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A59 Kex Gill - Full Business Case Update

Decision Maker: Executive Member for Highways & Transportation

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

To seek approval for increased capital funding from 2022/23 NYCC Kex Gill allocation by up to £1.4m, reduce the 2023/24 NYCC contribution by the same and accepting the expenditure at risk pending receipt of the Department for Transport (DfT) grant.

Decision:

the Executive Member for Highways & Transportation resolved that the capital funding from 2022/23 NYCC Kex Gill allocation be increased by up to £1.4m, and the 2023/24 NYCC contribution be reduced by the same, accepting the expenditure was at risk pending receipt of the Department for Transport (DfT) grant.

Exempt from call-in as decision taken under Urgency Procedures.


Reasons for the decision:

Intervention against delayed DfT Full Business Case announcement to keep project programme on track and meet critical early New Year ecology working window.

Alternative options considered:

Defer target programme to September 2023, the next available ecology working window, however rejected as implicates whole project delay by a further 9 months, with applicable cost penalties to the fore.


Publication date: 09/02/2023

Date of decision: 21/12/2022