Decision details

To consider an executive decision relating to a capital contribution towards the Spalding Western Relief Road

To provide capital funding of £1m to Lincolnshire County Council as a contribution towards front-funding the delivery of Section 5 (Vernatt’s) to the Spalding Western Relief Road in accordance with the formal decision of Full Council dated 31 July 2019.

To continue to front-fund the delivery of Section 5 to the SWRR in order to enable housing land formally allocated in the adopted Local Plan to be opened up, thereby securing the long-term strategic growth of Spalding and the wider district and providing the first phase of the town’s necessary western relief road.

a.    Do nothing

b.    Agree changes to recommendation

Neither of the alternative options set out above would meet with the formal terms of the significant funding agreement entered into with Homes England; the tandem agreement entered into with the County Council; the formal policies set out in the statutorily adopted South East Lincolnshire Local Plan; the formal decision of Council dated 31 July 2019; the agreed budget; or the wider growth ambitions of the Council.  A decision counter to the recommendation set out above would put formally agreed funding streams, the Councils growth ambitions, the strategy set out in the adopted Local Plan, and the delivery of a western relief road to Spalding at significant risk of failure.

None