Report of Acting Director of Neighbourhoods
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Decision Scheduled
Future Parks Accelerator Programme – Notification of Extension
Report of Acting Director of Neighbourhoods
Cabinet : 16/03/21
16/03/2021
In July 2019,
Cabinet agreed to receive £1.1m pounds from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to
run the Future Parks Accelerator (FPA) Programme, with the huge ambition to
embed the value of green spaces across the Council – within Health and
Wellbeing, Employability/ Skills, Children’s and Housing/Development.
As part of our
engagement process in June 2020, we identified 14 proposals we wanted to test
which could support embedding the value of green space. The programme was due
to end in May 2021, but due to the impact of Covid 19 and the great work the
programme has already achieved, we were successful in securing an extension. This
means the programme will now finish in March 2022, and that the Council
received an extra £204,000 to support the work to continue.
We have seen
improvements in how residents engage with green spaces across our three of our
pilot sites (listed above), with work due to commence on Druids Heath housing
development in Jan 2021. We are now in the process of producing implementation guides
of key proposals on how to do this across the City.
We have made
strong links with R20 as well as planning, showing the value FPA is already
having across the Council.
We are
requesting that Cabinet assure our funders, HLF, that the Council will support
the continued work of our FPA programme throughout the extension period.
31/12/20
Department Details
Street Scene and Parks
Hamira Sultan
hamira.sultan@birmingham.gov.uk
Decision Maker
Committee
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