Decision details

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport seeking to approve the receipt of £996,500 of revenue grant from the DfT’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund in order to deliver a further years’ extension to the Southampton Sustainable Travel City programme currently being delivered in the city. The scheme’s aims are to continue to deliver a target modal shift away from private car to other modes of transport, develop supporting infrastructure to promote walking and cycling and deliver a ‘Freight Traffic Control’ system and pilot.

Key strategic partners within Southampton including Public Health, British Cycling, Sustrans and the University of Southampton have committed to match fund the project.

The report will seek the addition of £996,500 of revenue expenditure to the General Fund revenue budget for 2015/16, wholly funded from the new DfT revenue grant.

The report will also seek the addition and approval to spend of £245,000 to the Sustainable Travel and Integrated Transport capital schemes contained within the E&T capital programme funded by £205,000 LTP 2015/16 government grant and £40,000 of Section 106 developer contributions.

(i)  To accept LSTF revenue grant of £996,500 from the Department for Transport (DfT);

(ii)  To add £996,500 to the 2015/16 revenue estimates of the Environment and Transport Portfolio funded by the DfT grant (subject to approval of the budget strategy at full Council in February 2015);

(iii)  To increase by £105,000 the Sustainable Travel capital scheme, contained within the Environment and Transport Portfolio capital programme, funded by £65,000 of 2015/16 Local Transport Plan government grant and £40,000 of site specific ‘Section 106’ developer contributions;

(iv)  To increase by £140,000 the Integrated Transport Systems capital scheme, contained within the within the Environment and Transport Portfolio capital programme, wholly funded by 2015/16 Local Transport Plan government grant; and

(v)  To approve capital expenditure in 2015/16 of £105,000 on the Sustainable Travel capital scheme and £140,000 on the Integrated Transport Systems capital scheme, which form part of the Council’s match funding for the LSTF bid

Financial Procedure Rules require that external funding is added to the Council’s revenue estimates and capital programme, as appropriate, and that approval to spend is secured to enable the delivery of projects within the Council’s Capital Programme.

An option is not to accept the grant funding from the DfT.  This would result in not being able to carry out the proposed project as outlined in the associated bid document

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