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June 2020 June 2020

waiting for some return to normality to arrange for them to be printed prior to VIEW FROM MY WINDOW ….
distribution to our involved partners.

…. Memories of
Transport Infrastructure Investment Fund
Lockdown
On the 14th May 2020, the Secretary of State for Transport, announced a £1.7
These past couple of months
billion funding allocation to Combined Authorities and Local Highway Authorities have been very strange -
for 2020/21 through the newly created Transport Infrastructure Investment Fund. sometimes bringing great
Dorset’s share of the £1.7billion funding is set out below (as documented in the h a r d s h i p a n d w o r r y ,
Department for Transport news story https://www.gov.uk/government/news/multi sometimes bringing great
-billion-pound-road-and-railway-investment-to-put-nation-on-path-to-recovery), peace and tranquillity. There
and includes our already confirmed annual funding allocation in the form of the is no doubt that we shall all
following:
view the world very differently
Highway Maintenance Block Allocation £10,564,000 when things get back to
Highway Maintenance Block Incentive Element £ 2,201,000 ‘normality’.
Integrated Transport Block (Improvements) £ 1,971,000 To encourage parishioners to
capture their feelings and
The additional element for us comes in the form of the (mainly) Pothole Funds
which equates to an additional £9,112,000, taking our total 2020/21 capital their thoughts in such
award to £23,848,000. This additional award is intended to alleviate pressure on challenging times, we would
highway authorities caused by Covid-19 and allows us to focus on restart issues like to have a monthly slot
entitled ‘The View from my
and recovery. This additional funding is capital and thus can only be used for Window’. This could be in the
genuine renewal and enhancement, and not for revenue related activities such
form of a story, a poem, a
as gully emptying, side verging, reactive maintenance.
painting or a photograph. In
fact, anything creative that

will be inspiring to others and
Schools and early years help retain some of the more
positive memories.
This may well be superseded by the time you read this. If the virus threat level
indicates it is safe, the government have indicated that schools will begin a Our first contribution is this
phased and managed re-opening from the beginning of June. Initially this will lovely painting from Jill Marsden, created only two weeks after the start of
involve early years lockdown - she says she will have to do another, now that the trees are in full
settings/nurseries and leaf!! Many readers will be familiar with Jill’s work as her greetings cards are on
p r i mar y sc h oo ls - sale in the Bere Regis Post Office.
Reception, Year 1 and
Year 6 only, with some View your magazine on the village website to see the painting in colour.
face to face support for
Please email your contributions to me by 15th June for inclusion in the July
Years 10 and 12. As you magazine. My email address is alison@culverdell.co.uk
will anticipate, managing
this will look different in Editor
each school setting.
Headteachers and early
years leaders are assessing
the risks as they seek to

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