Issue - meetings

To consider a report on the Council’s success in securing Pinch Point funding from the Department for Transport to deliver vital highway infrastructure improvements across the Borough. The report seeks approval to proceed with the development and delivery of the schemes.

Cabinet considered a report on the Council’s success in securing Pinch Point funding from the Department for Transport to deliver vital highway infrastructure improvements across the Borough. The report sought approval to proceed with the development and delivery of the following schemes:

§  Basford West Spine Road

§  A500 Widening approaching M6 Junction 16

§  M6 Junction 16 Junction Improvement

§  M6 Junction 17 Junction Improvement

This equated to around £25 million of roads investment.

The delivery of the schemes would support the Council’s key objective of infrastructure delivery to support economic growth. A condition of the funding was that the schemes were delivered by the end of March 2015.

RESOLVED

That

1.    the use of the Pinch Point funding to develop and deliver the Basford West Spine Road and A500 widening be approved;

2.    the layout designs for each Pinch Point scheme shown in Appendix A to the report be approved; and

3.    delegated authority be granted to the Director of Growth and Prosperity in consultation with the Portfolio Holder to:

§  enter into the necessary highways legal agreements to enable the Highways Agency to deliver those schemes that interact with the Strategic Road Network, namely M6 Junction 17 and M6 Junction 16 and the A500 widening.

§  enter into the necessary highways legal agreements with the developer of Basford West to enable them to deliver the Basford West Spine Road.

§  sign off funding for the completed works using the approved capital allocations from the DfT Pinch Point grants, any third party contributions, and the Council’s Corporate Capital Programme.

§  approve minor amendments to the current scheme designs.