Council to spend £81,103 on alternative bonfires at 11 sites in Belfast
Details have emerged from Belfast Council of locations that will be availing of the beacon programme to replace bonfires this month.
It shows eleven groups with one beacon each will participate in the beacon programme for 2023. The programme will cost a minimum of £81,103, significantly higher than the £72,000 budget allocation for the beacon programme announced last month.At the full council, elected members ratified a decision by the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee to cover the extra money from a £47,745 underspend on the council's summer bonfire diversionary fund.
In April, council officers contacted the eight groups that had received beacons in 2022, as well as four others that had expressed an interest this year, to determine if they wished to be placed on the list. Two groups confirmed they did not require a beacon. A request from Action for Community Transformation for a beacon to replace a traditional bonfire at Shankill Terrace and California Close brought the expected 10 beacon figure to 11, and accounts for the bigger budget requirement.
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