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25/00064 - Consolidated Active Travel Funding Grant (CATF -Tranche 6) - Capital & Revenue

 

 

Meeting: 09/09/2025 - Environment & Transport Cabinet Committee (Item 22)

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Minutes:

Mr P Osborne - Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport presented the item. Nikola Floodgate- Road Safety & Active Travel Group Manager and Jamie Watson- Senior Schemes Programme Manager were also in attendance.

 

1.    KCC had been awarded £5.7 Million from the Consolidated Active Travel Fund (CATF) to aid in the construction of active travel schemes aimed at enhancing, walking and cycling infrastructures

 

2.    The revenue grant must be committed by 31 March 2026 and delivered by September 2026. The capital grant would be committed by March 2026 and spent by March 2028. The Council would ensure all compliance with legal and statutory requirements including procurement and quality duties.

 

3.    Members congratulated the Officers on the hard work that had been completed in bringing the CATF to fruition.

 

 

RESOLVED to endorse the proposed decision, namely:

 

 

That the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport agree to:

 

  1. APPROVE the acceptance of the Consolidated Active Travel Fund (CATF) Grant award and the deployment of the grant funding in accordance with the grant conditions to take the CATF activities and projects through their various stages of scheme development and delivery.

 

  1.  DELEGATE authority to the Corporate Director of Growth, Environment and Transport in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport and the S151 Officer to agree to enter into the necessary grant agreements.

 

  1. DELEGATE authority to the Corporate Director of Growth, Environment and Transport to deploy and manage the grant allocation funding to take the CATF activities and projects through their various stages of scheme development and delivery

 

  1. DELEGATE authority to the Corporate Director of Growth, Environment and Transport in consultation with the Cabinet Member and S151 Officer, to accept and deploy future years funding allocations of the grant, providing it is on similar terms.

 

  1. DELEGATE authority to Director of Infrastructure to progress and complete all relevant construction property and Compulsory Purchase Orders as necessary to deliver the schemes.

 

  1. DELEGATE authority to the Corporate Director of Growth, Environment and Transport to take other necessary actions, including but not limited to entering into contracts or other legal agreements, as required to implement the decision as shown at Appendix A.