(a) That
Low Carbon Dorset can issue a grant award letter for £1,500,000 to the Canford Renewable Energy project that has been approved by
the Low Carbon Dorset Grants Panel and Board, given that the value is over the
£500,000 threshold for Executive Director decision, be agreed
(b) That,
following any future decision by the Low Carbon Dorset grants panel and board
to award grants over the key decision threshold of £500k, agreement to make any
such award be delegated to the Executive Director for Place after consultation
with the relevant portfolio holders. Any use of this proposed recommendation
would be exercised transparently, being publicised in advance in the forward
plan and afterwards in decision notices published on the Council’s website