A feasibility study for a bike park at South Willingham - Find a freedom of information request

Business Lincolnshire awarded a £10k grant to fund a feasibility study for a bike park at South Willingham, can you please share:

1. When was this grant awarded

2. To what entity was the money paid

3. Was the ELDC Planning Committee made aware of this funding/study

4. Can you please share a copy of the study

The grant awarded was not £10k. The total cost of the project was £10k with 50% of the project costs funded by the grant recipient.

1. The grant was awarded in April 2023

2. We consider this is confidential information where confidentiality is expected under the Common Law duty of confidentiality. A private entity itself is not an authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and would not expect its successful grant application details to be published. We have determined that we are entitled to maintain this confidentiality as expected by the entity.

3-4. Lincolnshire County Council does not hold this information. The Growth Hub did not directly “part-fund” the commissioning of the study. Instead, it awarded a financial grant to a private business, which then chose to use that grant to undertake the study