Decision details

The Council has a number of Department for Transport Safer Road Fund schemes valued between £1M and £5M (index-linked) to be delivered on the highway network. The Cabinet report will seek approval to deliver these schemes through the Highway Service Contract.

Cabinet considered a report on the delivery of three Safer Road Fund Schemes in Cheshire East, namely:

A532 West Street, Crewe

A536 Congleton to Macclesfield

A537 Macclesfield to Congleton Boundary

The Department for Transport had worked with the Road Safety Foundation to identify the roads and had invited the submission of a funding bid to upgrade and improve the roads to improve road safety.   

RESOLVED

That Cabinet

1.    approves the delivery of the A532 West Street, Crewe and the A536 Congleton to Macclesfield Schemes through the Highway Service Contract, subject to the Ringway Jacobs target costs for the schemes satisfying the Council’s best value requirements;

2.    subject to full funding being received from the Department for Transport, approves the delivery of the A537 Macclesfield to Congleton Boundary Scheme through the Highway Service Contract, subject to the Ringway Jacobs target costs for the schemes satisfying the Council’s best value requirements; and

3.    authorises the Director of Highways and Infrastructure in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Highways and Waste to take all necessary actions to implement the three Schemes using the funding provided by the Department for Transport.