Purpose

To approve the 2025/26 £1.2m City and Market Town Public Realm Investment.

Decision

a)    approval is given to draw down the £1.2 million additional budget allocated in the capital investment budget for City and Market Town Public Realm Investment for 2025/26; and

b)    Delegated authority is given to the Corporate Director of Economy and Environment to take all operational decisions, including the agreement or otherwise of appropriate schemes that after following the process set out in paragraph 4, may be requested by the City and Town Councils and their subsequent delivery route, over the lifetime of the project, to deliver the investment set out in recommendation (a).

Alternative options considered

1.             That this additional investment is not made and the Council continues to maintain Herefordshire’s highways and improve the public realm in accordance with sound asset management practices but wholly within the maintenance allocations and grant funding made available by Central Government.