Issue - meetings

This report brings to Members’ attention the 2007/08 capital settlement for the City of York’s second Local Transport Plan, as advised by the Department for Transport on 18 December 2006.

RESOLVED: (i)         That the contents of the report be noted and that Officers be thanked for their hard work in achieving an ‘excellent’ rating for LTP1.

                        (ii)        That it be noted that the detailed transport capital programme for 2007/08 will be presented for approval at the City Strategy EMAP on 26 March 2007.

REASON:      For information, and in recognition of the Council’s success in this area.

Members considered a report which drew attention to the 2007/08 capital settlement for the City of York’s second Local Transport Plan (LTP2), covering the period 2006-2011.

The final version of York’s LTP2 had been approved by the Executive on 21 March 2006 and submitted to meet the deadline of 31 March.  A Delivery Report on the first LTP had been submitted in July, as required.  The final Local Transport Capital Settlement had been received in a letter from the Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber on 18 December 2006.  This had stated that the Plan had been assessed as ‘excellent’ and the Delivery Report as ‘very good’.  Consequently, the integrated allocation for 2007/08 had been given a +12.5% uplift, and indicative funding for subsequent years had also been increased.  York had also received an increased share of the road safety allocation paid out by the Department of Transport from the national Safety Camera Partnership income.

The increased funding allocation, which provided additional resources to implement the aims, policies and measures contained in the LTP2, had been included in the capital programme for 2007/08 to 2010/11.  Details of schemes to be undertaken in 2007/08 would be presented for approval to the Executive Member for City Strategy and Advisory Panel (EMAP) on 26 March 2007.

RESOLVED: (i)         That the contents of the report be noted and that Officers be thanked for their hard work in achieving an ‘excellent’ rating for LTP1.

                        (ii)        That it be noted that the detailed transport capital programme for 2007/08 will be presented for approval at the City Strategy EMAP on 26 March 2007.

REASON:      For information, and in recognition of the Council’s success in this area.