Issue - meetings

This report provides information on the development and structure of a draft Transport Asset Management Plan and seeks approval to publish the Plan in its current form.

Members received a report which provided information on the development and structure of a draft Transport Asset Management Plan (TAMP) and sought approval to publish the Plan in its current form.

The report presented three options for consideration:

·  Option 1 – to note and approve the report and agree to the structure of the TAMP and its publication in its current form;

·  Option 2 – to note the report and suggest nay changes they would like to see within the TAMP before publication;

·  Option 3 – to note the report and reject the TAMP and its publication.

Members noted that the final sentence of paragraph 10 of the report should read, “Also to establish a whole life and environmentally sustainable approach towards highway maintenance”.

Some Members expressed concern that the TAMP had not been circulated to them and that the report did not clearly indicate that it was available to view in the Members’ Library.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised:

(i)         That it be noted that the Transport Asset Management Plan (TAMP) has been developed in accordance with the ‘Framework for Highway Asset Management’ and the ‘Guidance Document for Highway Infrastructure Asset Valuation’;

(ii)        That the report be noted and approved and the structure of the TAMP and its publication in its current form, in accordance with Option 1, be agreed.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:      To demonstrate a whole life approach to the maintenance of highway assets.