Poole Conservative Group is delighted to announce that in principle its Cabinet has approved £400,000 funding for Harbour Reach footbridge. The funds will come via the Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
This removes one of the few remaining hurdles and should mean that the project can now go ahead with confidence. Poole's Conservative administration has been pressing for a link such as this since the Harbour Reach development was first considered.
The next steps will include detailed Planning Permission and achieving final agreement from Network Rail.
Hopefully the bridge will be finally completed during 2014.
CARTER SCHOOL
Cabinet has also approved a budget of £350,000 for Carter school. This will support improvements needed to handle increased student numbers as a result in the change to Age of Transfer in 2013.