Purpose

At its meeting of 18th January 2023, Council
approved the use of UKSPF funds to establish a community chest for
hyperlocal environmental sustainability projects.
At the same meeting, Council delegated decision-making on all
environmental grants and contracts to the Head of Housing and
Health acting in consultation with the Executive Member for
Environmental Sustainability.

Funding is being allocated from the UKSPF monies to encourage
public engagement with and understanding of air quality in line
with objectives set the council's Air Quality Action Plan,
2024-2029, in particular, action 3.7 to 'create an East Herts stand
alone air quality website' to 'increase awareness, access to
information and resources'.

The website will also further sustainability and engagement UKSPF
priorities.

Decision

Allocation of £31,100 of UKSPF
sustainability stream funds for the design and implementation of a
dynamic, interactive, live-data-feed Air Quality website to
Consider Digital Ltd, following a competitive tender process.