Neighbourhoods & City Development

This page gives an overview of planned spending for the next financial year (2012/13) for Neighbourhoods and City Development and highlights major budget proposals from this department.

What Neighbourhoods & City Development do

Overall and planned expenditure by division

Neighbourhoods and City Development’s overall planned spend (net budget) for 2012/13 is £117.7 million – down 5% from last year.

Neighbourhoods & City Development - planned expenditure by division

Neighbourhoods & City Development - planned expenditure by division

Name of division Planned net spend in 2012/13 (£million)
Environment and Leisure 43.43
Transport 23.55
Neighbourhoods and Communities 12.48
Safer Bristol 11.25
Strategic Housing 16.52
Museums 3.77
Planning and Sustainable Development 3.52
Major projects 1.13
Arts grants 2.03
Total 117.7

Highlights of proposals to save money in 2012/13

Saving proposal How much we can save (£million)
New Waste Contract procurement, delivering savings 1.9
Re-commissioning a range of housing support services
1.2
On street parking – additional income from pay & display spaces in new schemes and conversion of limited waiting bays to pay & display and further enforcement of bus lanes 0.5
Rationalise non-statutory public transport contracts & negotiate improved deals
0.4
Review of parking strategy, introduction of new charges using new technology
0.3
Street lighting energy savings through improvements and investment 0.29
Parking charges: introduce £1 charge per visit at Ashton Court 0.21
Pest service – reduce/outsource/introduce cost recovery for some non-statutory services 0.16

View the complete set of budget proposals for 2012/13

The equalities impact assessments are accessible from the complete set of budget proposals