Purpose

To seek approval for the
revised allocation of funding within the 2024/5 Capital Programme
to Local Transport Plan programmes and the approval of schemes to
be progressed within the City Region Sustainable Transport
Settlement (CRSTS) for Maintenance and Non-Maintenance including
Street Lighting, Drainage, Urban Traffic Control (UTC) and Highway
Structures, together with approval of the Green Light Fund, Traffic
Signals Obsolescence Grant, Network North Maintenance grant, DfT
signals Fund and Active Travel funds to be included within the
Transport Capital Programme.

Decision

Decision(s):
 

(1)

The revised 2024/5 Transport, Street Lighting,
Drainage, Urban Traffic Control and Highway Structures Maintenance
Programme of schemes with a value of up to £1m within the
Local Transport Plan Capital Programme be approved as set out in
Annex A; and
 

(2)

A budget virement of £0.630m to Pothole
Funding from Highway Maintenance budget lines be approved as set
out in Annex A.

 
Reason(s) for the
Decision(s):
 
The Third Merseyside Local Transport Plan
(LTP3) provided a long-term strategy to further develop an
integrated sustainable transport network, together with a
shorter-term implementation plan until 2014/15. The LTP has now
been replaced by the Liverpool City Region (LCR) Transport Plan for
Growth, which provides a new framework for transport investment
across the City Region. The Transport Plan for Growth was approved
by the Combined Authority on 6th March 2015.
 
During 2016, a series of workshops were held
with a working group of Cabinet Members to discuss the transport
investment priorities for the Borough. 
A list of priority schemes was agreed with the Member working group
and presented to informal Cabinet. The list of priority schemes was
reviewed and updated in 2018. This has been reflected in the
development of the 2024/5 Transportation Capital
Programme. 
 
In 2019 the government announced an additional
£4.2bn of Transport Funding for the eight eligible City
Regions.  In August 2021, the government
published guidance on how this would be distributed through City
Region Sustainable Transport Settlements for each City
Region.   This settlement would
consolidate existing Integrated Transport & Maintenance Blocks,
Pothole and Transforming Cities Funding, with funding awarded for a
5-year period from April 2022 to facilitate long term
planning. 
 
The City Region Sustainable Transport
Settlement allocations were announced in the spending review in
Autumn 2021 with an allocation of £710m awarded to the
Liverpool City Region (LCR) for Maintenance and Non-Maintenance and
have been provided to the Combined Authority as the accountable
body. 
 
Alternative Options
Considered and Rejected
 
None