Grant to LBTH for Island Gardens Isle of Dogs

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Dear Heritage Lottery Fund,
I wish to make the following request for information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 Act.

In 1997 the HLF provided funds for improvements to Island Gardens Park to the sum of £635,900 as identified in the contract with LBTH in response to application number PK 96-00937.

Neither the contract nor the application form identify specifically what the grant money was used to pay for.

Please provide full details of the works conducted to support the expenditure.

The contract also identifies that the Heritage Lottery Fund were supplied with images of completed works. Please provide copies of the images supplied by LBTH.

Please confirm that the Grantee is in breach of section 6.2 of the contract by demolishing a wall/railings which form part of the works."

Yours faithfully,

Georgia Reynolds

Danielle Hampson, The National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Dear Georgia

 

Many thanks for your request for information.

 

As this is an older project, we had to retrieve the files from our archive
off site. I can now provide the case paper detailing the project which was
provided to our Trustees at the decision meeting in 1997. I also attach
the grant offer letter from HLF and photographs that were provided by the
applicant of the completed works. Names and signatures have been redacted.

 

Your final question about a potential breach is not covered within FOI or
EIR, however our Parks team have provided a response which I hope will
help.

 

HLF has been monitoring Island Gardens and recent inspections confirm the
park remains intact and being well maintained. That said, a length of wall
and railing beyond the park’s fenced boundary has been demolished by the
neighbouring development. Upon further investigation of the project
archives, this length of wall and railings were grant funded in the park
restoration project. It is unusual that a section of wall and railing
beyond the park’s fenced boundary was included in the 1997 restoration of
Island Gardens. To enable HLF to consider the implications of the
potential breach, further investigation is required to establish if the
ownership transferred from Tower Hamlets to the developer and if so what
conditions Tower Hamlets have placed on the developer for the removal of
the wall and its reinstatement. HLF will be writing to Tower Hamlets
Council seeking detail on what plans are in place for the reinstatement or
replacement of the wall and railings.

 

Best wishes

 

Danielle

 

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