Decision Maker: County Council
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
With the consent of Council, Councillor Reeves moved an amendment to his motion as set out below in bold itailic/strikethrough:
“This Council welcomes the additional annual investment from government
(‘DfT’) in our highways,
through our maintenance block allocation,
and any additional funding that we have been awarded through the
pot hole fund and the challenge fund, which amounts to
around £13,500,00 each
year.
The Council has chosen to invest in highway maintenance from our additional £120,000,000 into infrastructure over ten years, plus investing £40,000,000 into street lighting. This amounts to:
This
Council notes that the government
allocated additional monies from the Highways
Maintenance and Integrated Transport Block monies make Oxfordshire
one of the most heavily invested counties in the South of England,
with only significantly larger counties such as Hampshire and Kent
receiving more funding in recent years.
This Council further notes the success of its internal and prudential borrowing policy, which is already yielding welcome improvements to roads across Oxfordshire.
This Council resolves to:
1.
review ways in which non-ringfenced DfT funds such as the Integrated
Transport Block allocation of £3,700,000 can be leveraged
alongside s.106. and Councillors’ Priority Fund
(‘CPF’monies with a view to improving roads and school
crossings where there is demonstrable need;
2.
consider extending the date for allocating any
unspent CPF Councillor’s
Priority Fund monies beyond January 2020 where members are
in discussions with officers regarding complementary s.106 monies
that may be used to generate more comprehensive solutions and
said officers are in need of more time; and
3.
review traffic congestion management
arrangements in our market towns with a view to working with both
District partners and Thames Valley Police to explore opportunities
for decriminalised parking and residents’ parking schemes
in areas of acute need.”
The motion, as amended was agreed by 41 votes to 15, with 1 abstention.
RESOLVED:
“This Council welcomes the annual investment from government (‘DfT’) in our highways, through our maintenance block allocation, and any additional funding that we have been awarded through the pot hole fund and the challenge fund, which amounts to around £13,500,00 each year.
The Council has chosen to invest in highway maintenance from our additional £120,000,000 into infrastructure over ten years, plus investing £40,000,000 into street lighting. This amounts to:
This Council notes that the government allocated Highways Maintenance and Integrated Transport Block monies make Oxfordshire one of the most heavily invested counties in the South of England, with only significantly larger counties such as Hampshire and Kent receiving more funding in recent years.
This Council further notes the success of its internal and prudential borrowing policy, which is already yielding welcome improvements to roads across Oxfordshire.
This Council resolves to:
4.
review ways in which non-ringfenced DfT funds such as the Integrated Transport Block
allocation of £3,700,000 can be leveraged alongside s.106.
and
5. consider extending the date for allocating any unspent Councillor’s Priority Fund monies beyond January 2020 where members are in discussions with officers regarding complementary s.106 monies that may be used.
6. review traffic congestion management arrangements in our market towns with a view to working with both District partners and Thames Valley Police to explore opportunities for decriminalised parking and residents’ parking schemes.
Publication date: 12/09/2019
Date of decision: 10/09/2019
Decided at meeting: 10/09/2019 - County Council