Decision details

The Chief Officer Asset Management and Regeneration is recommended to:
a) Approve the request to vary the original funding agreement with WYCA to reflect the full funding position of £5,089,504 required to complete the full detailed design.

In 2017, LPTIP was awarded £173.6m in grant funding by the Department for Transport. LPTIP is administered by WYCA and has been established to transform the bus network, improve rail stations at key economic, housing growth and employment locations, and providing a world-class city centre gateways. Any schemes using LPTIP funding must be delivered by March 2021.

Executive Board approved a report at the 21st June 2017 meeting for the injection of the £173.5m LPTIP funding into the capital programme. In April 2018, WYCA’s PAT approved a request for £5m in funding through LPTIP for the development of Leeds Station. £1.779m of funding has been drawn down to date (April 2018 – December 2019). On 22 January 2020, WYCA’s PAT approved a Change Request for the drawdown of the remaining £3.221m in LPTIP funds. On 20th April the Director of City Development granted authority to spend for the remaining LPTIP grant funding to support the development of the Leeds Integrated Station Programme.