Issue - meetings

Executive Board considered the attached report.

RECOMMENDED: That Council be recommended to approve the inclusion of £330,000 in the Capital Programme to provide the partial match funding required for the Major Maintenance bid.

Executive Board had considered the attached report of the Strategic Director, Policy and Resources, which sought approval to submit a Major Maintenance Bid for the Silver Jubilee Bridge (SJB) Complex.

RESOLVED: That the inclusion of £330,000 in the Capital Programme to provide the partial match funding required for the Major Maintenance Bid, be approved.

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Policy and Resources, which sought approval to submit a major maintenance bid to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority for the Silver Jubilee Bridge Complex (SJBC).

The Board was advised that the SJBC, approach viaducts and other major highway bridges formed a strategically important River Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal crossing. The SJBC required a continual programme of structural and maintenance works to maintain its state and availability for use. It was reported that a number of interventions had been necessary since 2006, with Department for Transport funding of £18.5m approved in 2009, so as to remove a significant amount of backlog in structural works.

It was noted that timely and on-going investment in maintenance would safeguard the previous capital investment. A proposed scheme of maintenance works, planned to start in April 2016 and to be carried out over a three year period, required a contribution from the Liverpool City Region (LCR) Growth Fund towards the capital elements of the scheme. To that end, a Major Maintenance Bid would be submitted to the LCR Combined Authority to provide gap funding for capital maintenance works.

RESOLVED: That

1)    the Silver Jubilee Bridge Complex Major Maintenance bid to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority for an element of the Regional Growth Fund be approved; and

2)    Council be recommended to approve the inclusion of £330,000 in the Capital Programme to provide the partial match funding required for the Major Maintenance bid.