i)       That the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing and Finance, approve the spend of £847,100 grant funding to enter into a contract with the Environment Agency Framework consultants and contractors to deliver the Brixham Flood Alleviation Scheme.

ii)      That the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing and Finance, approve the spend of £977,000 grant funding to enter into a contract with the Environment Agency Framework consultants and contractors to deliver the Paignton Flood Alleviation Scheme.

iii)    That the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing and Finance, approve the spend of £1,410,000 grant funding to enter into a contract with the Environment Agency Framework consultants and contractors to deliver the Property Flood Resilience element of the Torquay Flood Alleviation Scheme.

iv)    That the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing and Finance, approve an in-phase budget of £640,000 to undertake the next tranche of pre-construction activity and obtain planning consent for the Brixham Port Infrastructure Project, utilising the ring-fenced Local Regeneration Funds.

All projects were reviewed and deemed to be strategically advantageous and satisfactorily compliant in terms of their feasibility and levels of risk to enable them to progress.

The projects could be put on hold or cancelled and the grant funding received for them could be returned to central government.

The decision will be implemented immediately.

Updates to the Capital Investment Plan in respect of the following projects:

• Brixham Flood Alleviation Scheme
• Paignton Flood Alleviation Scheme
• Torquay Flood alleviation Scheme
• Brixham Port Infrastructure Project

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