Decision details

Further to Minute No. 266 of the meeting held on 14 April 2011, the Cabinet considered the report of the Director of Built Environment on the award of funding by the Department of Transport under the Local Sustainable Transport Fund for schemes to be implemented by the Council in partnership with Merseyside Integrated Transport Authority and West Lancashire District Council.

RESOLVED:            That

(1)       the report be noted;

(2)       the Council be recommended to approve the inclusion of £575,000 in the Capital Programme, to be phased as indicated in paragraph 3.2 of the report;

(3)            Officers be authorised to commence commitment of the funds;

(4)            approval be given to the establishment of Sefton Council as the lead Accountable Authority for the Project subject to agreement with West Lancashire Council; and

(5)       it be noted that the proposal was a Key Decision which, unfortunately, had not been included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions because at the time of the publication of the current Forward Plan, it was not known if the bid was going to be successful and the announcement was not made until 5 July 2011.  Consequently, the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Regeneration and Environmental Services) had been consulted under Rule 15 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Constitution, to the decision being made by Cabinet as a matter of urgency on the basis that it was impracticable to defer the decision until the commencement of the next Forward Plan because delivery of the project needs to commence at the earliest opportunity.