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1. Summary

1.1 This report outlines progress with regard to the 2005/06 Highway Maintenance and Minor Capital Works Programmes and gives an update on the 2005/06 Highway Maintenance budget.

2. Background

2.1 As previously reported, the Highway Maintenance Programme is funded from both revenue and capital allocations.

2.2 The Revenue Maintenance Programme funds minor works such as pothole repairs, routine drainage work (including gully cleaning), signs and road markings, environmental maintenance of grass verges, trees and shrubs, weed control and highway emergencies. Minor bridge works and winter maintenance are also funded from revenue allocations. Budgets are set at a level that ensures the safety and serviceability of the highway network.

2.3 The Capital Maintenance Programme funds planned maintenance, including special maintenance, resurfacing and surface dressing, and also provides for essential repairs to the structure of the highway, eg programmed patching.

3. Highway Maintenance Budget and Programme 2005/06

3.1 The county-wide Highway Maintenance Budget for 2005/06, approved by the Executive Member for Environment, is £51.254 million. This sum comprises £22.090 million revenue funding and £29.164 million funding from the capital programme. The capital funding provision includes an additional £3.678 million of capital funding specifically for highway maintenance works, the emphasis being on the maintenance of minor rural carriageways and urban footways. These budgets are spread across the 11 districts for local service delivery and also used to fund centrally managed programmes such as surface dressing, winter maintenance and performance elements of the highways Term Maintenance Contract.

Revenue Maintenance Budget and Programme

3.2 The total revised allocation for Eastleigh for 2005/06 is £585,000. Progress throughout the year has been in line with the spend profile and it is expected that the programme will be completed within time and budget constraints. A budget monitoring statement is included within Appendix 1.

Capital Maintenance Budget and Programme

3.3 The total allocation for Eastleigh for 2005/06 is £1,553,000, which includes £196,000 from the extra £3.678 million county-wide funding. The funding allocation for the capital maintenance `planned works' programme is based on the proven Highways Assessment of Maintenance Priorities (HAMP) rating system and has reflected the agreed intervention levels. The HAMP rating intervention level directs funding to those maintenance schemes displaying a higher maintenance need. Planned maintenance repairs undertaken through the capital maintenance programme include surface dressing, special maintenance and resurfacing schemes.

3.4 This year's schemes are progressing well with the expectation that the `planned' maintenance programme will be delivered within time and budget constraints. Progress on this year's schemes is shown in Appendix 2.

3.5 Surface dressing is an extremely cost effective way of prolonging the life of a carriageway or footway, sealing any existing cracks and patches and, on carriageways, restoring skid resistance. The total county-wide programme for 2005/06 is £3.22 million (including approximately £125,000 safety engineering related surface dressing), which is managed centrally. All sites on this year's carriageway and footway programmes for the Eastleigh area have now been successfully treated, apart from four roads in the minor roads programme, which have had to be deferred to the 2006 surface dressing season as the programme, county-wide, overran the available time span for the contractor. This year's schemes are listed in Appendix 2.

4. Minor Capital Works

4.1 The Minor Capital Works Programme is funded from the capital allocation based on the Local Transport Plan submission to the Department for Transport. In the 2005/06 programme £200,000 was allocated county-wide, of which £20,000 was allocated for the Eastleigh area. The schemes included in this year's programme are:

(i) B3037 Bishopstoke Road, Bishopstoke - construct footway. Allocation £10,000. Scheme design in progress for negotiations over necessary land purchase. Works in fourth quarter if negotiations successful; and

(ii) U517 Knowle Lane, Fair Oak - Extension of footway. Allocation £10,000. Scheme incorporated in development funded works to be carried out by Eastleigh Borough Council.

4.2 These schemes are scheduled to be completed by the end of the financial year.

5. Impact Assessments

5.1 This report provides a position statement only, therefore an impact assessment in terms of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act has not been undertaken.

Recommendation

That this report be noted.

568/DG

APPENDIX 1

HAMPSHIRE HIGHWAYS EASTLEIGH

2005/06 2005/06 %committed

(revised) (to Oct 05)

Revenue Budget 2005/06

Routine Maintenance (carriageway, footway repairs) £224,000 £235,000 83%

Gully Cleaning £4,000 £4,000 98%

Aids to Movement (signs and road markings) £81,000 £83,000 69%

Hazard Clearance £31,000 £32,000 218%

Environmental (grass, trees, shrubs) - EBC £174,000 £174,000

Weed control £56,000 £57,000 101%

Total Revenue Budget £570,000 £585,000 94% (HCC)

Capital Budget 2005/06

Principal Roads

Principal Roads Routine Structural Repairs £18,000 £18,000 100%

Principal Roads Special Maintenance £136,000 £136,000

Safety Fencing Programme £5,000

Principal Roads Resurfacing £221,000 £221,000 70%

Total £375,000 £380,000 46%

Non-Principal Roads

Non-Principal Roads Routine Structural Repairs £383,000 £383,000 94%

Non-Principal Roads Special Maintenance £239,000 £239,000 55%

Non-Principal Roads Resurfacing £341,000 £341,000 8%

Non-Principal Roads Tactile Paving Crossing Points £14,000 £14,000

Additional Allocation Footway Schemes £100,000 £100,000 36%

Additional Allocation Resurfacing Schemes £96,000 £96,000

Total £1,173,000 £1,173,000 47%

Total Capital Budget £1,548,000 £1,553,000 47%

Total Highway Maintenance Budget £2,118,000 £2,138,000 52%

APPENDIX 2

WORKS PROGRAMME, HAMPSHIRE HIGHWAYS EASTLEIGH - 2005/06

1. Special Maintenance - Principal Roads

2. Resurfacing - Principal Roads

3. Special Maintenance - Non-Principal Roads

4.Resurfacing - Non-Principal Roads

5. Carriageway Surface Dressing

6. Footway Surface Dressing