Decision Maker: Executive Director: Growth and Regeneration

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: June 9, 2025

Purpose: A Cabinet decision approved construction of the Ashton Vale Temple Meads (AVTM) metrobus scheme, including the purchase of land via a Compulsory Purchase Order, in October 2014. This was followed by an Officer Executive Decision in March 2020 that confirmed the total land purchase cost would be no more than £1,381,522. Since this time, £660,191 has been spent with a further £395,562 forecast to be spent in the remainder of the current financial year (a total of £1,055,753). Although this amount is less than that for which approval remains extant, it was thought prudent to refresh an approval given more than five years ago.

Content: The Executive Director Growth and Regeneration notes the former approval of spending up to £1,381,522 on land for the AVTM metrobus scheme. The Executive Director Growth and Regeneration approves spend of £395,562 on land purchase in the rest of this year, taking the total to £1,055,753 since the previous decision.