- Investment to improve Barnes’ shopping scene
- One way cycling reminder
- Keeping our borough safe during the Olympics
- New powers sought to control mooring
- Dignity Action Day 2012
- Good Wood makes great art
- Would you like to run your local library?
- Improving graves at East Sheen cemetery
- Council agrees Capital Funding programme
- Outer London Funding – work still continue
- Tea and Tango in Twickenham
- Dance fever set to hit the borough
- Final reminder to reclaim wrongly issued PCNs
- Get ready to (street) party for Queen’s jubilee
- Schools grant greeted with delight by Council
- All aboard for Richmond station improvements
- Council to spend £10.4m to expand four primaries
- Uplift spotlight turns to Hampton North
- Green Flag Award hope for Crane Park
- Youth events to discuss Twickenham Youth provision
- Parents to have their say about Catholic Secondary School
- Bills cut by £80,000 in Low Carbon Zone
- Mouse droppings lead to £10k fine for baker
- Gritters ready for winter issued
- Royal Connections project call for volunteers
- New guide an essential tool to support local shops
- Green fingered grant for local charity
- Keeping Richmond warm this winter
- Mayor to celebrate Scots’ history
- Last chance to see Art in Motion exhibition at Twickenham Gallery
- Chance to get arty in Mortlake
- Call for local artists to open studios
- Did you resolve to get fit for 2012?
- Tangley is home to new family centre
- Young people asked about the future of Twickenham youth provision
- Latest move on Clifden School site
- Saved Windham Croft Centre 'back in business'
- Cracking down on Blue Badge fraud
- New Cabinet member announced
- Recycle Christmas trees
Release Date: 25/01/2012
Outer London Funding work still continues
Richmond upon Thames has missed out on funding in a second phase of grants to Greater London boroughs from Mayor Boris Johnson’s Outer London Fund.
The Council won £1.2 million in funding in the first round of grants last year, more than any other borough, after three submitted bids were approved. Thanks to the first round funding, the street scene in Twickenham, Whitton and Barnes is already being improved to create a better environment for local traders. However projects which the Council hoped would receive round two funding will be reviewed. The Council hopes central Government funding could be available, and the authority’s own money could also be used to fund some schemes.
Lord True, Leader of Richmond Council, said: “We are naturally disappointed that we have not repeated our remarkable success in the first round. However, no doubt the GLA will have felt the need to balance contributions across London.
“Further contributions from the Mayor would have been a major fillip to our plans for improvement in the areas of the bids, but this is not the end of the story. The Council will be considering how to take the ideas forward along with others in our village plans programme. The emerging plans will need to take into account the implications of this announcement.
“We are still grateful for the contributions we received in the first round – and the benefits of the Mayor’s fund will be seen this year on the streets of the borough.”
The Council’s OLF phase two bid included a request for funding to improve parts of Twickenham train station not covered by the Solum application. The Council believes this is now being considered under a separate grant programme run by the Mayor and is hopeful of positive news to counter the lack of OLF phase two funds.
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