Decision details

City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) – Delivery of Highways Maintenance / Non-Highways Maintenance and KRN Programme, Update

Decision Maker: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

This report will provide an update on progress to date with the delivery of the year 1 programme. It will also set out the draft programme for years 2-5 in addition to proposed governance arrangements for how the programme and works will be managed.

Decision:

RESOLVED – That, in relation to the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) Highways Maintenance / Non-Highways Maintenance (CRSTS Maintenance Programme) and Key Routes Network (KRN) programmes:

 

(a)    the update on the delivery of the Year 1 (2022/23) City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) Maintenance programme be noted;

(b)    the content of the proposed Years 2 to 5 (2023/27) CRSTS Maintenance programme be noted and approved;

(c)    authority be delegated to the Executive Director - Place in consultation with the Chief Legal Officer and Treasurer to put in place and manage funding agreements to disburse funds to delivery partners, in order to progress schemes in the Years 2-5 CRSTS Maintenance programme as detailed in this report;

(d)    authority be delegated to the Executive Director - Place to approve changes to the CRSTS Maintenance programme within the overall programme budget, subject to consultation with delivery partners where appropriate;

(e)    the allocation of an additional £1.96m of CRSTS funding to the Key Routes Network (KRN) Levelling Up Programme (increasing the total allocation to the KRN programme to £46.93m), and the provision of this additional sum to Merseytravel to enable delivery of the Queensway Tunnel Lighting project be approved.

(f)     the authority delegated to the Executive Director of Investment and Delivery on 22July 2022 to finalise negotiations of detailed funding terms and associated agreements for the KRN programme, including the Queensway Tunnel Lighting project, be noted; and

(g)    the exemption of the call in period associated with the Queensway Tunnel Lighting project, as set out in paragraph 3.10 of the report be noted.

Report author: Andrew Sawyer

Publication date: 05/03/2023

Date of decision: 03/03/2023

Decided at meeting: 03/03/2023 - Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

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