Delivery Strand: Site-based Investment
5.20 The Partnership has developed a robust system for assessing applications for site specific project funding. This process is continually refined, not just by streamlining the application/ assessment process, but also by utilising monitoring evidence from delivered projects to inform the scoring process for further rounds of funding. Officer time is provided to applicants in the pre-application stage to help shape and refine project proposals. In this way, the Partnership is able to use local experience and evidence to have more certainty on which physical measures deliver strong mitigation gains.
5.21 There is an ongoing commitment to continue refining this process, with aims to make it more agile, particularly for lower value proposals. The Partnership is also committed to working with appropriate organisations to further this work and maximise on the outcomes it is able to deliver.
5.22 In the coming period, the Partnership will also expand its activities and priorities to cover the following:
