outline of your intentions regarding utilisation of awarded grant money.
3. If there is an opportunity for you to involve the skills & experience of an architectural
company to support you in this process?

We would welcome the opportunity to discuss this further with you & look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Tom Darnton

Freedom Of Information (NELC), North East Lincolnshire Council

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Yours sincerely

 

North East Lincolnshire Council

 

 

 

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Freedom Of Information (NELC), North East Lincolnshire Council

Dear Sir / Madam

 

Thank you for your information request, reference number NELC/18523/2021.
I can confirm that North East Lincolnshire Council holds the following
information:

 

1.            The name of the person/people who has/have been nominated to
develop this Towns business plan.

Damien Jaines-White – Assistant Director Economy and Growth

 

2.            An outline of your intentions regarding utilisation of
awarded grant money. See Cabinet report?

The Town Investment Plan is still being drafted as it is due to submitted
by the end of October 2020. The cabinet report outlines the 7
projects/sites for development with Towns Funding.  See link below to
Cabinet report
[1]https://democracy.nelincs.gov.uk/meeting...

 

3.            If there is an opportunity for you to involve the skills &
experience of an architectural company to support you in this process?

The projects put forward for Towns Fund all require further development,
full business cases will be submitted to government for each of them,
during the next stage to the Towns Fund process. Professional services
will be needed during the design stage, early to mid-2021 onwards when the
Council will procure these services through its electronic procurement
platform or by accessing relevant procurement frameworks.

 

If you believe that your request for information has not been handled in
accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, you have the right to
request an internal review by the Council. If you wish to request an
internal review, please write to us detailing the reasons why. Please be
clear about which elements of the Council’s response or handling of the
request you are unhappy with, and would like the Council to address during
the internal review process.  If following this you are still dissatisfied
you may contact the Office of the Information Commissioner.

 

Yours sincerely

 

North East Lincolnshire Council

 

 

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Freedom Of Information (NELC), North East Lincolnshire Council

Dear Sir / Madam

 

Thank you for your information request, reference number NELC/18523/2021.
I can confirm that North East Lincolnshire Council holds the following
information:

 

1.                  The name of the person/people who has/have been
nominated to develop this Towns business plan.  

Damien Jaines-White – Assistant Director Economy and Growth

 

2.                  An outline of your intentions regarding utilisation of
awarded grant money.

See Cabinet report – The Town Investment Plan is still being drafted as it
is due to submitted by the end of October 2020. The cabinet report
outlines the 7 projects/sites for development with Towns Funding. See link
below to Cabinet report

[1]https://democracy.nelincs.gov.uk/meeting...

 

3.                  If there is an opportunity for you to involve the
skills & experience of an architectural company to support you in this
process?

The projects put forward for Towns Fund all require further development,
full business cases will be submitted to government for each of them,
during the next stage to the Towns Fund process. Professional services
will be needed during the design stage, early to mid-2021 onwards when the
Council will procure these services through its electronic procurement
platform or by accessing relevant procurement frameworks.

 

If you believe that your request for information has not been handled in
accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, you have the right to
request an internal review by the Council. If you wish to request an
internal review, please write to us detailing the reasons why. Please be
clear about which elements of the Council’s response or handling of the
request you are unhappy with, and would like the Council to address during
the internal review process.  If following this you are still dissatisfied
you may contact the Office of the Information Commissioner.

 

Yours sincerely

 

North East Lincolnshire Council

 

 

 

 

 

 

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