COUNTY COUNCIL - ENVIRONMENT - 16 MAY 2002

REPORT OF THE

EXECUTIVE MEMBER

Environment

PART II

ALLOCATION OF THE 2002/03 HIGHWAYS MAINTENANCE BUDGET

1. The highways maintenance programme for 2002/03 is £38.9m. It incorporates both the highways maintenance revenue and capital structural maintenance budgets. To enable implementation of the programme, budget allocations have been agreed and take into account the implementation of the new highways network management arrangements from 1 May 2002.

2. The overall revenue budget provision for highways maintenance is £18.8m including £453,000 towards the cost of inflation together with £80,000 carried forward from the 2001/02 budget to help fund the new IT system for the highways term maintenance contract from 1 May 2002.

3. The total capital structural maintenance provision is £20.1m and will be allocated as follows:-

(i) principal roads structural maintenance - £5.7m

(ii) non-principal roads structural maintenance - £12.0m

(iii) structural maintenance of bridges - £2.3m

£200,000 has been made available within this budget to cover the estimated impact of the introduction of an aggregates tax on all capital maintenance work to be carried out during the year. The allocation of the non-principal roads structural maintenance budget as part of the capital programme provision will allow for a comparable or improved level of intervention to be achieved against 2001/02. It will also be possible to support one major scheme and a significant programme of bridge maintenance.

KEITH B. ESTLIN

Executive Member

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