Decision Maker: Corporate Director of Business and Environmental Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
The Corporate Director - Business and
Environmental Services, in consultation with BES Executive Members
were asked for their views and comments on the updated Highways
Infrastructure Asset Management Policy. The review was completed
and the updated document can be included in the report submitted to
Transport, Environment and Economy, Overview and Scrutiny Committee
on 17 April 2019 ultimately being presented to County Council on 24
July 2019.
*PLEASE NOTE This decision was originally
published on or near the date of the decision and so call in no
longer applies. It has been re-published as part of the change in
committee management system that we use.*
• The adoption of a Highways Infrastructure Asset Management
Policy is a key component in the delivery of an efficient asset
based highways service. This updated policy document reflects the
changes in the corporate strategic priorities since the original
version was adopted in 2015.
• The Department for Transport’s Highways Management
Efficiency Program recommends that a highways authority adopt an
asset management framework which includes a policy document tied to
the corporate strategic direction. Its annual self-assessment
questionnaire ties almost £5m of central funding to having an
asset management policy
There is currently an asset management policy
in existence and so there is no technical need for an update.
Having been adopted in 2015 it would be difficult to argue that the
current policy is fully tuned to Council’s overall strategic
aims given updates to both the Council Plan and Local Transport
Plan have happened in the ensuing years.
Publication date: 28/04/2021
Date of decision: 22/02/2019