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Report of the Director of Transportation and Highways

The Cabinet considered a report of the Director of Transportation and Highways which detailed a £12.9m capital programme for the maintenance and enhancement of the City's highways and transport infrastructure. The programme is funded through City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement, City Council resources, External Funding and Citizen Housing Right to Buy receipts.

In addition, the report highlighted the ambitious range and scale of major projects to be delivered in the city, from sustainable transport improvements supporting the Gigafactory, All Electric Bus City and other developments, to Coventry Very Light Rail, a pioneering project that showcases Coventry as a city at the forefront of innovation. 

These projects support the aims of the recently adopted Transport Strategy and the One Coventry Plan to promote continued growth and investment, tackle the causes of climate change and inequalities by widening travel choice and promoting active travel.

With the Council’s continued success in attracting external funding, we are able to develop and deliver schemes and infrastructure that enable transformation and progression, laying the foundations for a vibrant and cutting-edge city to be proud of.

The report set out individual allocations and the various sources of funding in Table 2 in the report and the specific details of each project were detailed in Appendices 1 to 3 to the report.

As with previous programmes, there is an emphasis on making the best use of existing infrastructure rather than creating new.  The maintenance programme will focus on ensuring that the worst affected roads and pavements across the City are properly repaired and preventative maintenance is carried out. This is a key theme in the West Midlands Strategic Transport Plan and is driven by the City Council's Highways Infrastructure Asset Management Policy and Strategy (January 2016).

RESOLVED that the Cabinet:

1)  Approves the 2023/24 programme of Transport & Highway schemes marked ‘A’ in Table 2 of the report. 

2) Delegates authority to the Director of Transportation and Highways, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for City Services, to approve a programme of scheme development, Section 106 and externally funded schemes, marked ‘B’ in Table 2 of the report.