Appeal for Foot/cycle bridge Funding Fails …For Now
Those readers who have been following the progress of our campaign for the con-struction of a foot/cycle bridge connect-ing Lower Sunbury to Walton will be aware of our recent application to YFS (Your Fund Surrey) to bring the cam-paign to fruition.
It is therefore disappointing to receive the following from the YFS Project advisor: “Regrettably, Your ideas submission has been assessed against the criteria and requirements for the fund and unfortu-nately does not meet the requirements to be shortlisted to progress to the full sub-mission stage….”
All does not appear to be lost as the advi-sor continues: “However, whilst this pro-ject is not suitable for YFS at this time, the Lower Sunbury Crossing has been added by SCC to the Surrey Infrastruc-ture Plan which was reviewed at Cabinet on 26th October….
“The Lower Sunbury Crossing is desig-nated a Category 2 project within the Surrey Infrastructure Plan Cabinet Re-port Annex 2 (pg198), noting that further feasibility work will be required and with-out a specific funding commitment at this time.
“I realise that this is not the information which you would have wished to receive, but I hope that the above information is helpful and that we can work together regarding the feasibility of this project as an infrastructure project as we move for-ward”.
The Project advisor is right in that “this is not the infor-mation which you wished to receive” but, im-portantly, although we did not achieve the funding we had hoped for from the YFS, we can at least celebrate the inclusion of the foot/cycle bridge in the Surrey Infrastructure Plan. A foot in the door so to speak!