Agenda item

The report will seek Cabinet Member approval for the Sustainable Transport Works Plan for 2017/18 financial year.

The Cabinet Member for Environment considered the Sustainable Transport Works Plan for 2017/18, which set out the Council’s approach to managing the highways infrastructure, delivering Corporate Plan priorities and programmes as well as the Council’s transport strategies as set out in the Local Implementation Plan and the draft Transport Strategy. This included investment targeted at measures that:

·         Improve road safety, including tackling stretches of roads and junctions with accident problems;

·         Encourage walking and cycling and the use of sustainable alternatives to private car use;

·         Reduce congestion and delay that impact on public transport services; and

·         Contribute to Haringey’s preventative maintenance strategy to improve the overall condition of the road network.

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet Member for Environment, for the reasons set out in the report:

·         Approved the Sustainable Transport Works Plan for 2017/18 financial year as set out in Appendix 1 – Ward by Ward breakdown attached to the report;

·         Authorised the Head of Operations to consider any objections and representations to statutory consultation on schemes and to report back to the Cabinet Member for Environment if there are significant or substantial objections or concerns raised;

·         Delegated decisions relating to detailed scheme design to the Head of Operations;

·         Approved the adoption of a new highway maintenance capital investment strategy comprising of a combination of “worst first” and preventative maintenance, and a new risk based approach to the management of reactive maintenance;

·         Approved the addition to the existing call-off contract with Ringway-Jacobs under the LoHAC Framework contract of service 5, schemes design, for support in the delivery of capital programmes over a 1 year period for the 2017/18 financial year.

Alternative options considered

There were no other relevant options as the Council has a statutory obligation to maintain the public highway network. The 2017/18 work plan had been informed by highway condition surveys and visual highways inspections.

The programme included transport schemes previously agreed by Cabinet in October 2016 and funded by Transport for London. The funding was an interim arrangement awaiting the production of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy and subsequent production of Haringey’s third Local Implementation Plan. Council funded capital projects included within the programme were approved by Cabinet on the 14^th  June 2016 as part of the Capital Strategy and 10 year Capital Programme.