TfL involvement in redeveloping Charter House, 158 Station Road, Edgware, HA8 7AW
Request ID: FOI-3889-2324 Date published: 13 February 2024
You asked
Please inform me as to how much public funding is going in to developing the "Community Building - Skills Centre" at these premises. For example but without limiting the generality such monies include that from local and national taxation, Government funding whether local or national, also revenue from fares and parking. Please be aware that this question relates only to allocation of public funds. Any contribution by private enterprise falls outside the remit of this FoI request. Hence the information may not be concealed by any allusion to commercial confidentiality.
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-3889-2324
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 26th January 2024 asking for information about the redevelopment of Charter House, 158 Station Road, Edgware. Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked:
“Please inform me as to how much public funding is going in to developing the "Community Building - Skills Centre" at these premises. For example but without limiting the generality such monies include that from local and national taxation, Government funding whether local or national, also revenue from fares and parking. Please be aware that this question relates only to allocation of public funds. Any contribution by private enterprise falls outside the remit of this FoI request. Hence the information may not be concealed by any allusion to commercial confidentiality.”
I can confirm that we hold the information you require.
£60,000 of public funding has been invested into the conversion of the ground floor of Charter House, 158 Station Road into a fit-for-purpose skills training centre. Many employers across London and the UK are finding it hard to recruit skilled workers and there are entrenched levels of unemployment and lack of skills amongst residents living in some areas of the London Borough of Barnet. The skills training centre represents a key investment in the local infrastructure necessary to address those challenges by supporting hundreds of local residents to benefit from employer-led training programmes and direct job opportunities, not only potentially created by the proposed Edgware redevelopment but also by wider developments within Barnet and beyond.
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David Wells FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
