Issue - meetings

Wards/Divisions Affected: Caldicot, Chepstow, Mill, The Elms and Llanelly Hill

Purpose: To recommend to full Council the inclusion of capital funding in the 2019/20 Capital Budget;

To recommend the utilisation of accumulated S106 balances to a number of countryside/green infrastructure projects in the county.

Author: Colette Bosley, Principal Landscape Officer;

 Mike Moran, Community Infrastructure Coordinator

Contact Details: colettebosley@monmouthshire.gov.uk; 

                           mikemoran@monmouthshire.gov.uk  

That Cabinet agrees to a budget of £21,689 being created in 2019/20 to fund the following projects and that this is funded by a corresponding contribution from the Section 106 balances held by the County Council from the Section106 Agreements in relation to the following developments:

Finance                      Site                                                     Contribution

Code                                                                                       £

N588                           AB Inbev Brewery Site, Magor             5,000

N585                           Raglan Services Site A449                 1,968

N582                           Little Mill Sawmill Site                         2,329

N464                           Warrenslade Wood, Chepstow             12,392

Total                                                   £21,689

That the above funding be allocated to the following projects:

Project                                                                                    Amount

1. Magor walking routes, access and promotion                   £5,000

2. Caldicot Castle Management Plan implementation            £4,297

3. Warrenslade Woodland Management                               £12,392

That the unallocated balance of £23,020 from the Cae Meldon development in Gilwern, under capital budget code 98881, be used to part fund the Clydach Ironworks Improvement Scheme.