Agenda item

[To approve a programme of capital funded schemes to develop and maintain the transportation network for the financial years 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19, subject to available resources and annual review]

Cllr Steve Evans sought approval to a programme of capital funded projects to develop and maintain the transportation network for the financial years 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19, subject to available resources and annual review. 

Cllr Evans placed on record his thanks to the Transportation service and other officers of the Council for their excellent work in putting together a programme of projects to meet the City’s strategic and operational transport needs and in their success in bidding for additional funding to deliver on those needs. 

Resolved:

1.     That the list of projects for development and implementation as part of the Transportation Capital Programme 2016/17 and future years, as set out in appendices B and C to the report be approved.

2.     That the Head of Strategic Transportation and the Head of Operational Transportation be authorised to proceed with development work for each project on the list including surveying, site investigation, options appraisal, feasibility analysis, traffic modelling, detailed design, statutory advertising and public consultation, as appropriate.

3.     That the projects marked ‘Approve’ in the ‘Approval’ column of appendices B and C of the report be approved for implementation, subject to the availability of funding.

4.     That the Cabinet Member for City Assets or the Cabinet Member for City Environment, as appropriate, in consultation with the Service Director, City Environment be authorised to approve, through an Individual Executive Decision Notice, implementation of the projects on the list marked ‘IEDN’ in the ‘Approval’ column of appendix B, subject to the satisfactory outcome of public consultation, availability of funding and any other relevant considerations.

5.     That the Cabinet Member for City Assets or the Cabinet Member for City Environment, as appropriate, in consultation with the Service Director, City Environment be authorised to approve, through an Individual Executive Decision Notice, the bringing forward of projects from appendix C to appendix B and thereafter to approve them for implementation during 2016/17 subject to the satisfactory outcome of public consultation, availability of funding and any other relevant considerations.

6.     That further reports be submitted at the appropriate times in order to obtain the necessary authority to construct the projects marked ‘Cabinet’ in the ‘Approval’ column of appendix B to the report.

7.     That the Director of Governance be authorised to serve all necessary notices in respect of the projects listed in appendix B and, subject to there being no unresolved objections, make traffic regulation orders as required.

8.     That the revised medium term Transportation capital programme at appendix D to the report, reflecting six budget virements and the deferral of £1.5 million expenditure from 2015/16 to 2016/17 in relation to recent funding confirmation of Local Pinch Point Funding for work at the junction of A4123 Birmingham New Road / Shaw Road be approved.

9.     That the expenditure and progress made in delivering the projects in the Transportation Capital Programme during 2015/16 be noted.

10.That the Council’s continuing success in bidding for additional funding and delivering new projects through the Local Sustainable Travel Fund, the Highway Maintenance Challenge Fund, the Local Pinch Point Fund, the Access to Growth Fund and the Managing Short Trips programme be noted.