A report giving an update on the progress of year-2 (2023/24) of the Council’s additional £8M 5-year (2022/23 to 2026/27) Highway Capital Investment Programme and of year-2 (2023/24) of the Council’s additional £4M 2-year (2022/23 to 2023/24) Bridges & Structures Capital Investment Programme.  The report also informs the Committee of year-3 of the 3-year Department for Transport (DfT) Highway Maintenance Award 2024/25 Local Transport Block Funding(Integrated Transport & Highway Maintenance) settlement, the additional DfT Road Resurfacing Fund Allocation for Reading of £7.726M and provides an update on the completed Highway Maintenance 2023/24 DfT Local Transport Block FundingCapital Works Programme.

Further to Minute 41 of the meeting held on 9 March 2023, the Committee received a report that provided an update on the progress of the Council’s five-year Highway Capital Investment Programme, two-year Bridges & Structures Capital Investment Programme, three-year Department for Transport (DfT) Highway Maintenance Award 2024/25 Local Transport Block Funding(Integrated Transport & Highway Maintenance) settlement and additional DfT Road Resurfacing Fund Allocation for Reading following the reallocation of High-Speed Rail (HS2) budget.  The report also gave an update on the completed Highway Maintenance 2023/24 DfT Local Transport Block FundingCapital Works Programme. The following documents were attached to the report:

·         Appendix 1: 2023/24 Programme Delivered;

·         Appendix 2: Proposed 2024/25 Delivery Programme.

Resolved -

(1)       That the year 2 (2023/24) progress of the additional £8m five-year (2022/23 to 2026/27) Highway Capital Investment Programme be noted;

(2)       That the year 2 (2023/24) progress of the additional £4m 2-year (2022/23 to 2023/24) Bridges & Structures Capital Investment Programme be noted;

(3)       That the year 3 of the three-year Department for Transport (DfT) Highway Maintenance Award 2024/25 Local Transport Block Funding (Integrated Transport & Highway Maintenance) settlement be noted;

(4)       That the additional DfT Road Resurfacing Fund Allocation for Reading of £7.726m following the reallocation of High-Speed Rail (HS2) budget for the period 2023/24 to 2033/34 be noted;

(5)       That the completed Highway Maintenance 2023/24 DfT Local Transport Block Funding Capital Works Programme be noted.