Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Acting Director of City Development informing of the bid to the Department for Transport’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund which has been prepared for West Yorkshire.

The Acting Director of City Development submitted a report providing details of the bid which had been prepared and submitted to the Department for Transport regarding the Local Sustainable Transport Fund project for West Yorkshire.

RESOLVED -

(a)  That the preparation of funding bids for the Local Sustainable Transport Fund and the submission of a Large Project bid made to the Government on 6th June 2011 be noted.

(b)  That the decision made by the West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority Executive (Appointed Members) taken on 3rd June 2011 to approve the bid be noted.

(c)  That it be noted that the Council is a partner in a separate Thematic bid for travel to school, led and submitted by Sustrans in partnership with a consortium of local authorities.