As Cabinet Member for Community and Regulatory Services, I agree to KCC supporting the return of The Open Championship to Sandwich, in 2020, and to contribute £250,000 towards the cost of capital infrastructure works at Sandwich Railway Station, subject to a commitment that The Open returns to Sandwich at least every eight years, for a further two Open Championships.
I further agree that KCC will initially pay costs that the DfT will incur through this project, and will then be reimbursed on a quarterly basis, subject to confirmation, for those costs. The exact amount of costs that the DfT will contribute is still to be confirmed, as part of ongoing value engineering of the project.