Decision Maker: Cabinet Member - Housing and Highways
Decision status: Awaiting Implementation
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To seek approval for the 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(s):
That the 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.
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 The LTP has now been replaced by the Liverpool City Region (LCR) Transport Plan for Growth, which provides a new framework for transport investment across the City Region.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
Publication date: 15/01/2025
Date of decision: 15/01/2025
Effective from: 24/01/2025
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