Decision details
Urgent item of business - Emergency Active Travel Fund
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
The Chair agreed to take this matter as an urgent item of business to enable the highway works to be progressed without delay.
The Cabinet considered a report of the Executive Director (Neighbourhoods and Environment) seeking agreement for the construction of temporary interventions to create an environment that is safe for walking and cycling during the Covid-19 pandemic and the period directly after. The report also included details of the funding arrangements associated with the highway works.
Resolved:
1. That the bid submitted to DfT on 5 June 2020, for £309k for tranche 1 funding from the Emergency Active Travel Fund, be endorsed.
2. That authority be delegated to the Executive Director (Neighbourhoods and Environment) to make a further bid to the Department for Transport of £1.236 million for Tranche 2 funding from the Emergency Active Travel Fund.
3. That authority be delegated to the Executive Director (Neighbourhoods and Environment), in consultation with the Deputy Leader of the Council, to agree the final detailed design options based upon the principle in the DfT’s guidance for temporary road space reallocation, in consultation with ward councillors for both tranche 1 and tranche 2 funding.
Other options:
None
Reasons for Recommendations
To provide funding for the temporary interventions that further encourage the increased walking and cycling activity in the Borough.
Note: This is an Executive function
Referred direct to: Place Scrutiny Committee
Cabinet Member: Cllr Woodley
Publication date: 19/06/2020
Date of decision: 16/06/2020
Decided at meeting: 16/06/2020 - Cabinet
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