Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Cabinet Member, Environment and Transport and the Corporate Director, Growth, Environment and Transport which asks the Committee to consider and endorse or make recommendations on the proposed decision to take the schemes listed below through the next stages of development and delivery including authority to progress statutory approvals and consultation where appropriate, and to enter into funding and construction contracts

a) Dartford Town Centre improvements scheme, in drg. No. 4300378/000;

b) A2500 Lower Road improvement scheme, in drg No. 43000416/000/06;

c) A2/A28 Coast bound off-slip, Wincheap scheme, in drg. No. 5269/GA01

Roger Wilkin (Director of Highways, Transportation and Waste), Lee Burchill (Local Growth Fund Programme Manager) and Tim Read (Head of Transportation) were in attendance for this item.

(1)  Officers introduced this report which asked the Committee to consider and endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport to give approval to take the schemes listed below through the next stages of development and delivery including authority to progress statutory approvals and consultation where appropriate, and to enter into funding and construction contracts:

a) Dartford Town Centre improvements scheme, in drg. No. 4300378/000;

b) A2500 Lower Road improvement scheme, in drg No. 43000416/000/06;

c) A2/A28 Coast bound off-slip, Wincheap scheme, in drg. No. 5269/GA01

(2)  In response to questions the Cabinet Member and officers advised the following:

·         The Dartford scheme had been the subject of complex drafting and consultation process and was therefore broadly supported

·         Noting support from local members for the Sheppey Lower Road scheme;

·         Agreeing that the description of the “A2/A28 Coast bound off-slip, Wincheap scheme” could be clearer;

·         All projects would be the subject of detailed business cases before implementation.

(3)  Resolved that the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport be recommended to give approval to take the schemes listed below through the next stages of development and delivery including authority to progress statutory approvals and consultation where appropriate, and to enter into funding and construction contracts:

a) Dartford Town Centre improvements scheme, in drg. No. 4300378/000;

b) A2500 Lower Road improvement scheme, in drg No. 43000416/000/06;

c) A2/A28 Coast bound off-slip, Wincheap scheme, in drg. No. 5269/GA01

and specifically to:

i) give approval to the progress the design of the schemes for development control and land charge disclosures;

ii) give approval to progress all statutory approvals or consents required for the schemes;

iii) give approval to carry out consultation on the schemes;

iv) give approval to enter into Local Growth Fund funding agreement subject to the approval of the Corporate Director of Finance & Procurement, and

v) give approval to enter into construction contracts as necessary for the delivery of the schemes subject to the approval of the Procurement Board to the recommended procurement strategy.