Issue - meetings

To consider and endorse, or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transport & Waste, on the proposed criteria to be used in adopting a definition for Kent’s Resilient Highway Network, as part of our wider approach to Highways Asset Management and to maximise Incentive Fund resource.

Andrew Loosemore (Head of Highways Asset Management, Growth, Environment and Transport) and Alan Casson (Senior Asset Manager for Highways Transportation and Waste) were in attendance for this item. 

(1)   Mr Balfour (Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transport and Waste) introduced the report which set out the proposed criteria to be used in adopting a definition for Kent’s Resilient Highway Network, as part of Kent County Council’s wider approach to Highway Asset Management and to maximise the Incentive Fund resource.

(2)  Mr Loosemore said that the primary purpose of the report was to provide an update on the County Council’s progress towards achieving a Band 3 Incentive Fund rating in order to avoid further reduction in capital funding from the Department of Transport for highway maintenance.

(3)  Members welcomed the report and supported the need for the Council to adopt a definition for Kent’s Resilient Highway Network in order to improve the county’s resilience against extreme weather and other emergencies.

(4)  Resolved that the proposed criteria to be used in adopting a definition for Kent’s Resilient Highway Network, as part of the wider approach to Highways Asset Management, and to maximise incentive fund resource be endorsed.