Decision details

Report to advise Cabinet of the intended delivery programme for the previously cabinet approved Highways Capital Plan allocation for the years 2024/25 & 2025/26 and to seek approval to allocate and spend any additional budget income since 6^th March 2024.

This report contains a breakdown of any new additional budget since 6^th March 2024 and a breakdown showing the allocated budget and detailed programmes of planned works for all highway assets groups, including measures to improve road safety and/or create better places through improvement works.

RESOLVED –

1)    That approval be given to the budget and programme / scheme allocations within the detailed 2-year Highways Capital Plan to the sum of £24,265,806 and £17,174,575 for 2024/25 and 2025/26, respectively.

2)    That authority be delegated to the Strategic Director Growth & Regeneration or Service Director for Highways & Streetscene and in consultation with the Leader of the Council, to manage the implementation of the programme and to enable any amendments to identified schemes, the addition of future schemes, and to award funding (within the £24,265,806) for those schemes.

3)    That approval be given, where necessary, to accelerate spend of the City Regional Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) and accelerate the two year forward programme.

4)  That authority be delegated to Service Director for Highways and Streetscene, in consultation with the Service Director for Legal, Governance and Commissioning, to negotiate, agree, and enter into the terms of any applicable funding agreements (and associated documentation) to enable individual projects and schemes to proceed.