URL: https://cabinet.leicester.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=1442

Decision Maker: Assistant City Mayor - Environment and Transport

Outcome:

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: Yes

Purpose: To note the acceptance of funding and to approve spend to deliver 5 Tiny Forests in Leicester and to replace trees which have been lost to disease, totalling 26 standards and 180 mixed tree types.

Content: To note the acceptance of funding and to approve spend to deliver 5 Tiny Forests in Leicester and to replace trees which have been lost to disease, totalling 26 standards and 180 mixed tree types. To approve: -           the acceptance of £158,000 from the Local Authority Tree Fund (LATF) to deliver 5 Tiny Forests in Leicester and replace trees which have been lost to disease before the end of the financial year 2024/25. -           the council entering into agreements and licences to permit five Tiny Forests to be delivered. -           the addition of £158,000 to the Council’s capital programme, funded from the LATF. The approval of the LATF funding will allow the 5 Tiny Forests to be planted. Option of not accepting LATF funding will mean that the 5 Tiny Forest cannot be planted. 

Date of Decision: December 23, 2024