Issue - meetings

This report sets out recommendations for how Brent’s £3.55 million capital budget should be allocated during 2014/15 and 2015/16 through a prioritised programme of: Major and minor pavement upgrades; major road resurfacing; £preventative maintenance; and improvements to the public realm.

(i)         that approval  be give to investment of £3.55 million of Brent capital funding as summarised in Section 6.0;.

(ii)        that approval  be give to approves the proposed highways maintenance programme for 2014-15 and the provisional programme for 2015-16 as detailed in Appendix B;

(iii)       that approval  be give to the highways asset management strategy for Brent as described in Section 4.0 and appended as background papers to this report;

(iv)       that approval  be give to the proposed division of maintenance investment for carriageway resurfacing of 70% for major resurfacing and 30% for preventative maintenance;

(v)        that approval  be give to the proposed prioritisation process and criteria for programme development described in Section 4.9.

Councillor J Moher introduced the report from the Strategic Director, Environment and Neighbourhoods which set out recommendations for how Brent’s £3.55 million capital budget should be allocated during 2014/15 and 2015/16 through a prioritised programme of: major and minor pavement upgrades; major road resurfacing; preventative maintenance; and improvements to the public realm. The programme involved £4m of investment with some schemes funded by Transport for London. He referred members to the list of wards that would be affected.

Jenny Isaac (Operational Director, Neighbourhoods) advised that in future the council would be adopting a more proactive approach to highway maintenance and referred to the Highway Asset Management Plan (HAMP), appended to the report, which involved prioritising roads for repair at an earlier stage.  Work by utility companies would be built in and traffic flow and ward councilor nominations still taken into account.

In answer, to an enquiry from Councillor Mashari about flood defenses, Councillor Moher confirmed that guidance from the Environment Agency considered Brent to be low risk however the gulleys would be maintained in the usual way in accordance with the programme. Councillor Mashari drew attention to the drainage scheme and Councilllor Moher acknowledged the increased number of potholes that had appeared recently due to the increased rainfall and assured that the HAMP would alleviate the problem in the future.

RESOLVED:

(i)         that approval be given to investment of £3.55 million of Brent capital funding as summarised in Section 6.0 of the report from the Strategic Director, Environment and Neighbourhoods;

(ii)        that approval be given to the proposed highways maintenance programme for 2014-15 and the provisional programme for 2015-16 as detailed in Appendix B to the report;

(iii)       that approval be given to the highways asset management strategy for Brent as described in Section 4.0 and appended to the report;

(iv)       that approval be given to the proposed division of maintenance investment for carriageway resurfacing of 70% for major resurfacing and 30% for preventative maintenance;

(v)        that approval be given to the proposed prioritisation process and criteria for programme development described in Section 4.9 of the Director’s report.