Purpose

On 9 June 2022 Lancashire County
Council agreed a capital contribution of £5 million be made
as local match funding to the East Lancashire Levelling up Fund
(LUF) split over four years from 2023/24 to 2026/27.
As part of this commitment
£1.25million of this contribution was included in the 2025/26
Capital Delivery Plan (Appendix A, Annex E) in the approved 2025/26
Budget Report to Cabinet on 6 February 2025.
Currently spend to March 2025 is
scheduled to exceed the receipts available and additional monies
are required to be allocated to funding East Lancashire LUF
temporarily until the 2025/26 Grants are received. 
As part of the East Lancashire LUF
Programme Investment Board meeting on the 7 March 2025 it was
agreed that subject to a Scheme of Delegation Report being signed
off by the Director of Environment and
Planning the £1.25million allocation
could be added into the East Lancashire LUF Programme in
March 2025.
 

Content

Jonathan Edwards,
Director of Environment and Planning, took a decision to
approve the allocation of £1.25million from
the unallocated Transport grants pot temporarily awaiting 2025/26
Capital Transport Programme funding into the East Lancashire
LUF Programme in April 2025. The £1.25million forms part of
total contribution of £5million by LCC.