Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Green City and Place seeking approval for the Green Transport Recovery Plan and financial approval for funding.

DECISION MADE: (CAB 20/21 28124)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Green City and Place, Cabinet agreed the following:-

(i)  For the Cabinet to provide overall approval of the Southampton Green Transport Recovery Plan (provided in Appendix 1) which sets out both the key work done to date, work that is currently in progress and work planned for the future, to complement and supplement Connected Southampton 2040 (LTP4) and the schemes identified in Table 1.

(ii)  Cabinet is recommended to accept the Emergency Active Travel Fund (EATF) grant of £0.245m and approve the addition of this amount to   the capital programme 2020/21, together with approval to spend as per   the details provided in paragraph 13 of this report.

(iii)   Cabinet delegates authority to the S151 officer to accept and authorise   spend of any future additional ETAF grant allocation which is expected   to be £0.980m but subject to further DfT guidelines and a business   case submission that will be approved by the Director of place following consultation with the Cabinet Member and is in accordance with the   details provided in paragraph 13 of this report.