Purpose

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 6th March 2024.
 
This report contains a
breakdown of any new additional budget since 6th 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.
 

Content

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.