A report giving an update on the progress of Year 3 (2022/23) of the 3-year £9M Highway Capital Investment Programme 2020/21 to 2022/23, Year1 of the Council’s additional £8M 5-year (2022/23 to 2026/27) Highway Capital Investment Programme and Year 1 of the Council’s additional £4M 2-year (2022/23 to 2023/24) Bridges & Structures Capital Investment Programme.  The report also gives updates on Year 2 of the 3- year Department for Transport (DfT) Highway Maintenance Award 2023/24 Local Transport Block Funding (Integrated Transport & Highway Maintenance) settlement and on the completed Highway Maintenance 2022/23 DfT Local Transport Block Funding Capital Works Programme.

Further to Minute 14 of the meeting held on 29 June 2022, the Executive Director of Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report that provided updates on:

·        Year-3 (2022/23) of the 3-year £9M Highway Capital Investment Programme 2020/21 to 2022/23;

·        The additional £8M five-year Highway Capital Investment Programme (2022/23 to 2026/27);

·        The additional £4M two-year Highway Bridges & Structures Capital Investment Programme (2022/23 to 2023/24);

·        Year two of the three-year Department for Transport (DfT) Highway Maintenance Award 2023-24 Local Transport Block Funding (Integrated Transport & Highway Maintenance) settlement.

The report also gave an update on the completed Highway Maintenance 2022-23 DfT Local Transport Block Funding Capital Works Programme.  The following documents were appended to the report:

·      Appendix 1: Programme Delivered: £9M Residential Roads 3- Year Investment Programme Update and the DfT Roads and Bridges Programme (2022-23);

• Appendix 2: Proposed Delivery Programme: £8M 5-year Residential Roads & Pavement Programme (2022/23 to 2026/27);
• Appendix 3: Bridge & Structures five-year Rolling Programme (2023-24 to 2027-28);
• Appendix 4: Financial Implications Report.

Section 4 of the report set out details of the works that included highways maintenance, resurfacing of roads and pavements and works to bridges and other structures, plus the costs associated with these works.

Resolved:

(1)          That the progress of year-3 (2022-23) of the 3-year £9M Highway Capital Investment Programme 2020-21 to 2022-23 be noted;

(2)          That the update on the progress of year-1 of the Council’s additional £8M 5-year (2022-23 to 2026-27) Highway Capital Investment Programme be noted;

(3)           That the update on the progress of year-1 of the Council’s additional £4M 2-year (2022-23 to 2023-24) Bridges &Structures Capital Investment Programme be noted;

(4)          That theyear-2 settlement for the3-year Departmentfor Transport (DfT)Highway MaintenanceAward 2023-24Local TransportBlock Funding (Integrated Transport& Highway Maintenance) be noted;

(5)           That the update on the completed Highway Maintenance 2022/23 DfT Local Transport Block Funding CapitalWorks Programme be noted.