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Final Highways Strategy

Meeting: 16/11/2021 - Cabinet (Item 10)

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To receive Report No. 162/2021 from the Portfolio Holder for Communities, Environment and Climate Change.

Additional documents:

Decision:

In consultation with Cabinet, Councillor I Razzell, Portfolio Holder for Planning:

 

Approved the Final Highways Strategy 2021-2026 approach, that identified the optimal allocation of resources for the management, operation, preservation and enhancement of highways infrastructure to meet the needs of current and future customers.

Minutes:

Report No. 162/2021 was introduced by Councillor I Razzell, Portfolio Holder for Planning. The report was to inform Cabinet of the Highway Infrastructure Asset Management Strategy (HAMP). This was for the period 2021 to 2026 and was an update of the HAMP agreed in 2019. This document was a significant step forward which considered the Council’s latest Corporate and Local Transport objectives. The Council should have an Asset Management Strategy for Highways, and this should be reviewed every two years. This is a core requirement to access Incentive Funding from the Department for Transport which was currently worth £265,000.

 

In addition, the Council was currently forming the requirements for the procurement of the next term maintenance strategy. It was therefore essential that the tender documentation was constructed to support the long-term aims for Highways in Rutland. This Highway Infrastructure Asset Management Strategy would be a fundamental part of this process.

 

During discussions the following points were noted:

 

  • Councillor D Wilby thanked Councillor Stephenson, the outgoing Portfolio Holder for all the hard work that had been undertaken with Highways.
  • Members stated that it was important to ensure that any work undertaken on Rutland roads on behalf of the Council needed to be done professionally. Quality assurance would remain part of the contractual agreement going forward.

 

RESOLVED:

 

In consultation with Cabinet, Councillor I Razzell, Portfolio Holder for Planning

 

1)    APPROVED the Final Highways Strategy 2021-2026 approach, that identified the optimal allocation of resources for the management, operation, preservation and enhancement of highways infrastructure to meet the needs of current and future customers.