Purpose

A report granting ‘in principle’
approval to the A4123 Walk, Cycle and Bus measures project was
approved at Cabinet July 2024. The scheme is part of the
Council’s programme of transport infrastructure projects
funded through the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement, a
government fund overseen by the Department for Transport and
devolved to the West Midlands Combined Authority.

Projects within the programme are reported to Cabinet individually.
Each project must progress through the West Midlands Combined
Authority (WMCA) Single Assurance Framework (SAF) process to enable
funding to be confirmed and allocated to the Council through grant
agreements.

There are multiple stages to the SAF process corresponding with the
submission of Strategic Outline Business Cases (SOBC), Outline
Business Cases (OBC), and Full Business Cases (FBC).

The power to authorise the submission of Outline Business Cases for
CRSTS projects has been delegated to the Executive Director - Place
in order to avoid the need for multiple reports to
Cabinet.

Content

That approval be given for the Outline
Business Case for the A4123 Walk, Cycle and Bus Measures project to
be submitted to the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) for
appraisal and approval.