Decision details

The schemes listed at Appendix A to Report ES18011 are approved as the next phase of the Council’s investment programme of planned highway maintenance for 2017/19 to be undertaken by the Council’s existing highway term maintenance contractors.

On 12^th December 2016, Council approved £11.8m capital funding for investment in planned highway maintenance, allowing the condition of the borough’s non-principal and unclassified roads and footways to be improved and reducing the demand for reactive maintenance. As a result, annual revenue savings of £2.5m are made totalling £12.5m over a five-year period from 2017/18, partly offset by reduced treasury management income estimated at £167k over the period.

Works related to the previous five phases of the project have progressed well, the estimated cost of completing the schemes being £7.0m for carriageways and £3.5m for footways.

The further recommended schemes of planned carriageway and footway maintenance represent the sixth and final phase of the project. The schemes are identified as highest priorities in latest survey results, having an estimated cost value of £1.3m. Any on-going maintenance will be funded from revenue budgets for routine and reactive highway maintenance as and when required. Any schemes not completed within the approved budget will form priority schemes upon the availability of further funding.