Issue - meetings

To consider a report highlighting the Council’s success in securing funding to deliver schemes prioritised by the Cheshire and Warrington Local Transport Body.

Cabinet considered a report highlighting the Council’s success in securing funding to deliver schemes prioritised by the Cheshire and Warrington Local Transport Body.

The CWLTB “development pool” contained the following Cheshire East schemes following the prioritisation process undertaken earlier this year:

·      A500 Barthomley Link

·      Congleton Link Road

·      Crewe Northern Growth Corridor – A530 to Crewe Green Roundabout

·      Macclesfield Pinch Points Package

·      Middlewich Eastern Bypass

·      Poynton Relief Road (remaining funding) and A523 Corridor

Further details relating to the schemes were set out in the report.

RESOLVED

That Cabinet

1.    notes the CWLTB “development pool” schemes in Cheshire East and the work required to support future funding bids, including for the sub-regional Growth Deal through the Government’s recently announced Single Local Growth Fund.

2.    notes the progress already being made on the development of Congleton Link Road, Poynton Relief Road and Middlewich Eastern Bypass, all of which are subject to other Cabinet Reports and are in the “development pool”.

3.    approves the work required for the development and delivery of the new Sydney Road Railway Bridge scheme, as set out in section 10.6 of the report.