Purpose

The DfT retaining walls
programme was established in 2019 to cover repairs to retaining
walls on priority routes in the East of the County. The programme
has been in progress since with most projects now
complete.
 
There is one remaining high
priority project in progress for which funding is in place for
completion.
 
There are two low priority
projects outstanding where the scope has been reduced and funding
can be made available to support other projects within the
programme. These are:
 

10357 20/21 Glen
Terrace Ret/Wall and
10366 20/21
Pilkington Canal Ret/Walls

 
There are three completed
projects that currently have an overspend and require additional
funding to reconcile the budgets and allow the projects to be
closed out financially. These are:
 

10364 20/21 Easden
Wood Ret/Wall
10360 20/21 Hud Hey
Ret/Wall
13152 20/21 Limy
Water Retaining Wall No2

 
It is proposed to transfer
£55,000 of available funds from the two low priority projects
to cover the overspends on the three overspent projects as
follows:
 

10364 20/21 Easden
Wood Ret/Wall £48000 From 10357 20/21 Glen Terrace Ret/Wall
(£28,000) and 10366 20/21 Pilkington Canal Ret/Walls
(£20,000)
10360 20/21 Hud Hey
Ret/Wall £2000 From 10366 20/21 Pilkington Canal
Ret/Walls
13152 20/21 Limy
Water Retaining Wall No2 £5000 From 10366 20/21 Pilkington
Canal Ret/Walls

 
There is no change to the
overall programme budget, all the projects are in the same
programme year and the total of all the changes for this programme
are less than £100,000.
 
Head of service is asked to
approve the transfer in order to financially reconcile the
programme.

Content

Ridwan Musa, Head of Service Highways
Operations and Design, on behalf of the Matt Townsend, Director of
Highways and Transport took a decision to make changes to project
budgets within the Bridges Maintenance - DfT Retaining Walls
Programme in order to financially reconcile the programme.