Response 1009729

Response to request for information

Reference

1009729

Response date

2 February 2023

Request

Could you please provide a list of all bids made by your local authority to the levelling up fund.

For each bid could you please provide:

• The date the bid was submitted
• The bid title and a brief description of what the bid was for, if available
• The amount of money being requested from the fund
• The name of any external contractors used in the bid
• The amount paid to each of the external contractors used in the bid
• The total estimated cost to the local authority of putting the bid together

Response

Could you please provide a list of all bids made by your local authority to the levelling up fund.

For each bid could you please provide:

The date the bid was submitted

• 29 July 2022

The bid title and a brief description of what the bid was for, if available

Connecting Communities Through Active Travel

This bid was for cyclist and pedestrian improvements to the area south of the river Trent in West Bridgford, Nottingham, to enable the new pedestrian/cycle bridge crossing to fully realise its benefits by connecting communities and providing safe, direct, free flowing and logical pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, in line with LNT 1/20. The project would have included:

• Upgrading of circa 800m of existing river side footpath to the south of the river Trent, including widening, and providing lighting
• Improvements to the Lady Bay junction
• Improvements to 4no. crossing points

The amount of money being requested from the fund

• £3,038,370

The name of any external contractors used in the bid

• Bentleys Project Management and ITP World

The amount paid to each of the external contractors used in the bid

• ITP - £9,785.00
• Bentleys - 6,825.00

The total estimated cost to the local authority of putting the bid together

The total cost was £16,610 (as above) which was paid for from Rushcliffe Borough Council’s UK Shared Prosperity Funding allocation.