Page 6 of the Liveable Neighbourhoods report (https://democracy.bathnes.gov.uk/documents/s74050/Liveable%20Neighbourhoods%20Update%20Report.pdf) is the critical bit which explains where the funding for the Liveable Neighbourhoods program comes from. It’s £6m (inc £1m match funding) from WECA’s Sustainable Transport Settlement Liveable Neighbourhoods fund.

My understanding of this funding is that it can only be used to deliver traffic reduction measures. Not softer measures like traffic calming or even pedestrian crossings. That basically means school streets and modal filters. Everything else has to be funded from other council funds. I’ve written to Dan Norris to get it confirmed. Note this is what all council leaders signed up to when they agreed the settlement many many months ago before any of the LN workshops were launched.

If Dan Norris confirms my understanding, ergo this must also have been understood by the council cabinet, and given the debacle around Southdown having a school street removed from a workshop exhibition as it was not proposed at the workshop, it does beg the question: what were workshop attendees told could be built?