Decision details

(i)         Cabinet approved the investment of £2m in 2016/17 of Brent capital funding as summarised in Section 6.

(ii)        Cabinet approved that the major footway upgrade programme element of £1.3m be carried out with pavement slabs being replaced with tarmac (instead of a like-for-like replacement as has been the practice up until now, see section 3.2.1).

(iii)       Cabinet approved the proposed additional highways investment programme for 2016-17 as detailed in Appendix B.

(iv)       Cabinet approved that, the major footway upgrade programme of £1.510m approved in the Highways Capital Scheme Programme 2016-17, approved at the 14th March 2016 Cabinet, is carried out with the pavement slabs being replaced with tarmac as a default. Category 1 &2 footways and conservation areas will be considered on a case by case basis, but will normally be replaced like for like. (Appendix E)(see section 3.2.12)

(iv)       Cabinet agreed that the “Footway upgrades – short sections” pavement allocation of £ 0.150m approved in the Highways Capital Scheme Programme 2016-17, approved at the 14th March 2016 Cabinet, is carried out with:

a) in conservation areas or Category 1 & 2 footways, considered on a road by road basis but generally slabs (See section 3.2.12);

b) where the length to be replaced is junction to junction, the pavement slabs being replaced with tarmac – even though it may only be only side of the street only;

c) otherwise, for sections shorter than junction to junction, pavement surface to be replaced like for like.