Purpose

To seek authority to accept Community
Infrastructure Levy Funding and Active Travel England Funding on
various schemes into the highways programme.

Decision

Cllr Lynden Stowe sought Cabinet approval to
accept £13,763,280 of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
contributions as agreed by the Joint Committee of Cheltenham
Borough Council, Gloucester City Council and Tewkesbury Borough
Council and two grants from the Department of Transport’s
Active Travel Fund totalling £3,131,415, and to make the
resulting changes to the Council’s Capital Programme.
 
Having considered all the information,
Cabinet
 
RESOLVED to:
 
1. Accept contributions of £13,763,280
of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and £3,131,415 from
the Active Travel Fund.
 
2. Approve the following changes to the
Capital Programme which comes to a total of £14,360,891;
• Addition of £10,000,000 to
Transport and Highways: M5 J10 Improvement Scheme
• Addition of £770,424 to Transport
& Highways: Honeybourne Cycle Ext A40 Lansdown Scheme
• Addition of £3,590,467 to
Transport & Highways: Cheltenham to Bishops Cleeve Cycle Track
Scheme
 
3. Approve the following revenue allocations
which comes to a total of £2,533,804:
 

·      
£1,000,000 to the EE&I Reserve for the M5 Junction 9 and
A46 (Ashchurch) Transport Scheme

·      
£1,000,000 to the EE&I reserve for the Mass Rapid Transit
Scheme

·      
£400,000 to Transport Planning Business Case revenue budget
for Gloucester to Haresfield Cycle
Spine design.

·      
£100,000 revenue to the Active Travel revenue budgets to be
allocated to support behaviour change.

·      
£33,804 of revenue to the Active Travel revenue budgets to be
allocated against Local Cycling and Walking and Infrastructure
plans.