How to spend half a million

Lauren Everitt • Published 13 Mar 2010 12:00 0 Comments

PEOPLE living in the Royal Borough can have their say in ways to spend £500,000.

The council has set aside £1/2million of its 2010/11 capital budget and is asking residents to say if they want it spent on local projects and which groups should benefit from an extra cash injection, or they can choose for not spending the money at all.

The consultation sets out eight options for how money could be used in projects such as road maintenance and heritage schemes.

Cllr Liam Maxwell, lead member for policy and performance, announced the consultation at the council's budget meeting on Tuesday, February 23.

He said: "We firmly believe in giving our residents more say in how public money - their money - is used.

"Making up to £1/2m available in this way is putting direct control on the hands of local people for the first time."

Residents will be asked to rank their choices from one to eight, and when the consultation ends the council will decide whether to spend the money or not on the two or three most popular choices

The eight projects are:

- Extra grit boxes and a small gritter with mini snow plough for clearing entrances to schools and day centres and more salt for winter roads maintenance - £100,000 (on top of the annual winter service budget of £110,000)

- Traffic calming measures - £100,000 (in addition to £200,000 already allocated)

- Trees - £100,000 for planting projects (on top of the 2,000 trees already scheduled for planting in the year ahead)

- Sustainable street lighting - up to £250,000 (additional to the planned budget of around £205,000)

- Improving disabled access to council buildings - £100,000 (on top of the £83,000 already in the budget)

- Heritage projects - an extra £100,000 for arts and heritage projects across the borough (in addition to the £500,000 already allocated)

- Town centre improvements - £250,000 to upgrade paving and street furniture in Windsor, Maidenhead and Ascot

- Cycling - £100,000 to improve cycling facilities across the borough, including links to schools, workplaces and town centres and work with schools to encourage children to cycle (in addition to the £75,000 already in the budget).

The consultation, which closes on Monday, March 22, will be sent to every home in the borough.

It is also available on www.rbwm.gov.uk

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